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Either I got tongue-tied or your reporter doesn't know how to spell "T-o-m," or both, for there is one mistake in your otherwise splendid article on me and my boxing museum (TIME, Nov. 22). You quote me as saying Jack Sharkey was the fifth greatest fighter. Of course, it was Tom Sharkey, the original sailor boy, whom I meant. Tom was a real fighter...
...Champion. From 37 years of collecting and expertizing, Fleischer has two conclusions: 1) fighting is the greatest of all sports, 2) Jack Johnson is the greatest fighter of all time. After Johnson, Nat ranks Jeffries, then Fitzsimmons, Sullivan, Jack Sharkey, Dempsey, Louis, Corbett, Tunney, Burns...
...Platoon of Company "B" defeated the 2nd Platoon Friday in a twilight seven-inning softball game by the score of 9-5. Lt. Ivan Miller tossed for the victors and Lt. Francis T. Sharkey for the opponents. The teams were managed respectively by Lts. Warren F. Millius and Henry N. Schoenfield. Highlighting the game were the frequent altercations that developed between the umpire, Lt. Joe Redding, and Lt. Sharkey pitcher for the 2nd Platoon. Umpire players and spectators were unperturbed by the pitcher's picturesque words and actions, however, for it was common knowledge that Lt. Sharkey at one time...
...Griffith's The Violin Maker of Cremona (1909); 250 other Biograph films (1908-1912); 85 Keystone comedies with their cops (1914-1915); The Life of Buffalo Bill, starring William Cody himself (1912); scenes of the San Francisco earthquake (1906); a Yale-Princeton football game (1903);* the Sharkey-Jefferies fight (1899); the opening ceremonies of the New York subway...
Bernard is Isaac's oldest son. Big, barrel-chested, clean-living, popular, he was an amateur boxer in his youth, owns Bellows' Stag at Sharkey's, and is called "Uncle Bernie" by the children of his friend Gene Tunney. He achieved his Gimbel hegemony partly through the backing of Julius Rosenwald, then financially interested. Close friend of Horace Saks, Bernard promoted the Saks-Gimbel merger in 1923. Bernard and Horace worked out the deal while riding on a coffin in a baggage car, the smoking car being too crowded...