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...namesake, former (1932-33) Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey (born Josef Paul Cuckoschay...
Sportsman of the Year was certainly Golfer Gene Sarazen who by winning both the British and U. S. open championships came as close as any professional can to Robert Tyre Jones Jr.'s record in 1930. Yet Sarazen flubbed the Professional Championship, did not even qualify. Josef Paul Cuckoschay (Jack Sharkey) of Boston retrieved the world's heavyweight boxing championship for the U. S. from Germany's Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling in a bout that satisfied few patrons. All-around athlete of 1932 was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas who scored more individual points...
...prize-fighting's many trite adages says that a good big man can beat a good little one. The fight between Jack Sharkey (Josef Paul Cuckoschay) and Michael Patrick ("Mickey") Walker in Boston last week seemed designed to be one more illustration of this adage. Sharkey, a 198-lb. heavyweight, was still considered a good fighter despite sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before...
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