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Show ..., .".,......... ... .. . .". ..... '............ . ....... Will Shun Stage Activities : fTI HE New ork Evening World says Gene Tunney will retire from I the rim; within five years, but still as the heavyweight champion .j. v fi of tlic world. Until that time, the title holder is quoted ns declar- : in" he w.'il devote oil his timer lo the "perfection of physical and fistic . equipnu: n'., shunning all stage or5 similar work of a title-coiumercial-v ; izm; natuve. ;j; Gene expects to retire to the j -- work he has planned for the fu- I? ture a nuiiion-a nuiiion-a i r e several times over from his glove endeavors. en-deavors. The paper says he expects to be in even better trim than fur his recent title defense against Jack Dempsey in Chicago I w n e n next j 'I' Gene Tunney. cnlle(1 un" t 1 ,j, defend the heavyweight crown that he wears X at the present time.. The titieliolder said he could X have risen at liie count of four j- from the knockdown in the nuich- X Cicussed seventh round of that .t, .'. . . . . .......... ..'. ..".... . . battle, despite allegations that a -j- "long count" saved the title for him. t "I have learned two lessons from my first year ns champion," Tunney said. "One is that stage y work and that sort of thing is best .j. left alone. Another is that you j must never go into the ring with .j. your passions aroused. : "Anger over unsportsmanlike y tactics resorted to by Dempsey in X his open letter attack and the fact that a dear friend of mine stood X to gain $50,000 on my winning by y a knockout caused me to deviate X somewhat from my usual cold at- X tack, which is necessary if one is A to have the requisite perfect com- X maud of one's self. Cut though .j. my anger resulted in flafhes X of carelessness, I could have got- ten up after I had been dropped X by Dempsey, even if the referee had counted so quickly that nine X would only have been the equiva- lent of four." X ,t, ................. . . . . ...... |