The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-23


 Pairing EhAFkey with Louis is e step backward. Why dig up the sfopworu sailor when there are young fellows like Al Ettore, Leroy Haynes, Andre Lenglet, and John Henry Lewis lying around handy2 Why not make Louis tackle one of those who came up with him?
 Record books show that Sharkey will be 34 years of age in October, and many who know him quite well suspect that he is considerably older. The gob couldn't wrap three punches together with baling wire when he laid down and played dead when he was alleged to have been struck by Primo Carnera's push punch iil the sixth round in 1888.
 It is Q sure gamble that oil of the tears will not be spilled by Sharkey in Yankee Stadium, Aug. 18. The customers are likely to get sentimental with remiorse after plunking down cash to witness one of boxing's outstanding T1ismatches of the century. G
 World Champion Optimlst
 Jacobs says that the savage battle will gross more than e300,000, which qualities the 18th Street ducat deal- CT as the world champion optimist.
 sharkey never was satisfactory performer even in his heyday. For a fellow who turned in one languid exhibition after another, the squire of Chestnut Hill has done remark ably well in New York, which IS something in the way of additional proof that the big burg produces more suckers than P. T. Barnurfl. ever dreamed of. Sharkey generally not only left much to be desired in the ring but unfavorable after maths as well. In Q good share ot his starts, he either yelled foul or {ouled out himself.
 The Louis appointment will be Sharkey,s fifth In most unimpres- sive comeback campaign. It is likely to be his last. One more good chunk of dough Is oil the old Beail- town crying man has been angling for and 1t looks as though he's hooked his quarry with the Louis shot. H
 sharkey threw kisses at the crowd tho night Camera ironed him out with that phantom uppercut. The promoters should have taken the biuajacket ct his word and per- mitted him to remain behind his Boston bar.
 There is so little excuse for pair i'm 9harkey with Louis that the more suspicious wonder if, after all, 1t as true what they whisper about Che promoters or someone owing the leering Lithuanian something and paying the debt after three. long years. The patrons managed to struggle along without sharkey in the interim, by the way
 
 sharkey No Test for Louis
 Louis may require little help In his next start, although hardly as much as Sharkey can be counted uuon to give him the first time the former champion is hit solidly..-
 I hear that Smoky Joe, badly dis- couraged by his knockout by Max echmeling, hasn't been responding to the curfew as promptly as he once did.
 John Peterborough, his manager, makes no secret of the fact that Louis was beginning to acquire a slightly inflated craniunn prior to pumping into schmeling's jarring right hand.
 Maybe the knockout by schmel- ing was all for the best" says Rox- borough. "Joe reached Q point where he was giving orders instead of tak- ing them. He got so that he ntted his work to his moods"
 Max Baer would be vastly more suitable as anopponent for Louis than sharkey. And how does Jacobs and the Hearst newspapers prize