Word: sharkey
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Page 22, col. 2, in "Big v. Little.'' Since when was the Sharkey-Walker fight in Boston...
...SHARKEY WALKER FIGHT [TIME, Aug. 3] TOOK PLACE AT EBBETS FIELD BROOKLYN...
Walker, his face intermittently sprayed with blood, fought in the way that has caused him to be called, pound for pound, the best fighter in the world. He bobbed, squirmed, charged, wove, ducked, slammed and smashed at Sharkey, trying to hit his face more than his body. He swung in under Sharkey's high guard with what Westbrook Pegler colorfully called "the simian roll of a vaudeville baboon on roller skates." In the seventh round, a right caught Sharkey on the chin. He went back against the ropes, the crowd roaring...
...crowd roared again in the eleventh, when Walker landed with an uppercut and put Sharkey on the ropes again. Sharkey, his face set into lines of exasperation and doubt, let a punch or two go low, rubbed Walker's bad eye with the heel of his glove, "fished" instead of hitting with his left hand which was hurt early in the fight. He rallied in the last rounds, won the 15th and stood shuffling his feet in his corner while the referee spoke to the judges. There was one vote for a draw, one each for Sharkey and Walker...
...what everyone present considered a moral victory, Walker immediately asked for a match with Schmeling. In his dressing room, he learned that his first wife, Mrs. Maude Walker had attached $27,800 of his $42,000 share of the receipts, filed papers accusing him of "almost diabolically inhuman" conduct. Sharkey, taciturn before a fight, always feels very free to talk as soon as he can get his gloves off. Not at all ashamed, he said: "Inactivity beat me. . . . I thought I won. . . . He's nobody's mug and much tougher than Schmeling. . . . I'll fight again...