The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-14
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS


NEW YORK, June 14.-Of late,
IN all the heavyweight prize
fights in this jurisdiction have been
committed in the guise of some
charity or other, and in most in
stances the beneficiaries have been
the exalted hooligans and glorifed
buns who donned the mittens with
a noble sacrificial gesture for what
ever the current cause happened
to be.
For instance. in the MIX Fund windup
which was beautifully eurdIed in the pres
enee Of 10000 paying customers the other
night. the babies Of New YOrk's tenemsnt
district got only SIS5. 900 Of gate which
Appropriated $4,000. while the big
hearted aItruists who calamity volunteered
their gifted services on a percentage basis
bounced away with nearly 100000.
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What was worse the customers rallying
70 the support Of a worth while charity
but actually contributing twice as much to
the performers. got practically nothing for
their money. They saw a green, unskilled.
fioundering heavyweight win what will
probably be recognized as the world cham
pionship on a foul punch from the most
erratic and unfathomable ring personality
in the history Of American boxing.
IN its ultimate essentials, the milk
4 fund show was largely a benefit
for young Herr Schmeling and the
not so young Jack Sharkey, and as
has come to be the custom your old
pal. Mr.. Gus H. Fan, reached down
in his Knockers and footed all the
bills.
OF course. this is nothing new. Old
Gus has been doing this for a number of
years now. Indeed he has been doing it
so long the thought occurs to me that the
racketeers and politicians who control the
business ought to put on a benefit for
him.
At any rate. I think Old Gus has little
consideration coming to him. Certainly
he has stuck with the boys through thick
and thin. fouls and fakes, hippodrome and
hooey. True. he has muttered mild pro-
tests from time to time. and once in
while he has gone so far as as to lift his
right hand to the heavens and VOW never
again" but when the showdown came.
when the big test was at hand when his
dough stood between the bitter disappoint-
ment Of some refined brute and an estate
in the Hampshires with a four-car ga
rage. Old Gus was there at the box office
demanding his usal allotment of ring
side seats down in the seventy eighth row.
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1 tell you he has been a regular soldier
all the way. a stand up. loyal sap and a
benefit for him Is little enough. 1 haven't
gwen the details of the scheme any ex-
tended thought vet, but I imagine the show
ought to be called the National Sucker
FUND bouts or sOmetblnk like that, and
that the receipts ought to be distributed
without question or Dartiality among all
the faithful patrons of the recent heavy
weight forces.
THE cause being such a con-
4 spicuously deserving one, I
imagine it will be quite easy to get
the noble gladiatorS to volunteer
in flockS and at fairly reasonable
terms. Say so Fer cent of the gate.
On this basis it ought to be possible
to work up a swell card for the
sucker fund with possibly Phil
Scott and Sharkey in the windup.
IT would also be necessary to find a
place on the card somewhere for Herr
Schneling on the ground that he is the
first pirze fighter that ever fired the
sucker Imagination by nothing more
tangible than faint facial resemblance
TO a really great fighter.
Getting together an impressive set of
preliminaries ouGhtn't to be any trouble
at ALL Personally I'd like to see Jack
Delaney in one of them as a belated
tribute to the superb performance he put
up against the Sharkey person in the
Garden a couple of years ago. Nobody
ever executed more dramatic or con-
vlncing collapse than did Delaney on the
occasion Of that memorable first round
flop to the Boston weeper.
What TO do with and where to place
SiEnOr Primo Camera is a detail that will
demand no little attention. The Primo is
an individualiSt, One-man show, and
~ NompCAitk - MS personality ana luFE
TO the sucker trade that it may be
necessary to co-star him with the Messrs.
Scott and Sharkey.
A ND, of course. the most logical
L n man for the refereeing job is
Charles Crowley, who calls them as
others see them, when hec alls them
at all.
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The gentleman has at least two dis
tinguished performances TO his credit
Several seasons back he called an invisible
foul that gave Delaney an unmerited and
very peculiar looking victory over the DIod-
ding Pauline. and the other night the same
gentleman did everything but phone the
ex-Kaiser before he could make up his
mind. If that is the word. what decision
to render in the Sharkey- SchmeIing fiasco.