Word: sharkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast, accurate, left jab is the first essential of boxing that prospective members of Harvard's first organized boxing team should master in the opinion of Jack Sharkey, American heavyweight champion, who was recently interviewed at his home in the exclusive residential section of Chestnut Hill. Sharkey declared that a good left hand was the most valuable asset in boxing and when skillfully used paved the way for all other blows...
...Sharkey's best fight was a ten-round, uphill, slugging match with George Godfrey, giant Californian negro. Godfrey's immense size and his reputation for viciousness had kept the other heavy-weight contenders dodging him. Sharkey entered the ring, giving away 44 pounds in weight, four to five inches of height, and nearly three inches in reach. He says he battled through the ten rounds "not knowing what it was all about," until his hand was raised...
While asserting that training was an important item in preparing for a fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time after a fight is just relaxing and eating a lot of pie, cake, and ice-cream. When he is training, if he feels a craving for non-training table food, Sharkey will take a bit of pie, or a drink of milk rather than let himself worry. Hunting...
...summary follows: JUNIORS SENIORS Siverware, l.e. r.e., Vaughn, Donelson Edwards, l.t. r.t., Webster Gaul, l.g. r.g., Sibley Hale, c. c., Brown, Worthem Williams, r.g. l.g., D'Annunsio Cowin, r.t. l.t., Snelling, Thorndike Farlow, r.e. l.e., Tryon Archibald, q.b. q.b., Ketchum Weir, Baskerville, l.h.b. l.h.b.,Byer, Sharkey Murphy, r.h.b. r.h.b., Nyhoff Crosby, f.b. f.b., Serinoi
Harvard: Taylor l.e., Shelling l.t., Gaul l.g., Hale c., Corwin r.g., Lutkemeyer r.t., Vaughan r.c., Nyhoff q.b., Ketchum l.h., Serino r.h., Sharkey...