HEENEY TALKS AMERICAN
{XUR own Tom Heeney as a fighter may earn a certain meed of fame, hut as a literary Slighter no kudos yet tags to his name. “This Shakespeare guy says guileless Tom, “is sure by now a proper dead one; these plays that Tunney lectures on are bunk —although I’ve never read one. This college stuff is not the thing for husky guys like me and Tunney; a fighter’s place is in the ring—he takes his stousli and earns his money.’’ So Tom, in choicest Yankee diction, bemoans the taste of champs., like Gene. Maybe he’ll yet learn ’tis a fiction that Tunney’s punch can’t k.o. Heeney!
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 11
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110HEENEY TALKS AMERICAN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 351, 11 May 1928, Page 11
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