NE TUNNEY | ACK DEMPSEY AND CRO & & (SPECIAL BY CANADIAN PRESS.) # Philadelphia, Sept. 24.--Gene § % Tuliney won the heavyweighy cham- 4 plonship of the world in a pouring [8B Tain here last night when he defeat. ¥ ed Jack Dempsey in a savage fight that went the ten-round limit. Both [#: Judgés were unanimous in declaring ithe blonde ex-marine the winnfr. i Tunney came within ace of knocking ! Dempsey out in the first round when be planted a right to the jaw Just before the bel] rang. 4. The ex-champion's knees "sagged nd he went to his corner in distress. Tunney fighting furiouply outboxed Ppsey, retreating ' before the hampion's crowding attack... He whipped vicious punches to the body at close quarters and nafled the ex- champion with short snappy lefts and right hooks at long range. /Dempsey began to tire quickly after the seventh round and as they step- "Cped out for the tenth, he was a "# bloody spectacle with his right eye cut and bleeding and his left eye osed, 'The fight with its record breaking | of 132,000 spectators was i if a downpour of rain. As the fighters entered the ring big drops of rain splashed onto the can- Yas. Before the bout was half' fin- ished the rain began to fall heavily, g the spectators, One hundred thousand fight fans were seated if (Stadium when the preliminaries to Dpmpsey-Tunney championship ut started." The weather was idea: } ROUND ONE. Tunney was short with a left and glinched in the. corner. After he break-away they traded punches 4 to the Dempsey missed a lefl ; Tunney drove a right to the oad. Dempsey drove both fists to body at close quarters. Demp- ed a left to the head and clinched. Tunney landed a to the jaw and missed another {he same spot. They clinched. pséy backed away from a right. piay ducked a right to the head. d rights to the head. Tun- | Dempsey with a right to Ww and was pounding him y to the body at the bell. "ROUND TWO. ey ran away, Dempsey after 'They clinched without damage. ey hooked a left to the head two rights to the body as Tun- retreated. Dempsey chased Gene corner punishing him around. ! was bl from the Tunney landed a light left head. Dempsey drove Tun- 'the head, They clinched in it without damage. Tunney left to the head and they . Dempsey missed 'a left t sank two rights to the Tunney backed away and halt dozen punches to 'the 'They were engaged in a fur- fy attack as the bell ended nd. 'The rain was starting 'heavily. Sint. y boxed cautiously and Demp- missed a left and right to the With Tunney backing away, three lght lefts but a right to the jaw. ed drove a right to the body came in. Tunney nailed y with a right to the jaw as '¥he blow staggered . They exchanged blows to 'and clinched. Tuntey plant. to the 'body backing 'thé ropes. They clinch- Jack ARs DECISION OVER y Not Generally Cut--Verdiot a Popular One ed Dempsey into a corner ltumage. Jack put a right to the i body and Bot a right to the head. ROUND FOUR. Dempsey sent a left 'to the jaw knocking Tumney into the ropes. Tunney hung on as Dempsey drove Bis fis; to the body. Jack -chased the challenger into a corner driving his left to the body. Dempsey was bleeding from a cut on the left eye. Dempsey missed a'left hook to the head. Dempsey was short with » left to the head and they clinched. Gene stepped away from a lett to the body . Tunney nailed Dempsey with a right as the ex<champlon came in. Tunney backed away don a right and landed three punches to the head. Gene nailed Dempsey with a right as the ex-champion backed into the ropes. They were in the centre of the ring with Dempsey trying for an opening as the round ended. VL e-- ROUND FIVE. - They circled around each other in the centre of the ring. Tunney miss- ed and they clinchéd. Gene back- ed away from a left hook. Dempsey ducked a right and lef; to the head. They traded rights to the head in a corner. Tunney missed two lefts to the head. Then he ripped a left to the body. Dempsey was boxing cautiously with Tunney in retreat. Dempsey hooked a left to the body and got two lefts to the head. Tun- ney tore in with another right to the head backing Jack to a corner. Dempsey missed a right swing and Tunney stepped In with shor rights to the face. Dempsey missed a left hook and they clinched. They were in the centre of the ring when the bell sounded. Dempsey was spitting | blood when he wen to his corner: ROUND SIX. Dempsey