The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-18
| ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

ATEW YORK, Dec. 18.-By royal
~ command OF the cauliflower
court of the empire state, Herr
Liecerkranz Schmeling, moaning
low champion Of the heavyweights,
must come back to this country and
defend his championship against
GOOD old Jack Sharkey Of Boston
next summer.
Uz-r Liederkranz must do this In pur-
uant Of the boxing commissioners orders
~ suffer TIE revocation Of his official
~audeur on the ground that he has not
'elended hts title in six months.
10 some o. US. It would seem that the
ere fact ScnmelinZ hasn't fought N
=. months is a circumstance that Shouid
crit nothing less thar. hearty cheers By
,ontemplate a return meeting between
sim and good old Jack with any great
emotional restraint.
mean to say that when you consider
ehmeIinE and good old Jack made a
ousinK four-round hasco out of what
was to have BEEN a championship battle
cents bouncing jauntlly from the ring
rith sI77,OOO in negotiable assets. 1t is a
eil surprising that anybody should be
esger to see the spectacle repeated.
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PARTICULARLY surprising Is the
/ eagerness of the commissioners
in the month of December to con-
nrm a boxing date that can't pos
sibly materialize before next June.
This naturally provokes an inquisi-
i've "why?"
OF course. YOU never can tell what the
commissioners arc going TO do, addicteu
IS they are TO sudden and strange .Ee "him him,
mainly concerned with forcing Schmeling
20 box Sbarkcy. whether he wants to or
not.
Searching for a reason you reach the
rather obvious conclusion that the COM
nissioners want to make sure that
other than good old Jack That. my dear
watson. seems elemental.
Whom then arc the commissioners
maneuvcring against? Can the bright
faced little boy with the red bow tic in
the first row give teacher the answer
Becfo Camera? Correct.
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THE Beefo and his interesting
a handlers have been persona non
potatoes with the commissioners for
long time and apparently the
commissioners intend to see they
remain in precisely that same po-
sition for a much longer time.
With all his faults and feet the
Beefo is still the god of the gal
lery, pituitary monster who, in
spite of his crudities. officially anc
manually, has managed to capture
the imagination of the pew holders.
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On moral grounds the commissioners
can not he criticised for their pious atti-
tudc toward the Beefo and his handlers,
because the BOYS used everything but a
horse and a masked rider in their fstic
banditry through the hinterIands. More
over, there is no particular reason why
The Beefo should be accepted as what is
loosely designated as a logical contender.
II has been demonstrated several times
that he is Just a hooIigan.
Another thing. rood old Jack is prob
ably still the best Of q mediocre and
arratic lot Of American heayyweights. So
on al material counts the commissioners
are following a logical procedure in in
listing that Herr Liederkranz defend his
title against the man VINO fouled him--the
mentioned logic. after the German had
been beaten from Broadway to Inter den
Linden. Just the same the furious rush
OF the commissioners to get Schmeling's
name on the dotted line is mystifYing.