New Britain herald., 1928-05-07
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL

Regardless of the less than one round knockout of Jack Delaney by Jack Sharkey, the heavyweight as it confronts Messrs. Rickard. Tunney and Heeney isn't seriously changed.
 The situation for the three engag- ed in the making of the next heavy weight championship fight could not be much worse than it was before Sharkey had one or the good mo- ments that come to him annually and crooked a fighter who had been exploited into a mythical greatness by a sentimental and hero-manufac- turing New York press
 Sharkey always looks like a mill Hon dollars when he is winning and like a lead nickel when he is losing and, unfortunately for him. his pub lie appearances have been more fre- quently in the guise of the lead nickel
 His quick and artistic victory over Delaney means nothing at the pres ent moment, and probably will mean less as time passes. Sharkey is no better than he was when he made of himself q floundering mess with Johnny Risko and Tom Heenev. He got in the first punch against q ront-running Delaney. who, beyond all doubt, has been for years the most camoufaged fighter in the bus mess.
 We are not taking a rap at De- lancy as a second guess because we have been on record since the De- laney heavyweight ballyhoo first started that he was no great fighter. He always has beon the most over estimated fighter Of the day. He vas q champion against big slow bum. but he wasn't even clever with a clever man of his own weight, as he proved when he fled from the light heavyweight championship in mortal fear of Tommy Loughran.
 Sharkey's greatest fault is one that ie can't overcome at this stage of his career. HE CAN'T CARRY WEIGHT. This is term borrowed from the track to convey the mean ing that he isn't strong enough for great responsibility and that he can't deliver when the issue is vital.
 Ho HAS courage. He can fight like a fool and he is afraid of no man. but he is a great fighter only when there is nothing big at stake.
 He fought Harry Wills when everyone in the heavyweight class would not walk into tho same room with the giant negro, but he was lightning for the fancy purse that the match would bring him. He looked like a. champion irl smacking Wills and he looked like the man for Tunney when he knock cd off Jim Maloney. but the spark that inspired him in the Maloney fight was a feeling of bitter hatred and malice.
 To him the Wills and Malones battles were just fights. just the routine work of man who had to make his living by fighting, and he lad only the burden of self-protec- ton to carry.
 When he reached the spot where the ballyhoo was applied and wher | he was burdened with the rcsponsi- ! hili'y Of living up to an advertised q | label, he couldn't deliver. His work
 was so terrible against Risko and Heency that there were whispers . about it, but II seems certain now that ne was doing his best. Wher the job given 10 him calls for more than just 10 rounds of fighting he is not there.
 Having observed him closely. it i. i our opinion that even if he works
 up to a place where an already gen. erous treatment of fate gives him 2 chance to prove himself again that i he will fall down just as badly as Inc did so many times in the past. There is another thing about Sharkey. He has q stroke of gen. jus against a man he thinks he car beat. Two years ago he insisted tha, Wills. Maloney and Delaney wer, three fighters he could lick with ont hand, And he licked them with one hand, with an opening smack righ' on the kisser that started them go ! ing.
 He talked 3 lot about murderine Dempsey, Risko and Heeney. but his