The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-01-14

guessers last highland think I
am dumb enough to qualify prob
ably would have surrendered to the
same temptation. The fight was
close, without being unduly stimu-
lating or spectacular, and neither of
the civic uplifters showed anything
to make him a 5-to-1 choice over
Mr.. Tunney.
IF anything Heeney had one OF
Il those slight complimentary
shades to which all visitors to these
pospital shores are entitled. He
hospitable shores are entitled. At
least he fought as well as he could.
Sharkey didn't. He fought ham
fight and it may be that he is fun
damentally ham fighter.
Heeney had earneStneSS and en-
terprise. Sharkey fought only in
spots. Here and there he cwung a
devastating right hand and execut-
ed damaging two-ceSti attack to
the belt line region. But mostly he
fought listlessly and without spirit
and as if he were doing the clients a
great favor.
Sharkey came into the ring with
an air of bored detachment. When
some Of the guest caulifowerS, such
as Loughran, Lomski and RiSko
came over to shake hands with him
he acknowledged the courtesy with
the same lack of interest Of an anna
teur golf champion submitting to an
interview by vulgar reporter.
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THIS attitude was reflected in
l. many minutes of his fighting.
Under less majestic circumstances
it would not have been unpardon-
able if the referee had elected to
seize him by the lower fringeS Of
his diaper and toss him headlong
from the ring. He was at times
that aggravating In his fighting
1ethargy.
Heeney complained after the fight
that he deserved the decision. I am
not so sure but that his complaint
had some rneager justification.
There ought to be some reward for
COIlSCISuOlOuS C11OIIs
The gentleman has been inele-
gantly referred to as the washer
woman of the ring. I wish to say
without reservations that if this is
so he at least appears determined
to be a thorough, finished washer
woman.
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THE experts will tell you that
l. allowances must be made for
the fact that Sharkey had done no
fighting since last July and because
of this was not UP to his standard
in Judgment Of distance or ring IA
n1iliarity. Granted.
Still, the big ouch man was going
along Splendidly 1til the third
round when J authoritative
right hand uppercut crashed against
his jaw. From then on his interest
in the business at hand began to
melt.
Previous to this he had expert
enced the acute embarrassment Of
hitting the Antipodean Ok or the
New Zealand land mammal, as some
members of our little guild prefer to
call Heeney, flush on the jaw with
the same sort of right hand that
almost stopped Dempsey at the
Yankee Stadium last summer and it
had no more effect on him than if
he had harassed an. iron hydrant
with a candy cane.
TT Is most distressing to hit one
Il Of your fellow citizens with ev-
erything you've got and then have
him leer at you like an annoyed
gargoyle.
This is enough to take the heart
out Of anybody and there is a
suspicion that in the case of Sharkey
this Is an operation not demanding
any great amount of surgical effort.
Sfarkey was behind going into
the seventh round. From this point
on he began to show something ap-
proximating his real form, and the
chances are that if he hadn't begged
down, characteristically, after that
right hand uppercut in the third
round he would have won by the
wide margin that his superior speed
and skill seemed to warrant.