TUNNEY CONFIDENT.
♦—; — ..." FIGHT WITHDEMPSEY.\ # (BT. CABI3—PBE3S ASSOOATJO*— C<*TS}aiT.J (AUSTBAUAH ACT KJL CUU -iSSQCWne*) (Received September 3rd," 9.15 pan.*) NEW YOBK, b ßept«ntfsr€. With the fight three weeks ajray, -* great deal of interest is being centred ' in tjie training camps of 'Jsek Dempscy and Gene Tnnnoy. The champion's quarters , are a scene of feverish activity, it being not unusual for him to knoek-ont finf.sparring partners every day. He anoonnees that he now weighs 1891b, and /is. not making any effort to reduce' for this fight. • * .„ • Tunney tips the scale at 1901b,. ami says that he will enter the ring at his * natural weight. The champion is confident .that ha is fast enough for Tunney without being any lighter and 'will be mora effective in punching with the extra weight be will carry. Tunney, whom observers declare has worked himself a bit fine, has dead** "* to intersperse a long period, of. rest with work-onts, boxing only three o* four days a week. The challenger believes that he will win within, three rounds. The odds, however, are against ■ him, being eleven to five to"two'*«». one on Dempsey.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18788, 4 September 1926, Page 15
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