Word: sharkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernie Schaaf, a pale, bulky young Bostonian, was one of Jack Sharkey's sparring partners until Sharkey, thinking Schaaf showed sufficient promise to be groomed for the heavyweight championship, became his manager and got him a fight with Max Baer, which Schaaf won. Schaaf, who has won 20 of his last 30 fights, last week went to Chicago to fight William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, who was beaten last July in Max Schmeling's sole effort to defend the heavyweight championship...
...experts have not yet considered Stribling too old to be effective. Of late he has been bothered by lumbago in his back. His left hand, often broken at the knuckles, has to be desensitized with cocaine every time he fights. Against Schaaf, Stribling found this left hand peculiarly ineffective. Sharkey, who beat Stribling in 1929, had apparently coached his protégé to avoid it and Schaaf pounded Stribling in the body till the fourth round. Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf cracked him on the jaw with four right...
...Hannagan who "humanized" Gene Tunney when the latter suffered acute unpopularity before his first fight with Dempsey. He counselled the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard in promoting the Sharkey-Stribling fight. He took Rickard to the hospital when he was stricken with appendicitis, substituted for him at the opening of the Miami Beach Kennel Club; was outside the door when Rickard died and escorted his body to New York. Returning to Miami Beach he continued promoting the fight, "building-up" Stribling for southern fans and Sharkey for the northerners for a $405,000 gate...
...Manhattan, a Philadelphia heavyweight, seasoned Tommy Loughran, one-time light-heavyweight champion of the world, and young Steve Hamas, who was on the Pennsylvania State football team the night Loughran was knocked out by Jack Sharkey, climbed into the ring at Madison Square Garden where Loughran was beaten last month by King Levinsky (see below). Loughran, the favorite, came out cautiously, trying to push Hamas away with the left jab which was once the fast est punch possessed by any U. S. heavy weight. Hamas, unskilled but savage, won the first round by ignoring Loughran's left...
...roll up a score of 5 to 2 over the University seconds yesterday afternoon, by scoring consistently in every period. TUFTS HARVARD SECONDS Chester, g. g., Brieson, Nichols Whittaker, l.f.b. r.f.b., Harrison Mazzola, r.f.b. l.f.b., Pollard, Clark Lgisley, l.h.b. r.h.b., Burke Smith, e.h.b. e.h.b., Wave Fairfield, r.h.b. l.h.b., Clark Sharkey, l.o.f. r.o.f., Draper Real, Saracco, l.i.f. r.i.f., Fragley Fletscher, Ganger, c.f. c.f., Chase Hunk, r.i.f. l.i.f., Whitney, Wolff Verge, r.o.f. l.o.f., Randelan...