TUNNEY NEARLY DROWNED
PLUNGES THROUGH HOLE IN IGE (Rec. December 26, 11.5 p.m.) ' New York, December 25. Gene Tunney, the boxing champion, who was spending a vacation at Rockwood, Maine, was nearly drowned when -he lost his footing in an attempt to leap a treacherous ice wrinkle on Moosehead Lake, while walking with three companions to attend mass in Rockwood village. Tunney plunged into the water, which was at least 100 feet deep, and was only rescued after his friends, forming a* human chain, kept him from sinking until the other persons were attracted to the scene and helped to pull him out on to the ice. He had been so long immersed that he. was thoroughly chilled and taken to a hotel and put to bed.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 78, 27 December 1926, Page 9
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