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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY OCTOBER

WEEFSELE ARE KINON OF THE RING TODAYZ-10

Tunney the business ent tycoon is no mixer

G

ENE TUNNEY, the American marine who twice outsmart-

ed Jack Dempsey, made. a million, married more millions, and then to8a- ed back his gloves in the teeth of the fight game, is to- an unrecognised man day.

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For Dempsey, there atill backslappers and hand- shakera in their thousands, For Tunney, scarcely hero worshipping glance. Not even at the busy little railway station at Stam- ford, Connecticut, where, many mornings, the EX-

world champion can be seen arriving by car from his lush country home at neighbour- Ing Greenwich, buying his paper, and settling in his

for the xent

corner

40-

to

minute non-stop ride Grand Central Station, New York.

Just another executive on his way to town-big. spruce, courteous,

ful, impeccably

unworried.

success. groomed,

★ COMPLIMENT?

GENE TUNNET -5 M, the Immaculate busines

executive.

His business for the day? It could be the tyre company of which he is president; or the merchant bankers of which he is chairman; or the paper and cardboard firm he helps to direct; or perhaps the construction outfit which

thousand obligations. of A recently built a trim houses for returning squire. But no mixer and,

country

you can have no about him at all.

COUNT in his second fight with punches rodod rosy blotches an inch of space to keep away from Denipsey at Soldiers Field, his ribs in the fourth. A out, Chicago, on September 22, 1927 over his left eyebrow streamed strated Dempsey. Let fracas to which 104,943 red to join the food from his empty filt the air, let him pectators contributed: 2,858,000 nore in the fifth. Tunney, having neer, let him mouth a contemp. dollars, and from which Tuncey, ruouraged Dempsey, to loose luous invitation to stand - still extracted 990,000 dollary, the steam by abortive rushes now and fight. defeated Dempsey being com- moved forward, Jeff-jubbing re-

* Not Tunney, the strategist, the pensated to the minue · tune of morselessly,

slide-rulo boxer, waiting dog tho 447,500 dollars,

But the Dempseys of this bell. Time was now on his side; Quile, a pay-day for all con-world are not tormented with A short right put Dempsey on cerned. Also bistoric, for impunity.Tuntry, for one split swear that men will talk of the second in Round Seven, came floor in the eighth, and knock-down count in Tunney v. off the ropes, with his jaw un- although the old binuker was up Demprey long after they have guarded, Dempsey amote it on the instant, the tale of his forgaten the battle of Bunker good and hard with his left, and impending defeat was plain for Hill and the arrow that hit the followed through with a right all to ace in the red gushes above cye of Harold at Hastings..

upper-cut that lifted

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ten

A cardinal rule of boxing says that a man knocked legiti- mately to the floor for seconds has lost the fight. But there can be local trimmings. Tunney was horizontal for 14-— some any 16-scends, yet beat the man who put him in that undignified position.

the simple truth of it.

That 1s

Tunney, siender, but dæp chested, adequately shouldered and well strewed in the most effective places. had icily em- mathe- ployed the shrewder matics of boxing to cutpoint and relieve Dempsey of the heavy- weight championship of the werkt in Phiisdelphia in 1920. A second mecting became inevit- able.

Rickard Promoter Tex

sald so.

of

★ SCOWLING

A sewing Dempsey, his

plent inches into the night his eyes, the pured, mis hapen air. Tunney spun upwards and mouth, the cut and bleeding Ups. Lackwards

Into the ropes, Dempsey foundered. Tunney Crumpled to the floor with hurt

chin between his knees and jabbed, and jabbed, and jabbed. groped with his feft hand at Victory was his at the end of ine iniddle of the three confin- the ten rounds, then coliskiered ing ropes-as a drowning man jämielent for the heavyweight | would clutch at a stráw.

championship of the world.

Immediately, timekeeper. Reoler began his ringside count with a pounding of fist on the

by George

Whiting

those two

★ ICY ANSWER

Thus ended the battle of the long count, and thus began tha argument that has brought high words to bar-rooms' and gym- nasia to this day. Was the referee right in delaying 'his count till Dempsey had fulfilled the obligations of the rule-book? For me,

the answer is; an uni qualified yes.

Unfortunately, rules are neces- mry when man hits man for

money. Fool around with those rules and you strip the last few a sport shreds of chivalry_from that was designed for men, not savages.

natural ring savagery spurred by boards but no corroborative a burning desire for revenge, werd, no signalling nem to ind flưng himself full pelt at Tunney, cate the passing of time for the But Tunney was not anywhere prostrate champion, came from around for Aunt Sally purposen. referee Dave Barry, opinion with perfect training, a bookful

For the blood-flocked Demp- boxing legle, and an extreme-

For 27 years, Gene Tunney ly mobile pair of legs g his rey, afler bludgeoning his has had one lay answer to those, But do not be shy of ask-mand, he moved smoothly lock-down with ing Tunney his opinion away from Dempsey's venom- tremendous punches, forgot the myself included, who bave about things pugilistic. His inspired swings. When Demprey sonrosanct laws of the finals sought his view on those tenso State Athletic Commissien seconds when he was on the practised;

clinched. When Dumpsey

farthest away his famous left hook the punch to the corner

Puy the man "The greatest fighter In the

that had destroyed so many

he had tumbled, world since Corbett

Un- less agile heavyweights, Tunney ilgged around 00 Jubilant, doubtedly Dempsey," the

of range. And exultant toes to his own corner, time Immaculate Marine will skipped cut

