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Gene Tunney's Advice to Youth . . . "To thine Own setp be True Moral Victory Depends Upon Sell-Mastery ter of Gene Tunney...:' That was lwritten sixteen years ago by a New York newspaperman, Ed Van Every. You think those words over as you sit over the desk from him and study him, and mostly you agree with the writer. But there is one word that seems to encompass his major qualities Clean cut, clean limbed, "clean." An inherent cleanclean thinking.
Mastery of Himself. It was in his first match with that grand scrapper, Harry Greb, lightheavyweight champion of America, that Tunney became the man who would inevitably win the heavyweight championship of the world. Greb was . at good as any, and better than most of the top-flight professionals, and he gave Tunney the worst hiding of his career. ness. part From the first few seconds his nose All his qualities are a natural bled inwardly. In the third round an of the showis nothing There of him. . . . In the fifth both man, the poseur. The world figure is eye was cut open. He saw ;list a decent, clean man-with the eyes were pouring blood. dancing haze-"a foracthrough a are most Greb to the Faith the mind body With, maintain to fight "Those who axe born Catholics and But he carried on to the quire knowledge, and the spirit of shadow." tunate. They can live and die without being beset with the idealism that directs thOse other two fifteenth, and Greb could not K.O. doubts that trouble most others. . . . They have signposts at every atributes along the right channels of him. With his contusions he carried from that match the conviction that he development. . corner of the road. You learn of him that in his youth could defeat Greb, and the knowledge, any to false be then canst nut thou Tunney, Gene was The speaker too, of the ultimate that his body cleanmindedness was notably a part of former heavyweight professional box- man. . . ." Boyhood playmates could endure in the way of punish. his character. time this quotation, Or in that other ing champion of the world, now holder have told how he would immediately ment. from Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of remove himself if there was a sembYOU have. a feeling as you face Gene of the rank of commander in the Unitthe to offered Tunney which Rome, charged man Navy-the ed States lance of filth in the conversation. Yet Tunney that nothing could defeat him. with developing the physical training boy boxers whom he addressed from it was not mere priggishness. It was The mastery that he has of himself raHarry Greb must programme by which the personnel of the stage of the Town Hall, Auckland, something instinctive: something that diates from him. that Navy are kept in fighting condi- recently. had been nurtured in him by his have felt that mastery-and Jack "Until a man has fought and beaten mother, and by his training at La Salle Dempsey also. And yet, Tunney adtion. mits frankly the need of guidance from "A strange boy," he was called long himself he is not properly equipped Academy, the Christian Brothers' a higher authority in matters of conago by his friend, Dr. Frederick Van to take on others." school where he gained his primary and of his stay the end towards It was section Village Greenwich of the science, the necessity for faith in the Vliet, secondary education. Tunney Gene in New Zealand that Supreme Being. of New York; and probably most peoSocha. this of Avid Student of which the interview granted ple would call him to -day "a strange It has been said of him that "alassisted also reading Probably his seemed it and result, the is story "strange" is Tunney man." But Gene though Gene has never been known of books and, only in that he was born with a thirst rather strange, actually, to carry the He was an avid student Dr. Van Vliet's lib- to talk about it, it is plain the lad was for knowledge, a strong physique and discussion of spiritual things to that with the free run of In that those early headed for the priesthood." /with that mystical quality that can busy office-an active way -post on the rary, he showed even in for ancient interview before he left New Zeaalnd make the poet, the idealist, the re- path of war-to sit by for a moment days a special preference The ideal Tunney admitted that it would have or two while that big, easy -sitting fig- Greek and Roman history. former. "a sound gratified his mother's dearest wish if ure of a man finished a piece of dicta- of the ancient Greeks He Fought and Won. so well he had entered the priesthood. "But," Gene has known what it is to be tion, and wrote a brief letter. But mind in a sound body," wasprobably he added. "the older I get the more I mind that it laughed at and sneered at because- you get used to the strangeness of implanted in hiswhole career; his entry realise I never had a vocation. I think influenced his the possessor of those gifts-he chose Gene Tunney. there can be nothing more beautiful into the ring as well as the other asto undertake a way of life more often in the world than to have that feeling pects of his life. "Studious, Religious, Athletic." associated these days with sensationalHe quoted that ideal to the youth of of vocation, but I, honestly, did not." It is just, actually, that the world as ism, with money grubbing. and with in the course of a talk gangsterdom's vices than with the a whole is apt to classify people. This New Zealandboys, Authority of ,Church Needed. and told, too, of the man is a scholar, this man an orator, to Auckland thing's of the spirit. It was then that Tunney spoke of and classicists of the Middle Ages who this man a personage of affairs, No one will know the fight that Tunreligion and of the Church and of his And here, all added to that ideal the necessity for that a prize-fighter. ney had to make to reach the top that without the guidance It of a sudden, you come across one who "spirit' as well. "Courage is the conviction rung of the profession he chose. of a higher auth6rity directed, withthem All noblest quality of all," he told was not just a matter of clean ring is something of all those things. out doubt, by Divine teaching, man inter- and, from his own experience, showed battles; it was the things outside the that causes a reaction in the words how that quality was developed and /was at the mercy of his lower instincts. You seek more than ring with which he had to contend. viewer. "I think that every man should go of personal- how it could turn defeat into victory. But Gene Tunney fought in the ring and thoughts and flashesa maze of subFor the man who would make good to church," he said; "that he 'should and won; fought outside it-and won. ity. You seek through If he jects, a conversational pot pourri, for in the professional boxing ring it was seek the friendship of GodThe impress is on him now. to learn "to lick hasn't got a Church he should seek You can read it, if you will, in the the key that will solve the riddle of an essential. He hadfighting be an authority there must deone, for when himself," to carry on message he offers to the youth of New Gene Tunney. And in the above and beyond him. I am always "Studious, religious and athletic he feat seemed inevitable. Zealand-a quotation ,as you would have I believe I very fact of carrying on he acquired frankly shocked to hear a man declare is; and surely most . expect, from Shakespeare. of im'the quality that would eventually himself an atheist. The rules he sets "To thine own self be true, and it rated the qualities in the order charac(Continued on Page 13.) make him the master. portance as they bear on the follows, as the night follows day, that
Without Divine Guidance Man is at Mercy of Lower Instincts
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