The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-21
BOSTON COB sure
OF WINNING fight
VIA KAYOFASH|ON
Refuses to Name Round in
Which He Will Put Young
Strib|ing to Sleep
WANTS TO LIVE IN SOUTH
Admits He Gets Lots Of Razzing
but Doesn't Mind as Long
as He Is Paid
WANTS TO LIVE IN SOUTH
BY HENRY /. FARRELL

BY HENRY L. FARRELL
Miami Beach, Fla. Feb. 21.-The
Charley fellow, who always hss been
full of mad, is a most unusual and
tractablc fellow as he trains for his
fight with Willie Stribling. Feb. q.
With a forced smile, Sharkcy says:
Il feel swell with the world. Every
thing is great. I have no troubles.
I've never been treated better in
my life. Even in Boston, I've never
been treated as I have down here.
You know. didn't get much atten-
ton in Boston when that Maloney
was the big shot around there and
even after I knocked his cars off they
still considered me as an outsider.
ITO tell you what I mean: I bought
big place in the Chestnut Hill dis
trict. It cost me about two hundred
grands and when the deed was signed
the fellow who made it out signed
me as Jack Sharkey, Esq. Somebody
saw that ESQ and started calling me
Squire. I don't mind being called
Squire, but some of the people in the
,e.enoorhood didn't like 1t. They SAID
they didn't know of any fighter that
was entitled to be called an Esquire
or a Squire, but I'll show them. Ill
make more dough in my racket than
they have and I'll show them that I
can be called Squire.
Wants to Win
That's one big reason why I'm IN
this fight to win. want that dough.
That's the reason I'm in this business.
I wasn't hot for taking this fight
down here, though. Rickard prom :
Used me plenty of money, but Joe
Jacobs and Mike McTigue told me the
tough time they had in Georgia and
they told me / would be sucker to
come down here even If got all the
dough in the world.
Finally, when I hooked up with
Carey and Dempsey, wasn't so sure
and I told Mrs. Sharkey she had
better stay at home with the family.
If there were any rapS to be taken
down there, wanted to take them
by myself. But I found out just as
soon as / got down here that was In
right with all the best people. I've
got plenty of dough and If I wen,
out with all my dough to buy re-
ception, could not buy a better re-
ception than I got here. And I'm not
talking for publicity. No kidding. I'd
like to live down here and think ]
will when l knock over this guy"
We then burst in with question.
If you are so sure about winning
this fight. name the round, won't
you?"
Won't Name Round
mo, I won't name any round" he
replied. Il don't fight that way.
Some of the writer's say that I won't
hurt a fellow or try to knock him out
I told the New York commission that
once, when they had me on the carpet
about that Eddie Huffman fight. They
said I carried him and I told them
that was following the rules Of
boxing and that there wasn't any.
thing in the New York rules that
made a fellow knock another fellow
out. Since then all the fellows seem
to think that I'm not vicious.
I'm not going after this guy Strib
ling in one round or two or three
rounds. I'm just going in there t.
fight. But, il 1 hurt him in the first
round. he's going to get plenty. ane
If ! get him weaving IN the firs'
round or the second or third. Ill TAXI
him right there.
1.-THE guys in this racket who nam.
the round and the punch are eithel
crazy or they have: pushover II
front Of them and, as little as
think of this Stribling, he's not
pushover.
Likes Hot Weather
| "You know, Stribling only boxe'
three times IN the first two week
that he worked down here and
boxed every afternoon. It was hot
I know, but he's from the south an
he ought to be able to stand thi
heat. It hasn't been so tough for mt
I made my schedule so that the SUI
wouldn't be on me strong. But h
worked an hour after I did and
think the fellow must need strengt'
or weight or something.
II guess neither one Of us needs
lot of work. He's been doing this
circus Of his, fighting lot Of fel
lows that you could not find In tn
telephone book. and ] have had
couple Of fights. ] had that fello
De Kuh in Boston and they said
didn't look so good and then had ths
big clown Christner in New York.
And let me tell you that Swec
or whatever he Is was no sucker.
know something about boxing an
started feinting him with left hau
| and ifasfAad nH 1ninR away he Il