Evening star., 1937-09-27
Kearns Canny Picking Spots for Adamicl
WISE IN STUNNING
JACOBS TOURNEY
Promoter-PiIot Dodging
Experienced Vets Since
RosenbIoom Setback.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

Jimmy Adamlck took a plunge
" into the seasoned top flight
ranks by tackling Make
Rosenbloom last week and came of
second best. The jaw-blasting young
heavyweight whom Jack Kearns con-
siders a better prospect than Jack
Dempsey at the same stage of his
career had the satisfaction of putting
Rosenbloom down for the count But
Make, ringworn and weary with slap
ping and cutting, had too many ring
perienced rival.
Adamick is one of the nominees in
the heavyweight tournament Mike
Jacobs intends to stage this Winter
The winner of the hopeful stakes"
has been promised the winner of the
Joe Louis-Max Schmeling contest in
September. The field comprises Bob
Pastor, Alberto Lowell, Roscoe Toles.
Arturo Godoy, Tony Galento. Tommy
Farr and Nathan Mann. Jim Brad
dock and Max Baer, While not
youngsters by any means, also were
nominated and signed to fight each
other. but Braddock's attack of sinus
trouble may spell the end of his fight
ing days
Kearns Cashes Two Ways.
JACK KEARNS has not signified
his intention of permitting his
youngster to enter the round-robin.
The designation pleased him in that
national recognition was accorded
him as being good enough to rate the
approval of the big promoter. Kearns
Is q hard-headed business man and
realizes he has the best drawing card
In the State OF Michigan. This was
proved when $50 1000 was checked in
at the door for the Adamick- -Rosen-
bloom boxing lesson. Kearns cashes
in both ways since he also is the
promoter
Risking his prize against more ex-
perienced men is not Kearns' way
OF making money in quick fashion.
A defeat at this time would impair
Adamick's drawing power and. should
1t be a decisive affair, might well
tend to work hob with his morale
and cause him to question the in
vincibility of his punch. Adamick
boasts something like 80 knockouts.
Checking over the names of his VIC
tins there are seen indications of the
same tactics employed when Jack
Dempsey's name was flashing over
the fstic horizon as a potential can
didate for heavyweight championship
honors The feats of Bill Bonner,
Eddie Slake, Johnny Vorte, Johnny
Alberts, etc, are not set down in any
record books. For this reason Ada
mick did not earn ranking as being
good enough to class with the first
10 in the heavyweight class by the
National Boxing Association at its
recent convention.
Kearns Learned With Dempsey.
L EARNS travelled the hard way with
Jack Dempsey. The size OF the
town or the name Of the opponents
selected for the embryo heavyweight
champion did not mean a thing to
the struggling pair. When the Fourth
of July dawned in 1919 and Demp-
sey celebrated by exploding series
of left hooks against Jess Wlllard's
Jaw, the start of several million dol
lar purses commenced. Since then,
Kearns tried with Doughty Mickey
Walker, Al Fay. Napoleon Jack Dor
val and not so long ago with Lorenzo
Pack.
Walker did his mightiest against
Jack Sharkey and was rewarded with
a draw for his superhuman efforts.
Against Max Schmeling, the Toy Bull
dog found he was stacked up against
q much heavier and harder hitting
foe. Walker went out in a blaze OF
glory, but was never the same fighter
after that Fay and Dorval were
handicapped with bad hands and
failed to pay expenses. Pack made
q slovenly showing at Madison Square
Garden and was turned loose to see
what he could do with different
manager.
NOV Kearns finds himself with
Jimmy Adamick and, to listen to
the professor of sociology tell about
the midland scrapper, the latter has
all the attributes of the bunch rolled
In one. Any failings, and Kearns ad-
mits Adamick has them, can be put
down to lack of experience and over
anxiety to put over the finishing blow.
The latter fault accounts for some
fights which lasted more than Kearns
figured they should. When Adamick
gets over these faults, he will be sent
against a few more seasoned scrap
pers like Rosenbloom and emerge the
better for the experience.
Mike Jacobs may be counting on
Jimmy Adamick, but Jack Kearns has
his own ideas about his fighter and
knowing Jacks method of handp;ck-
ing the opponents of his fighters, it is
q cinch handsome Jack will not send
Adamick into ring unless he is 100
per cent certain his bomber can trump
the winning trick with one of his pull
verizing rights. That's the kind of a
manager Kearns is and he does not
deny 1t. His ideas are the only kind
which pay dividends.