Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
LACK OF MATERIAL
HIS BIG PROBLEM
Sharkey-StribIing Bout Seen
as Just Another. Box
Office Disaster.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

By SPARkOW McOANN'
N YEW YORK, August o.-"Wtld
nj Bill" Carey, director Of Madt-
son Square Garden, continues
to seek the pot of gold at the
end of the rainbow. The intrepid Irish
man has achieved world fame by build
ing tunnels through the Andes Noun
tains, laying steel rails In the wilder
ness and building airplane landing
fields at the foot of steep crags. But
there is one job in which wild BM'
has failed, and that is in staging q
heavyweight extravaganza on the scale
set by his predecessor, the late Tex
Rickard.
Bill is still trying. Richard had GAG
material to work with and Cary hasn't.
That sums up the story in few words.
Carey became disguised with the tao
tics of Joe Jacobs, manager of Max
Schmeling, and vowed he would not do
any business with the Teuton or his adj
wiser. Always a good sport. Bill stepped
aside when Schmeling Sharkey match
was in the making and permitted his
genial general manager, Frank Bruen,
to conduct the negotiations. But Bill
had an ace up his sleeve, and that was
that in the event Schmeling won the
world title he would defend it for the
Madison Square Garden Corporation.
And SO it turned out. Schmeling is tied
to the Garden management, and Carey
has everything his own way, provided
he can produce a standout opponent
for Schmeling.
Sharkey- Stribling Doubtful.
With this thought in mind, Carey
made hurried trip to Boston to con-
suit Sharkey concerning a match with
Young Stribling. AsSuredly Bill Carey
is an optimist of the first water if he
thinks he can put over Sharkey-
Stribling contest within the confines
Of New York. After weighing Sharkey
and Stribling's worth as box Office at
fractions, one is apt to wonder how
carey could nave the temerity to in
fiict such a contest on the fans Of
New York.
Both men have had their chances
and signally failed. Contests in which
they participated were ballyhooed to
the skies only to prove more like
wrestling matches or else wind up with
one man writhing on the floor in agony
from foul blows
the outstanding heavyweight of the
day. Stribling's recent feats in stop
ping Otto Won Porat and Phil Scott
have redeemed him somewhat. But
both Sharkey and Stribling have a
wholesome fear of each other and this
spells a dreary contest such as was
enacted at Miami Beach two years ago.
No one would want to witness such
a fiasco again.
Idleness Hurting Jack.
Idleness is playing havoc with Shar-
keys condition. A bankroll running
into six figures is changing him INTO
SNUG, commended capitalist with an
exaggerated idea of his importance In
the boxing world. This, more than
anything else, is wearing the polish of
his fighting form If he continues this
mode of living and thinking, Mr.. Shar-
key will be pie for the first ambitious
youngster to come along.
Stribling is fired with the ambition
to become a champion. He is a seeker
Of color. While he has the ability to
come through with convincing testi-
mony of his worth he has been handi-
capped by too Solicitous care Of his
parent-managers. Pa and Ma Stribling
have done more to retard young w. LIS
career in the ring than anything their
son has perpetrated.
The fight racket is tough one. 1t is
case of give and take with the best
man coming out on top. Pa Stribling's
idea is that it's all right to beat a man
into insensibility, but he is not willing
to see his son take chance of getting
the same dose. He is willing to see
his offspring score a knockout, but he
is the first to counsel caution if his boy
is on the receiving end of the exchange
These tactics cost Stribling victory
over Sharkey and there is no doubt
that young w. l.. disliked the instruc-
tions he followed when he went out for
| the concluding round of his fight at
Miami Beach.
Bin Carey has had his ups and downs
since he entered the promotional end of
the fight game. His heavyweight
matches have drawn little more than
cover costs that should be a lesson TO
him. An attempt to put over a Shar-
key-Stribling fight in this city in the
closing months of the outdoor season
would surely entail another loss.