1929-01-31 — Page 9

THURSDAY, JANUARY 81, 1929.

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FAMOUS FIGHTS

SOME MEN OF THE OLD BRIGADE

STUDY OF TUNNEY Quite a horse of another colour from Jim Casey and Gunner Moir was Eddle M'Gourty, Saw him when I was in America twelve months ago. Itis fighting days were then over, you need not be tok. But did you see him when he first came here a few years before

self over to thinking, his conscience was so stricken, so sure was he that he should have gone to war that he literally sat down and broke his heart.

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Gibson sat Tunney to do that which a normal man would not have attempted. "For some years,” sald Gibson, "you will make little T.T. on London more than your keep. It will be T.T, on Shanghai necessary for you to lead the life of

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Mercantile A. & B. not prepared to make," re-Mercantile G. joined Tunney. And if you have. & O. Bank; The death of Darcy was to me a followed his career you will have poignant tragedy. Had he been found that until Tenney was match Bank of East Asia left to himself he would have beed with Dempsey he was no consi- It is at least a fact came a soldier, and had he comederable noise. through the war he would perhaps that up to then he was not making have finished the greatest fighter bly money-Topical Times." of all nations.

But, I will not enlarge оп *any doleful note.

Kather would I swish on to Sol- Jones. dier Horace

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First time I encountered him was at New Jersey on the afternoon thatod at Dempsey fought Carpentier. He was put in one-of the preliminaries with Gene Tunney, and was such a were voted to be) that some hundred By the merest fluke M'Goorty thousand folk just yawned. Some ing life of Carpentier. Herewith the months later Jones looked in at the A.S.A. met at Manchester recently Kailan Mining Ad. K.,89/7% n 30 day's night (private

might have altered the whole ight-

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Carpentier bad just been given the verdict against Jeff Smith in Paris, a decision that flattered the Frenchman. I do not think that Carpatier doserved to win, which set Descamps fuming at the mouth. But most of us at that time were more or less obsessed by the French hoy. and Jeff Smith might just as well have cried in the wilderness to say that he had a raw deal. for

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National Sporting Club to see "Peggy" Bettinson, with the idea of trying his luck here.

3, remains the same. The executive. committee of the Northern Counties to reconsider the matter, but failed to arrive at a decision. After a lengthy discussion it was decided to adjourn the meeting until a later

Jones was quite decided that he was the King Richard of his profes.date.

It will be recalled that the alon, and there was this to be anid for him, he would have fought any- Oldham Police and South Manches- body or everybody. Albert Lloyd. ter clubs met to decide which team the Australian, was on the premises should oppose Plaistow in the final then, and Jones met him at The of the Team Championship. South Manchester won, but the Northern Ring, to be hailed next morning as

The Rise of Tunney

Francois Descamps, he wased into one. frothing at the gills, what time he screamed that Carpentier was un- beatable.

M'Goorty And Carpentier The late Boss Croker was not quite as sure that Descamps was right, und one day I was waited upon by two of his friends from Freland, who pleaded for help to set Carpentier matched with their man. I was assured that the matter of

In 1921 Tunney was little better

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a human cyclone and a blizzard roll-Counties Association upheld the appeal of Oldham on the grounds that South Manchester had included in their side an ineligible man.

South Manchester then appealed to the A.S.A. who decided, on the eve of the race for the title that both teams should compete in the final with Plaistow, and referred the matter back to the Northern Coun- les Association.

Jonea, not aa harem-scarem perhaps, but almost as erude as the Canadian, giving no promise of high accomplishments In the near future. But when I come to think about it, I recall that there something rare and strange in the make-up and general demeanour of

Tunney.

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The race was swum and, to make matters more complicated, South 1 remember that he came to the Manchester

with Oldham ringside almost shamefacedly, as if Police second. Thus, the title was he were terribly conscious of his temporarily in abeyance, pending limitations, as if he feared he would the decision of the Northern Coun- set the crowd roaring at his awk-ties Association. wardness. Maybe that the sure- Eventually a meeting was called, Peak Trams (new) ness with which Tunney felt that brought Descamps to London, and he had much to learn, and the feel- but then it was found that, as the Star Ferries

the purse money was a secondary consideration. I was free to tell Carpentier that his end would be the biggest he had so far touched; the only condition was that he would go over to Ireland to fight. I

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put the proposition before him. ing that he had that the people had Oldham Police had not compiled China Lights (comb.) "Money," he said, "is all right. no relish for a greenhorn, has had with the subscription rules, the ap-China Lights (old)... You are very handsome. But who

all to do with his becoming first peal could not be proceeded with. China Lights (new). have you got for Georges?"

The papers regarding the matter China Lights 1928 issue". heavy-weight boxer of the world. When Descamps learned that the

I have made a special study, of were sent to the ASA., who direct- H.K. Etrica (old) $53 b 594 8. [53% sa rad in pickle was M'Georty, he hum-Tunney, and these are my impres-ed that a further meeting of the

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I shall believe to my dying day that had Carpentier ventured against M'Goorty he would have been given a tousing, for I knew that M'Georty was in the frame of mind to die rather than be beaten. And when M'Goorty was that way disposed he was much of a devil. His disappointment at the refusal of Carpentier, to take the ring kept him in Australia. It was "down under" that M'Goorty may

one of the most remarkable man ago. who ever pulled on a glove. Ameri- cans may chide Tunney as they will, I make bold to say that nothing would have kept him from winning the championship.

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Tunney is infinitely more than an intellectual; he is in every way an but such as Dan M'Kettrick, the it that he is a posturer. I am not Wallington, Trombitzky, Buchanan.

I never saw Darcy in the ring, astonishing fellow. Seme will have

talkative little American, who in

that way of thinking. - Vain.

years before the war brought many Tunney; but is there a man in any

sphere of life who is not vain?

What Gibson Sald

fighters of high degree to Europe, saw in him a world beater. It was M'Kettrick who first introduced Joe Jeannette to this country, and early in 1914.came here with Younging. I would define, vanity in the

By vanity I do not mean trumpet-

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Ahearn, who, after making a holy case of Tunney to mean pride in one-quarter-mile swimming record in 5 show of Sergeant Braddock at the self, an ambition to do that which minutes 1.2/6 seconds, Reuter. N.S.C., did little else.

M'Kettrick, if I mistake not, had much to do with setting Darcy to go to America instead of leaving the business of fighting, unless one

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tion of the Mohshpedian Advisory of his country. A baby in many he became linked up with Gibson,. Owing to a defect in the cable to Board some 15 years back and of things Darcy, like many other not "what I have to do so that there the Isle of Man telegrame from the which he was made the Secretary able fighters, and when having shall not be a man to beat me, and mainland were one day last month since its formation.

He is still a arrived in the States he gave him- | I will do it if it costs me my life." | carried by mail steamer."

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