9: Casey Jones Almost Loses Tunney
“I have had many troubles in my life but most of them never happened.”
- Casey Jones.
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IN THE FALL OF 1926, Casey Jones was sitting in his office when an old friend, Wade Morton, famous automobile race driver, came in to see him. It seems that a few days before Morton had stopped at Stroudsburg, Pa., to visit his friend Gene Tunney at the training camp where Tunney was training for his battle with Jack Dempsey. Tunney had told Morton that he was considering flying from his training camp to Philadelphia the day of the fight. He asked Morton to see what could be done about arranging for a pilot and a plane.
“What do you say, Casey?” asked Morton. “Will you do it?”
“Glad to,” replied Casey.
Being in the business of flying passengers and recog