crowded into Tunney and missed a left hook. Tunney peppered him with a left and right to the head. Jack chased Tunney across the ring, landing a left hook to the chin. At close range they slugged with Dempsey having the vantage. Tunney hooked a left to ® body and a right to the head as they clinched. Tunney drove a right and left to the body. Tunney was wide with a right to the head. Demp- sey hooked a left to thé head and Tunney countered with a righg and left to the head Gene stuck two lefts into Dempsey's' face as Jack waved into him. Tunney was backing away from Dempsey as the latter was felnting for an opening when tle round ended. : # -- -- ROUND SEVEN. Raining. Dempsey crouched as he moved into Tunney: They clinched without 'damage. Tunney landed a light left and danced away. Tunney drove .a right to Dempsey and they clinched. Dempsey ripped a left hook to Tunney's eye, opening a gash. Dempsey punched Gene and Tunney landed two rights to Demp- sey's head without a return. They 'traded rights to the body, and Tun- ney shot a left to the head. Tun- ney drove a right to the head and missed a light left. Dempsey hook- od & left to the chin. They traded punches to the head in a savage ex- change in the centre of the ring. Tunney drove a right to the head and backed away as the round enmd- i. ROUND EIGHT. Tunney bicked away and hooked a left to the head. Tunney was short with two lefts but nailed Jack with the third as they clinched. Jack ducked a right to the head. Tunney was short with a right to the head. i gs 2 i gi hr i WED NEW CHAMPION TC NEP Ve a seirviess ound--Fight Was Fast by Tunney and Tired After the Seventh Round Fighters Bruised and Locally. without + punches to the body and clinched in the centre of the ring. Dedypsey missed a right to the head. Demp- Sey drove two rights and lefts to the body and Tunney backed away. Dempsey pursued the challenger, punching with body blows and fore- ing him into a corner. Tunney landed two left hand and a right to the chin staggering Dempsey. Tun- ney hooked a righ; to the chin and "and Terrific All the ill weight, won the judges' decision from Jimmy Delaney of St. Paul. ¢ THE NEW 'CHAMPION. - Gene Tunney's firs; professional opponent in America after the war was Dan O'Dowd of Boston, a strong turkey with a weakness for the can- vold after eight rounds. For this he was paid the 100 berries promised by Billy Roel. "I was interested more in the money than in winning or losing that tight," recalls Tunney. "I need- ed it desperately. I don't even Te- mémber what kind of a tight: I made, ' or what kind of a fight O'Dowd made against me." Tunney's mother had never want- ed him to make fighting a business. That was the chief reason he came back from the war determined to re- turn to his desk as a stenographic 4 ¢lerk. Tunpey's mother had dreams ot THE NEW CHAMPION GENE TUNNEY, ' Who was awarded the decision over Jack Dempsey at Philadelphia last night and 6 is champion. : the new world's heavyweight they clinched. Dempsey's left 'eye was closed. Tunney drove two rights to the head. Tunney stag- gered Dempsey with a right to the head, backing Dempsey into the ropes. Tunney drove a right and left to the jaw as Dempsey, blinded, stepped in. Tunney backéd Demp- sey in a neutral corner pounding him about the body and head in eavage attack. PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Monte Munn, Nebraska heavy- weight, knocked out Hughie Cle- ments, | Gloucester, ' N.J., in one round. ; Jack Demave, Hoboken, N.J., con ceded more than thirty-five pounds to Joe Steessel, New York, knocked him out in the third In a slashing six-rounder, Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia light-heavy- THE DEFEATED him wearing the somber robes of the priesthood, and had not limited tunds made it necessary for the old- est boy to go out and provide for the family, the monastery is where he would have gone. LIKE ANY BUSINESS. It must have been hard for him to announce he had definitely de- cided to become a fighter. And is must have been hard for the mother, leaning on the arm of the boy she had pictured as a priest--it must have been hard listening to this boy's quiet, firm voice as it broke the tense stillness of the prim little living room. "It's the only way I can make and | und. chandising. money, mother. It's just as much a business as ofl, or