BOXING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 245, 16 October 1931, Page 5

BOXING

SPECTACULAR BOUT

SHARKEY'S BIG HH"HNG. TAKINGS AT EBBETT’S FIELD. NEW YORK, Oct. 14. Jack Sharkey, man of moods and lack of control that have ruined many a heavyweight spectacle, has paid part of his debt to boxing. There was a new life, new interest, to-day in the heavyweight division, the barometer by which the success of the game as a whole is measured, and it was due to but one reason, the victor’s spectacular thumping of Primo Camera in the biting winds that swept Ebbett’s Field last night. Although complete accounting was still lacking, Jimmy Johnson, the most versatile promoter since the late Tex Rickard, said to-day that 25,900 paid prices ranging from three dollars to 15 dollars and braved the football weather to see the first thorough testing of the Italian giant. Statements that Jack Dempsey will defeat Jack Sharkey in New York during the coming winter boxing season and will meet Max Schmeling, heavyweight champion of the world, for the title in Reno next summer, were made here to-day by Leonard Sacks, manager of the “ Manassa Mauler.” Sacks, who is here to-day preparing for Dempsey’s fight in Omoha prior to his barnstorming tour of the Middle West next month, said he was confident that Dempsev could whip Rharkey.