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TREACHEROUS ICE BETRAYS WORLD'S BOXING CHAMPION. ICNNEY ALMOST DROWNED. Received Dec. 26. 11.5 p.m. NEW YORK. Dec. 25. The world’s champion boxer, Gene Tunnev. 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 Moos. Head Lake while walking with throe companions tn attend Mass in Rockwood village. Tunnev plunged into th«> water, which is at'least !♦>» feet deep, and was only rescued after his friends, forming a /human chain, kept him from sinking until other persons were attracted to the scene and helped to pull him out on to the ice. Tunney had been so long immersed that he was thoroughly chilled, and he was taken to hospital and put to bed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19730, 27 December 1926, Page 7
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