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^ay. August 24 . 1926
Harry Handed Greb, First Good Man Tunney
Him Defeat In Pro Career
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. CENE TUNNEV, IN
1922 WHEN HE FIRST
FOUGHT-GRE0
BY JOE WILLIAMS |
The first good man Gene Tun
ney met as a professional beat
him. That man was Harry Greb, j
the ring’s most celebrated “Good .
Time Charlie.” Greb won on points
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and became the American light
heavyweight champion. You
say he also won on jolts, buts,
rolling falls and dropkicks. It
was that kind of a fight.
Naturally a foul fighter, when
| in the mood, Greb fought a par-j
(against jticularly furious fight that night 1
the inexperienced Tunney,
roughing him in the clinches, hit
ting at ’the break and butting’
whenever he pleased.
Not that he had to resort to
such tactics to win because at the
time he was obviously Tunney’s
superior,, but the referee, Kid Me.
Portland, was a tolerant soul and
Greb seemed to realize he could
run the gamut of fistic crime with
out official interference. I
Tunney was severely battered
in this fight. His ear was cut,
his lips were split and his nose
was fractured. During the clos
ing rounds he bled with great flu
ency and when the final bell sound
ed he was a tragic looking figure.
His Last Defeat.
The fight was held in the old ;
; Madison Square Garden. It was
Tunney’s first defeat and his last.
The metropolitan papers were none
too gracious to him the following
morning. They damned his ring
potentialities with such left-handed
flatteries as—“A good strong
who can take it but hardly a
championship prospect. ft
Tunney then took on Charlie
Weinert, the Newark Adonis, and
won a 12-round decision. A lot of
the boys had been bouncing Wein
ert on the carpet and Tunney ex
pressed his private disappointment
that he had not been able to score
a knockout.
a I went back to the gymnasium
and tried to figure out why I had
not stopped Weinert, »» relates
Gene. ‘ ‘I fought the whole fight
over again both in my mind and
on my feet, shooting punches at
an imaginary opponent. I resolved
to get another match with him and
concentrate on a body attack. M
In the first fight with Weinert
Tunney had concentrated on a
head attack. Weinert had con
siatently blocked his left hooks
and right crosses to the jaw. And
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in doing so had left hiniseli failly
wide open for crashing body blows, j
a weakness Tunney had ignored.
They were matched again and;
Tunney sent Weinert aprawhng on ,
his back in three rounds. The
campaign, conceived and carefully:
worked out in the murky silences
of the gymnasium, had done
trick. Here a triumph for applied |
study as distinguished from what
the ring knows as “fighting in
stinct.”
It was at this time or there
about that Doc Bagley, a typical
Broadwayite, began to weaken on
Tunney. There was not enough
color to Tunney to slake Bagley’s j
thirst for theatricalism. The pro- |
moters were not elbowing each
other out of the way trying to
sign him either. |
So when Billy Gibson, persaud- j
ed by two of Tunney’s friends,
came to Bagley and offered him
$5,000 for the reformed stenogra
pher’s contract, Doc executed a
graceful curtesy and invited Gib
son to establish a new speed rec
ord in laying the dough on the
line.
Made Benny Leonard.
Thus Tunney became the second
heavyweight of importance to
come under the management of
Gibson, the man who had previ
ously taken Benny Leonard as a
raw, unskilled youth and brought
him along by easy degrees to tho
light heavyweight championship of
the world. :
Gibson made a fortune out of
Jim Coffey, a big muscular Irish
man from Roscommon, who step
ped off a clanging trolley car into
the heavyweight picture back in
| the days when Jess Willard, A1
Palzer, Luther McCarty and Frank
Moran were occuping the spotlight ‘ j
The traditional humor of the
Irish bubbles incessantly in the
Gibson soul. He likes best of
all to tell of a near riot which
a wise-cracking friend of his per
petrated at the expense of Coffey.
Being the first Irish heavy
weight of any promise since Cor
bett’s time, Coffey quickly became
an idol around New York. Partic
ularly was he idolized by his fel
low aristocrats from the car barns.
Always when Coffey went into
the gymnasium to train he was
followed by a mob of admiring
micks. His every action in the
ring prompted a roar of approba
tion that exploded through a
brogue inches thick.
On this particular day Coffey,
getting ready to battle Moran,
was sparring against one of the
big negro heavyweights that were
hanging around New York at that
time. I think it was Joe Jeanette.
Coffey was going well, too. His
idolatrous group was entranced.
Built p Confidence.
An then it happened. Gibson’s
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Since Jack Dempsey has been
champion, he and his challenger,
common opponents—Georges Car
pentier, the one-time idol of
Gene Tunney, have met but two
France, and Tommy Gibbons, „f
the ,St. Paul Gibbonses.
Dempsey, as all followers of the
ring racket know, sent the fra
Carpentier to dreamland in
less than four rounds. That was in
1921.
Tunney met Carp three years
later winning on a technical knock
on* ?n the fifteenth.
Thus did Dempsey take 11
rounds less to put the Frenchman
out of the picture than did Tun
ney. Moreover. Jack performed
the feat three years earlier in Car
pentier's eventful "nd rather il
lustrious career and when Georges
was obviously a much better fight
or.
Against Tommy Gibbons, though
Dempsey didn't look so well. True,
he beat Gibbons, but it took 15
rounds to do it and then Jack only
Rot the verdict on points, That
wps 1923
Tunney two years later kayoed i
aforementioned wise cracking
friend reached forward and touch
cd a red-headed Irishman sitting !
at the ringside on the shoulder!
and with extreme suavity, asked: |
‘T beg pardon, sir, but which
of thees two gentlemen is Coffey?”!
“Stand back, mates, and give
’em air.”
The first important thing Gib
son did after taking over Tunney
was to strengthen the fighter's
confidence. Ho did this not by
heaping extravagant praises on
Tunney’s abilities but by eonvinc
ing him that he didn't have much
to beat to get to the top.
‘ Y ou vt- got the size, the heart
and the capacity for work and
that’s all you need,’ said Gibson,
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Tom in the twelfth round. While
Gibbons was the only opponent
ever to stay the limit with Demp
sey since Jack became champion,
Tunney, on the other hand, was I
the only one ever to put thp St.
au n- * tier *o sleep.
Summing up, we find this: That!
"hile Dempsey showed to belter i
advantage against Carpentier thani
did Tunney, s*ill Tommy excelled
Dempsey's efforts in the Gibbons
clashes.
"hich, of course, docsn t
mean anything. For comparing
records of a pair of fighters
“K ainst common opponents gets
one about as far as ht> advances in
tl > in K to dc P e tht ‘ relative merits
of two football teams in a similar
manner and with similar facts at
hand.. 1 It can be done, yes. But
' sn tw<»rth anything^to speak
of when you complete the task.
But at any rate we offer the
records of the champion and the
challenger against their two com
m<m opponents. We wouldn't ad
v ‘ se an >’ one to bet on the outcome
of the coming battle by using the j
Gil.bons-Carpentier results as a
basis for placing a wager, how
ever. No, not for a moment.
THOM ASTON TO PLAY
TATE IN SERIES OF
GAMES NEXT WEEK
THOM ASTON, Aug 24.-~Thom
aston will play Tate here next
week in a series of games which
will have a direct bearing on the
semi-pro championship of the
state, Three games will be play
cd in Thomaston, September 2,
•'!, and 4, and three games in Tate,
on the fith, 7th and 8th. These
games will be watched with a
great deal of interest throughoutj
the state, as these two teams are j
the best in their respective sec- J
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