The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-17
LOUIS } TO 1 TO
 BEAT SHARKEY
 TUESDAY NIGHT
Crowd Payinw $2OO, 900 Will Be on Hand to
 Watch Bomber
By GEORGE KIRKsEY
United Press Star CorrespOdcr


 New York, Aug. l7. UP)--In the same ring where Max Schmeling exploded the Short-liVed myth that Joe Louis was boxing's "Buperman," the Brown Bomber hits the come- back trail tomorrow night against Jack sharkey.
 Before Schmeling proved Louis . sucker for right to the jaw, June I0, c match between Louis and Sharkey would have been laughed out of any fight club in the coun. try. Even with Louis Achilles ten. don located by schmeling, it is per- plexing aS to why any boxing com mission would sanction a bout be- tween 22.year-old Louis and g. year-old sharkey.
 Yet 10000 persons win pay more than 4200,000 to see the i0.round heavyweight bout in Yankee Sta- diun. Louis is still the drawing card.
 This time Louis mentors really picked q "washed-up" cX-champion to restore the Brown Bomber's con. fidencc and prestige. sharkey talks great fight and iS capitalizing on his two encounters with Schmeling to draw Q rosy comparison.
 The garrulous Cob fouled out once to the German and won q questionable decision the other time.
 The betting odds reflect the true line on the fight--LouiS iS favored at from 1895 to 3-l. Sharkey, ap- preaching 34, hasn't put up Q really good fight in Ave years, not since the night he gave Primo Camera q good shellacking at EbbeB field before he was champion.
 His record from l03i Up to now, including a 2 i-2 year layoh, shows 9 bouts, and only three victories-a questionable decision over Schmel- ing, q double" knockout of un- known Winston, who was accused Of taking q "diVe" by the customers and made to submit to a second K. o. to prove the first authentic, and 6 l0-round decision over Phil Brubaker. He lost to Tony shucco, King Levinsky and Tommy Lough- ran, who was knocked out by Camera Invisible" punch, and drew with Mickey Walker and shuc- co. Hardly @ record to justify sharkcy ever fighting again, much less meeting Louis.
 Sharkey apparently has trained honestly and is in as good condition as a 33-year-old fighter who has a $i00000 home in Chestnut Hill, Mass, Q Boston tavern with a bar I60 feet long. A trust fund in Six figures, can get after a ? 1-2 year layoff. The cx-sailor, who was at his peak 10 years ago, didn't get the idea that he could whip Louis until he saw Schmeling do 1t.
 If Sharkey should regain the fighting edge he exhibited in the first two rounds against Jack Demp! sey in 1927 and win, he will stamp Joe Louis as the most over-rated fighter that ever lived and turn the heavyweight division into para disc for doddering old men. Then the three top heavyweights, Brad dock, Schmeling and Sharkey, all would be 30 or over.
 Jack Johnson, Louis severest critic who forecast the Schmeling triumph, says the Brown Bomber is bad, but not bad enough to lose to Sharkey. Johnson says that if @ Sharkey victory should come to pass he will apply for a license to enter the ring again.
 Apparently cured of his two big faults, carelessness and over-con- fidence, Louis has gone through Q hard training session from which the public was barred. Newspaper men found Louis less impressive than before the Schmeling setback, but saw in him a vastly improved defensive fighter.