Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-15 | Page 15 | Jack Sharkey is Fit; Confident for Victory

Jack Sharkey Is Fit Confident of Victory Just Suicide If Boxes Says Bashful Title Challenger N. N Y June 15 JP Jack Sharkey fresh from his shower and rubdown lolled about the dining room in his training camp quarters resplendent in soft sort browns waiting for or the dinner bell He was calm and contended He is bigger jigger stronger than ever and he had just outclassed Joe in a boxing box box- in ing ng and punching match the best drill of all nfl his training for the fifteen round heavyweight title match with 1 Max on Long Island next Tuesday night HAS liAS MORE EVEN TEMPER His weight now around pounds was vas responding readily to treatment He ic is hitting harder than ever before in n seven tumultuous years as a heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight contender There was a calm and ease about him an evenness o of temper that he usually had left far behind at this stage of past training campaigns I 1 see sec he said by way of opening the he discussion that the Dutchman has changed his style of fighting He Hc doesn't bob and weave any more He stands up straight and comes in jabb jab jab- b bing n Is that so so That was admittedly so Then why demanded Sharkey if it the Dutchman was going to come on and beat me mc with his old style as some people seem to think he would have lave done two years ago has he decided de dc- dc to change Ill tell you ou tool took an awful licking for four rounds until he le won our first fight on a foul He wasn't going to to- come on and win lat Jato ater at- at er era He was going to take a bigger beating the farther the fight went And he knows that So hes he's changed his style and hes he's a boxer now The other way wouldn't do Anything is an improvement Well let me tell you something Hes He's just suicide that's all Every time he be straightened up and tried to box me two years ago I nailed him Wm easily with left hooks and right crosses HEAVY DEMONSTRATION Sharkey started to demonstrate all this his and his fists backed back by the ten pounds of muscle he has added to his shoulders since his first tussle with stung even when he laid aid them hem gently on you See that left hook still doesn't know how to stop it See Sec that hat right If 11 sparring partners can canhit canhit hit lit him with rights Ill I'll kill him The dinner bell rang before anything any any- thing hing else could happen to and Sharkey marched off to his vie vie- He plans to box every day with perhaps a rest on Thursday until Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- when he will wind up train train- ng mg ing