Evening star., 1932-12-18
MONEY. IN ADVANCE
IS SOUGHT BY JACK
Stand May Cause Jacobs 10
Seek Another to Back
Next SchmeIing Go.
BY SPARROW McGANN.
\ EW YORK, December IT,
VI Jack Dempsey is idle and

VI JACK dempsey Is Nle ana
4 restless. The former
heavyweight champion IL
through with trouping as vaude-
vile star, as the shows which fea-
tured him were flops and the
orchestra he was to have led did
not harmonic
Today we again have Jack In
the role Of promoter. This Is
nothing new for Dempsey, as he
has had two tries at it.
Since he was not paid of then. It
Is more than likely that Jack now will
demand his share of the money be
placed on the line-hence the whole
plan, originating in the agile mind Of
Joe Jacobs may flip somersault and
wind up on its back.
Dempsey was pressed into service as
front man for the Sharkey-Stribling
affair at Miami Beach when Tex
Rickard died The advance sale was .
nightmare to Dempsey and any one who
sat in with Jack on the eve of that
fight will testify that the Manassa
Mauler looked like a beaten man after
his herculean efforts to put the fight
across.
But the receipts exceeded all expecta-
tions. Dempseys magnetism and per-
sCnality may have been the cause of the
laSt-Inirute rush, but one cannot deny
that the Stribling name and fame had
lot to do with the patronage OF
Southern fans.
DEMPSEY'S name was used in the
II promotion of quite number of
cards at the Chicago Coliseum,
but the entries in the books were writ
ten in heavy red ink. 1t was said that
Jack dropped something like $4,000 on
that venture.
Ed Cole bobbed up with a healthy
check book and wanted Dempsey bad
lost in the Chicago venture. Jack did
nothing for Cole other than to furnish
reams of publicity.
A fellow like Dempsey cannot afford
merely to break even. His expenses
run pretty high and he must clip few
ccupcnj If he expects 10 stay out OF
the braad-line
JACK Dempsey is one of the celebri-
ties not taken in by confidence men.
While he has not lost any actual cash,
his good nature has been the means Of
working him in on schemes where
others profited and Dempsey was left
holding bag OF non-negotiable fame.
Toe JACOBS is the latest to hitch
J his cart to Dempsey's star. Just
back from Germany. the manager
of Max Schmeling is raving and ranting
that he will run Madison Square Garden
into the ground by refusing TO do busi-
ness with the organization which has
paid him in excess of S60O0 900 during
the past four years. Joe is peeved be-
cause he cannot get what he wants for
Max in 2 return fight with Jack
Shsrkey. In other words, Joe believes
in driving a hard bargain and is con-
tent only when he has his own way.
Jacobs grabbed the title with Schmel-
ing ch q foul. and rather than risk
his precious charge in return hghL
with Sharkey he signed for fight With
Young Stribling and was chased out to
Cleveland to put it over The receipts
failed to satisfy Joe's idea of the bouts
and he had to sign for the
Sharkey match.
The latter made a chance remark
that he would fight Schmeling for
nothing, and Jacobs tried to hold him
to that statement. They compromised
by permitting-as Joe put it-Sharkey
W ldhc ~ pei SCilt' anu "ttAA eAAos "S-s
the title
Now that Sharkey wants to reverse
the order of things, since he is the
champion and the One 30 dictate.
Jacobs will haze nothing TO do with
him.
JACOBS claims he has Max Baers
] promise 20 fight Schmeling. II
such is the case. it is about time
managers were shown their proper
place and left the matchmaking to
those being paid for the work. Any
between managers
smacks of collusion. and the fans are
skeptical about matches so arranged.
1t would be an injustice to accuse
Baer or his manager, Ancil Hoffman,
of being a partner in the scheme.
Neither has had anything to say about
the next Schmeling match. 1t is pcs
sible that Jacobs figures Baer is down.
right anxious for match with Schmel-
ing. and en- that basis Joe, as usual. is
speaking for all parties Until Baer
or Hoffman is heard from it would be
we'll to take Jacobs statements with
grain of salt
Sharkey is the champion. He won
the title in a fair. standup fight. Un-
til Sckmeling reverseS that decision
nothing Jacobs can say or do will make
it otherwise. 1t is too bad that good
fighter like Schmeling must stay on the
and permit his manager to
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