The Washington times., 1930-04-04
COB
TO WHIP
MAX

1WEuE -
BY HYPE IGOE
The Sharkey and Schmeling
match for the worlds heavy
weight title is now an assured
thing.
With the announcement that
the two greatest leaders among
the heavyweights would meet at
the Yankee Stadium on June IL
for the benefit of the Hearst free
milk fund, begins the great inter.
rogation-"WHO WILL WIN?"
I'm starting early. I'm on rec
ord here and now that Sharkey
will win the worlds title by de-
feating the hard-thumping Ger
man.
Jack might knock him out. I
won't say, offhand, that he will,
because figure that Sharkey is
going to make careful fight and,
boys, he can be careful and a
winner at one and the same time.
He'll defeat SchmeIing be-
cause he will OutSpeed Max.
The German Is too hesitant
for the Boston man, in my
opinion, and Sharkey will get
the jump on him and main.
tain H. to the enc.
Sharkey may make one of two
fights. He may fight along the
lines I've just mentioned. Then,
on the other hand, he may sail
into Max as he did against Demp-
sey, Loughran and again with
Scott. Sharkey can certainly
crowd a man with a vengeance
when he wants to.
There is no Speedier heavy
weight in the world right now
than this same Sharkey if he
makes up his mind to cut loose.
Schmeling, of course, is twice the
hitter that Sharkey is. I'll grant
Max that, but he isn't aggressive
enough to suit me.
Sharkey can be a savage in
heading attack when he makes
up his mind that he can whip a
person. He has made up his
mind about Schmeling.
National pride and all that
sort of thing will gOad Shar-
key on to make the greatest
fight of his life, the same
sort of urge that made him
explode Harry Wills as a
menace.
He had the same desire to win
against Dempsey and with a little
more luck he would have won
in the first round.
Mind you, I'm not handing this
championship to Jack on a golden
platter. Not much. Schmeling
will fight desperately to win the
crown. Besides being clever, he
can hit, and after all, you must
give the hitter his chance.
Sullivan. Fitzsimmons, .JeffrieS
and Dempsey punched their way
into the throne room.
Corbett johnson. Willard and
Tunney wore their men down,
though Tunney is the only cham
pion since Sullivan's day to win
the tiara with a decision.
So, after all, you see, four
great hitterS and four great
boxers have divided the hon.
OrS since the day Sullivan
won the title.
They say, of course, that old
Jack wasn't worlds" champion.
Isn't that too bad. Old John L.
NOT a worlds champion. I know
he'd have been terribly annoyed
had he heard of it. At the top
of his career it would have wrecked
his whole life. I suppose! Poor
Jawn. He was only little Baws-
ton Boy, trying to get along.
And don't think for a moment
that I'm going to be with the ma
jority in selecting Sharkey to win.
Every two out of three persons
that I've met insist that Schmel-
ing will surely. win the gilded
kelly. Just the same, I stand pat.
Bad luck, like kindIing wood
in the dark, has fIipped up
and kissed Tuffy Griffith on
the whiSkerS again.
I don't suppose to take one bit
of credit away from Jack Gagnon
in winning with knockout ovec
Tuffy but it does seem to me that
Tuffy played in hard luck. Gag
non was a 20 to l shot not to
stop Tuffy. Yes? I guess you
would make it 100 to /.
What funny tricks that old
dame luck plays with these fight
ers. Do you know that they of.
fered Tuffy $4,000 and then
raised it to 100000 to fight Shar-
key at Miami and Lii John of
Boston wouldn't have any part
Of him? Tuffy didn't get the
fight and the chances are that
he got less than $500 for being
rubbed out by Gagnon, nowhere
up in the chips as notables in
ringland go. Perhaps Sharkey
had Tuffy picked out as. a future
customer if he wins the title. NO
and shared the bird. Funny game,
matter, Gagnon has come along
eh wot?