Snooze

James Joseph Tunney, world's heavyweight champion, will meet Thomas Heeney, challenger, in a 15-round boxing match at the Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, N. Y., on the evening of July 26, under the auspices of George L. Rickard.

That means:

The Great Intellectual, the boy that Kid Shakespeare knocked for a row of midnight oilcans, will exchange bopps on the beak with the New Zealand Menace, the Plumber's Son, the Horseshoe Carpenter. They will attempt to put the snooze on each other, while the Grand Vizier of the Golden Gate takes in slightly more or slightly less than one million smackers.

Last week, Tunney paused in his training at Speculator, N. Y., to say that he expects to administer a knock-out to Heeney. Word flew, as it often does, to Heeney at Rumson Farm Kennels in Fairhaven, N. J. The Irishman from New Zealand snorted: "Well, blime me if that doesn't take the royal cake for gall. . . . The papers are the only place Tunney knocks out anybody. Why, he couldn't stop Dempsey when the old Manassa

Mauler was ready for the scrap 'cap, and 'e won't cup up my eyes, either. In all the time I've been fighting only one man did that, and 'e did by butting. . . . I've been reading where Tunney is supposed to be the Woodrow Wilson of boxing. If that's so, I must be the Theodore Roosevelt, because they say I'm rough and I'm always ready."

Good though the Tunney-Heeney exchange of pleasantries was, people debated whether Promoter Rickard would get another million-dollar gate. Said Tunney: "Rickard is a nice fellow and a capable man, but I think sometimes he has gone million-dollar daffy. ... I think he could do something for the business if he would reduce prices and purses."

Heeney is 29 years old, expects to weigh 200 pounds for the fight. Details of training make him sulky; he does not like the tea in the U. S. He is happy when dressed up in quietly tailored clothes and when friends are spoofing him. He delights in boasting about his healthy tribe back in New Zealand--his mother who can do a full day's milking at 80, his sister who has "possibly 20 children." He is a hard man to knockout, but his defense is clumsy. If he becomes champion, he will have a good time and people will think him something of a clown.