Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07
ONCE Boosted HE
USED THEM KINDLY
Seventeen Come and Go as
Teuton Whangs Away as
He Would at Sharkey.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL,
ssociated Press Sports writer.

u NDICOTT, N. Y, June T.
r. The bell rang again today
l. for the sparring partners
those battered, patched, dis
illusioned youngsters W n os c
thankless task is to condition Max
Schmeling for a world heavy
weight championship fight with
Jack Sharkey in the Yankee
Stadium Thursday night.
They meander aimlessly around his
training camp during layoffs such as
the German has taken untotlced ana
apparently unnoticing, some with swollen
noses. bruised eyebrows and court-plas-
tered cheeks others, the newcomers
fresh and anxious for a punch at title
challenger They live apart, eat apart
and make no public appearances until
called upon to face the clouting Teuton
| in his boxing drills. For the most pare
they are absolute unknowns to the f1ght
game. and II of them have come ana
gone in three weeks
Schmeling, planning an aggressive
punching fight against Sharkey, is more
than rough with his spar mates. He
fights them as though each was Sharkey
himself. He cuts and mauls and bat
ters, punches them groggy and tnen
turns loose all the power in ms snort
right hand to finish them as Quickly
as possible. The eagerness with the
first workout, and from then on the
chief fight is against time. 10 nloSt
of them the S25 day pay is important
money and the longer they are usetuI
| the bigger the stake.
Max Changes Methods.
When Schmeling first trained in the
| United States he was proud OF the 1act
! that he never had to punish a sparrlng
mariner urlnecessarily During prepare
| ton for his triupmhant parade through
Pauline Uzoudun he boosted that ne
| had never in his life tried to knock out
| a helper. Apparently circumstances nave
altered cases, fer Schmeling today Is
| setting q record for training savagery
that only Jack Dempsey ever mas
| equaled
II pay my sparring partners to get
| me in condition" Schmeling reasoned
| out loud as he discussed the situation.
! For this match fight all the time to
| get in shape must go at top speed,
| throw punches every second, hit hard.
| II hurt them I cannot help 1t. That
| is the chance they take. do not want
| to hurt them so much as l try to get
my punches working best
MY sparring partners maybe are no
good. Every one thinks that, They ask
4
well with the left hand and use right
crosses, as Sharkey does.
Answers Sharkey.
'Well, I tell you. I don't prepare for
| Sharkeys left jabs because / do not
! know that he will fight me that way.
| If am locking always for left jabs and
he does something else all the time l
am caught-what you call it-of stride,
| am 1 not? would get confused. No, /
must get ready for anything Sharkey
| can do.
80 fight as many men as possible
| in training Maybe they are no good.
| but each man has a different style. I
| conquer those styles like I conquer
| Sharkey's style June 10. Sharkey is not
training to fight me as I have fought
in the past. He has the same partners
! he has had for several years. They do
not fight like me-"
Schmeling paused for a moment as
| he thought of something that has been
| irritating him.
"They tell me Sharkey calls my SPAR
| ring partners buns and says Johnny
| Crosse and Paul Cavalier in his camp
| could beat me- tell you this. If they
we're in my camp knock them out just
like the Others