Evening star., 1930-06-08
GERMANS WALLOP
CALLED OvERRATED
Writer Holds Schmeling Not
in Shape to Hold Off
Experienced Foe.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

M Sharkey will score deciS-
Y lively in 10 rounds over
Max Schmeling in Yankee
Stadium next Thursday night.
The Boston COB will have his
name inscribed on the Muldoon-
Tunney Trophy as the tenth
ruler of the fistic kingdom since
the inception of the Marquis OF
QueenSberry rules.
Taking into account the marked prog
ress Max Schmeling showed in each
of his five fights in this country, it is
no hit or miss guess to predict that
Sharkey will stop the teuton slugger
Schmelings knockout punch has been
over emphasized. Only one of his fights
in this country has ended in clean
knockout and that one, scored over
Pietro Corri, can be left out. The least
said about 1t the better. The referees
stopped the Joe Monte and Johnny
RiSko scraps while Joe Sekyra and
Paolino Uzcudun were on their feet
fighting back at Schmeling when the
gong sounded ending the bout.
These things must be considered when
one attempts to forecast the probable
outcome of a contest between promls-
ing slugger and an experienced boxer,
who combines ring generalship with
jolting hook.
Germans Training Lax.
Schmeling will have to get over a
solid punch and follow this up with
series Of short arm jolts and knock all
the boxing sense out of Sharkey's head
If he expects to be around after the
tenth round and strong enough to nm
ish with a burst of speed and win the
decision on points.
Max has gone about his training in
a manner that indicates he has not
built up enough reserve stamina to
linger around if Sharkey boxes as well
as he can and picks his spots. Road
work, sustained boxing sessions and
other Stamina building exercises have
been lacking in the Germans training
schedule. This writer may be all wrong
by insisting these are necessary part
of fighters training. With the excep-
ton of a very few freaks OF the ring,
no fighter has yet achieved success,
especially over a long route, who did not
indulge in these hardening exercises. j..
Schmeling says he has no set plan OF
battle, that he makes 1t up as ne goes
along. II such is the case, he Is again
wrong If Sharkey gives repetition OF
the first round he flashed on JACK
Dempsey, it is safe bet that Schmellng
will not answer the bell for the third
round. Sharkey learned valuable les
SON in the Dempsey fight. Dempsey,
under the rigorous system laid down by
the late Leo P. Flynn, was in far better
shape than Max Schmeling Is today and
ONLY Dempsey's indomitable courage and
calmness under fire saved him: II
Sharkey ever gets Max in that shape
he will cut him to bits so that before the
second round is over the German VIII
be ready for the cleaners. 1t Is that
experience which gives Sharkey q de-
cided edge.
Jack Learns Body Punch.
Judging from the way he has worked
against his sparring mates, the German
intends to keep walking right into Shar-
key and snap over a right hand blow.
Sharkey will undoubtedly box into posi-
tion for short hooks to the body with
the object of multiplying the dangerous
right hand of his rival. BY forging
slowly ahead. Schmelin6 figures he VIII
force Sharkey to discard his boxing tac-
tics and swap blows. If that happens.
Schmeling will have a good chance OF
winning. Sharkey is no great snakes
as a puncher, because he tries to get
too much power behind his blows and
as q consequence swings or loops his
blows. This is tactical blunder against
a man who can drive through with q
short, straight blow.
Sharkey never fully appreciated the
value of a body blow until he stacked
UP against Dempsey, one OF the most
effective body punchers the game has
ever known. Ever since that fight Jack
has developed wonderful hook to the
body and weaves into position for a
hard right uppercut just below the
heart. 1t was these two blows that took
all the starch out of Tommy Loughran
and made him an easy mark for a
looping right to the temple. Jack
belted Phil Scott with some beauties
under the short ribs. and If Phil was
telling the truth after the fight,
punch on the hip caused temporary
paralysis of the right leg. That gives
YOU a fair idea of Sharkey's weighty
body blows.
And don't forget, Max Schmeling
busted home to Germany rather than
| face this same Phil Scott.
How the Dope Runs.
If general form and training sessions
are any basis upon which to judge the
tactics the men will employ in the ring,
| then it can be set down that Sharkey
will bide his time, outsmarting his op-
ponent by his clever boxing and belt
ing the body in close, while Schmeling
will adopt a weaving style to break up
Jacks stabbing left and at the same
time try from the first bell to chug
through with a smashing right. If
such is the case. Schmeling will be so
badly battered and winded around the
tenth round that the German will
either retire" or the referee will stop
| the fight On the other hand, If
Sharkey attempts to rush and bully his
way to a quick knockout 1t will be a
stormy evening for the sailor.
If Max Schmeling becomes the first
European to hold the world heavy
weight title his victory over Sharkey
will be a greater surprise than Gene
Tunney's victory over Jack Dempsey in