14 Dempsey over- no more than a foot or two away You can admire the lowly tell you.. And you may please

always,

of Tunney to sting At 66, Tunney is a tycoon born Tunney for applying yourself whether you construe reached, there was the straight from the rocumbent Tunnes

that ce a

cenuine ibute to his left arm flourishing in his business, bis intellect and his dollars cl opponent. cf. a cound-the end. 'stab› for points on÷hig. occasionally assiduous in to gentler arts than boxing; despise him for politics, proud father of two you can tall and handsome Bona, turning his back on the fulfilling with dignity the thick-ear industry that made huntin',

fishin' him; or, as he would wish, The shootin,'

GIs out there in the green, above all, fastidiously aloof answer comes pat, and 'well strove for the body, Tastead of retiring, as per floor at Soldiers' Field:

and from the fight fraternity he honeysuckle hedged "English-looking lanes of once tamed to his own plainly

Con- stated ends.

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READING CHARACTER

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opponent's face..

ccaner compliment to his Own adroliness in the prize ring...

For 27 years, Tunney's boxing reputation has centred round a million-dollar question mark,

question of the LONG A

A short right to the chin had Dempsey back, on his heels in Round Two. A left brought blood from his nose in the third

of volley Incisive body

THROUGH HANDWRITING: NO. 6

WHAT YOU CAN TELL BY

HOOKS AND ENDINGS-

AVE you ever noticed

handwriting that is

full of hooks at the

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and well rounded curve shows the writer to be gracious, and honest, with sincere consideration for cther peope.

what ing tapers only slightly, the the next word further There is no use writer is a very cautious along the line, the writer to change this person and trustful. On the will be over-generous and

end, beginning or middle of of words indicates a person not taper too much, but words? As the word "hook" at the beginning, but would when they do, it means

If the endings do not implics, it is to hold on to próbably end up by refus that the writer is very something, and that is what who will persist to the end. cunning and, perhaps,, a slant upwards but continue the hook means in grapho- What he starts he will Hypocrite. When the writ- on a straight line, forcing

tenacity..

matter finish, no logy

Notice the hooks on the happens. "F" in "French" and on the trying

in ""'replies"

in writer's mind on anything, other hand, if the writing lacking in prudence. If the The hooks for it will be only like talk- tapers off to a sharp point, last letter or two end in an EXAMPLE 1.

look out! The writer is in- undecipherabe wavy line, here are only at the begin- ing to a brick wall.

The way in which a per- sincere,

the writer will use deceit ning of the words and, as Buch being so, Indicates that son ends his words reveals

A mystical leaning is in and lies to get himself out dicated when "worda", ond of nasty situations. EXAMPLE ONE

with a vertical or near ver- Endings that are brought down- tical stroke that goes far heavily to the right disclosa, ̈a above the writing. This violent and determined nature. writer is in his element Sometimes this person will be when he deals in mysterious almost ruthless in his tenacity. and exotic things. Some. It this sign is not so strong and times he may even be a modified by others, the writer will only be impulsively violent, religious fanatic.

and although he will regret his angry outbursts, he will not be Sometimes you will come quick to ask for forgiveness as across writing where the he is inherently stubborn. ending of words is brought

Words which start off with back to under the word and small formations, then become

a place'sin om

America replies

inforcemento to he

request

The French Ambassador in

structed by the French

writer, possesses the many interesting character traft cf tenacity, but mainly istics to a graphologist. In about unimportant matters. EXAMPLE 2

you

will 2/ This Writer may not agree notice that the ends of the with a proposition at the beginnnig, but if he thinks words finish quite abrupt

It will be a good venture ly.

then he will agree with you

In the end..

This abrupt ending

ows that the writer has

economical nature. Ho

On the other hand, when or she will be very careful

the little hooks are at the

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to you meekly

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when

comes to atching

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PAZAR EXAMPLE TWO

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★ RULES SIMPLE

Herone was no om cua An Impatient Dempsey hover. The rules were. simple, - and ed, a frantle crowd added their explicit, Dempsey knew of them, creams to those from Dempsey's and, indeed, insisted on their use corner. but Barry kept his head. I was fully cognisans of whit Not until his urging arm had was going on. At no time did persuaded a reluctant Dempsey I lose any of my senses, I merely

farthest from awaited the referee's count, to the corner Tunney did he begin to count.

"Any Thus did the man on the foot

boocer with bamured, or fully alive to the sense takes full advantage of *** the kriock-down rules, regard- pregnancy of the fever hot situa- less of what the public or any- donf-gain priceless seconds of body else may think, Had I Fracc.

wanted to, I could have got up

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at "four-or at any other time."

At "our" Tunney was up on one knee. Then he sank back And so say all of us--except a again to watch the rise and fall tow million worshippers of a

of Barry's arm above him; his men called Jack Dempsey,

lipe moving in unison. At "nie"

he was back in ring-circulation, WORLD back-petaling, stalling, retreat-

ing, making precious use of every

I am

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