The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-16
BOXERS REFUSE
TO BATTLE FOR
TITULAR HONOR
Most of Them Prefer to Talk
Their Way Into the Big
Money Glasses
RICHARD HARD HIT
Jack Sharkey, One of Most
Colorful, Is Now a Medical
Problem
By EDWARD. NEIL


New York, Oct. 16.-(AP)-Nur-
turing of the cauliflower to q robust
and remunerative maturity has be-
come so difficult in recent months
that Tex Rickard has been forced
to turn now and then to other veg
etables for profit. Occasionally he
dips into the wheat market to make
up buying and selling futures the
inroads that have threatened to pull
his fortune down to q mere million
dollars.
The winter season gets under way
with many difficulties besetting the
star Of Madison Square Garden,
who, like Jack Dempsey, seems to
be softening under the load Of sue.
cess. Opposition is springnig up
in the town Tex used to rule without
question and the edge is off the
public taste for cauliflower.
The departure Of King Tunney
from affairs fistic started the blight
on its way. The heavyweight d.
vision, the one big consistent money
maker, is a scrambled mess, studded
with men who offered nothing but
mediocrity when opportunity
knocked. Now they do not choose to
fight, preferring to argue their re-
spective rights to the empty throne
rather than fight for the honor.
Sharkey Medical Problem
Jack Sharkey, he Of the twisted
knee and the one outstanding heavy
weight despite the crushing defeat
by Dempsey, is a medical problem
now. The ligaments torn in train
ing almost two months ago have
been slow in healing. He, may
never again reach the heights he
achieved in bending Dempsey to his
will for the better part Of four
rounds. Even at his best, with both
legs sound. the Boston sailor was
a moody problem, prone to battle
languidly as often as he startled
the ringworms with his speed, pow
er and viciousness.
The rest of the crop have failed
entirely to flower or have gone to
seed in the public mind.
Johnny Risko appears to have
passed his peak.
Tom Heeney got his chance and
his drubbing from Tunney.
Dempsey is through with the
game forever.
George Godfrey, because of his
negro blood, has never received
serious consideration.
Pauline Uzcudun and Young
Stribling are TOO tough" for the
boys.
Roberti, Won Porat, Dorval, Han
sen, Mariner, Roebuck, De Kuh,
either have not ripened or have gone
to seed entirely.
So, while Tex waits . flaming
youngster to pillow up the ground all
over again, Jess McMahon, retired
Garden matchmaker, is planning
the opening Of new indoor arena,
and Humbert Fugazy, for the first
time, seems assured of a place to
stage shows in the winter time. The
newcomers have popularized "pop-
ular" prices, which do not jibe with
the Garden scheme Of things.
Loughran. Walker
uS OSCV oSAop VI eSIS IUOOOI yea
son appears to be q match between
Tommy Loughran, the light heavy
weight champion, and Mickey Walk.
er, middleweight king, who has Gre
ated q sensation by bowling over
light heavyweights. That is one
Tex can't make because Of the an
Gent feud between himself and Jack
Kearns. Mickey'3 manager. which
dates back to Kearns' split with
Dempsey and accusations that Rick
ard widened the breach.
Kearns says that Walker will
fight Loughran in the Garden for
500, 900, an offer which should have
been accompanied with smelling
salts for the thin-thatched Texan.
The final word was said by the New
York State Athletic Commission
with . ruling that Walker could
fight only at 160 pounds. Mickey
has more than . little trouble doing
that.
Just when the welterweight stu
alton seemed boiling into q pot OF
gold Young Corbett, southpaw sen
sation from California, came east
and fought two disappointing bat
ties with Sammy Baker. That elm
mated him.
The negro star, young Jack
Thompson, sprang into fame by
knocking out the champion, Joe
Dundee, in two rounds in . non-title
match. As soon as Tex mated this
pair for . genuine championship
tussle in the Garden Nov. 16 Jackie
Fields took the edge off the bout by
whipping Thompson.