The Washington times., 1930-05-23

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he has no form whatsoever. He
has never been known to be-
have himself in exactly the
same way on two successive
public appearances. In fact, we
doubt if any two of his big
fights have been duplicates, or
twins, or replicas, or whatever
two fights which proceed along
more or less the same lines may
be called.
He didn't fight Stribling the
way he fought Dempsey and he
didn't go after either of those
two like he went for Loughran
and he fought Phil Scott in
Miami exactly like we kids used
to fight back there in the
school yards, although we didn't
always end up crying. which
Sharkey did in that dear Battle
of the Biscayne.
So it isn't easy to get line
on this fellow Sharkey, because
he has no set modus operandi
and he is just as likely to put
up a great fight against Make
Schmeling in the Yankee Sta
dium next month as he is to do
the schoolboy act as he did in
Florida last February.
AS for Der Moxie's form. we
here in America know little
about him. He has had but
one major fight. that against
Pauline Uczudun. an unortho-
dox. crounching style of fighter
who was as tough as they make
EN-.
In this fight, Make did
typically German, scientific.
methodical. and thorough job
OF hewing down the giant of
the Pyrenees. and that night
Make was fighting with only
his left hand. his right having
an injury that was unknown to
anyone except his handlers.
Little by little the stole
Dutchman stood off the tear
ing-in-Spaniard and round by
round he piled up an unques-
toned margin which resulted
in his hand being raised at the
end of IS gruelling rounds.
So we only know by that
fight that Schmeling can take
care of himself while fighting
with one hand against the
crude, unCouth Paulino-Heeney
fighters. but what he can do
with an ln-and-outer like
Sharkey is a question which
won't be answered finally an0
definitely until the evening of
the twelfth of next month at
the Milk Fund fight sponsored
by Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst.
No betting odds, one way or
the other, have yet been posted
on this fight. There isn't even
a morning line" on them, in
sofar as the betting is con-
cerned, but to date Sharkey is
some sort of favorite, by
what margin is indefinite.
We have seen more news
paper writer's come out in be-
half of Sharkey than we have
in favor of Schmeling, These
newspaper boys are about 5
to ! for Sharkey in the stories
they are writing or the ohserva-
tions they are making. but that
doesn't mean a thing.
You will recall that Gene
Tunney was even a worse
choice than that before he
lifted the crown and I am al
ways afraid of these under
dogs, either in the betting or
in just plain conversation or
news writing.
Personally I was very much
impressed with Schmeling last
summer when he whitfield down
the rugged Pauline. I thought
he took his task very calmly
and indeed marveled that the
fight was we'll into the late
stages before Schmeling was
even broken out into a sweat,
if you will pardon our frank
ness,
I noticed. too. that he didn't
have an abrasion on him when
the thing was over and that
what blood was in sight was on
the features of the Basque
wood chopper. Make wasn't
hurried or stampeded by the
stomping, charging Spaniard
and he met the latter at his
own crouch and even went so
far as to roll his forehead
against the forehead of the
bull-like Pauline, in mimicry of
the Senor'S favorite ringgeSture,
he being given to getting his
head in an opponents stomach
and twisting and rolling his
head.
Make met all these things
and gave something besides,
and I believe he is not the
underdog in the next fight that
that many believe him to be.