New Britain herald., 1930-03-01
MIAMI F|ASC0 IS
 GREATEST 0F ALL
No Redeeming Features Mark
 Disaster Of COCOalut Palms

Miami, Fla, March 1 P1Bag, baggage and ballyhoo, the pugilistic hosts of Madison Square Garden prepared to beat strategic retreat today from the disastrous scenes where the second battle of the cocoanut palms fouled and Topped.
 There have been more artistic failures than this -Sharkey af- fair. Tex Eickard had his troubles at Toledo in 1919 and the boom town of Shelby, Montana. was hard hit by the flop of the Dempsey bons bout there in the summer of 1923 but these. at least had glamor of championship struggle, no mat ter what the sad tale in the box of- fee.
 The balmy setting of this winters fistic fiasco had few. if any, redeem ing features to offset it's financial shortcomings. These might have been overlooked with a more mag nifcent gesture by the Garden cor poration had Jack Sharkey achieved a convincing and decisive victory over Phil Scott, the pallid Briton who seems inflicted with chronic difficulty in the right sciatic nerve. AS it was, the battle of the minutes rest added no lustcr to heavyweight history.
 Scott. all hands concede. no mat ter whether they think the Briton was fouled has been effectually re- moved as a heavyweight title con- tender. Thus the field is at least re- duced by one in the wearisome and unsatisfactory series of elimination bouts since the retirement of Gene Tunney in the summer of 1928.
 Sharkey. the main American hope, though a three-round victor cumstances, remains an uncertain figure as fighter of apparent great possibilities but distinctly cratic tendencies in the ring. Seemingly. Thursday was the night for this Jekyll and Hyde of fsticuffs to wage one or HIS pau ll6UlS.
 Not only did he fail to justify the long odds in his favor but actually he came within a shade of losing on a foul and spelling whatever hopes he had of winning worlds championship honors.
 The expert consensus. as a re- suit, is that Sharkey by no means figures to have any advantage over Max Schmeing, the German clout- CT, when they meet as per schedule on June 26 in the deciding heavy weight tilt at New York. In fact Schmeling. if he can reproduce the form he last showed in this coun- try, is conceded an excellent chance by many experts to beat Sharkey.
 The squawks over the Miami bat tic may be heard for some time to come. for they aroused new strains Of pugilistic bitterness, but these will not change the result. The Ml- ami boxing commissioners made 1t clear that while they will accord Scott or his manager any reason- able hearing, they have no thought of reversing or reconsidering the verdict of Referee Lou Magnolia.
 Phil Scott spent most of the day after" undergoing treatment for the nerve condition which he claimed resulted from a foul blow by Shar- key to the side of his hip. His man. ager devoted the entire day to sauawking and the yoicing of hot charges against the referee. Mag nola countered with equal heat. Sharkey alone obtained rest and se- clusion. which he intends to enjoy here for another month. He will not fight again until he meets Schmel- ing.
 The final report from the box of flee was sad, indeed. It showed gross receipts of s193.252 and net gate" of sl61,716 after the reduc- ton of federal tax. There were only 1S,762 paying customers, Of whom 11,S97 sat in the s sections (until they moved elsewhere), 3,49o occu- pied $1o.50 seats and S,5lO enjoyed the luxury of s25 locations.
 With Sharkey receiving $40, 4c9.- 75 and Scott $32.243. the fighters payroll reached $124.000 altogether leaving the Garden less than s4o,- 900 with which 10 pay the arena rental, the cost of operations and ballyhoo, besides the maintenance of large staff organization here for month. The total cost of the pro- motion was figured at no less than sooo, GOO. so that the loss proba ply will be between s40,0o0 and s5O,-