TUNNEY SCORES HIT
GENE’S IMPROMPTU SPEECH LONDON AUDIENCE LONDON, September With the obvious intention of giving Gene Tunney, the retired heavy-weight champion, a good send-off on his intellectual career, Harry Preston, famous in the world of sport and Bohemia, gave an amazing party, comprising the arts and sciences, in a West End hotel. Tunney was unabashed, and scored one of the biggest hits of his life by captivating the sceptical audience in a brilliant impromptu speech upon the psychology of boxing. “Boxing,” said Tunney, “is simply on ability to co-ordinate mind and muscle at a critical moment. England is the cradle of modern boxing, and the home of sportsmanship.” Referring to the much-spoken-about necessity of a boxer possessing the killer instinct in order to win, Tunney said: “The desire to kill is manifest only when an opponent is helpless against the ropes. A boxer who has such an instinct on such an occasion is merely brutal, and can find no joy in boxing when one has gained the phyI sical and intellectual superiority.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 459, 14 September 1928, Page 9
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