Ring Magazine: August 1928
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Cover: Tom Heeney
- Article topics include: Tom Heeney, New Zealand Heavyweight, Seeks to Revive Glories of Union Jack (with full-page photo); Gene Tunney Is First New York Champion since Tom Hyer (with full-page photo); Heavyweight Bouts in Ring History (with two full pages of photos of Bob Fitzsimmons vs. James J. Corbett, Jim Jeffries vs. Jack Johnson, Jack Johnson vs. Jess Willard, James Corbett vs. Jem Mace, Tom Sharkey vs. Jim Jeffries, Jack Dempsey vs. Jess Willard, Stanley Ketchel vs. Jack Johnson, and three photos of Jack Dempsey vs. Gene Tunney); Trail of the Heavyweight Championship from the Last of the Bare Knuckle Contests to the Present Day (list from 1889-1927); Tunney - Heeney Bout Recalls Other Famous Contests Between British and American Boxers; Most Heavyweight Champions Giants: Willard, Biggest and Heaviest; Big Thrills of Heavyweight Battles of the Past (Jeffries vs. Fitzsimmons, Corbett vs. John L. Sullivan, Corbett vs. Fitzsimmons, Tunney vs. Dempsey, Dempsey vs. Luis Angel Firpo--with Drawing of Firpo); First Milion Dollar Gate Bout (Photo of Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier at Boyle’s Thirty Acres); Tex Rickard Through the Years; Nat Fleischer Says: Jimmy McLarnin King of Sockers and Tommy Loughran Busiest Champion.