New Britain herald., 1928-05-18
HEAVY BOUT WILL
 BE ON SCHEDULE
Barring Accidents Iunney and
 Heeney Will Meet July 26

New York. May tS lE-The off
 clal pronouncement may not he
 forthcoming until Tex Rickard has a
 few other details out Of the way, but
 It can be put down now that the big
 heavyweight shot Of the year, in-
 Nolvlng the we'll known Shakespeare scholar and the honest blacksmith
 from New Zealand, will take place
 on schedule and on the night of 1 Thursday, July cs. at the Yankee
 Stadium in New York city.
 Ever since the fight between Gene i Tunney and Tom Heeney was signed, sealed and delivered there has been
 an air of skepticism around it. This atmosphere has become thicker since i the knockout of Jack Delaney by
 Jack Sharkey and the occasional re-
 ports that Jack Dempsey was about 10 reconsider his decision to retire.
 Rickard, the boys point out. has
 unusual situation of his heavy weight promoting career with a Tun- Iney-Heeney title scrap on his hands. despite the fact that a Sharkey- -Tun- ney fight probably would be a much bigger drawing card and a return Dempsey-Tunney tilt the biggest shot of all.
 But there will he no change in the program. nor ls there likely 10 be second heavyweight fight in Septem- ber, featuring Dempsey come ba ok or a bout between Sharkey and the winner of the Tunney-Heeney con- test. The one big shot t-a-year pro- gram of Eickard still holds and it will take some unusual development 10 change 1t.
 The gentlemen who refused to be- lieve that man could fly or that radio would work or that hole could be halved in one are in the same posi- ton IS those trying to account for Babe Ruth's home run hitting spree
 1t didn't seem possible the Ba he could break his old record Of B homers for single season, but he did it last year. That, the boys con- cluded. must be close to the limit i'dh tilo SRl lllS llS bdpS IS OH | a faster clip than ever.
 Baseball and physical laws appar- ent1y do not apply to Ruth, At time when most players are on the down. grade the Yankee star is hitting harder than ever. with a dozen homers already under his belt. Just to figure it from another angle. he has collected 20 per cent of the record crop he harvested last year with only IS per cent of the season completed.
 Bail players and manage toss up their hands when anyone asks them 1 to account for how Ruth does it. It | might be proved on a scientific basis 1 that he couldn't do it but the fact re- 1 mains he does it: that five years after being the bad boy" of the 1 cirCnit he has become model of good conduct on the field: that three l years after being given up as a l physical wreck he Is proclaimed a physical marvel: and that several | years after the experts said he would | he completely through he is going stronger than ever.
 The consensus now Is that the l owner of the Yankees. Col. Jacob Ruppert. made no mistake a year ago when he signed Ruth to contract at &7O,ooo per season. The Babe probably could have commanded at least $1oo,ooo this spring if he had negotiated oneyear contract in 1927,
 bouquet or two should he saved for Jack Quinn. Tn fact 1t Is just as that Old Jack is pitch Ing great ball this spring as it is that Ruth is going better than ever. Quinn's ancient soupbone. at the age of 45 and after 2s years of profess sional baseball service. is standing up under the strain long beyond the average. Discarded at least a half dozen times by as many clubs Jack ls doiuE as much as the rugged young southpa vs. Grove and Wal herg, to keep the Mackmen in the