DEMPSEY’S PUNCHES TELL
TUNNEY UNDERGOES KIDNEY OPERATION TWO YEARS DEVELOPING NEW YORK, Sunday. When the heavy-weight boxer Gene Tunney met Jack Dempsey in Philadelphia in 1926 and in Chicago in 1927, when Tunney won and kept the championship title, he was injured by Dempsey’s hxrd body punches, and today was operated on for the removal of a kidney. A specialist at the hospital said Tunney had been suffering for some time while in Europe. The operation was performed by Dr. Hamilton Fish at tiie Presbyterian Hospital. Mrs. Tunney is staying at the hospital
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 870, 14 January 1930, Page 9
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