Show Speaking of 0 Sports Snorts Loses Most Colorful Of Promoters By ROBERT McSHANE l Released Rde by Western Newspaper Union THE THE T HE most strident voice of box- box boxA boxing boxing A ing was stilled recently Just as asIt asit asit It was warming up to one of its greatest efforts In behalf of the Tony Max Galento-Max Bacr Baer fight The voice belonged to Joe Jacobs fight Impresario who talked Max 1 Into the worlds world's heavy heavy- heavyweight heavyweight weight championship and himself into a colorful Important position in the boxing game The extremely voluble little man man- manager manger manager ager ger a well known figure among Broadway sporting circles died at nt atthe atthe the age of 44 victim of a heart at at- tack Jacobs Inaugurated his ring ca ca- career career career reer at a tender age The son of a tailor he be came from tough Hells Hell's Kitchen on New Yorks York's West Nest Side He wanted to be a fighter but soon learned the futility of absorbing punishment pun pun- punishment punishment when one might Just as well get ct paid for lor shouting advice In Intact tact it was said he actually had lighters fighters on his pay roll before he be begot I got out of high school ussel y the Muscle Known as the Muscle Jacobs collected first by himself then served as Tex To RIckard's right right- hand liand man During the years he turned up as guardian of such fight fight- fighters fighters ers rs as Andre featherweight champion FrankIe Fr ankle Genuo Genaro fly fly- flyweight flyweight weight champion Johnny Dundee featherweight king Mike light heavyweight titleholder and a aLost Lost host of others Though his fighters brought him both cash and glory Jacobs' Jacobs chief claim to fame tame was his unequalled ability to think fast and play all the angles In a racket full fuU of connly- connly conniving connivIng ing geniuses Jacobs more than held Ills his own He was a n sharper among The most fantastic single phase of hIs career was In shouting lag ing Into the heavyweight champion champion- r J JI I 4 1 jh CY TONY rO Y GALENTO and JOE JACOBS ship In June Junc 1930 Jacobs reached the zenith of his career and Jack Sharkey were meeting to decide the championship vacated by Gene Tunney First the Muscle set up a pre- pre light fight cry about the nine times Sharkey Shark- Shark cy ey had won by fouls or had claimed fouls The Victory In the first three rounds of the fight light Sharkey seemed to have the situation well in hand But in the fourth round Sharkey cut loose with one ne blow quickly followed by an uppercut uppercut- The German went down holding folding his groin Referee Jim was getting ready to count when Jacobs with the Inevitable cigar In his mouth crawled through the ropes and screamed Slay Sta Slay down Foul You fouled obeyed his masters master's voice 0 Ice and thus became the first heavyweight to win the title while Testing resting on his back Perhaps his most masterful job was done with Tony Galento the Orange N. N J. J saloonkeeper Jacobs prodded Galento a n roly poly catch- catch catch can brawler Into the status of a l rowdy and heavyweight threat Galento was one of Jacobs' Jacobs favo- favo favorites rites The boisterous swaggering barkeep was a n natural for the Muscles ballyhoo talents Tony was vas considered a washed washed-up fourth rater but under und r Jacobs' Jacobs guiding hand he fought his way Into a title bout with Joe Louis Galento lost the fight but startled the boxing world with his showing Because of his managers manager's death the blubbery Galento insisted on postponing his fight with Baer Bacr from May 28 to July 2 2 Without his man man- manager manager ager he was wa lost We Robbed Two years after won the he championship he was matched again with Sharkey When Sharkey was awarded a round 15 decision in inthe inthe the return bout Jacobs achieved some sort of immortality by clam clam- clambering boring bering Into the ring and bellowing We robbed The statement became a n definite part of phraseology Then too there was his classic remark which he is sup sup- supposed supposed posed to have made when attending a ball game on a chilly day We I should have stood In bed |