THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1959.
Special Sports Feature Fine Recovery By FORTUNE Indians In Match
Against Lancs
Second Instalment Of China Mail's SPORT MADE THEIR
Educated For Priesthood Gene Tunney Is Now The Complete American Tycoon
By JOHN MELVIN
James Joseph Tunney is one of the most respected citizens of Sashionable Stamford, Connecticut—a multi-millionairo, country squire, big business executive, and solid family man, On weekdays, he can be seen driving from his country home to his office at 19, River Street, or catching the 40-minute non-stop express to Grand Central Station, New York.
Everyone, knows "d.d." He is a director of a national news- paper, bank and twelve other colonies, and chairman of a tyre and rubber firm. Thousands of Connecticut's fainites live in homes built by his construction with the outh. He plays golf Duke of Windsor and President Eisenhower.
Looking like an over-sized Mike Todd, he exudes success from every inch of his ma alve, 15-tone frame. He is Impeccably groomed, self-pan- | sessed, eloquent the com- plete American tycoon, But his niggedly handsome daco is marred by cone in-
congruous
1
1
light-heavyweight champlon-He never contemplated a come-
American Ex-back. ship of the peditionary Force.
Then, Like John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim Corbett be- fure him, he, decided to become
inglend paid pugilist
priest. Within three years he had won 30 bouts and wrested the U.S. light-heavyweight Ulle from Battling Levinsky.
was
As world champion. Tunney was known as the Gurbo of His profession. He shunned the limelight and, between 11k training sessions, buried head in a book, They called him an "egghead." But no one could deny that he anelal wizard. For Tunney revolutionised the fin- ances of his sport. He broke a tradition of big-time boxing by next fight almost refusing his manager, Billy Gio-. led his career. Losing his son, the usual "fifty-fly" agree- ment and paying him a salary of title to fierce and fearless Harry £10,000-a-yeur, le drove so Greb, he took a merellens beat-business-like a bargain with Tex ing. But, miraculously, he stay-
Rickard over the Heeney Aght on his fect for the full
Just $152,000 that, while Tex
Merciless Boating
Tunney's
15 feature# slighted thlek ning of the left ror. It I the only reminder of "JJ" tempestumas pasts Gene, Tunney, unrtefeated heavy-
rounds and walked unassisted Gene climbed out of the ring
his dressing room, only
to some half a million dollara collapse with exhaustion when the door was lacked behind him.
weight champlon of the world. Tunney was as tough ns they
Penniless
Gene Tun- Forty years ago, ney turned professional boxer.
richer.
GENE TUNNEY: Left...the handsome pugilist
at the height of his career. Right....as he is today, the complete American tycoon.
Fred Astaire Finds A
Name For His
Race Horse At Last
World Claycourt Pro Tennis Tournament
Paris, Sept. 7.
The world professional clay-
court
tennis champion- ships ran true, to form
London, Sept. 7. Although they lost their first five wickets for a modest 123 when replying to Lancashire's declared total of 486 for seven, the Indian touring team recovered well at Blackpool to- day and topped. 300 for the loss of an extra wicket.
They owed hair 'excellent Statham and Higgs put the
when Jack Kramer's recovery, to u stand worth 113 bruke on. players scored straight in 80 minutes between Borde sets victories on the sun-and Kripal Singh, who han
spin bowling of baked
courts of the Ro. merce The
Greenhough, Collins Jand Garros Stadium here Booth unmercifully today. In the men's singles eighth- finals, à listless crowd saw;
Ashtey Cooper (Australia) beat John Cawihorn (Australin) 7-5, 7-5, 6-3,
Frank Sedgman (Austrija) beat Jacques Iemetti (France) 6-1, 6-2, 0-2.
Mal
Anderson (Australia) beat Robert Colin (France) 0-1. 4-0, 0-D.
Tony
Trabert (US)
brat
| George Worthington (Australia)
0-), 0-4, 6-1.
Six of the eight players who i have qualified for the quarter- Anals are Australians. America's Tony Trabert and Pancho Segura of Ecuador complete the st.
The quarter-Anal programme
ist
Ken
Rosewall (Australia) v¦ Mul Anderson (Australia).
Tony Traber! (US) v Ashley Comper (Australia),
Pancho Segura (Ecundor) Frank Sedman (Australis) Murity from the United
Mervyn Rose (Australia) V States my "call him nuy- | Lewis fload (Australia)—AFT. thing."
Melbourne, Seg, 1.
