You’ll often see the 1920s referred to as the “golden age of sports.” There are a couple reasons for this, but a big part of it is the slate of huge stars that emerged in this decade. Baseball had ...
On September 23, 1926, in Philadelphia, Gene Tunney easily defeated Jack Dempsey for the title of heavyweight champion of the world, and in this exhaustively researched work, sportswriter Cavanaugh ...
The new rules for the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World in 1927 required that a fighter retreat to a neutral corner for the count, instead of standing over, taunting the fallen competitor.
CHICAGO -- Gene Tunney held his world's heavyweight championship Friday by proved right of conquest, but his second battle with Jack Dempsey Thursday night, like most important fights of recent years, ...
Gold medallion with the figures of Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey engraved on the front of the medal and an engraving of the Liberty Bell on the reverse. The case is green leather and is very worn. This ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects from the career of boxer Gene Tunney (May 25, 1897 – Nov. 7, 1978), through a donation from the Tunney family. The donation ...
T he golden age of sports mined a rich vein of glittering heroes. There was Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat; Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost; Bill Tilden in tennis; and Bobby Jones on the links. And ...
A pair of 84-year-old boxing gloves — two lumps of orangey leather, scarcely bigger than ski mittens, newly arrived but not yet on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History — ...
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