The Washington times., 1929-12-23
Want BOUT
FOR next
SUMMER
By DAVIS ). WALSH

NEW YORK, Dec. % INls).
An ex-champicn Of the world,
4 baseball club owner, . multi
million-doIlar corporation, the
proprietor Of . Broadway night
club and couple Of bright young
men associated with him were
playing cut-thrcat today over the
only $l,OoO,OOO prize that boxing
possibly can sponsor.
The prize in question was the
Jack sharkey.Max Schmeling
fight this summer for the worlds
heavyweight Championship, an
event that can't miss, either as
an event or as . financial hole in
one.
SO today we find Jack Demp-
sey over in corner whispering
with Charles A. StonehaTn about
the polo grounds; the Madison
Square Garden striving desper-
ately to hold Slaarkey after his
Miami contract expires; and the
night club man. Bill Duffy, an
nouncing that Schmeling win
meet somebody in Atlantic City
and that the latter might be
Sharkey. It might, at tfatlinder
somewhat altered conditions:
Sharkey Is about due 10
break with the Garden, unless
II can produce Schmeling for
4 title fight before the end Of
the outdoor season and, the
way things are now, It won't
produce Schaneling before the
end Of mankind.
Duffy and his associates, Her
man Taylor and Bobby Gunnis,
have Schmeling at the moment.
but nobody to fight him. They
announced last night that they
had postponed their Schmeling
date from February % TO March
20 at Atlantic City and talked
about doing business with
| Sharkey.
IL they show him Schmeling.
they can do business with Sharkey
but not on March 20 and possibly
not at Atlantic City. Sharkey Is
liable 10 be anybody's man, Il
Schmeling and good outdoor
site go with the proposal. They
might have neither IL the Schnne-
ling fight late irN March goes
wrong, and It Is q bit difficult to
see how It can 60 right If the
$25, 900 that Schmeling is sup
posed to get isn't printed on Gar
den paper. They are said to have
Ia &c, 600 -Capacity arena ct Atlantic
city, and with 3 lot Of comical
prices they might get out from
under, provided each ticket en-
titled the holder To q chance on
l an oil well or something.
The alternative would be to fur
nish Scnmeling with 8 real oppo-
nent, which completes the vicious
/ circle and brings US back to
Sharkey. They viii have to pay
Thin at least as much IS Schme-
ling or he won't play So much
for Atlantic City. Taylor and
Cunnis operated last summer at
the Sesuli Stadium In Philadel-
phia. where the first Dempsey
Tunney fight drew around 9 cou-
pie Of millions. Maybe they can
10 back With this one.
However. doubt whether D
Slnafkey5 ScI1meling fight Is worth
d million anywhere outside Of
New York. The rest Of the coiln-
/ try ii only IioEainally interested
III this pair but they would go
for them ii large way here,
particularly with the New York
commission ready to give its bene-
ciction To the winner as cham
pioa d the heavyWeignts
SchmeIine sEiIl has to-
square himself here. Of course,
but this isn't even b0gey for
the links, now TINT Phil
Scott has erirnaced his way
out 0f the country.
They were holding scott over
Il SChmeiing's head but nowadays
lnoboay can hold Philip in cutie
the way he can hold himself, par
ticularly around the stomach.
IL the commission takes the
bOwser OFF Echmeling here, IL will
be d New York fight. Therefore,
dempsey and Stonehani are doing
d lot Of conniving. They figure
i the Garden can't fnlacla enla11aAi.
ing and that. IL they offer the
| Polo Grounds, they win get the
match. Dempsey also has some
kind Of tie-up with Duffy, so
the idea may BE lar from Inn.
plausible.
In fact, the only thing needed
to make IS practicable is for
Dempsey to convince Stoneham
that everything Is going to be
Jacob. He's been trying to do 1t
for the last four days.