| Show Ready to Retire From Frol From Ring I t s 11 1 Maloney's a I Ii olley s Manager i n Puts Over Comeback Coup NEW YORK Feb Psychology 17 17 P made me what I 1 am today today- today and I 1 am satIsfied I That is the song sons Shamus Maloney ot or tIme the well known or of South Boston Doston la Is singing as a ho goes through his tuning up exercises for tor the first of ot a series of ot heavyweight elimination bouts bouls to see which contender will be IT JIM lucky enough to lake take a crack at Gene Gen Tuney's MALONEY grease crease ere paint i it SAYS I lost confidence in myself and when a n fight fight- I or er gets so he thinks hs hos he through through-he he Is 15 through Im I'm telling telline you ou explains in the serious looking Cell Celt I had bad just dropped two fights 1 to Jack one ono on a n foul and the other on a close decision und and I was pretty down In the mouth liS as the expression goes toes 1 I went so far tar as to announce m my retirement from the ring rine Then Kid Psychology stalked Into the picture In the tho person of Dan Carroll my manager Ho ia tallied me Into being a tighter fighter He pointed out that Jack Dempsey couldn't keep me inc on the floor In his when I was a kId KIO or or 13 out in Kansas City He matched me with the conqueror ot of the theman thiman t- t man who had caused my retire retire- retirement fluent ment I 1 went Into the ring that night repeating Cones Cone's stunt ot or Im Tm getting better and better every everyday day elny lit In every way I 1 used to start C Cout out In whirlwind fashion and aud then die down Iowa like a burnt out sky sky- skyrocket sky rocket rocket I 1 kept stronger and stronger I r smacked over Charley Weinert Quintin Romero Arthur de Kuh Nub Franz DIener and Harry Maloney since he came out of his has bas been jumping ahead by leaps and bounds He has all the in the world In himself I I got tot my biggest thrill out of ot the fight tight game Bame he says sas when I stood In ill the bright light or of o time the ring over the prostrate form torm of ot De Be DeKuh DeKuh Kuh Kub I 1 had ball him down eight times In two rounds before the tho K O 0 and he ho was a II promising heavyweight at the time I knew I 1 had my punch then and that hat combined with the old work work bean was an unstoppable combination Maloney Is a terrific puncher and Is very iery versatile Ho He hits from all angles antics and from all positions He keeps his left sometimes hang bang lug in clumsily down by his hip Suddenly he ho brings brines It up with vIe vic vicious ious bus swinging force torce to stun and jilt jet j r opponents who catch It either In the th stomach the throat the they heart or tur th the chin J 1 Kid Hid ld Psychology as a he calls him him brought back the needed confidence He shows he has liis it when he hi asked for the he toughest opponent he could pick pic In the elimination series wisely figuring that I he wants the hardest one first while Im I'm fresh Cresh Instead ot of last when Im I'm worn Said ald opponent will give gl him Iho ho acid test all alt right all right richt lies lie's a 1 gent bent known as 11 Sir Mr Chapdelaine nee uce Delaney In the next chapter Maloney is compared with Gene Tunney in skill change chang of pace and first hind Copyright 1927 NEA NEAt Service Inc Ine |
