The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-27
GERMAN wins RIGHT
T0BATTLE SHARKEY
AGANNEXT SUMMER
Boxing World, However, Ac.
claims Fighting Spirit of
Bulldog
HANDlCAPS PROVED TOO BIG
Little Fellow Wins Four of First
Seven Rounds in Great
Fight

New York. Sept. 27.-(P)-The fight
game, a bit frost bitten about the ears,
gladly bundled up it's outdoor season
paraphernalia Tuesday, left the
heavyweight question for Max
Schmeling and Jack Sharkey to dis
pute next summer, and settled down
TO discussions around the winter
cracker barrel of one of the most STIR
ring and unusual heavyweight battles
of modern history.
Back to the middleweight division,
by his own consent, went Mickey
Walker. still claiming the champion
ship there, with the plaudits of So
900 of the faithful still ringing in his
ears, as game a little fellow as ever
stepped out of his class to take crush
ing defeat manfully until there was
not another breath of resistance left
in him.
For Max Schmeling. conqueror of
the doughty little Irishman in eight
rounds in the 1882 closing show at the
Madison Square Garden Bowl, there
was nothing left this year but jaunt
back to Germany, rest for a few
months. and then return to resume
his feud with Sharkey.
Walker Started Well
For while Monday night it seemed
Walker was to cap glamorous career
with a stunning upset victory, and
win the right to challenge Sharkey
in Schmelings place.
But in the eighth round the light
ming in the black proved teuton
struck Walker with full force. A right
uppercut closed Mickey's left eye,
blinded him. The crushing power In
Something's fists blasted Walker from
one side of the ring to the other,
floored him for counts of six and nine,
left him rubber-l legged, bleeding, help
less when the bell rang.
Without waiting for Referee Jack
Denning's interference, Jack Kearns,
Walkers manager, leaped into the
ring and refused to let Mickey 60
further.
There was nothing for Referee Jack
Denning to do but award the decision
to Schmeling on technical knockout.
Although the bout actually ended in
the minute rest between the eighth
and ninth rounds, it will go down in
ring history as technical knockout
| for Schmeling in the eighth.
Vicious Seven Rounds
But apart from the almost confus-
ed and hysterical ending, there was
material galore for the cracker bar
rel boys in battle that for seven
rounds was as vicious and surprising
as any modern heavyweight history
knows.
Almost under the opening gun,
Walker, pug-nosed little veteran seal
ing but 174h pounds, bumped full into
Something's numbing right hand and
was floored for count of six and it
seemed as though the chief entertain
ment of the evening would be of the
briefest kind.
But back from that inauspicious
start came a roaring Walker to fight
his way through numbing barrage
in the second round and rally valor-
ously with humping left hooks to the
body at the close. On through the
third he came, gaining his first ad-
vantage as he stormed into the COM
placent German, ripping away to the
body at close quarters, slipping under
Something's darting right hand.
It seemed almost unbelievable that
a little man, conceding IA pounds in
weight and every physical advantage
could stage the rally Walker did. He
completely befuddled Schmeling as
he pounded out clear margin
through the fourth and fifth rounds
almost sinking the surprised German
in the fifth and left hook to the
body that doubled Max and left him
gaping.
Schmeling took the offensive in the
sixth and turned the battle his way
He cut Mickey's lip with right hand
smash. Mickey seemed tired. Again
it seemed as though the end were
coming.
One Grand Rally Left
But there was one more grand raj
ly left in the little 1riShman to de-
light the $175,000 worth of customers
With astonishing ease Mickey belted
the former heavyweight champion
about the ring in the seventh, forcing