Word: sharkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that boxing experts considered him until Max Schmeling gave him a workman- like beating last June, was the task that confronted Detroit's coffee-colored, 22-year-old Joe Louis. More specifically, Louis' job last week was to knock out Boston's 33-year-old Jack Sharkey, now back in the ring, after two years' retirement, to secure additional working capital for his none too prosperous Boston barroom...
Grown paunchy but no more quarrelsome during his absence from the ring, Fisticuffer Sharkey came cautiously out of his corner in New York's Yankee Stadium, dabbed tentatively at his opponent until Louis' right fist exploded on his jaw. Thereafter his efforts, devoted exclusively to self-defense, were even less successful. Louis scored two knockdowns in the second round, two more in the third. After the fourth knockdown Fisticuffer Sharkey shook his head, removed his rubber mouth-guard, lay down while the referee counted him out. Next day. sports writers told what they thought had happened: Fisticuffer Louis...
...Baer. The desideratum was to heighten not the suspense but the dramatic finality of this achievement by delaying it as long as possible. In the hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve Hamas, had stayed in Germany, making tentative gestures toward a comeback. What sort of chance fight experts and their audience thought Schmeling had was last week shown by the odds, 10-to-1, and by the comments of famed prizefight reporters. Samples...
When queried about his contact with Harvardians, Sharkey had to admit that his acquaintances of this nature generally came from his new job behind the huge bar. He was not loath to recall tales of various student parties...
With his elbow on the mahogany counter of his establishment, Sharkey reminisced about his long fisticuffs career. He pointed out former opponents from among the photographs which clutter the walls of the Ringside. When he noticed Joe Louis' it called to mind the previous brown menace. Harry Wills...