Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

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of June IL between Max Sigfried Adolf
Jack Josef Paul KaukauSkas Sharkey W
should be called heavyweight champio
Accordingly, the name of the winner OF
araved on the handsome trophy that Solid Nj
and Equally Solid Man James Joseph Tunney
the token of international gladiatorial suprem
boxing commission hasn't said that the gent
names would be cut into the trophy, probably
leave little room for the monickers of such men
Jim Corbett Bob Fitzsimmons and few othe
and less schooled era.
At any rate. either Jack Sharkey, the sore:
ton or Max Schmeling the hurtful hamburger
to become world heavyweight champion. And
after that
The deluge!
Nv which it is meant that followers of the
racket known as boxing are about to come race
to face with a situation in which the champion
is no better man than you are, Gungha DIN,
and that with little bag punching and judi
cious yelling you have grand chance 10 De-
come heavyweight champion of the world your
self Schmeling and Sharkey are the best OF
a bad lot of heavyweights Beyond that, neither
has shown convincingly the qualities that go
into the making of champion
There have been similar situations in ring
history. But not since the retirement of Jim
Jeffries IS years ago have ring fans been con-
fronted with the spectacle of two synthetic con-
testants battling for the belt that John L. wore
so well. Jeffries had won the title from Bob
Fitzsimmons. who by the way, was regarded In
that day as something of a foreign menace him.
self. But Fftz, Cornishman, upon winning the
title from Corbett had become an American
citizen. JEFF defended the title for few years
and gradually the heavyweight crop Of the
period decayed to state of stagnation almost
as uninteresting the harvest Of today.
Tor three years before his retirement in 1905
JEFF was idle. The talent could not be found
TO give him fight. Finally he decided to call
it off and become a rancher.
JEFF refereed the Marwin Hart-Jack Root
match in Reno in 1905, at which the ambi-
tious promoter announced that the winner
would be accepted formally as the new heavy
weight champion. The situation today paral-
lels that of Jeffries day. but JEFF always stoutly
denied that he had sanctioned the disposal OF
the title in that manner.
Anyway, Marvin, old boy, won the fight and
was declared champion until q champion should
come along. The champion wasn't long on the
way. 1t wasn't year later than Tommy Burns
defeated Marvin Hart in a 20-round decision
fight at Los Angeles.
It is q queer quirk that the name of Tommy
Burns appears on the Muldoon -Tunney cham
pionship trophy but the name of Marvin Hart,
from whom Burns was supposed to have won
the championship, is strangely missing
As it was in the day of Marvin Hart and
Jack Root, when these two we're selected as the
best of very mediocre assortment of cauh-
flower Sharkey and Schmeling have been named
as logical" contenders today. Either Sharkey
or Schmeling is to become the next world
champion, which makes the rest of the heavy
caulihower division look like an old-faShioned
barten6ers' picnic caught in a thunderstorm.
"A long rise in the heavyweight stock market
started with Jack johnson. White hope after
white hope was brought along with view to
creation of a Caucasian champion. One after
another they were knocked back into oblivion.
People began to realize that johnson was one
of the greatest fighters the world ever had seen.
The frenzy to find a man who could beat him
finally, Jess Willard, the giant from the Kansas
plains, clicked.
Fighting interest was sustained with Willard.
from the West? -Four Winters and Summers
how it was answered.
popped over the Kansas giant under To-
ledo's scorching sun, and the golden reign Of
Gaulifower reached its apex. For seven years
Dempsey, the mauer held sway, and during
those years followers of fighting saw in action
one of the most savagely destructive pantheTs
OF the arena that ever drew leather
IRON claw.
The climax-or call it an anti-climax, YOU
hke-occurred in Philadelphia on that rainy
night in September, 1926 when the tiger fought
che wolf and slashed to ribbons by Tunney.
Then, to prove the verdict wronE. the tiger