The Washington times., 1928-04-25

If he does. Tex Rickard may dis
cover that he has overdrawn his
hand to the. extent that he then
win hold one more ace than Hoyle
and etiquette consider strictly adj
visable.
For If Sharkey wins by the de
cisive medium OF knockout. Rick
ard win be in the questionable posi-
ton of having gone out OF his way
to develop better attraction than
the man he already has voted into
role of heavyweight challenger. Mr..
Tomato Heeney, and in this case
the Tunney-Heeney fight very well
might draw a lot of house flies.
The more one considers The
situation, the more one Is con.
WINGED that Richard forgot to
duck when he let himself IN for
this Sharkey-Delaney business
on Monday night. He already
has one more challenger than !.
he can conveniently use, TO
wit, Mr.. John RisltO, the prom.
inent bag-holder.
A knockout always is the great
convincer with the patients in the
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even that they will get one before
the END of is rounds Of the Sharkey-
Delaney heat. On the other hand,
there wasn't even a Touchdown TO
show for 50 rounds between Heeney
and RiskU, Heeney and Sharkey,
Heeney and Delaney ard Sharkey
and Risls0 and that is one of the
reasons the boys are prone to view
our challenger with a certain degree
Of alarm.
He figured all to conspicuously in
those hit and run proceedings. So,
you might say, has Sharkey.
. But my watch expects to catch
the last man forgetting this fact
IN ten seconds flat, providing Shar-
i key knocks Delaney into the bal
cony boxes. which, as a matter Of
fact, he should. Delaney doesn't
belong in. the same ring with any
good heavyweight who is really in
earnest and everybody KNOWS 1t.
including Delaney himself. He was
ready for the swimming pool the
night a ,vigilant referee stepped
forward and saved him from Paul.
zfno.
IL he finds he cannot embrace
Sharkey for Is rounds and, there
fore, stops one with his goatee,
q Complementary djscomfiting to
Richards plans between the re-
cords Of Sharl1ey and Heeney win
be on.
u It win show. first. that SIlar-
key st0Dped the man Heeney
couldn't stop. Il viii show.
second. that Heeney got
doubtful draw with Sharkey no
later than January. d don't
think such comparison VIII
rebound greatly to Tomato
Heeney's box office value rs
the official challenger.
OF course, am borrowing a lot
of surmises against the immediate
future. Snarkey and Delaney may
give us another exhibition OF how
they circle the May-pole on the
Bryn Mawr campus. But, some.
how. / look for a more satisfactory
performance. For one thing, I
think know Delaney. For an
other, his opponent should be some
thing more like the real Sharkey
for the first time since the Demp-
seq fight.
His recent fights with Heeney
and Risko should have sharpened
his timing: his training in the open
for the first time should improve
his general condition and his hand
ling in his corner should be better.
Sharkey has been exported" out
OF fighting form by corner advice.
They tried to make him cute and
smart in there and only succeeded
in wasting their time and his.
In brief, they had the basfful
one pegged as a heavy thinker and
clean forgot that he is one of our
heaviest hitters, now that Dempsey
says he is through.