Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-02-02 | Page 8 | Tunney Ready to Aid Boxing

TUNNEY TONNEY READY TO AID BOXiNG I SPOKANE Wash Feb 2 2 Uy The Associated Press Press- Gene Gen Tunney worlds world's world heavy heavy- heavyweight heavyweight heavy weight boxing champion an- an an announced I Tu Tues Tuesday day that he he- will be bc glad to appear apper before the WashIngton Wash ash Ington state stat legislature re bert hext week ir if InvIted Invited to speak for tor a boxing t bill Tunney Is hero here her on a au vaude vaudeville yule ville tour It goes Boes without saying laying that I I C favor the tho fostering of oC goo good 1 cJ clean an boxing under proper super super- supervision vision the tho champion said old I 1 would be bo happy to go so to Olympia It invited to explain the working ot of similar enactments In other 1 states He Ho will be In Seattle next week I and said ho lie coul could 1 run down to the tho capital by automobile or air airplane plane From rom the tho th stage of ot n II theatre last night Tunney made mado public acknowledgement of oC the faith falth Im- Im Imposed Im Ito Imposed posed In him by a Spokane be who bought a 0 Bible with th the money ho won on 01 the Tunney- Tunney Dempsey Tunney-Dempsey Dempsey champion tight fight fl ht On the thc fly leaf leat of oC the th Bible the tho lad In- In in In To Harvey Macklin 1 from Gene erne Tunney The champion declared lii his In- In lu of ot giving Harvey another r Bible Inscribed by himself It if I can help any allY boy to I a study of ot the Bible Dible I shall feel that I T am am doing something In the worl world 1 ho he declared