The Washington times., 1930-05-05
GERMAN SAYS
HE'LL SCORE
VICTORY
By DAVIS J. WALSH

NEW YORK, May 5.-H He
travels fastest who travels alone.
One of the reasons why Max
Schmeling believes that he is
destined to take the heavyweight
championship back with him to
the fatherland-he was willing
to think of several-is that JACK
Sharkey is married man.
At least, this was the impress
sion / gathered today in an inter
view with the German challenger,
"a hours after his arrival here to
begin serious preparations for
his title fight with Sharkey on
June IL. OF course. the man
speaks far from perfecG English
and my ear for gutteralS was
never acute. Nevertheless, his
inference seemed plain enough.
He obviously meant that it was
lust too bad for Sharkey that he
was a married man.
Whereupon, noting mystitica-
ton, he tried to elaborate thus:
"He will have-what you say,
yes, the responsibilities of the
home. No married man should
be a fighter. A fighter should
concentrate wholly upon him.
self. No married man can do
this"
UnconSciouSly, he was playing
Kipling on the nose, so to speak,
or straight. as they say at the
paddock rail. He probably didn't
realize that place" and show"
money figure in this particular
couplet. which deals with I'm
hampered speed in two given di-
rections-"down to gehenna or
up to the throne"
Anyhow, it was obvious that
Schmeling'S thoughts run in one
groove only. namely, forward. I
was more interested in the man
than in his reasons for thinking
that ne would win prize fight.
as was his bounden duty to think.
However, these reasons may be
set down briefly as follows:
That, counting his 15-round
fight with Pauline, he has had
upward of 1872 rounds of boxing
to Sharkey's six during the last
IL months; that he is five years
younger and, therefore, does not
need the intensive preparation
that Sharkey needs; that he has
studied Sharkey's style from
actual observation in a gymnaS-
lam and in the Dempsey fight
movies and thinks he has the
answer. although not committed
to any particular plan of battle;
that he is stronger and tougher
than ever he was before, and
that, finally, Sharkey is a mar
ried man.
81 will have no worries in
the training camp" Schme-
ling explained. mo outside
interests, no thoughts except
Of the fight. Even the BulOw
matter will not bother me
this time, as it did i'm some
of my previous fights. / am
satisfied that / have dOre the
right thing all the way
through.
"They told me I was max
ing a mistake in going back
to Germany when the box
ing commission suspended me.
And" he added on q tri-
umphant note, Nobody is"
told them that when / came
back, nobody would be ahead
Of me.
| He went on to say that he
wouldn't fight Phil Scott because
he knew he would be asking for
all the trouble that Sharkey got
later at Miami. He didn't take
warm-up fight in Germany
he declared, because he saw nc
value in fighting chumps.
81 get more out Of my
exhibitions" said he. There
were 1O2 rounds of these in
America and 30 rounds in
Germany. / doubt whether
: all of Sharkey's fighting and
preparation can match that"
This and much more he said
in a kindred strain, but it was
the things he left unsaid thai
: really made the most telling i'm
preston. A smooth worker, THU
German. He was ultra-confideni
but careful to repress it and SC
he talked the conventional talk
of a heavyweight prize fighter
about to go into active training
This, to newSpapermen.
The other side to his friends
: "When / am champion"
This phrase, they said, ha!
been running through his con
versation, like the thread of ar
obligato, since his arrival yester
day morning. 1t isn't mere
wish. It seems to be an assump
tion.
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