BOXING OVERSEAS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 199, 24 July 1931, Page 7

BOXING OVERSEAS.

SHARKEY AND WALKER DRAW. NEW YORK, July 22. A draw in the fifteenth ended the boxing contest between Mickey Walker and Jack Sharkey. A crowd of 30,000 saw the battle between the big Boston heavyweight, and the former middleweight champion. Sharkey weighed 19811b5., and Walker 169 J lbs. Sharkey gave way before Walker’s superior aggressiveness and steady body punching through the early anil middle rounds, but rallied strongly toward the close. Sharkey hammered Walker solidly from the twelfth to the fifteenth round, working methodically on a gash opened on Walker’s left eye in the fifth round. The cut widened steadily in the closing rounds, and in the fifteenth a sharp right' loosed a steady stream of blood over Walker’s face. The only semblance of a knockdown came in the fifth, when Walker, caught off his balance, was floored by a right to the chin, hilt was up without a count. The crowd was with Walker and roared in the ninth when he launched a terrific offensive, battering his opponent’s bio; body with both hands and driving Sharkey across the ring. Sharkey’s rejuvenation came in the twelfth, when lie came out of his corner a different kind of fighter. His 'etliargy was gone, and he fired both hands at his opponent during the remaining rounds, but Walker refused to go down.

Edward (Micky) Walker’s career began in 1919, and in three years he had won the world welterweight title, beating Jack Brittan. In 1926 Walker was beaten by Peter Latzo, but lie won a match with Tiger Flowers. In 1928 ho made his cU but in the heavier olasses, and secured several notable victories. Jack Sharkey for some time has stood at the edge of the world heavyweight championship arena. His most recent'fight in the title class was with Max Schmeling, the German. Sharkey had the better of the exchanges, but lost on a fold, and burst into tears.