The nume "Anything" Now Tunney turned his shrewsi approved by the registrar of
for! race hon in Australia Inancial sense to blp business,
film star Fred Astatie's 0,100 That is just what Mr Murphy He bought shares in numerous
quincas colt nivel,enterprises. In 1930 he was
bought al Sydney yourling sales A.D.C. to the Governor at Con- neetcut; in 1937 he was mode a
April. director of a bank; in 1938 he
came. And he was also smart, Years before, he had been in Auenced by
Shaw's
just
"Cashel Byron's Profession" in which the hero WES G.B.S. wrote: The intelligent He was then a penniless exprizefighter is not a knight- private of the U.S. Marine, errani; he is disillusioned man me chairman of a large dis-i Mr Astaire, who was in Mel- i
Corps, reluctant to return to las of business trying to make money. pre-First World
Way dusk Job at a certain weight." us a £3-8-week shipping clerk in New York,
£
When he left the ring ten, years her, he was worth Teputed £400,000. "Now", het Fays, "I ve Hice a man with 8 million dollars though I haven't gut quite that much."
Other inter plumbers, but- chers, hobos, boilermaiters - have boumiered out a fortune
So defeat did not shatter Ile Tunney's self-confidener. immediately retired to the backwoods and trained harder than ever before. He labour. nd on roads, farms and in Jurber camps to toughen lijn- self up.
A year later, he returned to
In the thick-ear industry. But New York and wrought terrible there has never been a dollar-revenge on Greb.
never
to his
Then he went back spinning champion like Tunney.
He
became "hendy Iraining, working with the re- with fame: never swerved from eve of a world title challenger. four years he his resolution to get rich quick During the next
ngain beat Greb, conquered the and get out.
elegant Georges Carpentier, and brought his record to 65 bouts į with only one detest.
He held the world heavy. weight title for three years and defended it only twice. Then, undefeated and almort unmarked he quitted the Sght come and set to work to mul- tiply is fortune.
Married Millions
Ullery company.
and
Came World War II and the as Lieut- ex-Marine emerged Commander Tunney, director of the US Navy's athletic physical training programme. He devised new exercises, tour- ed war thentres, and was given VIP. treatment.
In 1946, Commander Tun- ney announced: "I kave just spent five years in the navy building men; now I want to building spend my flme head in a book. They called houses." Jis building business boomed And he branched oui into ollier tomative activities.
Tunney thought big and acted? big. In 1994, as a super sales-; mut for the US, coal Industry, i he tried to take coals to New- Jew castle, It was one of his
At last, he considered himself ready to take on the legendary Munassa Mauler-Jack Dempsey, faltures. for seven years king of the world's heavyweights.
Midas Touch
They met at Philadelphia in September, 1920, and the fight aflricted 120,757 fans, sull the He made millions-and mar-biggest-ever paki attendance. ried
millions. His wife was The gate paid Dempsey $711.800 all contain pearls. formerly Miss Mary Josephine and Tunney $204,000. Lauder: a grand-niece of An! drew Carnegie, and heiress of her father's fortune of £10,000,
900.
Tunney's professed dislike for serapping is well known. But he would be the first in admit that boxing laid the foundation of his fortune. He asks: "Can you fell me any other way a zan en muke £200,000 In half-an-hour?"
in
Tunney, the master of defen sive boxing, amazed the fans by taming the aggressive champion and winning on points over ten
rounds.
The 'Long Count'
But the Dempsey followers considered this a freak result
Tunney has the Midas' touch. People say that if he orders oysters in a restaurant they will!
Something like that actually happened. "After the war, the bought 2 jorge wx champion
estate in Canada. Before long were found gold and uranium there. The following year he was made president of Goid- Uranium Exploration Ltd.
Tunney has also distinguished himself is a man of culture. He chee lectured on Shakespeare
and turned out in forze to see at Yale. He knocked out a their herdut the record | Univerally professor to win a straight in the return fight a £1,000 purse in a television September 22, 1027, at Soldier's quiz on the bard. He Field, Chickgo-,,
ย close friend uf This was the bout ironort | Bernard Shaw. alled as the "Battle Long Count," when
in the seventh went down round for at least id seconds —and won,
of the Tunney
Gene was never an enthusias tle Aghter. As a boy, he was the least pugnacious lud Greenwich Village, the pseudo- Bohemian quarter of New York, He was aloof, grave and serious- minded, growing up to be a de-i votee of Shakespeare, Shaw and
opera. His Irish parents: the had him educated for the-priest- ; hond.
A Dempsey left-hook seni World War I made a fighter of Tunney. In 1917, the pen- Tunney crushing to the canvas, But the referee did not begin pushing clerk became a
spent bayonet-charging leatherneck, the count until he had
several seconds hustling Demp- Two years later, la Paris, he
A neutral corner, in won his first major engage-ary into toni the batile for the accordance with the local state
rule. Tunney rose at the of
cial count of nine and went an to win decisively on points.
Today, milionaire says: am much
became
George!
