Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1929, Page 32

S Séarkey Is Slight Favorite to Defeat Loughran in Tomorrow Night's Fig TOP ODDS ON JACK, HOWEVER, ARE 75 Believed His Body Punches Will Beat Tom—Winner to Meet Scott. By the Associated Press, ORK, September 25.— Tommy fi/ Loughran, pride of the Penn- the Boston belter, moved inio New York today for the final outdoor audience to be granted heavy. weights by the Metropolitan fight faith- ful this season. Heavfer than ever before, the former Kking of the light heavyweights eagerly sought the opportunity aof showing his wares against Sharkey. The loquacious tar was equally anxious to get his gloves on the debonair Loughran, whom he freely confesses is one fighter made to his very order. The entire matter wiil be threshed out over the 15-round route W it in the Yankee Stadium. Victory will have more than ordinary significance to both battlers, since Phil Scott, the massive Briton, silenced for the time being at least the sowerful guns of Victorio Campolo. The siage is now set for a three-cornered seriss, ending next Winter on the sandy snores of Miami, between Scot*, Max Schmel- ing and the winner of tomorrow night's rumpus, with the ultimate victor the successor to the retired Gene Tunney as heavyweight champion. Betting odds favor Sharkey to accom- plish the downfall of the Adonis of the Quaker City at a ration of about 6 or 7 to 5. Indications werc that these odds would hold at ringtime. Having watched Loughran box & victorious swathe through the 175-pound division, the experts can't seem to see how the Philadelphian’s light punches are going to stand off the rushes of the heavy- .+ weights who don't hit so often chiefily because they don't have to. ‘These samc experts figure that Sharkey will batter Loughran about the | body in the carly rounds and then fin- ish him when Tommy has lost his speed. Another school of experts thought, however, recalls the fact that the light heavyweights for years have tried to = slow Loughran down with body punches. £ Leo Lomski, the punishing hitter from & Aberdeen, Wash., had Loughran on the ~ floor twice, but the then light heavy- = weight champion got up to dance and box his way to a decision victory. Against the slugger, Jimmy Braddock, - Loughran gave a masterful boxing exhi- bition that amazed the critics and so bewildered Braddock that he scarcely landed a telling blow in a 13-round titular bout. Tales from Harvey's Lake, where Loughran trained, said Tommy had found a punch with the extra pound- age he is carrying these days, but if the Philadelphian’ does otherwise than box with, Sharkey there will be considerable surprise on the fistic Rialto. Jimmy Maloney, Shark:y's Boston rival, will meet Armand Emanusl of California in the 10-round semi-final. Tom Heeney, the New Zealand black- smith, battles Young George Hoffman 53 of New York in the opening 10. Jack | Gagnon, Boston, and Lou Barba, New York, are matched over the six-round route. BY JOHN J. ROMANO. NEW YORK, September 25—Jack Sharkey and Tommy Loughran have packed up their war bags and are ready to step into the ring Thursday evening at Yankee Stadium for the right to make the trip to Miami next Pel ry and participate in another blue ribbon heavyweight classic. Both men trained hard and earnestly for this engagement and while they are chafing under restraint for the bell that will serid them fiying into each. other with padded mittens, their tongues have not been stilled. Not in years has a heavyweight fight been punctured with so many hot exchanges of dire messages between the gladiators. Lough- ran has been the chief offender. If words mean anything, the battle will be over long before the scheduled distance of 15 rounds. Picking the winner is a task that has the smart boys guessing. Not that they are evenly matched. Rather, Sharkey’s long absence from active competition is the reason why the boys hesitate in naming the Bosten gob. Loughran has done well enough against the heavies he has met and done exceptionally well against those who sought to wrest the © 175-pound title from him. But stack- ing up against a man of Sharkey's known caliber is another matter. Sharkey has been at his best against the boxer type, which Loughran is, but has been shoddy or indifferent when