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TUMfiY HOPES TO BE THIRD IANNEW • YoTK. May »L—-it's an old j Skying' that’ things come in threea. j That ahopwom idea has been running through Gone, TunneyTs hca,d like an express 'train ever since lie took up boxing. And this Is w..y: The first heavyweight champ ion ‘of the world under the Marquis or , Qneensbury rules was James J*! Corbett. His sparring partner at Car-1 son City was James J. .Teffnes, afterward the heavyweight champion of the world. • ‘Gone Tunney's name is James J. Tunney. He had a lisping Tittle tot of a brother in his young days, and when the brother- tried to say .Tixn^ the nearest he came to it'was Gin. Gradually he brought it around to *'Gcnc,fi and that is why Turin ey has 'always been known ag G-ene- * _Two champions named James- J« That’s the thing that tickles Jam os J. Tunney's fancy. Will fate maize him the third James..T. champion. Who knows?-It's a chance for the things comes .in threes” crowd to run up their battle flag. ^ “Gene” lives in the hope of some day making it a trio of James J. champion a.Gene defends his Tight heavyweight title against Harry Greb in tho Garden next Tuesday night. . i
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Mon, May 22, 1922
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