Steel, or mer- I will start at the bot- tom and keep working until I have reached the top. Yes, until I have 7 | won the championship from Demp- sey.' 4 Tunney didn't remain under Roche's 'management long. After over a flock of dime-a- matoes, he signed a contract with Frank "Doc" Bag! big league managers of the street. Bagley had taken Willie Jackson, hard-hitting Philadelphia weight, and made a fortune out ot him. : -< : - One. Cigar Coe RL ht wily Nev 'Blend - Ta GE YX RT \ in those days and he was always busting a knuckle. Besides his hands were fundamentally weak. Office training hadn't gontributed the mus- cular virility and toughness the ring game demands. So he. packed up and went into the Maine woods and worked for months. The alert Begley wanted to show Tunney off before a big crowd and bring him back into the limelight from which he'had dropped. He ac- cepted a preliminary to the Demp- sey-Carpentier fight against a tough Canadian named Soldier Jones. Before the fight Bagley circulated among his friends in the press row and informed them they were going to see a great fighter in Tunney. "Some day he'll be abls tp whip both Dempsey and the Frog in the same ring," added the ultra-conservative Bagley. STOCK TOOK TUMBLE. What _ happened was a terrible blow to Bagley's hopes for nation- wide publicity. Tunney was not in fighting trim. The six months' lay. off had destroyed his foot work and his judgment of distance completely. The fight was a terrible thing, and the boys in the dollar seats raucously demanded that the bums be thrown from the ring. Tunney"s mediocre showing in that fight--excusable in view of the circumstances---lowered his fighting stock to such a point that few of the metropolitan critics would take him seriously any more. . Even when he stuck up 8 new spurt and began to whip fellows like Martin Burke, Eddie O'Hare, Jack Burke and Battling LevinsKy (the latter in a fight for the American light-heavyweight championship), his home town critics viewed him with mixed feelings of tolerance, and sympathy. But Tunney fought on and up- ward and te-dey he stands as the conqueror of the greatest champion of them all, the new-born champion, entering into the monetary rewards resulting from success -in the ring. * | ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS SHATTERED YESTERDA Y Provious Records Established In 1921 During Dempsey-~ Carpentier Fight. The gladiators agcient Rome, who fought for hours td a finish without compensation, probably would turn over in their graves if they knew that these two modern | boxers, Dempsey and Tunney, were to split a purse of $650,000 for a carefully regulated test of suprem- acy, limited to little more than a half-hour. No stadium in modern sports his. tory has ever seated such a throng as was banked in the vase of the gigantic Sesqui Stadium. Nor has any sthietio spectacle ever at- tracted as big a "gate." Boxing, boomed to un propor 12.46-1.15 pam.~ SPORTING NOTES AND COMMENT | 39, 0, enjoy the bonors and monetary gains that go with He has struggied to the top and bis reward is Tunney. Mey bis victory for richly emrned. How the mighty fall. been made an idol. Today for sure. For the last seven years Jack Dempsey has he is a defeated fghter. Fleeting is fame 4 reason Dempwey "" be remarked. One wise cracker remarked after the fight that the ost wes because #t rained. "The champ got damp-see? He may recover. r ------------ - Local sympathy on. the fight seemed to be with Tunney mighty few people expected him to wit or even last. and for the mext few days, we'll be sure to hear the tell their atufr. athou gh Of course to-day, "I-told-you-so" boys ---- ne oepos. who paid $50 to eve the fight got their money's wort BB in short onder. The fight was fast and furious ail the way. There were several Kingston people at the fight and no doubt when they retura from the actual Scene of the battle they will have Dempsey was nearly finished bell saved the ex-champion end been shont and sweet. by Tunney right in the first round. The only for thet the wrgument would have It is well that the crown has passed on. The reign of King Dempsey In the ring kingdom was becoming mwmctonous, A change is es good ® 4 mestiog of the exsoutive of the Kingston Baseball Gis % being Daily British Whig for the purpose of Season. 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