The Washington times., 1931-01-15
BOUT
INVOLVING
MAX-STR|B
BY HYPE IGOE

BY HYPE IGOE
NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-The Box
ing Commission is going to have
it out with Madison Square Gar
den over the signing Of Max
schmeling. Low bridge, boys-the
war is on!
There was another flareup
when Jim Farley declared war on
the house that Tex built because
of it's matchmaking through the
medium Of the Madison Square
Garden Corporation of Illinois.
This is one Of the seven sub
sidiary offsprings of the Garden
proper, established in different
States throughout the country,
and it will work under the charter
secured by Tex Rickard when he
brought Gene Tunney and Jack
Dempsey into that city to break
all records for outdoor boxing
events.
Farley Speaks
Farley today had openly charged
the New York Garden manage
ment with dealing with a sus-
pended fighter in Schmeling when
it was announced on Tuesday that
the bout would be promoted by
the Illinois branch of the local
corporation.
eff they don't think that we
know what they are doing they
are crazy" was the way Farley
put it.
"If their actions do not come
to us officially, we will go to
them officially"
When it was patent that Joe
Jacobs was not going to accept q
match with Sharkey for his cham
pion, the milk fund promoters
tried to pave the way for a Strib-
ling and Sharkey bout and then
a Schmeling and Stribling bout.
Three of four days before the
commission Withdrew official
recognition of Schmeling'S title"
the promoters made a final plea
to Jacobs for a New York bout
between Sharkey and Schmeling.
With Jack Conway of Boston,
one of Sharkey's managers, sit
ting in, Jacobs was offered a flat
guarantee of 100000 for the
German defender, Sharkey being
willing, he told Jacobs. to accept
so per cent of the gate and to
make up the 100000 purse for
Schmeling out Of his own pocket,
if necessary.
Jacobs turned this down cold.
After all, the official edict,
SuSpending and disfranchislng
Schmeling left the promoters no
other road to travel.
Jacobs Shrewd
Long before the boxing commits
sion suspended Schmeling, Run
yon submitted several PROPOSE
tions to Jacobs, always advising
him not to antagonize the boxing
commission. Jacobs only erinned.
If there is any blame to be
tossed about it could be aimed at
Jacobs, but in his behalf it must
be said that he was acting accord
ing to the contract which the
commission admits it forced
Schmeling to sign. Joe was quite
willing to accept Sharkey 80 days
before the bout if Jack was the
outstanding contender at that
time.
Another thing. Jacobs seemed
to have the solution Of the
whole business laid right on
the commission table when he
offered to invite StribIing into
New York to fight Sharkey,
and If the Georgia peach re-
fused, then Jacobs was willing
to sign an agreement to have
Schmeling fight Sharkey in
June.
The whole thing is just like
this: Jacobs wanted his way.
The commission wanted its way.
It was, indeed, a duel between
Farley and Jacobs, and, under
the circumstances, Farley could
not permit Jacobs to loom up
larger than himself or the COM
mission.
It seems to me that Sharkey
would have arrived in the con-
tenders place 80 days before the
June bout had the commission
allowed the Garden contract to
run it's natural course. Ninety
days before the bout, Sharkey
would be in exactly the place he
is today-the best fighter in
America.
He has already eliminated
Stribling, and had the contract
been allowed to function, Strib-
ling still would stand "elim1-
mated" as the challenger because
of that Miami licking. In bear
ing down, the commission cracked
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