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Macon, Ga., Jan. 4UP—En route to Miami, Florida to talk it over with Tex Rickard, Jack Dempeey is issulng & one man consesus of the heavyweight situation, and as inter- preted by his interviewers along the line, it runs something- like this: “The winner of the Stribling- Sharkey fight at Miami Beach Feb- ruary 27, will be the next champion of the world. “I am wiling to meet the winner | of the Stribling-Sharkey fight, but | 1 will have no announcements to make until I see Rickard. “I'm not sure yet that I want to box again. “I will not referee Beach fight. “I believe George Godfrey, the negro, is the best among the crop of heavyweights just at present.” These contributions to fight bally- hoo left the scribes in cities through which the former champion has passed in the last 24 hours dazed, | and somewhat groggy. The gong will ring on the next round of the seribbler’s battle with Dempsey at | Miami Beach tonight and it appears | that Dempsey's mighty right has been bolstered with rhetoric that will car- | ry a knockout punch. His last official contribution was made last night when he passed through Macon. Young Stribling, back from Kansas City and a New Year's day bout, had just arrived | and was at the station when the| Dixie Flyer came through with Dempsey aboard. “Hi, Strib,” was Dempsey's greet- ing to the young Georgian, who he | has never seen in action. Dempsey said he was in a hurry to each Miami, where Rickard is i1l after an appendicitis operation, and Young Stribling, a licensed pilot, of- fered to fly him down. “No, I'd better go on,” Jack re- plied, ‘but I would have been glad | to have remained over with you for a while if Rickard had not been ill. | Thanks for your offer and for com- | ing down to the train.” “Sharkey's a good fighter,” Demp- sey told sports writers who asked his | opinion as to the Miami Beach fight, | “but I haven't seeh Stribling work. 1/ understand, however, that he has got | a powerful sock In that right hand | now, and has improved a lot in many | the Miami | | \ | While In Atlanta Dempsey said he | had just received a telegram saying Rickard was improving after his operation. At Nashville earlier still trip down from Detroit, on the | Dempsey | was quoted by newspapermen as say- | ing he thought Godfrey was the best | heayweight just now, and that he would meet the winner of the Strib- ling-Sharkey fight, or at least that he was “willing to do so.” SHARKEY WAY BE T VONG A Title Holders Have Always Re-| ained Their Own Gognomens ew York, Jan. 4 (P—Perhaps it's a bit late to bring the matter | up, but if there is anything in ring precedent Jack Bharkey, the silent sailor man from Boston, never can win the heavyweight championship Gene Tunney renounced. He bas the wrong name. Many yeurs shouldered from Binghamton, N. Y., to join the navy and see the world. He report- ed to enlisting headquarters with a handle that read something like Paul Cuckoschay. S8omething had to be done about it, especially when the big youngster turned out to be quite & fighter aboard ship. There was no Joe Humphries among the navy announcers, 80 Paul Cuckoschay, following along the trail of Tom Sharkey, an- ago the broad- from the time of the great Jim Figg in 1719 down to James Jessph Tunney, Gene, there never has been a title- holder who failed to fight under his own name. That, if nothing else, gives young Willlam Stribling, fighting under the family name, a alight advantage over the Boston broadcaster in the battle at Miami Beach, Fla., Febru- ary 27. It means that S8harkey, it successful in his first engagement, still must face an additional hurd to Jack Dempsey's left heok if he opposes the famous son of the Sait Lake Dempseys in the final round for the title. It is the exception, rather than the rule today, for heavyweights to adopt ring names, although many of the favorites in the smaller divisions pattern their ring titles after those of more famous predecessors, Or adopt outright more nommes de guerre than their own names. When boxing was in its infancy, and the game was a sport rather than & business, the ancients were proud to be known as mighty men, capable of whipping with bare fists the best in the neighborhood. There was little to be gained then but fame. build up big “gates” and lure the from under the noses of police into the huge arenas of today. The coming of big gates and big- ger business made it important that | the star attractions be labelled in a fitting manner. It was necessary that boxers' names boast an appeal that registered at the box office and us the “Tigers,” *Battlers” and {ids” came into the business. Strangely enough, the two boxers who failed most miserably in quest of the Tunney engagement dangled before the heavyweight division by Rickard = last winter carried syn- nicknamed | cuphonious | There were no Rickards to | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY {, 1929, thetis ring names. They were Shar. key and Jack Delaney, the French- dian who was christened Ovi Chapdelaine. The trio that elimi- nated them consisted of Johnny Risko, Tom Heeney and Paulino Usacudun, all bearing their original name plates. If there was any ill omen attach- ¢d to Delaney in the remaining pro- cess it was accidental. Jack stepped into the ring for one of his first | fights under his own name, but the announcer, stumbling through the syllabies, made “Chapdelaine” sound #0 much like “Jack Delaney” that it stuck. ENGLAND MUST SPURT | T0 WIN CRICKET TEST | Team Neods Total of 332 Runs to | Overcome Lead Set by v Austrelian Crew. Melbourne, Australia, Jan. ¢ UP— England must make 332 runs to win the third cricket test match from Australia. The Antipodean innings were concluded here this morning for 351 runs. They had | scored 397 in the first innings. Eng- | land scored 417. Rain {211 before play was due to start today and when J. S. Ryder and A, P. F. Chapman, the Aus- | = ¥ tralian and English captains re- {spectively, could not agree whether | the wicket was fit to be played on, {the umpires ordered the game re- | {sumed. Only four runs were added | to the Australian total of yesterday. | R. Oxenham, not out 39, was bowl- | his score. C. Grinnett, the other no* out, scored the four runs before J. | Blackle, the last man in, also feil |a victim to White's bowling. England’s opening pair, J. Hobbs {and H. Butcliffe, had just started |England’s second inning when |lunch was taken. A crowd of 50,000 (was present. Radio may be supplied through {headphones to passengers on the | Hungarizn state railways in the near |future. A train fitted with phoncs to every seat'is being tested. READ HERALD CLAS DRESSES A special event! Our fash- ion experts have eombed the Wholesale Market for super - quality . . . supere fashion . .. at a super-price! These dresses for sports, business or afternoon represent the greatest value this peice can buy. 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