This lot is closed. Bidding ended on 12/10/2004.
Boxer Gene Tunney, also known as "The Fighting Marine," was the World Heavyweight Champion from 1926-1928. Having beaten then champ Jack Dempsey to win the crown in 1926, their 1927 rematch became known as the "Long Count Fight." We offer a typed letter dated August 21, 1931, on Gene Tunney's letterhead, written to famous radio personality and gossip columnist Walter Winchell. The letter has great content regarding a rumor that Tunney was denying news about the arrival of a baby. Tunney has signed the letter in fountain pen and added in his own hand "Read your letter since I wrote this. Many thanks for the extract from the Boston letter. I don't know how they get it." Beautifully double matted and framed to 24-1/2" x 33" in a display which includes a vintage 1930s Radio Mirror magazine with Winchell on the cover, a vintage 1930s advertisement picturing Tunney and a panoramic photo of the "Long Count Fight." Comes with a letter from PSA/DNA.