Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
STRIB-SCHMEL|NG
BOUT HAS APPEAL
Nobody Wants Match Order
ed by Gotham Heads Be-
tween German and Sharkey.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n JEW YORK, December 18.-
IN A situation similar to the
4 one which sent the first
Dempsey-Tunney heavy
weight championship. fight to
Philadelphia arose today as new
complications were tossed in upon
to edict of the New York State
Athletic Commission that Max
Schmeling must agree within IS
days to defend his title against
Jack Sharkey.
Following hard on the ultimatum,
which apparently eliminated young
William Stribling from consideration,
came an offer which brought the Geor-
gian right back into the heavyweight
picture. Nate Lewis, matchmaker OF
the Chicago Stadium, offered Schmellng
100000 to defend his crown against
Stribling in Chicago next Spring.
With promoters in general fighting
shy of the proposed Sharkey- Schmeling
bout Just as they avoided the Dempsey
Wills battle demanded by New York's
boxing solons five years ago, 1t seemed
likely that the next heavyweight cham
pionship scrap would go West, again
eliminating New York from considera-
ton unless numerous compromises
could be effected.
OFFER Is Confirmed.
Lewis offer was backed by telegraphic
confirmation from Sidney N. Strotz,
president Of the Chicago Stadium Cor
poration, and its success seemed more
probable than any other plan proposed
so far Lewis plans to stage the fight
in Soldier Field Chicago, in June. He
believes the gate receipts, at top price
Of Si2, would run over S1,000,000. 1t
was in Soldier Field, where the seating
capacity Is over 100000, that Dempsey
and Ttinney drew q 100000 gate fof
their second battle.
Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's manager and
recipient of the offer, had a good many
problems to consider before he could
reply to the first half-million bid since
the DAYS Of Tex Richard Schmeling is
bound by contract to the Hearst Milk
Fund Committee here in June and this
must be taken into consideration. II
| the commission edict stands, this bat
| tie must be against Sharkey but neither
| the committee nor the Madison Square
Garden Corporation appears interested
In such a fight unless there Is q pre-
liminary tournament to stir up public
| interest.
Prefer Own Matchmaking.
Lewis offered to share so per cent o.
| the proceeds with the milk fund anC
some Chicago charity, but the pro
motors of the charity show were in
| clined to turn cold shoulder TO thu
proposal yesterday. They preferred t.
do their own matchmaking, they said
and not share the proceeds.
In the face of the commissions In
sistence on Sharkey, however, this att
| tude may not last and the opinion wa!
prevalent last night that the milk funC
would Join with Lewis in promoting thu
Chicago show. The boxing moguls MAJ
| be persuaded to change their attitude
but 1t will take considerable trouble
| In 1926, 1t Is remembered, they stucl
to their guns in backing Wills and re-
| fused Dempsey license to fight Tun
ney. This year they may prefer to sta!
behind Sharkey rather than suffer {
possible loss Of prestige through chang.
ing their stand.
MACON, Ga, December 18 R)-W
| L. (Young) Stribling thinks an offer Of
| $500 900 to Max Schmeling to meet the
! Georgian in title bout is mighty
NICE" but admits he didn't know there
was that much money in Chicago" fo1
| fighters.
Stribling said he would "see what Pa
thinks about It,"
The Georgia puncher flew his plane
here from Atlanta and said he felt bet
ter after further treatment for a dislo-
Gated certebrae, but still had "a pain
In the neck"