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  4. Tunney Wins Battle for the World's Boxing Title

    ALL EYES ON THE GREAT FIGHT IN NEW YORK.--From left to right: (1) The challenger, Tom Heeney; (2) Tunney trips and falls in the ninth round of his last fight with Jack Dempsey. (3) Tunney receives the plaudits of the multitude after gaining the championship. (4) A dramatic moment of the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago last year. Tunney was down for 15 seconds ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 110 words
  5. CHALLENGER

    The rugged challenger, Tom Heeney, is 29 years of age. In London he was regarded as a poor draw, and finally he left for America without the ...

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  6. CHAMPION

    Born in Philadelphia, the champion Gene Tunney, aged 30, served in the Great War as a marine. Always a keen student of boxing, he ...

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  7. A NEW TUNNEY

    Heeney won in only one department, that of being able to absorb punishment. Tunney was the New Zealander's ...

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  8. BULLDOG ANZAC

    Tunney was obviously startled by Heeney's rushes early in the second round, and tried to turn the battle into a boxing match, but could not ...

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  9. REFEREE STOPS FIGHT

    Gene Tunney, surpassing as a boxer anything previously shown in his remunerative career, scored a technical knockout over the New Zealand challenger, Tom Heeney, in the eleventh rotund of their scheduled 15-round battle for the world's boxing championship before 40,000 fans at the Yankee Stadium here to-night. The referee, Eddie Forbes, humanely halted the proceedings late in the eleventh round when it was plain to all that the challenger was hopelessly outclassed. Tunney held a big lead in every round save the fouth, which some critics thought was about even. At the end Heeney was blinded in his left e[?]e blooding from half ...

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  10. THE WINNER

    Gene Tunney Tunney was accompanied by Jimmy Bronson, Billy Gibson, his manager-trainer, Lou Fink, and Lou Brix. Just ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. THE LOSER

    right deep into Tom's side as he tore in. The champion hooked a series of lefts and rights to the body and head ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  13. ROUND BY ROUND

    Heeney appeared much the more nervous of the two, as he declined to take a seat, and shuffled his feet At the beginning of the first round ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. THE SUN STOP-PRESS

    Harold Leggo, aged 29, a carpenter, of Wellington-street, Newtown, sustained severe injuries, including a fractured skull, when he fell this ...

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