| Show IANNA A ESTABLISHED ST ABLIS Ep AS S F FAVORITE OVER D DARRE R Two A WO I Feature Entrants WI in in Tex's D DA I ex S 1 I Elimination T Likely to Meet in Next Fight Attract Maloney and Sharkey Added Adde Ad- Ad de ded to List Along With John L. L Sullivan By Robert Edgren Boston the city ot of culture has two ot of the best fIghting heavyweights heavy heavy- weights in the world Queer that Boston Strong Boy John L. L Sul- Sul art art Mayflower furniture and fIghting material Boston years ago produced the Boston Strong Boy John L. L Cul- Cul Uvan Ilvan one ot of the greatest ot of worlds world's heavyweight champIons John L. L was a mauler He fought with such fury thet t when In his prime he scared most of his opponents Into tryIng to clinch and then knocked them out b by clubbIng them acroSs the back with his huge rIght arm armand armand and fist He hit plenty ot of them on the jaw v. too John L. L had the fighting world buffaloed until JIm Corbett dIscovered In an exhibition bout In San Francisco that Sullivan had grown too fat and slow to be dangerous to any man with fast legs and a swIft jab lIe He was a great John L. L Perhaps his tame fame will last longer than that ot of any other champion He was the first ot of the great AmerIcan heavy heavy- weights Now there are two Boston Strong Boys rivals for a a chance to tight fight Gene Tunney for the worlds world's championship championship cham- cham and brIng the bacon back to Boston One Is J r 1 Maloney Just at present present pres- pres ent Maloney is one ot of the most popular young glove swIngers In the world because he has won von four ot of Rickard's bouts In a arow row rov eliminating In turn the tattooed Swede Franz DIener ot of Germany De Kuh Juh of Italy and the great light h heavyweight champIon champion cham- cham pIon Jack Delaney He Is especially popular because few tew thought he could stand up under Delaney's justly celebrated right hand uppercut uppercut upper upper- cut or straight right for tor the jaw And he not only stood up but constantly constantly con con- forced the fighting gave Delaney harder punches than he got and many more ot of them He made a fine showing and had nO trouble at all in taking the decision In ten rounds They dont don't say Delaney De- De laney could have beaten Maloney In Ina ina a longer fIght More likely Maloney would have stopped Delaney MALONEY IS ISAN ISAN AN IRISHMAN Maloney Is IrIsh That's one ot of othIs hIs strong poInts The Irish have been strong in varIous fighting classes but especially as as hea heavy heavy- vy- vy weights John L. L Sullivan was Irish JIm Corbett was Irish Bob Fitzsimmons' Fitzsimmons father and mother were both Irish although Fitz was born in Cornwall There was Irish in Jim Jeffries' Jeffries family a few centuries cen- cen tunics back In Willards Willard's too In early earl v colonial days Jack Demo Demo- sey's forefathers came ame from Irela Ireland d to West Vest VIrginia a hundred and thIrty years ears ago Gene Tunney's parents were born In Ireland That makes It look as it If there be be some IrIsh blood In the next champion And Maloney is IrIsh b by descent In looks action and fighting spIrit In a wayMa wayMa- loney resembles slightly the great John L. L Sullivan lIe He has big shoulders thick arms heavy wrists and bIg hands like those ot of John L. L In face neck and jaw hes he's almost exactly that other great Irish heavyweight who Champion Champlon Jim Jeffries a lot lotof ot of trouble Tom Shark Sharkey He has the same slope or of forehead nose lips chin and jaw the same bulge back of the neck He has some ot of Sharkey's fighting characterIstics but lie he has been learning last fast and Is much more ofa ot of ota a boxer than Torn Tom ever was Maloney Maloney Ma- Ma loney has gone past the stage when he was referred d to as rough and clumsy No o clumsy man could handle handle- Delaney as he did could beat Delaney to the punch Maloney weighs a couple of pounds over Sullivans Sullivan's best fighting l weIght JACK SHARKEY IS GOOD The other Boston Strong Boy Is Jack Sharley Sharkey This sounds Irish but Sharkey adopted the name for fIghting purposes HIs ancestors were Lithuanian He weIghs approximately approximately ap- ap proximately pounds Is a fIrst class boxer strong aggressive and whIte no more a John L. L Sullivan In wallopIng wel weight ht than Maloney Is uses a wearIng tearIng damaging damaging dam dam- aging punch with either hand Jack Sharkey Is just about ns as good a boxer as Gene Tunney runne He isn't to fight anybody His record rec- rec ord proves that Just before beCore starting starting start start- ing the fight with Harry Wills he stepped to the side ot of the ring when asked to say a few words over the radio and announced to the wIde world that he was sas going to lick ills ms He didn't say It mildly or quote Shakespeare He said It roughly In words the fight tI follow follow- era could easily understand IJ 4 meant it He Be ripped into Wills n the first bell bOU not In the l as pressed by Wills bulk and he whIpped Wills so c co elusively that thOat in aU all this tion tournament stuff sturt Wills has even even be been n mentioned 1 Jack Sharkey has beaten a lot good men Among others Renat wms Godfrey the huge j gl gli i JImmy Maloney Jack de lI l Ma I Sully Sutty Montgomery Johnny RIs I a d Mike II Maloney and Sharkey h s V n three times without which one ne Ls 5 the better was a rough battle l Dt Sharkey In ten rounds In 1 1924 a afterward lust lost two decision One Sharkey-One ne on a foul wh when ii r r wInning 1 I 1 Iwon won fIfteen ot of hi hIs thirty thirty-otle rJ ri fights knockouts A goOd p p He is only 24 SharI Is 23 They are sc scheduled to tom t i In the next feature ot of Tex RI ards ard's elimination Jack Dempsey Dempse who has been of comm commission for several e with a dangerously Infected tt tta arm arma a result of a cut on his hand liS j covering When taken sick pen sey was about to open a tr lii iti camp In the mountains near Barbara Ca 1 He had to p tp his traInIng He expects st stIn In a couple of oC weeks and iii lIght work until in condl lo real traInIng He 1 Is to he finds just what tion he could round into U t tied fied that he can get back Int i nough shape to have a chance whIp Tunney he will work hid hard the mountaIns for a month s spick pick and nd shovel shoel and axe arid tI begIn boxIng DEMPSEY HAS HASA A CHANCE It If Dempsey shows form tonn andis to go on fighting he I at least an even break as a hI c tender for the championshIp cannot he left out ot of the proceedings In his old fIghting trim Demp would beat any fighter In the wo and If near it he he will vill have a cl cha aJ against Maloney Sharkey or orTt Tl ney In spite ot of the age handle handl He was a great champion a and d may not have gone back as far faC his Philadelphia light fight seemed t tO He trained for tor that fl under conditions that made gett Into the best mental and ph 1 con condition for tor a extremely hard to say the least The elimination ot of Jack Jacl Demp made it hard to tale take Mike serIously as a heavyweIght J 1 lane laney was b better than l i f iten ten pounds bIgger Dempsey loney and Sharkey are aU all cl dose se sethe the pound class class in Il loney Is the biggest at will be near when he again Either Maloney or Sharkey 1 cause of their activity In the r thIs year should have an adv tage over Tunney Gene little fighting for a a. year bet meeting Dempsey and y yot ot of ring Inactivity wont won't Imp him as a fIghter He will have be quIte a little better than his n opponent to make up for that I ii ort off as a new champIon CopyrIght 1927 by the Ben Bell Syndicate Inc |
