Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-18
BOTH BOXERS, FIT,
TAKE REST TODAY
Fight That Promised to Be
Money Loser May Yield
100000 Profit.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n K IAMI BEACH, Fla, February 10.
M Under blazing skies in the
V heart of a Winter playground
4 i of the rich, where society basks
in royal fashion by the sea, two
pugilists, incongruous in their sur
roundings, are making ready for the
battle of the Everglades.
There are wide stretches of creamy
sands where the social elite flash the
latest of seashore styles and bathe IN
a rippled ocean that is channeled blue
and green by changing currents. There
are grand yachts moored to the piers
or steaming in Biscayne Bay. There
are costly homes, expensive automo-
biles. airs of beauty without thought
of cost, and there is the raw pine struc-
ture of fight arena rising DANGEROUSLY
in the center of Flamingo Park.
That fight arena on the night of Feb
ruary 81 will hold most of the best
people" Tex Rickard sought always to
lure TO his f1stic shows. Now that Tex
Richard is dead, Jack Dempsey, the
man he made millionaire. is Turing
them to the box offices with all the
magnetism of the old master of the
ballyhoo.
They will be there that night, in all
probability, because the battle of Jack
Sharkey and Young Stribling for heavy
weight recognition will be the thing"
for the night, superseding yachting
parties the costume balls, or even a
visit to the Deauville Casino Rickard
built.
Boxers Train Carefully.
But for the time being, at least, the
Boston strong boy and his Georgia rival
are getting along without the patronage
nf for
training periods are concerned. The
small crowds which watch Sharkey in
his training stunts in the sunny ring
pitched beside the dog track Tex fash
Toned are made up of the curious the
casual traveller who may not be here
for the fight and the strange looking
attendants who hover around all fight
camps. Society, for the most part, Is
neither talking nor thinking fight.
Stribling attracts an audience that
would enjoy any vaudeville show in adj
dition to share of the fight faithful
from the ranks In crumbly casino by
the sea, Stribling boxes sparring part
ners, other boxers work against each
other, former vaudeville comedian an
nounces the attractions and contributes
a running fire of jokes, while PA"
Stribling does a balancing act with the
boxers 2-year-old son.
Good Profit Seen.
Despite all this, the heavyweight en-
Eagement Richard planned as an adj
vertisement for other ventures here
promises to net the Madison Square
Garden Corporation handsome return.
When William F. Carey, railroad build
er and vice president of the Garden
took over promotion of the match with
Jack Dempsey, he considered loss of
500 ,000 a good investment in order to
maintain the operations prestige. With
the fight still 10 days away the match
seems well on the way to 500, 900 profit.
Both Sharkey and Stribling are so far
along the road to perfect condition that
both are in danger of OVERRIDING. Strib-
ling, boxing an average of once a week
throughout the South and Southwest, is
down to 1855 pounds. as !. W as he dareS
to 60. Sharkey with a hard-won VIC
tory over K o. Christner just under his
belt. Is within two pounds of being ready
at 1874. He planned complete rest to-
day and Stribling will refrainfrom labor
both today and tomorrow.
In the meantime, the wealthy back
bone of Miami Beach continues to enjoy
the cooling ocean, the day and night
rounds of pleasure that go with vaca-
tons at Summer resort in the Winter.
land the company of Bill Carey and
Jack Dempsey But for the fighters, it
seems as though there win be plenty OF
time for them on the night OF Feb
ruary 81.