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...beat a good little one. The fight between Jack Sharkey (Josef Paul Cuckoschay) and Michael Patrick ("Mickey") Walker in Boston last week seemed designed to be one more illustration of this adage. Sharkey, a 198-lb. heavyweight, was still considered a good fighter despite sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent...
After two years of talk, delay, and a series of bouts that eliminated such contenders as Johnny Risko (tough Cleveland baker boy), Jack Delaney (gay Canadian), Tommy Loughran (a light heavyweight champion grown fat) and Phil Scott (English sailor famed for claiming fouls), a match was arranged to decide the heavyweight championship of the world. Jack Sharkey, garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner...
...Johnny Risko v. Victorio Campolo, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...
...outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever he returns to his Fatherland, as he did after knocking out Johnny Risko last winter, he immediately calls on his mother near Berlin...
Maximilian Siegfried Victor Schmeling of Germany so pummeled, kneaded and battered Johnny Risko, the Cleveland baker-boy, that the referee stopped their heavyweight fight, last week, in the ninth round. No one before him had knocked out Risko. Fighter Schmeling, who facially resembles onetime Fighter Dempsey (TIME, Jan. 21), looked more like him than ever. His performance revived the theory that another Real Fighter will yet be found and perfected for the perfection-loving U. S. public. Fighter Schmeling's best-punching hand is his right...