FEVERISH ANXIETY
DEMPSE Y-TUNNE Y PIG HT. ODDS PAYOR TITLE HOLDER, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Willi the fight three weeks away a great deal of interest is being een(red in the training camps of Dempsoy and Tunney. The champion's quarters are scenes of feverish, activity, if being not unusual for him 1o knock out four sparring partners every day. He announces that he now weighs 189 pounds and is not making any effort to reduce for this fight.
Tunney will tip the scale at 190, and says he will enter the ring at his natural weight. The champion is confident he is fast enough for Tunney without being any lighter, and will be more effective in punching with the •extra weight he will carry. Tunney, who observers declare has worked himself a bit fine, has decided to intersperse a long period of rest with his work-outs, boxing only three or four days a week; The 'Challenger believes he will win within three rounds. The odds, however, .are against him, being eleven to five and two to one on Dempsey.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17130, 4 September 1926, Page 8
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184FEVERISH ANXIETY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17130, 4 September 1926, Page 8
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