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From: SmoothSail	5/26/2007 9:37:04 PM
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I was watching a special on the 1926 Dempsey-Tunney fight today and it brought back very old memories of meeting Gene Tunney in the home of his sister, Dorothy Moore. I was 10 at the time and was visiting because her daughter, Mary Rose, was my best friend at the time. I was in awe of this "giant" - at least to me he was. Boxing was a big thing in the neighborhood and everyone, including the kids, would crowd around the radio (no TV back then) and listen intently to the blow by blow reports of all the boxing matches. (This was later on in the early 50s.) The Tunney family owned a beach front property called the Del Mar Club (later to become a Synanon facility) in Santa Monica where Mary Rose and I spent many days during the summer swimming in the indoor pool. One day during the summer of 1951, Mary Rose died in that pool. I wasn't there that day, but remember the aftermath. Her mother, who was beautiful, collapsed on the steps of St. Brendan's church, crying "my baby, my baby!" Gene Tunney was there to carry her to the limo and then the cemetery. It's a scene etched in my memory - this huge man carrying this little grief-stricken women down the steps of the church.

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