Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-13

He got the cash but no creQlC WnaC'
The most charitable thing one can
say about Mr.. Sharkey Is that he Is
one of those in-and-outers, as the
boys call them. Against James Ma
loney. the Boston fat boy, the garrulous
COB looked like a killer and o most
ferocious fighter. Against Jack Demp--
sey, when they used him as q trial
horse to bolster up Jack Dempsey for
the second match with Gene Tunney,
he looked very well for few rounds
until he was hit two very low blows
and Dempsey was credited with knock
ing him out.
Up to that time Sharkey seemed
to be annoying Mr.. Dempsey no
little. In fact, 1t looked as though
he was about to ruin the prospects
of the largest gate receipts in the
history of the caulifiower industry
when Dempsey landed the two low
blows and when Mr.. William Duffy
pointed an admonitory foreflnger at
the referee and said authoritatively,
count that man."
Then, too. Mr.. Sharkey disposed
of Ovila Chapdelaine DIETER known as
Jack Delaney with considerable ferocity
and alacrity. Chapdelaine was once
highly thought of as a contender for
the heavyweight championship, but has
since passed out of the picture. Some
of the incredulous ones would suspect
even the integrity of the fight game
insisted that there was something very
strange in the suddenness with which
Mr.. Sharkey stopped the "Rapier of
the North" But the fact remains that
he stopped him.
But In many Of the other bouts
staged by the garrulous COB he has
shown a languidneSs and a caution that
has not been at all pleasing to the
customers. On the whole, Mr.. Jack
is not much, but he has been
ballyhooed into the main obstruction to
the heavyweight championship.
Mr.. Loughran, as have said be-
fore, is nice young man. one OF the
incest young men in this very low
racket. On his last appearance he
administered to the earnest. but
dull-witted Mr.. James Braddock, one
Of the most promising Of the light
Braddock must have been very prom
ising, for Miss Texas Guinan, who
makes no bad investments ordi-
narily, Is reported to have bought
q Is per cent interest in him.
On a previous occasion I saw Mr..
Loughran busting the roSin from his
tights twice IN an encounter with one
Leo Lomski, not particularly formi-
dable light heavy. It is true that Mr..
Loughran rose and received the decision,
but somehow the impression remains
that If Mr.. Loughran can be dropped
by light heavyweightS for long counts
he might be dropped by heavyweightS
for longer ones.
1t does not seem that Loughran could
knock out Sharkey, and it might be that
might not be able to knock
out Loughran. There is a well founded
notion that this bout will be something
on the order of the Battle Of What Of
It at Miami Beach.
The Case Of Schmeling.
T F the bout should turn out that way
the New York State Boxing Com
mission will have to share in the
i responsibility. The six hundred
millionaires Of Madison Square
were DESTROYS of staging the
Schmeling-Shark bout. which would
have been interesting and would have
drawn customers.
But Mr.. James A. Farley, speak
ing for the commission, announced
that If the six hundred millionaires
staged that bout anywhere they
would lose their license to promote
the best interests of the caulifiower
industry in New York. Schmeling
would have to fight Phil Scott, In
whom James j. Johnston holds q
third interest, for Umberto Fugazy
first. Herr Schmeling would not.
And so Herr Max Sigfreid Adolf Otto
Schmeling is suspended and null and
void and whatnot. The pity Of 1t so
far as the six hundred millionaires are
is that Schmeling on his rec
ord is the best Of the heavyweight
not that any Of them are particularly
good.
You cannot get away from the fact
that In his last two performances
Schmeling showed himself to be the
very best Of the very bad lot. He
stopped the bouncing Bohemian
baker boy, Johnny Risko, and he
gave Pauline Uzcudum Of the Basque
a very thorough beating. He showed
that he could take It," as the boys
say. He demonstrated that he had
a punch and intelligence, excepting
in the selection Of managers. Mo-
body knows how many Of these the
potential heavyweight champion has
at the current writing.
So at the current writing Schmeling
is a fugitive from the boxing COM
mission, several managers, Humberto
and, according to James J.
Johnston, from Phil Scott. It looks
very much rs though Herr Schmeling
would have to continue travelling.
The Return of Heeney.
Tom Heeney. the Flooding plumber,