Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-11 | Page 12 | Training Camps Are Paradise for Resourceful News Hounds

Training Camps Are Paradise For Resourceful News Hounds j Fight ight Quarters Attract Many lUany Queer Characters Life Swirls With Comedy and Tragedy By Dy PAUL GALLICO NEW YORK April 11 I I have never considered training camps of prizefighters as as' as asne ne news nes s sources but for features and color stuff they are veritable gold mines Nobody ever seems to find tind anything out In trainIng training train train- ing lag camps Nobody ever er seems teems to come away with a 8 clear and accurate of the true condition of or the man who Is training I f have been to nearly every trainIng trainS train Ing camp of importance in La the last ten years beginning with Dempsey's camp in Saratoga when he was training train ing tog for Luis Firpo And while I maintain that I am reasonably int Intelligent intelligent intel Intel- l- l I doubt that that- I am any smarter about the condition of fighters now than I was when I began Un Looked Good I watched Mickey Walker train to fight Sharkey He looked slow slog r and andoU andoff andoff off oU in his hl timing Yet he fought Sharkey Shar Shar- key to a draw and many thought that he won I watched Baer train for When the match was wu made I had told Jacobs that It was Wt a abad abad abad bad match for and that Baer er would lick the G German Then X I lid let what I saw in train train- lug far camp bias blu my early judg m ment nt Baer Bier looked to be wide open not too fast and easy to hit in training looked In Jn superb shape punched hard hud barp sharp harp and ad short But in the fight was stale tale and over over- trained and Baer Barr was in fine shape fast and was hit bit only one hard punch durIng the whole fight When Dempsey was training for Tunney in Atlantic City all the experts experts ex ex- ex- ex pens as 15 well weil as I saw raw Tommy Loughran Laughran Lough Laugh ran muddle him about him push him hIxi into corners and make a monkey of him Yet few if a any were smart enough ough to realize that Dempsey was through and that Tun Tun- ney would do the same thing to him Yet there It was before our eyes 1 I think the only time I can truthfully say that I foresaw coming disaster at a training camp was when Sammy Mandell tried to sweat himself to a lightweight at Orangeburg to defend his title against Singer who knocked him out in a few punches Attract Queer Characters On the other hand some of the best stories I have written have come out of a training camp Dempsey camps used to be the ga gathering hering place of all the queer characters character in the world world- tramps tramp prize fighters tighter confidence men artists writers coppers and what not not not-a a rna magnificent cross crOM section sec see section tion of low life Bohemia Tunney's Tunnes camps used to be lousy with millionaires and highbrows Sharkey's and Cameras Camera's establishments establish ments were overrun with sinister Inister characters gangsters killers and muscle men Where pIt pitched hed h his tent there came a curious mixture of Yorkville Germans good natured c characters Uncle Otts Otis wearing wearing wear wear- ing white string ties tics and Brooklyn waterfront gangsters Life LIre swirls around the s spots where the pugs pura do their training There Is II comedy and tragedy the gay ray and the danger dangerous u uI The people people peo peo- pie fascinated by fighters are fas faa themselves I X can un hardly hardly hard hard- ly wait walt for Baer Ban to open camp at Atlantic City CHy or for Camera Carnera or his gangsters to o reestablish headquarters head quarters at Pompton Lakes Lakei