Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-24
TOMMY IS WILLING
FOR GOOD REASONS
Painful to Make IT'S Pounds,
and Real Money Is in
Top Division.
By WALTER TRUMBULL.

LOuBNTdn mas returned TO
~ Philadelphia, but the chances
4 are that he will be back in this
city soon and will go before
the Boxing Commission to formally an
nounce his retirement from the head of
the electromagnetic ranks.
Loughran realizes, as did Tunney be-
fore him, that there Is only one cham
zion of champions, and Tommy has
his eye on the heavyweight crown.
The New York commission will not
permit Tommy to tight as heavy
weight until he ceases to be active title
holder in the lighter class.
There are several reasons why Lough-
ran is willing to relinquish his present
title. He has pretty well cleaned up the
lighter division. Moreover, he now al
most has to saw off a leg to make ITS
pounds. He said that if he had been
obliged to make ITS pounds ringSide
for Braddock he doubted whether he
would have had strength enough to go
more than couple OF rounds. Lough-
ran is now a natural 185-pounder.
Robs Him Of Strength.
The manner in which he recuper-
ated from matchmaking in the eight
hours left him between the Weighing-in
and the fight surprised Loughran him.
self. He drank a quart of warm beef
tea as soon as he got of the scales,
which gave his system a little Of its
lost moisture, and something over an
hour later ate his I'LL Of beefsteak and
baked potatoes. Even so, it was heart
and experience which carried him from
the twelfth round on. The last, but not
the least, reason why Tommy viii fight
as a heavyweight is that the money is
in that class.
Loughran and Joe Smith, his man
ager, visited Madison Square Garden
before going to Philadelphia and it Is
likely that Tommy will box as q heavy
weight for that corporation. He could
start proceedings with any of the well
known trial horses, such as Risko,
Heeney, Pauline or Maloney, or ne
could take on some Of the newer crop
Loughran doesn't care which one the
promoters pick. The inch cut on his
scalp and the other cut beside his eye
both are healing nicely.
II have doctor in Philadelphia.
Tommy told me. who is an expert on
healing cuts. He treats them with the
sunray process and never nave any
further trouble with them"
Loughran spoke highly Of Braddock,
predicting that within couple OF years
Jimmy would cut quite figure in the
heavyweight ranks.
NOBODY should be hard on Brad
dock" said Tommy. He is mighty
to learn. All through our bout
could see his lack Of experience, but
he ALWAYS was in there trying. He
would have had a better chance II
there had been more variety to MS
attack. He'd take six or seven punches
for the chance of landing right. Then
he'd miss the right, and he'd have 10
start all over again. II ne mao sWiCcn-
ed to his left for purposes OF attack,
thrown it half a dozen times, and then
suddenly come with his right again,
he would have been harder to f1gure.
Has Been Through Mill.
at is mighty discouraging to keep
shooting your best punches at TAR
Once, when I was young and mex
perienced, I boxed Jack Britton IN
gymnasium and couldn't lay glove
on him. There is my idea OF a great
boxer. Working with him taught me
something. Braddock only hit me one
good sock-a left, early In the ngnt
He never hit me hard with rlgnt:
smiling, "and make a great fighter out
of him. All he needs is to taught a
few things He has the punch the
build and the heart"
will he ever grow to be natural
heavyweight" I asked. .
Sure he will" said Tommy we
Irish develop slowly. We don't mature
until we get to be about 81. Tunney
didn't; I am still filling out, and I'm
o. but Braddock is only %. He won
be at his best for three years. Wnen
I was 10 I couldn't get over l65.
one reason am punching harder"
said Loughran. is that for long time
1 had a bad right hand and used 10
go easy with it. 1t is all well and strong
Iii uyff
also must remember that many OF my
bouts have been against fast opponents
who wouldn't stand in one place to De
hit. You can't set yourself with such
men. You have to catch them on the
wing with snap shots. With most OF
these heavyweights you can take your
time. You can hit them harder on
the other hand they can assimilate more
punishment"
Some Cases i'm Point.
Which would appear to be true. Even
Dempsey had to knock down Willard
and Firpo seven times or more before
he could keep them down, or win from
them. Tom Gibbons lasted out his bout
with Jack and it took the Manassa
Mauler a total of II rounds to get
telling crack at Tunney. And think how
long It took Corbett to get Sullivan; Fitz
and Jeffries to get Corbett; johnson to
stop the almost helpless Jeffries. and
Willard to beat johnson. Schmeling
could hit Pauline as he pleased, but. for
all Max's vaunted punch, he couldn't
stop the Basque.
Bulow, by the way, says, if under
stand him properly, that he never
signed Schmeling to meet Scott. He
signed him with the Fugazy-Dempsey
combination to meet Pauline. II
Pauline became unavailable, substitute
was to be agreed upon agreeable to both
promoters and manager. wonder
whether Bulow ever accepted Scott as
such a substitute.
Copyright, 1929