Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-19
HIS BLUSTER is BELIEVED
ITO BE GREATLY ASSUMED
Fierceness Is Merely ''Put ON and He Is Not So
= Tough After All, Is Conclusion From an
a Interview by Famous Writer.

nuisance but to be endured amiably.
Also / was permitted to shake the
hand of the handsome young Jack
Delaney. another fighter of consider
able emincnce.
Meet a. real champion" said
Sharkey grac!ously.
1t was gesture, undoubtedly, but
a pleasing gesture. 1t was no ball
room compliment uttered graciously;
il was a shower-bath compliment ut
tered with good will by man who
was doing the best he knew how.
From then on listened, because the
conversation was more illuminating
than any searching questions of my
own could have been. 1t was rough
neck talk. One would not welcome
Sharkey at an afternoon tea because
he would probably shake his shoulders
once and ruin the set of china; nor
would his conversation endear him to
maiden aunts with tender ears.
Prefers the Elizabethan.
1t was rough talk, but essentially
clean talk. 1t was profane, but not
vulgar. There was no searching for
Il neat adjective when the good old
Elizabethan would serve: but not
once did it pass the bounds of clean
uShtneckery. if one may coin a
word.
And while Sharkey's grammar was
not that of the stylist, l was a little
surprised at the correctness of it.
There was no "He DONE or Them
guys" Singular subjects walked
hand i'm hand with singular verbs, and
made no fuss about it.
III say to anybody they're hard to
hit" said Sharkey. referring to his
sparring partners,
Sure" responded Delaney. ''how're
YOU going to know what the blankety-
blanks are going to do when they
don't know themselves"
Yeah, you got to watch all the
time-your hands. That Rock, / got
no time to dc anything but keep from
seeking him on blankety blank ell
bow. The blankety-blank."
Sharkey lay back while his rubber
bored a fist into his lean abdomen.
Sharkey did not like it.
What" he dema nded, lifting his
head and cooking a saturnine eye, lis
the blankety-blank whang dang wow
WOW new idea of. that?'
Just One Fight After Another.
1t was explained to him that this
particular kneading had TO do with
the welfare of his digestion, and
learned finger traced on his outside
the course food was supposed to fol-
low in its passage through his body.
Sharkey regarded the subject with
amused tolerance and made it known
hot hn in tho nit of HE
stomach he knew what to do about it.
And after this whang-dang fight l
suppose / start in training for the
next one" he said.
Delaney voiced his surprise.
well. in week, anyhow, I'll go off
where they can't find me for a few
days. l had to run to get away
from the blankety-blanks yesterday.
Autographs. And don't they like to see
YOU get socked"' Sharkey was becom-
ing acquainted with the characters.
tics of audiences.
The oddsH be to 5 on Dempsey
before the fight" said some one.
Fine. Those boys he's got for
partners. Knock two-three bozos out
in two minutes. He'll of a lot of exer-
else he gets out of that. Me, I'm in
there for exercise. Let 'em hit me.
Right hands. Not that anybody wants
to get socked, but I'm in there for eX.
ercise. l got a left hand, see, and 1
know how to use it when I want to.
But I'm exercising it. Wait till l step
in the ring. I'll have left and there1l
be something behind it,
Sharkey's Confidence.
Its the showing with sparring
partners that makes the Odds said
some one.
Sure, get line by what happens
in bang bang gymnasium"
1t was some of Sharkey'S self conf
dence. the thing that has been written
of as bra ggadocio. But it did not seem
to be spoken with Boosting intent;
rather as a statement of matters that
were to happen because of care and
preparation. Though, this very after
noon, he had informed another man
of his intention to knock Dempsey
back to San Francisco, there was no
evidence of this disposition while l
was with him. Perhaps the presence
of the skillful Delaney subdued him,
or possibly he was on his good be-
havior with me.
IF fellow says he feels WELL" he
said, these sports writer's yell how
he's Dragging all over the place. What
they want you to do, go around like
this?" He illustrated with sagging
jaw and wobbling knees. Want you
to say you're sick in bed, eh?''
There seems to be a common bond
between the Frenchman Delaney and