DATE FOR SCHMELING SHARKEY BOUT CHANGED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 434, 6 May 1932, Page 5

DATE FOR SCHMELING SHARKEY BOUT CHANGED

AVOIDING CLASH WITH POLITI* CAL CONVENTIONS I - ; ■ New-York Times Cable. I | NEW YORK, May 4.—The date for I the YMax* ■ Schmelling-Jack ' Sharkey ii fight for the heavy-weight championi ship of the*World was J.ed this at:te ; i;.n()gn.at a meeting of the I Boxing • Commission, from June'TflHo 1 June. 21, the latter falling on a Tugsday, > ■ The, ■ change in dates was re- • quested by officials of Madison Square i Garden. -The reason for'the change | was to-avoid conflict with the nation- | al political conventions in Chicago.