Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-11
AMERICAN Is
THE FAVORITE
However, the Bostonian's
Mediocre Work Against
Foreigners Recalled
BY ALAN GOULD
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, JUNE A4-H
the most interesting and most ex-
travaeantly ballyhooed affair since
the late Tex Rickard pulled the
strings OF the heavyweight Punch
go Judy show. Jack Sharkey VIII
80, Max Schmeling tomorrow
rioht. Is rounds or less, at q
Yankee Stadium for the heavy.
weight championship Of the worlo.
II is by all odds the most signl-
ficant heavyweight bout since tne
retirement Of Gene Tunney, put
whether the winner will be recog-
nized outside Of Germany, Lithuanla
ana the United States, email 10
be seen. With any kind OF an even
break from old man weather, q
crowd of $4,000 fans probably VIII
nav in excess Of 100000 TO see 2
bir show. This is a far cry from p
figures attending the last OF y
outstanding Richard extravaganza
on Chicago's lake front in 1927, nut
n excels anything on the books OF
the heavyweight business Tor q
nast three wears. In addition, u
customers will have the happy op-
portunity to serve a double purpose
in benefitting the childrens MIX
fund. sponsored by Mrs. William
Randolph Hearst. and IN aiding tne
recovery OF the INDECENT heavyweight
division.
The Questions
Today, the two main questions
M for debate among the rallonus
are: 49,
fistic heights that three previous
foreign ~challengers, Firpo, Carpen-
tier and Heeney, failed to reachf
Second, a Sharkey overcome az
temperamental ink that has seemed
10 pursue hi min international COM
petition and fight at his best!
This fight Is no exception, when "
comes "a the speculative ifs OF
sTvItsp or even the loose talk that
everything is sin" and AL right
for n principal or the other. 80
far as that goes, it is just the
Ballyhoo that has become a part o.
the game.
-Hrne claims from one corner thai
sskreling will win If he croWos
and harnesses Sharkey from the QUIZ
set are countered by the cries ma
the Teuton will have his ears cuIled
off If he mixes too willingly.
Mediocre Bouts
The belief that Sharkey is due
for one or his good fights ana.
therefore. will emerge the winner
Is offset by his record Of CONSISTENT
" putting I'D mediocre bouts against
foreign rivals. It is this strange Tea
tire Of Sharkey's career that GEMS
70 give Schmeling the best chanCe
n CAPTURE heavyweight honors that
anv invader has had since LUIS
Angel Firpo knocked JACK DEMPSEY
out Of the ring at the POLO
v years ago.
Sharkey has fought his good
fights almost exclusively against the
domestic punch absorbers. His mosb
impressive performances were
ed against Harry Wills and George
Godfrey. the so-called black men
aces; Jim Malonev and Ionmy
Louehran, representing the irish
American contingent.
Against this, there is Sharkeys rec
ord of being knocked out early IN
his career by Romero Rojas. the
Chilean: beaten by bound Johnny
Risko. the Austrian baker boyi nelo
To a draw by old Tom Heeney,
New Zcalender; victor over PM
Scott. the Englishman. In a very
questionable bout at Miami where
Phil might easily have been declar-
cd the winner on a foul. whether
or not he was hurt by Sharkey's low
blows.
Sharkey Favored
This information may be food for
the hunch-players. even though not
c~onsoling 10 the patriots. who will
consider it a national calamity
scarcely less important than the
Wan street crash If the heavyweight
tNtle is lost TO America. In spite Of
il, the form players have made
Sharkey a 9 to 5 favorite in the
betting and he probably will enter
the ring at that figure.
The training camps have contrl-
buted little but wordage to the gen.
eral discussion. The main facts are
that Sharkey. best Of a poor crop
of American heavyweights. has the
fighting equipment and experience
with which TO beat back the chal-
lenge Of the young. hard-hitting
German. No one yet, however. has
successfully predicted what Sharkey
will do on any given evening in the