BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP
DEMPSEY AND TTJNNEY IN
TRAINING.
(United Presn Association.—Copyright-) NEW YOEK, 2nd September. With their fight for the world's championship three weeks away, a great deal of interest is being centred in the training camps of Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. The champion's quarters are the scene of feverish activity, it being not unusual for him to knock out four sparring partners every day. He announces that he tiow weighs 1891b, and is not making an effort to reduce for this fight. Tunney tips the scale at 1901b, and says that he will enter the ring at his natural weight. The champion is confident that he is fast enough for Tunney without being any lighter and will be more effective in punching with the extra weight he will carry. Tunney, who, observers declare, has worked himself a bit fine, has decided to intersperse a long period of rest with work-outs, boxing only three or four I days a week. The challenger believes that he will win within three rounds. The odds, however, are against him.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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176BOXING CHAMPIONSHIP Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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