The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-02-27
; 7SHARKEY-SCOTT RING BATTLE DRAWS SMALL GATE
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Talking
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

1V1 very lew ngnJerS WHO manage
to attain any degree Of success OF
calling fights correctly. I do not
know why this Is so, but the records
will bear me out II anybody should
be able to tell with fair amount
of certainty what is going 10 happen
in a fight it ought to be fighter
particularly fighter who has
tested the abilities Of two contest
ants in question. Yet few OF them
succeed. A sort Of legend has grown
up around Jack Britton, the former
x.elterWeight champion in this re-
spect. OF all the fighters he has the
highest percentage as a forecaster-
This NAV be due to the fact that
Britton is a very obseryant fellow
and Is not addicted to emotional
prejudiceS.
The late Harry Greb spent many tor
tuou. hour at Atlantic City trying to con-
vince the experts that Tunney would beat
Dempsey. Greb had battied Iunney hve OF
zfx times and he had spared with Demp-
s.v In = training camp. Nobody gave MIN
q tumble. They said he was eccentric ana
that he had stopped too many punches
he was 3 nice guy to have around at
naYfv INIT when IL came down to serious
s.ry pobodv should pay any attention to
him. Greb won $1,000 on the fight
TINE only fighter I have come
across down here who comedies
Phil Scott a chance in tonlgnt S
nght with Jack Sharkey is Nike
McTigue. The former light heavy
weight star says the Briton VIII give
sharkev a boxing lesson. "A finished
boxer will always beat a swinger,
explains McTigue. To the teen
nicians of the ring this may be fully
convincing and it is presented here
with for what it may be worth.
On the other hand Johnny Risko. who
has fought both Scott and sharkey' pre-
diets a debsole for the Londoner. "shsrSey
will stop him in three rounds promises
RIsko. "scott's Just a bum"
You are privileged to take this or leave
il also as you will.
A LAST minute effort was made
N to stimulate the waning bally-
hoo here Wednesday by the an
nouncement in the form of mys-
terious cable from one Carl War
gand, loosely identified as a famous
German sportsman, that Max
Schmeling has broken his right
thumb and that he would never be
able to box again. As a conse-
uuence 1t was pointed out the fight
tonight would be for the champion
ship of the world without further
prehminaries.
The cable was supposedly received BIZ
Mike Jacobs. the Gardens personal and
private ticket Spectator, and there we're
soms hard bitten cynics who were disposed
70 scoff at the authenticity OF the message
on the possible ground that Jacobs was
pulling a gag, as the boys say, to STAN
pede the box office.
The matter received hrst page
publicity in the Miami afternoon
sheet, but unfortunately so swiftly
and efficiently do the press associa-
tons function these days, tnaC a
complete denial of the yarn from
Schmeling himself was available for
publication in the later editions.
II
IT may be of course that Schmelng has
q broken right thumb and does not know
it. would hesitate to say that Jacobs
does not know what his cables are talking
about. Even so there is p feeling that
Schmeling could be even more seriously
ircapacitated and still do right we'll
against most of the current heavyweight
challenEerS-
q
A LARGE part of what Is known
IA as the chivalry and flower of
the nation will be represented at
the ringside tonight. Indeed l am
assured by the press agent that the
reservations, to quote him, will read
like a page torn from the blue book.
It also seems that captains OF in
dustry will be there in numbers rub
hing shoulders with mere priyateS
in The rODuiO1S army OF life.