The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-02-17
NALON [ !
SH|RKS HIS
TRAINING
BY Davis J. Walsh

NEW YORK, Feb. l7s--in spite
of current talk that the smart
money Is going in on the short
ender. Jack Delaney looks the part
of q logical choice over Jimmy Ma.
loney for that greatest Of all indoor
fights to be held at Madison Suare
Garden tomorrow night. Delaney
ID due for several reasons and
neither OF them is the fancy that
ordinarily he is the better man at
any or all weights. The writer, for
one, does not think he is; at least,
not under normal conditions.
Maloney had a great chance
no later than last week. But it
loOks now as though II had been
kicked from under him by In.
different preparation.
Information reaching the writer
today is to the effect that one Of
MaIoney's chief handlers has taken
only q nominal interest in whatever
transpfred at Long Branch, 1t hav'
ing been his custom, they say. to
leap gladly from the sheets at noon.
BY that time, the fighter could have
taken his run or his life and it
would have been all the same to
this man.
1t would seem, also, that they
have guessed wrong on the style OF
fight Maloney is supposed to make,
for he has been trained for a rough
ing, swarming attack. As see ii.
there is only one way to fight
Delaney and that Is not to fight
him at all. II you rush him, he
will sharpshoot you silly.
Delaney has only fair left hand
and cannot be induced to lead with
1t, except for an. occasional and some.
what tentative left hook. There
isn't lot Of poison in the punch
and it would seem that IL Maloney,
using some of his reputed speed,
were to wait him out, he might do
some scoring himself with his left,
which is a good one. With Delaney
off balance, sooner or later, he
would be bound to corner Delaney
in close for the kind OF fighting that
his 25-pound pull in the weights
would seem to demand.
But MIalOney has not been
trained for speed except during
several workouts with Tommy
LOughran. These hardly, were
sufficient to give his form the
edge &c viii need to match
punches with q man like Delaney.
In addition, Maloney gave some
evidence this week that his
physical condition is not what Il
might be.
The more the writer thinks of 1t
the more he is convinced that speed
will win this fight as it does in most
lO-round matches. Delaney has the
speed; he also has the reach, the ex.
perience under fire, the pinch NIT
ter's ability to come through in the
crisis and the deadly calm of the big
game hunter. If he were a bigger
and stronger man there would be
little question of the result. But,
given the benefit of saner prepare
ton, Maloney might be an equally
plausible shot.
Both fighters are inclined to blow
up after the early rounds; both have
trick chins. Delaney has the better
punch and when he has a man go.
ing, that man is as good as gone.
But a punch from 175-pounder
doesn't mean so much to a man
weighing 200 pounds, while the lat.
ter's punch means just that much
more to the lighter man. You can't
throw out Maloney's superior weight
and strength without second look.
either.
All ! can see is that a very smart
fighter, with a great right-hand
punch, has staked himself to an ad-
/ vantage in speed and condition over
the man he is to meet. They should
be enough.