he . stacked up against s fighter. On the other hand, the fighters have been easy for Loughran and the clever ones are the ones who gave him the stiffest ar- guments, Loughran has won handily over the tearing-in type and just about i shaded his way to a decision over the clever boys. And the distance favors Loughran. Sharkey has not been called upon to go over 10 rounds since he dropped a de- cision to Johnny Risko on March 12, 1928. How he will fare against a smart boxer like Loughran after the tenth round is a matter of concern to the Bostonian’s adherents. Unless Phila- delphia Tommy takes too many chances ! in the early rounds by slugging with Sharkey in his desire to make good his boast to stop the garrulous gob, Lough- | ran should be stronger going into the closing rounds. His Chief Weapon. Sharkey’s chief weapon will be a steady right to the heart and body of the fast stepping Philadelphian and if the weight Tommy is earrying around the body quivers under the shots of the ¢ Bostonian, then Jack can bz expected ¥ to swish over some healthy right hand- ers to the head. Loughran can be knocked down with a right hand, Geng : Tunney did it, so did Georges Carpen- { ‘tier and Leo Lomski. Sharkey surely mches as hard if not harder than iski and if Sharkey puts Tommy down, one can rest assured ‘that Jack will not rush headlong into trouble and . be outsmarted in his endeavors to put | over a finishing blow. Getting down to brass tacks, the men- tal state of the men will have a de- cided effect on the outcome of the fight. Sharkey is grimly determined whereas Loughran is supremely confident. De- termination is a better state of mind in which to enter' an_important conflict than cocksure confidence, A. A. U. HERE WILL STRIVE TO GET NATIONAL EVENTS Efforts to obtain national Amateur. Athletic Union championship events for this city will be made by delegates of the newly formed District of Co- lumbia Association of the A. A. U. who attend the national convention of the body at St. Louis in November, ac- cording to plans. The nominating committee, which has been named to pick a slate of offf- cers to be elected at a meeting of the District Association October 15 will meet before this week is over. Auto Lite ‘| after the exhibition he put up against young Willlam Stribling in the sylvanians, and Jack Sharkey, | \ PORTS. | | The Gob Is Gabby Again. ND now there impends another heavyweight husking bee which is supposed to have some bearing, more or less, on the heavy- ! weight championship. The next performance will involve Jack | survivor or whatever emerges from it, wili claim the title which Gene Tunney tossed to the jackals when he retired most permanently. Mr. Sharkey, who is heard more frequently than he is seen—and he is not much to Jook at—is reported by the press agent to be highly WITH W. O. McGEEHAN. A Sharkey (Cukoschay) and Thomas Loughran, and the winner, indignant because he is not taken more seriously. As a matter of fact, Battle of What of It at Miami Beach, Mr. Sharkey is very lucky to be permitted to make himself another hundred thousand out of the | caulifiower industry. That bout was the dullest heavyweight fight in the history of-the game since the Wills-Firpo bout at Boyle's Thirty Acres. There is no guaranty that the Sharkey-Loughran thing will not even be duller. The Garrulous Gob, or the Loquacious Lithuanian, chatters a lot more | emphatically than he fights. It was my notion at the time of the | aires hoped that it would be. Other- Battle of What of It that an old-time | wise the press agent would not be in- referee would have tossed both Sharkey and Stribling from the ring. Perhaps one of the modern referees would have done the same thing if he were not awed by boxing commissions and pro- moters. For the protection of the cus- tomers the local boxing commission might authorize the referee of the im- pending fight, or what is it, to toss the boys out if it should become apparent that they were mnot endgavoring carnestly. ‘The press agent also quotes Mr, Sharkey as saying that he has fallen in love with fighting once again. It that is true it is a case of first love with the Garrulous Gob. I cannot recall any ocasion where Mr. Sharkey seemed hopelessly infatuated with the manly art of modified murder. As a matter of