Show Tunney Anxious to Meet Utahn Again Champion at Outs With Rickard May Do Dictating By lay SPARROW McGANN Special Correspondent Corre of The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association NEW V YORK Nov 19 Gene Gene Tun- Tun Tunney's ncy's racy's current trouble with Tex Rick Rick- Rickard Rickard ard may prove to have hare been nothing more moro than a 0 lot of talk Or it may have serious results No one can cansay cansay cansay say Just now At any rate rau the trouble with Rick Rick- Rickard Rickard ard sod is not by any a y means new ne' It goes back to the first Dempsey match matchIn In Philadelphia Without going into nto details it is only worth worth mentioning that Gene was the tho loser to the tune of ot under the new contract he was compelled to sign at the last minute The first contract called for a a. per per- percentage percentage of the receipts to comply with the rules JUles of the New York box box- boxing boxIng boxing ing commission on The fight was to tobe tobe be held in the big city but when the boxing lathers fat her s chased the match Into Pennsylvania Rickard had Tun Tun- Tunney Tunney x ney sign a new ae contract calling calli C a 1 1 i ng 4 for tor a a. guarantee S e and this fell short shortsie sie ot of what Gene wv would have gotten under the percent percent- percentage age arra ngen ment Tunney Tunney drove a a. smart bargain with Rickard previous to the second Demp- Demp Dempsey Dempsey Dempsey sey fight He more than made nude up what he lie had lost in Philadelphia Tunney money flirted with Humbert Fugazy and really wanted to sign with him Tex boosted Fugazy's figures from to a flat million dollars guarantee The champion figured he Ire owed owed Rickard something for steer steer- steerIng s r- r rIng Ing log him into the titular match and andas andas andas as long as he was willing to raise the figure Rickard was entitled to the match Tunney Is not like the champions of ot the past That Is he does not permit his manager to take care of all the business arrangements Gene Geneis is more than a a. figurehead fi or a a. punching bag The trite saying Let LetTIC me TIC take care of the business and you do the fighting docs does not go with Gene Tunney This does not mean that Tunney Is s both manager and fighter He will take advice He has the able of Dudley Field Malone an Int known lawyer and Billy McCabe a I sage old man whose years have ripened his Judgment These two and Billy Gibson the champions champion's manager come In for I their share or recognition Tunney Is not flying flying- off the handle when he says he does not like the way Rickard does some things Just so long as things do not affect him bins he le does not care but Rickard has been een too prominently Identified with Jack Dempsey's handling to suit Gene When Dempsey came east to train for tor the Jack Sharkey fight the news was vIas broadcast that Rickard would appoint Leo P P. Flynn to supervise Dempsey's training Nothing much was thought of this move at the time Lime But when hen Flynn began to as assert as- as assert assort sert sort his authority and was vas on the verge of ot being ousted as major domo dome of the training camp word went out that Flynn was backed by Rickard This silenced any talk of Leo re receiving so- so his walking papers Tunney Tunnel thus had reason season for the be belief be- be behot hot lief that Rickard had more to do with Dempsey than the promoter of ofa ofa ofa a fight normally would have to do with one otis of the principals Then too there thereas was as never any doubt that Rickard felt feU very warmly toward the theman theman theman man who has figured In the biggest gates galea ever attracted to a boxing con con- test t. t But Tunney's side has to be con con- He had every reason to feel incensed Ince d over o Tex's relations rel with Dempsey And again Tunney does docs not agree with the common view that Dempsey has been the sole role at attraction at- at attraction attraction traction at fights in which he has participated d His battles with Bill Brennan Tom Gibbons Billy 1 Fred Fulton PillIon and others were not big money makers Dempsey's Dempsey battle with Carpentier was a big gainer but the tIre gorgeous orchid man Tunney holds and holds rightly was WIlS even more of an attraction than he In Ira Inthe Inthe the Firpo fight Luis had all the col cot color colI color cotor I or in irs the world and the result was was' wasa wasa a million dollar gate I Tunney money goes on to point out that the fight at Philadelphia topped all previous marks and this was follow follow- followed ed by new high water figures ures in Chi Chi- Chicago Chicago cago last September Gene asserts that he had something to do with this Jack alone could not have been the attraction It takes two to tomake tomake tomake make a fight and if the fans were not with the champion as u heavily lly as the th contender the gate would have hue been a II failure and Rickard a heavy vy loser Tunney does not want to stay Idle too long He is smart enough h to peer Into the not too distant past and note what has caused the downfall of preceding champions Idleness I and lack luck of competition he knows have ha been the reasons and he does not in intend In- In Intend intend tend to be caught in the same fix When he fights he means to be right sight and It if he Is I. licked it I t will be by a a. better beUer man CRAMPS CHAMPS RULE Tunney wants to fight Dempsey t l at Rt i Ii rounds and In June mind you Then he wants Sharkey or Uzcudun t In lii September To guarantee Rickard against loss that thatis is LI to say lay In event of his hi losing the first fight he places place the Dempsey battle first He figures that by scoring scorIng scoring ing a knockout over Jack Jock lie Ire would be a still greater magnet magne in his next fight This Is the way Tunney looks at the matter and he may have ha his hI own way Champions usually do |