BOXING.
THE COMING FIGHT,
Australian Press Assn.—United Service
NEW YORK, July 13
The sports writer McAuliffe, who is the undefeated lightweight champion, predicts a victory for Tom Heeney over Gene Tunney. He says that Heeney has more endurance than Tunney, and will wear him down, and will win the decision at the end of the fifteen rounds.
DIFFERENCE OVER FREE TICKETS
NEW YORK, July 14
News from Fairhaven says that a comment has been ascribed to Gene Tunney to the effect that the allocation of seats for the champion s friends at the fight is faulty, and further that Tom Heeney expects to have only three friends present. This has caused the New Zealander to dictate a caustic letter to the champion, in which he declared: “ It may interest you that I have already arranged for two hundred tickets for my friends, but they are not particular where they sit. All that they want is a good view of me hooking you with lefts and sending your head back with uppercuts. I have earned the right for a. try at your title because. I am always consistent.” Tom Heeney was pleased whert he was informed that the advance sales of tickets arc now close on half a million dollars i
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1928, Page 1
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