The Washington times., 1930-06-05
KID TACTICS
MAYCAUSE
DEFEAT
By DAVIS ]. WALSH

By DAVIS ]. WALSH
.ORANGEBURG, N. Y, June s..
One moment he was attacking
.furiously and his aspect was
almost sinister. He looked the
part of what he purported to be,
q first-clasS fighting man who is
about to win the heavyweight
championship of the world. The
next moment he was striking pos
lures calculated to convulSe the
yokelry and his aspect was child
ish. He was in his element: he
was showing how good he was,
first, by the display of his ability,
and, second, by the inference OF
assumed nonchalance.
"See," his manner seemed
to say, 81 can beat this
bum. don't even have to
try"
It has been many a day since
Jack Sharkey drew his thirty a
month in the Navy, and his sue
cess in the ring has given him
distinction, poiSe, honor, money.
But it never took the small boy
out of his heart, and so today we
find him in a mans game, I'M
petuously doing the things that
small boys like. He still is just
q COB on shore leave.
It was this innate character
istic that sent him out headlong
to a preposterous attempt to
out-slug Dempsey, and yesterday
it cropped up again in the midst
of a serious workout, one OF the
last he will undergo before the
Schmeling fight for the heavy
weight title next week.
He didn't sem to box with the
idea of sharpening his speed for
a prize fight, now week dis
tant; if he thought of the fight
at all, it was merely as some
thing of negligible Importance
compared to that of the imme-
diate moment. He, apparently,
was inbued with the notion that
he must impress training camp
crowd with his superiority over
Paul Cavalier, Johnny Crosse
and King Solomon, a point that
everybody conceded, ad. lib. and
per Sc.
So he flung a lot of wild
right hands at the first two
an old Sharkey fOible-and
any time they tried to carry
the fight to him, he ClOWned
by way of showing that their
efforts were cOmical.
This wasn't necessary; neither
were the rights. AS to the former,
he is a good enough fighter in
his own right to box his way out
of any attack that Cavalier and
Crosse might sponsor. AS to the
right hands, they represented
sheer boredom with the routine of
leading lefts. He apparently felt
the need of doing something spec
tacular. The small boy in him
was seeking expression.
Once, Cavalier beat him to the
punch with a left hook to the
stomach. In a moment he was
in a rage.
"All right" he grated on a
whistling breath that was tinged
with venom. For the flash of
a split-second, he wanted only to
repay Cavalier for this punch
Then abruptly he recovered his
sense of proportion.
"That was a good punch" he
conceded. But he spent the rest
of the round trying to nail the
sparring partner with punch
that would give him that small
boy satisfaction he felt the occa-
sion demanded. Later, he ad-
monished the ringsiders not to
laugh at the glove-Worn Solomon
but, when he almost dropped the
latter with a straight left, he
gestured facially with wha1 the
French call "moue," prompting
the ringsiders to guffaw immod-
erately.
And all of the time he
looked exceedingly like
heavyweight prize fighter.
who is soon to win the
champiOnsip of the world.
He is bigger, stronger than
ever. His breadth Of shoulder
is really impressive. He can hit
with both hands, accurately,
rapidly and hard. He showed
that with Crosse. His footwork
and boxing are excellent. He
showed that with Cavalier.
He has everything, in fact,
that it will take to win this
- fight, except the one thing that
nobody can guarantee for him.
Nobody can tell just when the
small boy, which is always near
the surface-you saw it yesterday
when he stood outside his train
quarters and held court before a
group of admiring nobodies-may
break through his reserve nad
cause him to do something very
inpulsively and very wrong. He
has done this before: he may Go
it again. 1t is the one big
chance that Schmeling has.
VhichOne Beats Fox
Record in Workout