New Britain herald., 1927-07-22
Fighters Statements

Fighters Statements
 New York, July 22 UP)-After the fight Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey made the following state- ments:
 Dempsey Make no mistake about it, this fellow Sharkey is no sucker. He is tough, rugged young fellow who can hit, and hit hard. but he never had me badly hurt or seriously shaken. Always my head was clear and always l had plenty left. You see, I never per- mitted Sharkey to get 50 that he could get the best leverage for his blows. He is very quick and it Is hard for me to land fairly, but when finally I did get shot at his chin you know the answer"
 Sharkey-"It's all in the game. and I'll be back at the top before Dempsey is. Say. that guy couldn't break an egg. His punch is gone, If he ever had a punch. I had him licked, and he knew it and that's why he fouled me, Dempsey was drunk and groggy dozen times, while he never was able to feaze me.
 Dempsey knew I had his num- ber from the start and he was hit ting low all right. He deliberately hit me in the groin in four times just before he clipped me. I was falling from the pain when the las blow brushed my chin. was not knocked out. I simply doubled up from the pain and could not rise.
 T hope to have the pleasure of meeting that bird in the ring again but I guess Gene Tunney will beat me to it."
 Rickard Denies Foul
 Tex Rickard denied today that Dempsey had fouled Sharkey, and did a little ballyhooing for the Dempsey-Tunney fight which he said would be held in mid-Septem- Der lat place not yet determined"
 Rickard characterized the Demp- sey-Sharkey fight as 'the best ever saw" He said:
 Il was right at the ringside. was watching every minute, and would have seen foul blow if one had been struck in the seventh round. No, Dempsey hit Sharkey in the pit of the stomach right in the pit of the stomach. Sharkey took two blows to the head before he fell. A man would have dropped quicker than that if he had been hit low. He didn't act like a man who had been hit low.
 "One time early in the figbt I thought Dempsey was hitting low, but that happens in all fights and Sharkey didn't seem to notice it.
 Where Sharkey failed was in not coming right into the fight and mix ing 1t with Dempsey. He waited too long. He did not fight fast enough.
 Dempsey came out fighting all the time He looked as if he could | lick anybody"
 Does that include Tunney" Rickard was asked.
 Well, he would have a better chance than he did in the Phila- delphia fight" the promoter said.
 More Diyerging Opinions.
 New York, July 21 (UP)-Within I minute after Jack Dempsey had sent Jack Sharkey sprawling to the canvas. sports writers were sending over leased wires divergent views of the manner in which the knockout was scored.
 "Sharkey should have won on a foul," exclaimed some The Demp- sey victory was won fairly" coun- tered the others.
 Hundreds of columns of newsprint already have been devoted to the controversy, which probably will be waged for years or as long as Demp- sey and Sharkey retain a place in Ring memories.
 Excerpts of the fight reports fol- low:
 Henry L. Farrell, United Press Tt was a right under the heart in the seventh round that ended the fight. Jack shot his right to Shar keys body. Sharkey dropped his guard. Writhed in pain and sagged trying to protest the blow was foul. Dempsey closed in with a solid left to the chin and the fight was over"
 Frank Getty, Unit Press What happened was this: Dempsey had driven two short, tremendous punches to Sharkeys stomach as they stood in mid-ring. Whether one of these blows would have fin- ished the Bostonian will never be known. For as Sharkey wjlted. sagged, and reached out his hands to protest to Referee O'Sullivan. Dempsey brought up terrific left flush against his opponents jaw. A certain lack of the fighting spark which made the Lithuanian too ready to attempt to win on a tech