EPIC COURAGE: GENE TUNNEY V TOM HEENEY, YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK CITY, 26 JULY 1928.

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The position of challenger was keenly contested in a series of elimination bouts, though the press was less-than-enthused. "Plodding Thomas Heeney is about the best of a very bad lot of contenders," Bill McGeehan wrote in the New York Herald Tribune under the heading 'Mortification Has Set In'.

Grantland Rice at least acknowledged Heeney's grit. "Through his march into the challenger's corner the Anzac was the triumph of mediocrity, hooked to deep earnestness, rare courage and iron-shod durability," he wrote.

Heeney himself didn't exactly talk up his ...

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