Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-15
HEADACHES AHEAD
FOR BIG RING BOSS
Looking After Boxers Not a
Soft Job-Finlay Says
Jones Can Drive.
BY ALAN J. GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, January 15.-Jack
Dempsey, the former heavy
weight champion, has nothing
4 to worry about for the pres
ent-at least, so far as his
fighting career is concerned-but Will
liam H Dempsey, the promoter, may
have several headaches before he is
through with handling the Forthcoming
Stribling -Sharkey match in Miami
Beach.
Promoter Dempsey perhaps can re-
call with some vividnesS a few of the
difficulties Tex Richard experienced at
various moments in his big ventures.
Tex was chased from California to Ne
vada with the JeffrieS- johnson fight
and once had to put up $4,000 bond
to get Luis Firpo out of the hands of
the law and into the ring. At Phila-
delphia. if it wasn't law suit against
Dempsey to arouse alarm 1t was the
final worry of having Gene Tunney take
an airplane ride on the day OF the
100000 spectacle.
Dempsey probably is hoping nothing
untoward happens to either Sharkey or
Stribling in their forthcoming prellm1-
nary engagements. The Boston sailor
is booked to fight K. o. Christner at
and, if that doesn't mean anything to
Nhe average observer, it may be recalled
that K. o. lived up to his name by fiat
tening Knute Hansen not so long ago.
Stribling has three or four bouts in
scattered spots by way of keeping in
fighting trim. His opponents are some
what obscure, but so was Christner be-
fore he knocked out Hansen, and SO
was Jack League, who had the one-time
Georgia schoolboy on the floor recently
The writer of the preface to a special
story by Phillips Finlay, describing him
las "the longest-driving amateur in
America" must have experienced a
shock in noting that Mr. Finlay devotes
a good share of his article to praising
MFR. Robert T. Jones, jr., as the most
consistent diStance-getter of them all.
The evidence supports Finlay, for the
nast time this youthful long hitter en-
countered the champion he was out
driven nearly all the way. They met
in the semi finals of the national ANA
teur at Brae Burn last September Bob
by's practice just before the match was
devoted entirely to driving, as if he
was determined to give particularly
good sample of his wares. 1t looked like
a case of master and pupil when play
began. Finlay dashed out some mighty
wallops, but Jones got anywhere from
10 to so yards more on the average
and finished IA up.
No boxers have knocked themselves
but while the epidemic of doing the
wrong thing is on, but hockey, not to
be outdone, contributes two freak plays
on the same night to recall the dash
of Roy Riegels at Pasadena.
lit {A.a l%ry &-lx. n ~
cause the Black Hawk goalie showed the
disc into his own net while the New
York Rangers beat Detroit on shot
into his own goal by Brophy Of the
Cougars.
This is not a new thrill for hockey.
One Of the games favorite stories Is
about the substitute, in an excitingly
close game, who came tearing from the
bench into the thick of the fray, grab
bed the puck, started a sensational
dash and then fired it into his own
goal.
II there are any athletes around with
a stronger viii to win than Ray Bar
butt, the Olympic 400-meter champion,
jackson ScholZ has not heard OF them
In an article on the OlympicS just
written by the veteran sprinter for the
New York Athletic Clubs magazine,
Scholz says of Barbuti:
IT shared the same stateroom with
Ray and it was easily evidenced from
the moment We left the dock that RAJ
had made up his mind to win the
Olympic championship. He kept himself
at a terrific state of nervous tension.
Even when he was being beaten in his
trials before the games themselves, Ray
never doubted his ability to come through
lin the big event, and he actually worked
himself up to burst of fury which I
have never seen equaled in any ath-
lete AS result. he ran one of the
greatest races have ever seen and
shall never recover from the thrill Of
watching him fall across the tape"