Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-05
TODANS
SPORTAPARADE
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BY HENRY McLEMORE
-nited Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. May SACK Nc
Auliffe paid us visit today. The
old unbeaten lightweight champion
of the world arrived in faultless
formal morning clothes Che calls
the get-up a directors suit and
with several very decided opins.
He had no more than sot down
and leaned upon his golden-headed
cane before he launched forth on
decided opinion number one.
II just got a load of that place
where Max Schmeling is doing
his training for Baer and of all the
gilt-edge, diamond horse shoed
joints I ever saw that Lake Swan
nersassa or something, takes the
prize How in hell q man figures
such a palace as that to get in
shape for a tough fight with a
tough man, is beyond me. Two
weeks in the middle Of that luxury
and a fighter is bound to get soft
"Why back in my day-the day
when fighters were fighters-the
main idea of our training was to
get away from everybody and in a
place that made you tough. John
L. Sullivan used to wear a silk hat
but when it came time for train
ing he did it in barn or some
thing way out in the woods. Now
adayS, the idea of a training camp
is to draw people, and surround a
fighter with feather beds and
swimming pools and lounging rooms
and pipe organs. Why man, you
know what we used to use for
Turkish bath? We used to have
'em sweep out the stables and then
bury ourselves up to the head in the
stuff. You came out feeling strong
and fresh.
Jack flicked a speck of dust off
his coat and continued.
"And the funny thing about this
fancy stuff is that the managers
and promoters think it uplifts the
game and makes it more popular.
Well it doesn It. All the fight bus
mess needs is a bunch of mean,
tough, ornery and hardboiled boys
in each division. Fighting is
hard racket, and always will be.
1t never was meant to be a high
toned, high-falutin' game. Back
in my days the fighters had wealthy
gentlemen as hackers and seconds,
but you never heard of one of the
wealthy fellows asking a fighter to
his house for dinner or around to
his club for a drink. We knew
our place and kept it,"
We asked Jack who was the
greatest fighter he had ever seen?
"John L. when he was right.
And he WASH t right for but a cou-
pie of years, what with his drinking
and playing around But on the
nights he was in shape nobody liv-
ing or dead could have licked him.
Not even Dempsey, and he was the
second best fighter 1 ever laid eyes
on.D
Who will win the June 8 scrap
Baer or Schmeling?
81 don t know. I never saw Baer
go and I can't see Schmeling. I
soured on the German that night
in his first fight with Sharkey
You remember. when he took the
easy way out. A real fighter
doesn't go out like that
What about Sharkey and Car
nera?
~ wish I knew. A fighter is
like a racehorse-if they show you
one good effort they re almost sure
to duplicate it sometime or another.
has shown one good effort
the one against Dempsey. I've
been looking for him to come
through with the second one, but
SO far he has disappointed me.
Maybe it will come in June. If it
does he will lick Camera. If 1t
dcesn 't-well, that big Italian is a
lot better fighter than anybody
gives him credit for being"