The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-03
Talking
IT OVER
NEW YORK, April 3.
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, April 3.
TOR better or worse the heavy
u weight championship Of the
world will be determined when Jack
Sharkey and Max Schmeling meet
in the annual Hearst Milk Fund
feature at the Yankee stadium on
June Il. BY reclamation plus the
result of a painfully labcred eliIni-
nation device the Boston Lithuanian
and the German from Hamburg
seem to have qualified as logical
finalists for the crown which Gene
Tunney, with no little disdain
piucked from his own chaSte noodle
and tossed aside, as if to say, There,
commoners, do with it as you will"
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A certain note Of technical legitimacy
viii be missing In this championship be-
cause neither the American nor the Ger
man is a tliIist in his own right and the
winner viii have to be accepted as sort
Of mOrganatic ruler Of the division whose
future position in the society Of sIugs will
be shaped by how he performs in subse-
Guent tests.
TINE fact remains that Sharkey
4 and Schmeling seem to be the
best of the lot right now. Whether
they rank with the top notchers OF
the past scarcely matters. As it was
with the piano player in the western
honky- tonk, whom you we're asked
not to shoot because he was doing
the best he could. so it is with the
two men who are TO battle this sum-
mer. If there were any heavy
weights around who could do any
better they and not Sharkey and
Schmeling would be fighting for the
championship.
At that it ought to be a pretty
fair brawl. Schmeling is the best
heavyweight the old country has
sent over here in modern times, a
cool-headed youngster, crafty work
man and splendid hitter.
II will be a long time before forget
his stirring performance against RiskO.
For clean punching and complete devasta-
tion. that one came close to masterpiece.
schmeling hasn't fought for year. and
the popular belief is this will prove
desperate handicap. Perhaps it will AT
his age-25-he should be constantly active
n competition.
stiH sharkey. tire years older, has no
great edge in this respect. He has had
only four bouts since January a year ago.
In the same space OF time Schmeling has
had just as many.
r HAVE reason to know also that
i these fighters do not restrict
their training strictly to the per-
functory business of sparring and
punching the bags. Tunney en-
gagged in an actual fight in private
while preparing for the second
Dempsey 60 and Schmeling had
two such fights clothed in camp
secrecy before he went into the
ring against Pauline last June
There is a good chance he will do
considerable actual fist throwing
before donning the ceSti for Shar-
key.
II has been written that Sharkey lost
much caste as an outstanding battler by
his showing against Scott in the south
this year. Well. he might have looked
better. vet that fiascO hardly lasted long
enough for any one to tell definitely
zhether the strange New England gentle
Ls2a was good, bad OF otherwise.
7 HAVE never seen another fighter
i Just like Sharkey. In the ring
he is as much an enigma as ever.
curious compound of cool efficiency
and emotional hysteria. 1t is about
as easy to figure him as it is to
measure the distance to the stars
with two-foot yardstick.
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And yet he Is usually down there In
front when the decision is given. Per-
hapS this is why 1 like him to beat
Schmeling.
DeIo