The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-06-11
in AND OUT RECORD
OF AMERICAN MAKES
BATTLE INTERESTING
No One Yet Has Successfully
Predicted What Boston
Man Will Do in Game
ENTIRE RECORD IS sHAKY
Can Schmeling Do What Firpo,
Carpenter and Heeney
Failed to Do?'

New York, June 11.-Ho-In the
most interesting and most extrava-
gantly ballyhooed fistic affair since
the late Tex Rickard pulled the
strings Of the heavyweight punch
and judy show. Jack Sharkey will
fight Max Schmeling tomorrow night,
IS rounds or less, at the Yankee
stadium for the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world.
It is by all odds the most signifi-
can't heavyweight bout since the re-
tirement of Gene Tunney. but w1eth-
er the winner will be recognized out
side Of Germany, Lithuania, and the
United States remains to be seen.
With any kind of an even break
from Old Man Weather, $4,000 fans
probably will pay in excess of 500. 900
to see the big show. This is a far
cry from the figures attending the
last Of the outstanding Richard cx-
travaganzas IN Chicago's lake front
in 1927. but excels anything on the
books of the heavyweight business for
the last three years. In addition the
customers will have the happy oppor-
tunity to serve a double purpose in
benefiting the children's mink fund
sponsored by Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst. and in aiding the recovery
Of INDECENT heavyweight division.
Will Foreigner Win
Today. the two main questions up
for debate among the railbirds ire:
First. can Schmeling carry the fis-
tic heights that three previous for
eign challengers. Firpo, Carpenter
and Heeney. failed to reach?
Second, can Sharkey overcome the
temperamental jinx that has seemed
to pursue him in international com
petition and fight at his best?
The claims that Schmeling will wiz
If he crowds and harnesses Sharkey
from the outset are countered by the
cries that the Teuton will have his
ears cuffed off if he mixes too will.
ingly.
The belief that Sharkey is due fol
one OF his good fights and. therefore
will emerge the winner is offset BY
his record Of consistently putting ur
mediocre bouts against foreign rivals
It Is this strange feature of Shar-
keys career that seems to give
Schmeling the best chance to capture
heavyweight honors any invader has
had since Luis Angel Firpo knocked
Jack Dempsey out Of the ring seven
years ago.
Sharkey has fought his good fights
almost exclusively against the don,es-
tic punch absorbers.
Sharkey Record Shakey
Against this. there is Sharkey's
record Of being knocked out early in
his caree by Romero Rojas, the Chill
can: beaten by Bounding Johnny
Risko. the Austrian baker boy: held
to a draw by old Tom Heeney. the
New Zelander; victor Of Phil Scott,
the Englishman, in a very question
able bout at Miami where Phil might
easily have been declared the winner
on q foul.
The form players have made Shar-
key a 9 to S favorite in the betting
and he probably will enter the ring at
that figure.
The main facts are that Sharkey
has the fighting equipment and ex-
perience with which to beat back the
challenge Of the German. No one
yet. however. has successfully predict
ed what Sharkey will do on any given
evening in the ring. so that the rest
Of the argument may just as we'll be
reserved for tomorrow night.