Show speaking of sports i festian a loses most colorful of promoters by ROBERT mcshane Me released leased by western newspaper union ting THE HE most strident voice of box ing was stilled recently just as s it was warming up to one of its greatest efforts in behalf of the tony galento max baer fight the voice belonged to joe jacobs fight impresario who talked max into the worlds heavyweight championship and himself into a colorful important position in the boxing game the extremely voluble little manager a well known figure among broadway sporting circles died at the age of 44 victim of a heart attack jacobs inaugurated his ring career at a tender age the son of a tailor he came from tough hells kitchen on new yorks west side he wanted to be a fighter but soon learned the futility of absorbing punishment when one might just as well get paid for shouting advice in fact it was said he acqua actually uy had fighters on his pay roll before he got out of high school aussel tile the muscle Alu scle known as aussel the muscle jacobs collected first by himself then served as tex man during the years he turned up as guardian of such fighters as andre routis featherweight champion frankie genaro flyweight champion johnny dundee featherweight king mike Alc Tigue light heavyweight titleholder title holders and a host of others though his fighters brought him both cash and glory jacobs chief claim to fa fame m e was his unequalled unequal led ability to thi think fast and play all the angles in a racket full of conniving geniuses jacobs more than held his own he was a sharper among shar pers the most fantastic single phase of his career was in shouting into the heavyweight champion long IF k TONY GALENTO and JOE JACOBS ship in june 1930 jacobs reached the zenith of his career and jack sharkey were meeting to decide the championship vacated by gene tunney first aussel the muscle set up a pre fight cry about the nine times sharkey had won by fouls or had claimed fouls the Sch melino g victory in the first th three ree rounds of the fight sharkey seemed to have the situation well in hand but in the fourth round sharkey cut loose with one blow quickly followed by an uppercut the german went down holding his groin referee jim crowley was getting ready to count when jacobs with the inevitable cigar in his mouth crawled through the ropes and screamed stay down foul you auz fouled eling obeyed his masters voice and thus became the first heavyweight to win the title while resting on his back perhaps his most masterful job was done with tony galento the orange N J saloonkeeper jacobs prodded galento lento a roly poly catch as catch can brawler into the status of a national rowdy and heavyweight threat galento was one of jacobs favorites the boisterous swaggering barkeep was a natural for aussel the muscles ballyhoo talents tony was considered a washed up fourth rater but under jacobs guiding hand he fought his way into a title bout with joe louis galento lost the fight but startled the boxing world with his showing because of his managers death the blubbery galento insisted on postponing his fight with baer from may 28 to july 2 without his manager he was lost we auz robbed two years after won the championship he was matched again with sharkey when sharkey was awarded a 15 round decision in the return bout jacobs achieved some sort of immortality by clambering into the ring and bellowing 9 we auz rob robb bedl eoll the statement became a definite part of phraseology then too there was his classic lemark which he is supposed to have made when attending a ball game on a chilly day we should have stood in bed |