fact, I recall very few of the gladiators of modern times who fought for the pure joy of fighting. There have been one or two, but they are now engaged in the unprofitable and unspectacular occupation of cutting surroundings. A popular illusion in this regard was shattered by Battling Nelson, some | time after he had quit the prize ring. During the humid days that preceded the Dempsey-Willard bout at Toledo | Battling Nelson used to sit on the front steps of the Hotel Secor brooding. One day one of the younger set of fight experts started to get confi- dential with the old “Durable Dane.” ‘To Nelson he said, “Well, Bat, you must have loved to fight, and how you could take it. Those never bothered “Like to fight parently amazed. “You think those punches never bothered me? You must think that I was a damned fool all my life. Let me tell you that I felt every one of them just as much as you would. 1 am not half as crazy as I might seem.” So when a professional prize fighter talks about being infatuated with his game he is either half-witted or is talk- ing for the sake of listening to his own conversation. I do not think that Sharkey (Cukoschay) is half-witted From the financial arrangements he has been able to make he is at least out paper dolls in pleasant but solitary | sisting that this is to be a grudge fight and intimating that the two gladiators hold such an intense hatred for each other that they hardly can wait until they get into the ring to start the punches swinging from the floor. Paradoxical as it may seem, when two prize fighters really are angry ai | each” other they do not fight. There was the celebrated casé of our own Benny Leonard and Lew Tendler, the southpaw heavy-lightweight of Phila- delphia. It seemed that these two young men had a business quarrel which roused an enmity on the part of Mr. Leonard for the Philadelphian. Now if two laymen felt toward cach other as bitterly as Mr. Leonard and Mr. Tendler, the natural and obvious thing to do would be for the gentlemen to peel off their coats and g0 to it with the earnestness of am: teurs. But the prize ring is som thing else again. Mr. Leonard was asked, “If you feel | chat sore against Tendler, why do you | | not sign up with him? You will haye | | the pleasure not only of beating Mr. | Tendler up, but of collecting something | | like $200,000 for doing so. It really | i does look like an ideal opportunity to | combine business with pleasure.” “What?” demanded Mr. Leonard, looking at his interrogator with amused | contempt, “and let that egg get all th; | | | | fourth he took two counts. The first, HUDKINS IS READY: T0 FIGHT WALAER Ace, Who Stops Anderson in Sixth, Looks to Welter Title Contest. By the Associated Press, OS ANGELES, September 25.— Ace Hudkids, the Nebraska wildcat, stepped to the front in middleweight - fistiana today, ready to sign a contract for a shot @t Mickey Walker's erown here October 20. He won the right to meet Walker by knocking out some of Joe Anderson’s bridgework in the sixth round of their elimination bout last night. ‘The wildcat ‘ber:d fithteflxenmc!k!i alloper groggy in the first five roun gr their scheduled 10-round bout, and loosed a right-hand thunderbolt to Anderson's face in the sixth. The blow uprooted couple of molars, and the referee called it a technical knockout. Hudkins' came to terms suitable to Jack Kearns, Walker's manager, last week, but the contract was turned down on the grounds that the Nebras- kan still faced Anderson, who had won a decision over him a year ago. Kearns, insisted that he floor the Kentuckian to lay a legitimate claim to the con- tender's corner. If Hudkins did- that, he said, Walker's signature was g anteed. Ace did as instructed, he tore into Anderson’s midscction in the first round and worked up. By the third stanza the Kentuckian slowed down. In the resulting from a solar plexus jab, ran to eight and the second from a solid one on the chin, went one more. ‘The sixth round was brief. Hudkins jarred a short right to Anderson’s jaw, and the latter swung on the ropes. He did not rebound, and the referee raised Hudkins' hand. money for fighting me? Use your bean. Eventually Leonard and Tendler dldi mcet twice for something like $700,000, | but it was not until full amends had ' been made and they were