Show Tunney Asks for Two Mit Contests Wants Third Third Crack Dempsey at Pans Picture Heads Dy By SPAtt SI tOIV MG NN Special Sj al Correspondent of The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association It I NEW YORK YORE Oct Ocl 29 Gene Gene Tunney comes right out In defiance derance ot of all promoters and says sas he wants to fight ht twice in the year 1928 la And he says with witha a snap which shows r rr that beneath his I calm and genteel exterior he Is boll boll- bolling boiling I r ing with Indignation k tion The Irish in inGene r j Gene will not down 1 I I and ever so often e. e slip of the tongue I betrays the fact t that he wants to toi tos i s stand before the country not ns as an apostle culture but as a regular champion The TIle way things are these days champions of ot the heavier h classes ate are expected to hide away for a twelve twelvemonth twelvemonth twelvemonth month period and then come out of or retirement This Is fine from a box bax b x office standpoint in that It does not tend to get Ct the public so used to a boxer that they are not greatly thrill thrill- thrilled ed when h n he In the ring On the other hand It Is not so good for fora a mans man's fighting form Corm The woodlands are arc a 0 pleasant play play- playground ground A round of oC social gaiety end vaudeville takes the the- edge off kingly cares but what cf of the softening proc proc- processes processes processes esses of cf this sort of oC life A prize ring has to think of tills this LUCKY CHAMP I ITh There Th re are these who 1010 persist In say say- saying sayIng sayIng ing that Gene Oene Is a Q lucky champion They say r I he e caught Jack Dempsey Dempey cy off ore form in 1926 and this year jear ear was saved sand from being counted out by a a. friendly referee think for a moment that Gene ten Isn't t sore about this And he blames It all nil on Demp- Demp scy sey sey Last year jear ear Dempsey D mp y gave e all the credit to the better man that night This year jear ear he said the breaks went ent against me That Ls is I. I why Gene Tunney Tun Tun- Tunney Tunney ney wants to fight twice this year ear He ire wants to I f ht some ome goon tough op op- opponent opponent op- op opponent In the early summer and then take on Jack Dempsey Dimpsey And the champion says sas he will irate have something to say abot t the distance they are areto areto to travel tra Gene wants the full 15 rounds I Checking back b cl over o their two t fights The tenth round cf of their Philadelphia scrap found Dempsey blinded He had to be guided across the ring lo to congratulate con con- congratulate congratulate his hi conqueror In the Chicago Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago cago scrap Dempsey was In a bad way when the bell ended the battle The TIll exertion of oC chasing Tunney in that memorable seventh round exacted fi So severe toll on Jacks Jack's Jac s 's underpinning These two Instances have convinced co Gene Gme that he is Jacks Jack's master that he can do what no other man has been able to accomplish since sey entered the charmed ch circle of a first rate fighting man man knock knock him out Ii H there th re tre are no moving pictures of cf the next m t heavyweight championship contest and it requires a fanciful stretch of oC the imagination to believe belle any fighter tighter or promoter would pus pass up the the revenue venue r accruing from them them them- blame it on Gene Tunney Tenney Tu mey While Gene was ras in Hollywood cod last winter Inter he learned a lot about the movies One of oC the interesting phases of oC the movie game Gene learned was that of cutting A capable man with v a pair of oC shears can snip up many feet leet of or film paste the whole to together to- to together together gether again and concoct an Inter inter- interesting Interesting In cr- cr esting picture DOCTORING DOCTOrI G PICTURES A prominent referee had occasion to bring up the subject of oC doctoring pic plc- pictures pictures tures turcs ct cl a fight tight in which he lie took toa the part of or third man in the ring The arbiter went to see the pictures In Intending In- In IntendIng intending tending to point p out a Q blow he Judged fair and not accepted by the crowd clowd as such Imagine the referees referee's surprise to find that the picture was taken at atan atan atan an angle argle which brought the backs of the fighters to the camera and there there- therefore therefore therefore fore hid the blow Later he learned from an authoritative source that the pictures shown sho were not net the only ones one taken A clever bit of patching die dis discounted counted just as ns much in an argumentative argumentative e mood as ever Tunney believes that more than one o one e set et of oC pictures were taken at Soldiers' Soldiers Field The ones on exhibited do d not show him up any too well Rather Rath r than start a new controversy ersy he would prefer to have havy ha hano no pictures taken or have some agreement with all nil parties interested that nothing be done dODO to td t the pictures Tunney Is within his rights In ask ask- askin in ing for a square deal all around But Buthe Buthe Buthe he fails to consider the attitude of the ordinary fight fan Those who pose PS pos experts and such are after all nil nothing more inore than fans at heart The fan loves v to side aide d with his 1 favor favor- favorite favorite ea fw ite and no amount m I of talk k will con con- convince convince vince him hl J he is wrong rong He has his side of the argument and sticks Elick to it |