The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-29
| ALKING
IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

ATEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Couragt
~ is a word that is bounced
around in the sport pages in a very
loose manner by lot of the boys
including old Colonel Williams him
self. / imagine it must be pretty
awful to pick up newspaper and
read that the color scheme Of your
backbone is a cleaning saffron and
that there is suggestion of hound
IN your make UP.
am speaking in this cOnnec-
ton Of the two young business
gents, Stribling and Sharkey, who
fare to battle next month in the
south. As experts of the profess
sion assay the quality neither of
the two is endowed with any great
amount of ring bravery.
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TT IL COMMONLY HELD OF THEM
THAT IF AND. WHEN THE FIRING BE
COMES HEAVY THEY WILL RESORT
TO DISCRETION IN HABIT FORMING
QUANTITIES.
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A SLIGHTLY altered conception
n of Sbarkey has been formed
since his victory over X. o. Christ
ner, the Akron rubber puddled. In
this event Sharkey came from be-
hind, shook off the effects of a
number of Earring right hand
punches to the head, and by dint
Of a certain belated gallantry won
the decision.
1t Is now agreed he must have
q little courage tucked away
somewhere in his carcass. Largely
because of this he viii enter the
coming fight the favOrite over
Stribling, whereas gagged strictly
on the fighting form he showed
against the 34-year- old OhiO
novice he would not figure to win.-
BECAUSE I HAVE HEARD OTHERS SAY
IT AND BECAUSE 1 HAVE MYSELF SEEN
THE YOUNG MAN REPEATEDLY FALL IN
TO CLNCHES AFTER BEING HIT. TO
REMAIN THERE UNTIL THE REFEREE
PULLED HIM AWAY. HAVE FROM
TIME TO TIME ADDED MY RAUCOUS
VOICE TO THE COMMUNITY CHORUS
NDICTING STRIBLING AS A WEAK
HEARTED FIGHTER.
DUT 1 have no definite, all-con-
D elusive way of knowing that
this is so. AS I say the word cour-
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Off hand 1 should say it requires
a certain amount of courage even
to climb into the ring against a
man, your size end weight. In
Stribling's case it is necessary to
add. of course, that some of the
men he has climbed into the ring
against have been either very close
friends of trusted business associ-
ateS, or both.
Broadly speaking, suppose you
either have an urge for fighting
or you don't in much the same
sense some people prefer French
snails to Iowa radishes.
i AM REMINDED THAT IT TAKES
PLENTY OF HEART TO PLAY FOOT
BALL. IF HEART MADE FIGHTING MEN
THE RING TODAY WOULD BE SWARM
ING WITH YOUTHFUL HEAVYWEIGHT
FORNIDABLES. NO FEWER THAN A
DOZEN FOOTBALL STARS HAVE; TRIED
TO MAKE THE HEAVYWEIGHT GRADE
IN THE PAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS.
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NTONE of them has got past first
In base. Generally to go down
with the first punch. Sully Mont
gomely and Monte Mum have hung
around longer than any of the
others. Montgomery is now in
elegantly characterized as a
tanker" Mum was never able to
get beyond the trial horse stables.
In spite of the terrible. fights
he has made Stribling probably
has a great deal of courage. At
any rate 1t isn't likely he is lack
ing in it entirely. i think I'll
wait until after that Miami Beach
fight before i call him er, er, a
hound Eyes, that's the word we've
been using) again.
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SUCH A DECISION Is NOT WITHOUT
IT'S PERSONAL ADVANTAGES. IT Pr
LTEvES ME OF THE NECESSITY OF
GUESSING THE WINNER. AM NOW IN
THE COMFORTABLE POSITION OF
WAITING TO SEE IF STRIBLING is OR
IS NOT A BRAVE GUY AND OF COURSE
Ny DECISION CAN NOT BE MADE
UNTIL THE FIGHT is OVER COME TO
THINK OF IT. THAT WILL BE TIME
ENOUGH TO PICK THE WINNER OF
THIS ONE AT THAT. IT MAY EVEN BE
too SOON