Evening star., 1936-07-24

VI ment enterprise incorporated
L under the name Of Jack Shar-
KEY and famous wherever English and
lithuanian are spoken for the sweet
but consistent quality Of his sobs and
laughter, already has cleared his
larynx of the first discharge in what
promises to be the liveliest ear-nose-
and-throat campaign since the Demo-
cratic convention.
Never very kind to those tonsils Of
his, Mr.. Sharkey bids fair to milk
them of a record number of words in
preparation for the fight he will
fight on August 18 with the part-time
bomber from Detroit, Joe Louis.
There is plenty to be said, and no
one has ever accused Mr.. Sharkey
of short-changing the public con-
versationally.
AS soon as the Louis-Sharkey fight
was announced, the bashful sailor
broke into that mournful baying
sound which precedes all his perform
ances and frequently continues during
the performance itself. Through the
lips of his manager and unseVerest
critic, stout Johnno Buckley, the re-
ticent COB proclaimed to all and sun
dry that he was not going to take
any nonsense from the Louis person
n the matter Of surplus bandage for
the ouAes, O. nlitt-.
bui ne naces tor an ArsuIAeal.
..NJO INDEED" SAID Adr. Buckley
in clear tenor voice sur
charged with menace and foreboding,
Louis will not get away with any
thing in regards to bandages. There
is a hard, fast rule in regards to
bandages, and Louis will not use any
more bandages than is permitted un-
der the law. This is final"
To be sure, Mr.. Buckley and Mr.
Sharkey will be deeply disappointed
if it does turn out to be final, because
they would not have brought up the
subject in the first place if they
hadn't expected the other side tc
pick up the ball and keep it rolling
for purposes of advertisement. There
Usually Is more method than madness
II the plaintive croons of Mr.. Sharkey
and Mr.. Buckley. They have croonec
so long and steadily that it's a rare
day when they miss bet or make
the wrong play on a mufled sob.
AS usual, MIR. Sharkey croons a
confident tune about the outcome
of the fight. After giving his tonsils
tentative strum or two-testing fol
sound-he cuts loose as follows:
Il am sure I will win this fight
! was never in better shape. My
weight is under 200 pounds and ]
have been working steady. I am
glad this is 10-rounder, because
it means that I can 60 out there
with the first bell and give this boy
all I've got, which is plenty. and moi
bother about saving myself for Ions
fight.
Il could always whip Schmeling
and here is young man that Schmel-
ing bounced around like ball. II
you compare scores, what does that
make me? 1t makes me a better
fighter than Louis, if nothing else
But I'm not going to stop with Louis
I'm going to come on and win the
title back, because I can also lick
Braddock and Schmeling, in addi-
ton to Louis, over and above, as
we'll"
These remarks, relayed to your cor
respondent in the promotional Offices
Of Uncle Mike Jacobs, are but frag-
ment of the original grafton, which
is said to surpass, in bulk if not in
quality, the most eloquent declama
tions of Demosthenes and Cicero Ii
Is evident that the good squire of
Chestnut Hill is in perfect voice once
more, and Bugle Ann was a broken
down mute compared with the good
squire in perfect voice.
He Talks Good Fight.
RUT the interesting part of Squire
Sharkey'S delivery is not what he
s1ys before fight. It's what he says
in the ring. Plato and Socrates in
their most brilliant flights of @. and
A., never touched so fully and master
fully upon the topics of the day and
the matters ethereal and mundane as
does the honest Mr.. Sharkey in his
scintillating dialogue with the referee
or the judges or his opponent or the
guy in his corner, while the fight is
in progress.
Remember the Dempsey-S -Sharkey
contest? 1t was in the second round
Of that epic tilt that the eloquent
seaman launched out upon one of the
most noble passages of speech in
forensic history. Playing upon his
audience Cthe referee) like an organ,
the speaker struck every note in the
range Of human emotion. He men
toned the turpitude, the fundamental
baseness Of Mr.. Dempsey's character
He cited the chicanery of Mr.. Demp-
sey's assistants. He wrung sobs from
the great assembly with the story OF
his own life from childhood up. the
story of the hardships he had faced
and the obstacles he had overcome
1t was at the climax of this tre-
mendous flight of tragic eloquence
that Mr.. Dempsey, tired of listening
batted Mr.. Sharkey on the chin and
knocked him cold.
Sharkey Not Accused.
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