The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-23
To-day's Sport
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By HENRY MO LEMOitE 'nitcd Press Stan Correspondent

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 New York. May 23--(UP)~-- When fighters start going back they usually go fast and for good. There are just enough exceptions to prove the rule. Billy PetroHe is one who rallied from the wet wash to blast his way to bigger and bet ter things. And Mickey walker. the subject of tO-dny's little essay, k another.
 A little more than Bix years ngo Walker, hlrendy Il veteran. snw his hopes for l. comeback as n weiter' weight apparently smashed by the failing fists of Joe Dundee, as Mickey, blood streaming from his face, was led from the Garden only his most optimistic friends could see anything but the discard for the pug nos8d Irisher
 NUe left the Garden that nice night in 1928 Il whipped -fisiz- gle welter. Thursday night he VIII return as n liRht-heavyweight with vyweight ambitions, in II go against tho tough old gcczer, Paul" mo Uzcudun. Since chucking his mlddIeweight championship some time ago Walker has earned z draw with Jack Shafkey and whipped a mess of men in the class above his, The psuiinO thing, Mickey will tell you, is just 10 keep his hand in until he gets h crack 8t the big championship this yenr or next.
 It's not until you remember the dizzy (and when say dizzy ! moan dizzy, dizzy, dizsy) life Walk CT han led, md how completely tho old guard he used to fight and pnl around with, has faded. that you begin to marvel at MlGkey's stay Ing pg.-.rs.
 When Walker was in inc thick of things ns n weItcr and a middle. Jack Britain, Paul Berlcnbach. Tiger Flowers, Georges Carpcntier. Mike O'D0Wd. Harry Grcb, sammy Mhndcll and Jack Delaney were making tho headlines even though they were old timers. Now all of these boys, most of whom led Il Sunday school existence ns com pared t0 Mickey, arc gone and all but forgotten. But Mickey with Tflf LUX UtHII, uith'y ViNb Nb' t's tO car grin, Mickey with the frccklcd pan and Mickey with the perchGrone build, in still around. Plenty much around, 1 might add.
 The man iB only 3I. but those J ycnrs have been 5nmmed to the hilt. aa the boys say. with living. A heap O living. A pI0yboy ever since he started out as n scrhwny fcntherwoight, Mickey hns hit the high spots, the low spots. and the in- between spots. He's been cham pion of two divisions, and he's been kicked around by Pnl00kan. He's made fortunes and spent fortunes. and he's still going strong.
 Mickey will not go down In his- tory as one of the worlds leading family men. Cupid has sDtarcd him n hundred times and ench timo the arrow hurt. You have only to read the newspaper headlines be- low (n few or the hundreds which have hornIded Mlckcy'H gadding ab0uD 10 know why our Aunt Lucy In Wnppinger Falls probably considers him iirst cln1a rascal and rogue.
 Here are few of the headlines that have appeared in the last year or BO.
 Mickey Walkers wife sues him, Declines Co net 0s punching bng for champion.
 "$I00,O00 suit follows Mickcys party"
 Walker hit her, dancer vows Hurt for life, Hho snyH, suing for geo 000."
 Paris nights won count over Walker, hays eX.wifc.'
 Mickey has two wives"
 Champion K knocked out; Mickey Walker fcllcd by drunken friend"
 Fighter gives denial Co charges of beating spouse"
 Mickey sleeps In n canopicd bed. snys bls prayers every night, nd. mires beer and Gnn do n mean Charleston, whatever that is.
 And hell knock pnullnO's enrs off