The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-02-28
/ / ALKING
1T OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

AF1 nay boy won the ngnL.
Taking her stand against the
mass opinion of more than 10000
people, Ma" Stribling, true to the
lovely traditions of the worlds
mother, repeated again today that
her boy, Young Willie Stribling, had
beaten Jack Sharkey of Boston in
the ten round battle that drew an
amazing gate of 100000 here on the
ocean front Wednesday night.
He didn't lose round" she said.
But ma" was wrong, as many
mothers have been before her, in
estimating the value of their boys
work, and there was no one unkind
enough to tell her so.
MAS" boy was soundly beaten,
and the decision which Louis
Magnolia, imported here from New
York to referee, was the only pos
sibIe one that could have been
made.
THE MOMENT THE BATTLE WAS
ENDED MAGNOLIA INSTANTLY RAISED
THERE WAS NOT A DISSENTING VOICE
FROM THE CROWD THAT FILLED THE
sPRAwLING WOODEN BOWL, IN SPITE
OF THE FACT IN THE CROWD WERE
THOUSANDS OF sOUTHERNERS BACK
ING THE GEORGIAN WITH AN ADoR
THAT AMOUNTED ALMOST TO A
SPIRITUAL FORCE.
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THE referee said he gave only
4 three rounds to Stribling, while
six went to Sharkey and one was
so indifferently fought he called it
an even thing. But the referee was
Eiore lenient than a majority of
the ringside critics who saw Mas
boy winning only two rounds, while
the eight others were tabled to the
credit of the Lithuanian with the
celtic monicker.
And yet there were moments
when the southerner looked as if
he might win--and by knockout.
There was dynamite in his right.
But the dynamite cracked at
Sszdely spaced intervals and Shar-
RGy, better ring general with
greater reSourcefulnesS, always
unanswered his way into either
a position of security or one which |
permitted him few moments
later to resume full command of |
the warning.
PRACTICALLY ALL THE DRAMA THE /
BATTLE PRODUCED WAS PACKED INTO |
THE FOURTH ROUND WHEN STRIBLING |
LANDED HIS BEST PUNCH OF THE
NIGHT, AN OVERLAND RIGT TO THE |
JAW, WHICH CAUSED SHARKEY'S |
KNEES TO SAG AND FORCED TO HOLD, |
WHILE THE CROWD SENT UP A ROAR |
THAT SPREAD OVER THE ARENA AND
LOST ITSELF IN THE INKY DARKNESS
BEYOND.
DUT this was destined to be |
- nothing more than a flash, for |
when the fifth round opened, Shar-
key was completely himself again, |
a veteran campaigner who had been |
tricked once, but would not be |
tricked again. He went on to win
the round. peppering Stribling's !
body with sharp right and left hand |
jolts, and demonstrating in every |
way that he was the better man.
re was not until the ninth that
Stribling showed another flash, |
and once more it was the over
hand right that curIed through
the air with great speed and force
to reach the Boston sailors head
and send him into another
clinch.
EXCEPT FOR THESE TWO FLAREuPS
STRIKING WAS UNABLE TO COPE
WITH THE BETTFR-RoUNDED AND /
MORE INTELL1GENrLY PLANNED At |
TACK OF HIS RIVAL, AND WHEN THE
FIGHT WAS OVER 1 WAS AGREED |
sTRIBLING WOULD NEVER RATE AS A |
TOP FLIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT. HIS |
SPEED, ECCENTRIC STYLE AND OVER |
HAND RIGHT, HE REMAINS JUST WHAT |
HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN-A PRETTY |
GOOD FIGHTER, BUT NOTHING TO |
CABLE THE GOOD MARQUIS OF |
QUEENSBERRY ABOUT.
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. lOl CIldIk6y I6 lOuSilU his |
4 A usual fight, scoring we'll with
body shots and, fighting well in close
quarters and bobbing up every now
and then with right uppercut that |
caused Stribling'S teeth to rattle and |
his eyes to roll. One round after
another bore the typical Sharkey
imprint. If there was nothing SEN
Sational about his technique there |
was nothing sluggish.
Perhaps Sharkey's outstanding
characteristic Wednesday night
was his generalship, quality in
which he is usually deficient. He
rated his pace perfectly, as the
boys say at the track, weakening
Stribling with body blows in she
early rounds and shifting his at
tack to the head in the later
rounds.
AT THE END STRIBLING, BLEEDING
AT THE NOSE AND THE MOUTH, WAS |
TIRED YOUNG MAN, WHILE SHARKEY |