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Show Ufah Mauler Plans Comeback j But Only As Fight Promoter i a lot lately, while Sharkey sat still and yapped for another chance at Schemling, or even at me. "Yes, I'll be promoting fights, or managing some good heavyweight , one of these days. But not until the game does some housecleaning. They're all fighting plenty among i themselves, and not enough in the ring. There have been more pro- ! moters than there were fighters, which is why a lot of poor matches were put on. I "But the slump gave boxing a; lesson that it needed. It brought down admission prices, along with box-office receipts and purses, and proved to the fighters that until they are willing to put on good : shows the fans are perfectly willing will-ing to go to the movies," i liy I A II I HAKKISON ; NEW YORK, Jan. 27. NEA) , ' Jack Dempsey, surveying the box-1 box-1 iiitf industry with a somewhat wist-l'ul wist-l'ul eye, finds that conditions in " general again are on the up and up. J'.ut still not far enough up to lure 1 him into taking a flyer at the business, busi-ness, either as promoter, manager or performer. As a referee, yes,, but that's only to keep him in touch with things until there is another i hull market in preferred and com-i com-i nion socks. . The epidemic of fouls, the rack eteering, the ceaseless squabbling 1 and the general unsavory character of the prize-fight depression in 1930 admittedly left the old Manassa I Mauler in a pretty low frame of ! mind about the sport he loves. But ! ihe portents are distinctly encour-uging encour-uging now, he says, even in his : j heavyweight division, from which a I champion is- fairly certain to ! -merge when Messrs. Schmeling ' and Stribling meet in June. "The fight game Is Just-like any other business," averred Dempsey. y "When it gets a real champion, or ;i real leader, it will go right along. ' So it seems to me that the heavyweight heavy-weight hope hangs on Young Strib- ,' ling, for if he beats Schmeling he'll lie a renl champion. f Hates Striblinr Highest "What we neeu is a cliamplon in popularity as well as in the ring,: , , The fans are sick of Sharkey and I his failures to deliver the goods. ! Few of them will give. Schmeling j credit for being a first-class fighting fight-ing man, though I think he and Sharkey rate about even under the j Georgian. Camera, as far as the : customers are concerned, is still a 1 1 freak, a foreigner, and a specialist ; ' in set-ups. "That leaves Stribling. He's the only American fighter who amounts ; to anything, and if he wins he will i 1 be the most popular champion in years.. He's a clean kid who knows that a fighter has to sacrifice himself him-self and go out of his way to make people like him. "Stribling hasn't had much of a i chance to make himself popular. The people connected with him have wanted to get all the dough ' they could, naturally enough. He lias been a hard-luck scrapper, too. He was sick at the Sharkey fight, and had a bad hand against Tuffy' Griffiths. But Stribling himself 1 never alibis, and the fans will go for a guy like that."' ' Cites His Willingness v Dempsey rates Stribling at the top of the heap as a fighter, too. ; This is not because of Dempsey's ; bitter feud with Sharkey, nor of j what he thinks the Georgian is capable cap-able of doing. It is based on Strib-ling's Strib-ling's performance, thus: "It was two years ago that Strib fought Sharkey and lost by a nar- ) row margin. When Sharkey fought Scott, he wasn't doing any too well ( for himself when it ended in a foul. The match with Schmeling, his only other fight in 1930, also ended in a! foul. i "Stribling, though, has " tCO'd Scott in four rounds. Von Porat in one round, and beaten Griffiths. Better than that, he's been fighting |