Tunney happler
now that when I WA boxer. I'd late to ro back to those days,
"You only Lake
pro- fessional boxing as a necessity. Hunger and want alone give the tenacity to win. That's why my boys, although interested in take it up boxing, will never professionally. They
need to.
have no
"But I still keep it. Weight-
S. Korea Beat For more than 30 years, can- Hiting, rowing and three sets
Malaya 4-2 At Soccer
troversy,
And I'm American who!
has raged over the of tennis * ́day. Golfs my "long count." But Tunney has chief game now. never worried
about it. That about the only classic contest had attracted enjoys wellding." 104,948 funs who parted with $2,058,060 as that time worth
At 62, with only a hint of well over half a milllen pounds. grey In his dark hair, he takes Even today, with television, a regular two-hour hike on his radio and flo rights, that 200-acre Conneelicut form, milii stands as a record "take" for any sporting event. And Tunney's share was close on a million dollars.
Gene Tunney la rightly proud of his rise to fame and fortune. He was no show. man outside the ring, but te never falled to give full vacke inside 1. Hie fought hard. Ile fought clean. And no fighter planned his more shrewdly fically.
earrer
and solenil.
Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 7. South Korea scored a sur. prise 4-2 win over Maluya. the Merdeka soccer cham- plons, in the Merdeka
It is said that he gave the Stadlum here tonight.
promoter, Tex Rickard, a cheque for $10,000 and received one for The Koreans, champions In the ses pool of the Merdeka a million dollars in return.
Tunney defended his world tournament, owed much to the
titte only brillence of their goalkeeper,
once more—agoirist Ham Hung Chung. He brought Tom Heeney, at New York in
Luck? The Fighting Marine many splendid soves and 1929. The contest was stopped
eleventh round when belleved in making his own. made possible a Korean re.in the covery which ended in complete Heeney's eyes were closed and is only real piece of fuck-it he was in such a helpless con- you can call it that was to dition that the champion was reach the top in the era of the Goal-scorera for Korea were afraid to hit him with any Maransa Mauler, the man of inside-left Woo San-kwork, lolt- force.
action who made million dollar half ' Cầu Tal-sung (2) and
gales possible. inside-right Cho Youn-ok
Then, at the age of 31, be Tumsey just smiles and says: Malaya scored throughs" inside- quitted the ring, the Arst-man "Shakespeare- meant-that-we right Ghant and centre-forward to be undefeated in all his should make hay while the mun
Arthur Kob.--Reuter,
I world heavyweight title fights, thines."
off
mastery.
im
xurne for a part in the
asked The Beath" **(30
Slin Audralinn trainer Murphy to buy him two year- Ings to be raced in Australis. After Mr Astaire bad tried 12 times unveecesfully to find a name that would atisfy the 10 Mr registrar, he wrote
clid.
Mr Astaire's colours are dark
blue, yelow band and striped sleeves and red cap.
seen, no The colours will not
anything for a while as the is to have a spell Anything is by Star Kingdom
from Persist,
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lunch.
and after
Borde was finally bowled by Statham for a pleasing 59. which included nine fours. when Lancashire Look the now ball.
But Kripal Singh was still going strong at with a lx and eight fours In his 70. He had found an- other useful partner tn Jalaimha und the Indians continued to progress,
Little Respect
lea
Contractor and-Aple showed | little respect for the new-ball| bowling
Dropped
Kripal Singh was dropped in the gully off Stotham when 53. but otherwise never put a foot wrong in what was by far his Lent Innings of the four,
Kripal Singh reached his ceritury after two and a half houra and had a six and 13 fours to his name. Jalaimha was caught at deep mid-off after 100 had been added in sparkling minutes.
70-
Tamhane stayed half an our before Greenbough beat him with a googly but there was no holding Kripal Bingh who look the Indians de-
yond 400 with two wickets
in hand.
he
His driving and pulling were Statham and Higgs superb and occasionally in the first three quarters of an chopped with great effect 10-
severe hour until Apte, who cialmed 28| Ing particularly
on
of the 20, edged Higgs into the Greenhough who conceded 117 wicket-keeper's hands.
runs before getting a wicket.
Baig contributed n neo! 20 before falling to a catch in the gully when Statham came back Just before lunch, the Indians being 195 for three at the break with Contractor caught on the boundary when sweeping Booth,
The lefthander spent two and three-quarter hours over his 39, and on the resumption Nadkarni fell to Collins and bowird Gaekwad, Statherw
and Kelpal bringing Bordo Singh together.
In three quarters of an hour they hit the spin bowlers for 74 und their century, partnership took only 60 minutes before the new ball, and the return of
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Still Unbeaton
dropped
The dominant Kripal Singh, nt 53 and 158, was still unbeaten with 150 at the close when India, with two wickets in hand, had reached 420 and needed another 67 for the lend.
Close play scores were:
Lancashire-480 For seven wickets declared.
Indians-420 for eight wickets (A. G. Kripal Singh 100 not
C. G. Borde 00, M. L out.
56, NJ. Contractor Jaisihma
3-82. Booth 2-70, 30, Statham Higgs 1-00, Collins 1-84 and Greenhough 1-137).--AFP.
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