on quite friendly terms again. There are no | ring that he can prevent him from being too gabby. Mr. Sharkey's alleged enmity toward | Mr. Loughran is supposed to be caused by the fact that too much emphasis has ap- | grudge fights in the ring. It's a busi- ;b:m placed on the fact that Mr. Lough- ness. ran is a very nice young man. Some of RO the boys are saying that Mr. Sharke; No Basis for a Quarrel. |15 aembeted: with yln.inlerlorlty eompmz T is very difficult to see how or why as well as a weak abdomen, and that .Mr. Sharkey (Cukoschay) and Mr. this affects the complex—not the ab- Loughran should quarrel. Their meet- | domen. Gladiators are in a way busi- ing will be mutually very profitable. |ness partners, and that understanding While the impending bout is not a is growing stronger with the increase heavyweight championship in any sense | of gate receipts. of the word, it might be said to be| If Mr. Sharkey's fight with Mr. staged in lieu of a heavyweight cham- | Loughran is as gentlemanly and as plonship bout. Personally, I do not | financially satisfactory as the bout he| think that it will be much; but it is the | had with Mr. Stribling at Miami Beach, only fight we are having this year.” ‘The alleged reason for Mr. Lough- ran’s very much alleged anger at Mr. Sharkey (Cukoschay) is that Mr. Sharkey is too gabby. But, then, Mr. Loughran does not have to listen to him, 2nd if he objects to the Sharkey brand of conversation, he can en- deavor to keep him so busy in the three-quarters-witted. This is about | average for the average prize fighters. If the fighters were whole-witted it would be sad for the prize fight man- agers. The Friendly Fighters. T is evident that the advance sale is not what the Six Hundred Millian- | there is no reason why they should not become life-long friends. Perhaps the only fighter who is really sore at Mr. Sharkey (Cukoschay) is the original Sharkey-—Thomas, also of the Navy. If Mr. Sharkey were what he used to be, he ‘probably would move in this direc- | tion and make Mr. Cukoschay and other THE SPO BY GRANTLAND RICE. The Next Big Fight. HE next official party to be thrown in behalf of Tommy Loughran and Jack Sharkey may decide one of three things, the final answer b2ing up to the fighters. It may decjde that Loughran is well in the lead when it comes to naming a successor to Gene Tunney. - It may decide the same thing for Sharkey. It may decide that ncither is to be considered when it comes to the matter of placing a crown at some future date upon the clammy brow of the next champion. Both Loughran and Sharkey should dispsl the idea that the winner, no matter what else happens, will be the pick of the fleld. Sharkey was a higher choice before he won from Stribling than he was after he had won from Stribling. That was®a fight that set both the winner and the loser back, as far as any championship dream was concerned. It is just as well to hammer in the fact that it will be quite important how the winner wins, as well as who the winner is. So far as ring history goes this agcasion Js a trifle too im- portant in $he way of helping to name a new champion to let either man slidz by with a close decision THE EVEN N.G STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEE_'-‘TEMBER 25, 1929, I l mental attitude. He either cares a Jot or he doesn't care at all. John McGraw used to say-that Tillie| Shafer could be as great a ball player, or as bad a ball player as he wanted to be. key can be as great a fighter or as poor a fighter as he wants to b2' on the night in queston. He might have been the man picked to meet| ‘Tunney in Chicago. He might have | been the man picked to meet Tunney| in New York. He has blown two of the biggest chances any fighter has ever known. Whether he will blow a third is anybody’s guess, and yours will stand up | with any of the experts, for no one can excavate into mental moods and d'g up an answer, | Any one can dig up a guess, but a| guess isn't always an answer, which| any one who plays the races or roulette will tell you. There is quite g differ- ence here and there when the time comes to pay off. Conference Chatter. Dear Sir: Recent incidepts in the Western Conference make it probable that some time soon the B pass & non-transfer rule similar to that of Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Trans- fer athletes usually cause an under- current of gossip that is not healthy for, any school, and, regardless of their abil- ity, are not worth the price. Such a RTLIGHT plucked from a dull fight. Both have the stuff to put on a big show if they will only take a few of the chances Dempsey used to take—say about 20 per cent of the chances Dempsey us=d to take. If both refuse to tak: any such turn at chance there can be little real ac- tion, since both know too much to be annoyed to any great extent in a play- | it-safe evening. They are two of the best boxers in the game and Loughran | is the better boxer of the two. These two have enough to put on & whale of a show if they will put on the full act and make an attempt to prove some- thing much more conclusive than most | of the heavyweight fights have been. Loughran’s Claim. MMY LOUGHRAN, one of the best boxers the game has known in many years, has always claimed that he was handicapped by too much weight making to take any chance at harder hitting. | He has his chancs now to show what | he can do when it comes to a matter of harder hitting. Loughran is smart and all loaded up with sclentific skill. He is game enough and he has all the experience any one nceds. But he can't tap his way to the top. He ought to be a first-class puncher when you consider his build. He has all the mus- cular development a good puncher nesds. As for Sharkey—well, the Sharkey who fought Wills, Maloney and Dempsey is so far apart from the Sharkey who fought Heeney, Risko and Stribling that no one can tell about him. Two years ago he looked 10 be a sure bet. It all d=pends upon his mood for the night. For example, golf is supposed to be a game depending upon one’s mental attitude for the round. With =) y_every fight is a ter of | Harrisen Radiaters and Ceres in Stock Wittstatts, 1809 14th. North 7177 loquacious Lithuanians climb trees. Alse 319 13th. % Block Below Ave. 15 U 31st of August. coats as the one is being continued. These special sui gratis. All garments hand pressed. Official Sgrvl'ce ». CREEL BROS. 1811 14th St. N.W, Decatur 4220 0000000000000 00000 Requests from so many of our old customers, still away on vaca n during the remainder of this month has prevailed upon us contrary to previous plans and arrangements. 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F.—The impending wotld series is an even-money proposition if there Was ever an even-money proposition in sport, F. T. L—Shanking in golf is largely a matter of mental tension. So are most other golfing faults. If you are heeling | or slicing, use your hands and wrists to swing the club head for a while and for- get everything else. You won't think if you use both hands to throw the club head through the ball. Ten will [~ STOR TS. ht Loughran Has No Doubts BY TOMMY LOUGHRAN, Reitred u-fiz-ne-vy-nrm Champlon of the World. HARVEY'S LAKE, Pa, September 25— have reached the finest form of my life for my fight with Jack Sharkey. After the last workout I stepped ‘on the scales and touched 185 pounds. ‘That means I will weigh about that, perhaps a pound or so more, when I step into the ring against Bharkey. That should cenvince every one what & desperate time I had get- ting down to 173 for Braddock. Now, at 185 or 186, I am as physi- cally perfect as can be. That poundage s enough for: any-man. Dempsey knocked out Willard and Tunney whipped Dempsey at a shade under what I scale now, so I feel that though Sharkey will-have perhaps an edge of 10 pounds, it really is no great advantage. I'm going to win. There isn't any question about that in my mind. (Copyright. 1929. by North American Newspaper Alliance.) EQUINOX IS FIRST HOME About Dclefitin' Sharkey IN 200-MILE BIRD RACE |} {PARKER BIRD FIRST; WIND MARS CONTEST Stff winds and - cloudy weather marred & race for young pigeons held by the Washington ing Pigeon As- | sociation from Roanoke to Washington. The first return was to.tne loft of Clar- ence I Parker. With 37 lofts represent- ed, 438 pigeons ‘were released at 6:45 ;2;1’ :.nhz w{nnirhewu clocked lh 122, lowing is average speed per minute in yards of the first return of each loft: JUnfavorable *weather handicapped | birds competing in the 200-mile D. 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