Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-13
SEES QUICK ENDING
AS Spelling PLANS
Using Early Rounds to Feel
Out Foe and Thinks lack
Had Shot His Bolt.
BY EDWARD ]. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n Jew YORK, June ia puz-
IN Zled German boy, with a
Y victory to celebrate, but
no desire to revel, looked
out disconsolately today upon Fri
day, the 18th, and nursed a grip
ping pain in his lower abdomen.
There was no glee for Max Schmeling,
24-year-old Teuton, in the victory he
won from Jack Sharkey on foul IN
four rounds, while nearly 10000 Of the
faithful in the Yankee Stadium last
night booed disgustedly the farcical
ending of another heavyweight hasco.
Schmeling, somehow, impresSes you as
Q clean-cut, fair fighting youngster who
doesn't want to win any match tnat
way. There is gall for him, too, in
the fact that he was losing to the
American champion on points until
decidedly low left hook, flung with all
of Sharkey's 1877 pounds behind IT,
stretched him grooming on the canvas
IT am disguised to win like that" he
said mournfully in his broken English
as he lay on a rubbing table in dress
ing room deep under the stands In the
ball park. Il fight my fight just as
want It, Then when my chance is COM
ing, am fouled.
For three rounds maybe I don't look
so good, but I am doing what l want
7 am finding out about Jack Sharkey
I find he is not so good fighter as
they say he is. l find out he cannot
hurt me with punches after take his
best. 1 know what want to know. /
am ready to do 'sonezing' myself.
AS Schmeling stretched out on the
table, beads of perspiration dotting his
forehead from the pain of the low blow,
DR.. william Walker of the New York
State Athletic Commission, made
thorough examination. After he had
found severe spasm In the left scrotum
result of a severe blow in that region"
the lower portion Of Something's body
was carefully packed in ice. He
WINGED with pain as he was moved.
Il like to fight Sharkey again" ne
said II know 1 can whip him. He
could not hurt me in the early rounds,
which I knew were his best. My plan
for the fight was not to press him until
the sixth round or after.
when the third round was over and
I look bad didn't feel bad. was not
hurt. come back to my corner ana
Joe Jacobs says take some smelling
salts Take some salts quick
No tell him. I am all right. I
20 after him now and we see somezing."
Not Held Intentional.
'Sharkey he had-what you call it
shot his bolt. I can see the change In
the fourth round. He looks different.
He acts different. Then poof-the low
punch. / am helpless.
Once before Jack hit me low, al
though don't think either punch was
intentional. I tell him then be care
flIl. Jack but he don't answer me.
What was this some one told me about
Sharkey talks to his opponent all the
time? Anyway I give him his chance
for revenge if he wants it"
Sharkey, baked for the third time
with the heavyweight championship
within reaching distance, was only
shadow of the clustering, laxative, con-
fident sailor who used to have plenty to
say in victory or defeat. He seemed old
in his dressing room, lfeless. an athlete
with the zip gone from his fast one,
logged by jinx.
He had carried the American flag
into the ring draped across his Shout
ders. One Of the greatest fight crowds
in New York's history had hooted the
sight. He had set out to justify him
self, fighting the besb-paced, most in
telligent fight he ever turned in here.
Yet he had ended up striking low
blow, fouling his opponent.
He plodded to his dressing room like
Q sleepwalker, brushing aside con-
dolences. He didn't want to talk or
even think of the fight. He wanted to
get home as fast as he could go to his
wife and family.
Perhaps controlling his emotions,
something he has never tried before,
cost him something. He was the pic
ture Of helplessneSS in the ring waiting
for the decision, sort of unresisting
victim of fate.
In the dressing room he acted like q
small boy who had been whipped and
didn't know why.
Softly he said:
"I would rather have won that fight
tonight than any other ever fought"
Sharkey meant It, He wouldn't lie
about his opinion of Schmeling. He
thinks he is a terrible fighter. But
there was something in bis attitude
that gained him more friends in that
room in one minute than his belliger-
ency has won for him in five years.