Heeney's seconds with water and towels provided a very timely restrative and he returned to fight bent on a knock-outas his hope. He opened with a mild smack but his strength was visibly ebbing and he proved a plaything in the hands of Tunney, who hit him at Pleasure. Heeney had given the last ounce of his strength but declined to take a knockout. He was in eztremis when the referee intervened half a minute before the end of the round, Heeney then flopped on his seat and had to undergo treatment at the minutes before he was able to return to the centre of the ing to shake the hand of his conqueror.
Heeney persisted in his rushing tactics in the fifth round and kept the champion on the defensive, but at the cost of heavy punishment. Once the Briton missed a swing, slipped and fell prone on the ground while Tunney, most _sportingly, stood back until his opponent had folly regained his stance.
The pace slowed up in the sixth round. Both were inclined to rest Gene Tunney, in an_ interview after the fight, declared that he 0 defend the The Ghanpion paid a glowing tribute to the New Zealander, deceribing him as "the gamest man I have ever met," but expressed the opinion that the referee ought to have stopped the contest in the eighth round—Reuter, to recover dissipated energies. Heeney's face was now gory and blood was coming out of his mouth and nose,
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