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SHARKEY GIVEN DECISION OVER MAX SCHMELINGRINGSIDERS AMAZED; BELIEVED GERMAN HAD FIGHT "SEWED" UP
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
New York, June 21, (AP)—Jack Sharkey, of Boston, on Tuesday night, won the heavyweight championship of the world by taking a 15-round title bout in a decision from Max Schmeling, of Germany.
There were no knockdowns. A crowd of 75,000 saw the bout.
Schmeling weighed in at 188 pounds and Sharkey 205.
The verdict of the two judges and the referee was split—two to one for Sharkey, but the majority of ringsiders thought the aggressive German had a clear margin on points.
The gate receipts of the Sharkey-Schmeling fight are said to have totaled about $500,000.
FIRST ROUND
Schmeling dashed into Sharkey, the challenger, who met him with a left to the jaw. Sharkey boxed coolly away and Max rushed in with a right to the body. Max was standing straight forsaking his former crouching style as he matched jabs with the American. However, he landed only one punch to the American's head as Sharkey dotted his face with half a dozen lefts. Schmeling shot a short right to the head and the crowd roared as Sharkey was forced to back away. Max is a far different man from the man Sharkey overpowered two years ago. However, the American retaliated, after retreating, and flung a hard right to Max's heart and penetrating Max's defense.
SECOND ROUND
Toying cautiously, Sharkey moved in on the German who flicked a hook to the head but missed a right to the head. As they fell in close Schmeling stabbed Sharkey's head with a long left then popped over another but took a left to the jaw as Jack crowded in on him. The German's new left jab, new for him, bounced off twice more from Sharkey's face; Jack missed a left hook. Sharkey was crowding Max when he had to duck as Max whisked a right past his head at the bell.
THIRD ROUND
Jack Sharkey opened up a trifle in round three but missed with a long right as Max tried to cut loose with both hands. Sharkey moved under the punches. Both fighters are extremely cautious, Sharkey feeling his way with left jabs to the head and trying to get an opening for a left hook to the chin. As they came together Schmeling drove a hard right to the chin and as they clubbed at each other's heads in a ring corner. But Sharkey came out and drove Max out with a left to the body. They were slugging when the bell rang for the end of the round.
FOURTH ROUND
Sharkey came out more cautiously than before for this round proved fatal to him two years ago, then whistled a right high to the champion's temple but was caught short with a right to the chin. Jack constantly tried for the chin. Max tore in with both hands and shook Jack's head back with a left jab. Sharkey peddled back carefully. Max slipped one onto Sharkey's chin as the bell rang at the end of the fourth round.
FIFTH ROUND
Not a mark showed on either battler. Max flung a short right to Jack's head. Sharkey backed away twice while sending lefts into Max's midriff. Sharkey boxed beautifully hooking a left to the body. Max tore back furiously and drove Sharkey to the ropes with the first sustained attack a volley of lefts and rights to the head. Jack was forced to yield. Sharkey let fly a right uppercut which shook Schmeling but bounced back to hammer Sharkey's head with both hands, at the bell.
SIXTH ROUND
Sharkey is now boxing like a (Please turn to Page Three)
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teacher in a gymnasium, and is jabbing at Schmeling's head. Max drove Sharkey to the ropes with a left but Jack leaned into him and ripped out with both hands at the champion's head. Schmeling followed Sharkey across the ring and both hooked and jabbed freely. Jack, however, was content to box in a careful style and shot a left at Max's jaw as the bell sounded.
SEVENTH ROUND
Sharkey is fighting a battle as cold and deliberate as promised; he liberate as that of Schmeling as he bored in and tipped the champion around with a right to the shoulder and a short left. The two stabbed at each other with lefts until Sharkey smashed a right to Schmeling's head. The German suddenly put on a spurt and drove Sharkey to the ropes. Jack seemed to waver for a moment but fought his way clear with a right to the head and went back again as they swapped a left at each other. They traded short rights to the head as the bell again tolled.
EIGHTH ROUND
Sharkey stabbed methodically at the German's head which he dropped inside his right side, then Schmeling marched forward as he had done from the start and shot a right to Sharkey's chin. As the American backed into the ropes Max hooked Jack's head twice. The American didn't seem to mind them and continued to step away stabbing with his left. A slight swelling started on Sharkey's left cheek where Max has been landing rights. Both were stabbing at the bell.
NINTH ROUND
Sharkey backed carefully away from the German as they again papped lefts to the mouth. Schmeling's hit with his left, missing; shot rights; but Schmeling was quicker to recover after the miss and shot a left to the chin. Schmeling bobbed in front of Sharkey as Jack swung both hands at his head, but the German came out of the weave with a fine right to the jaw. Jack measured his man carefully with a pair of left jabs and Sharkey got in two more right uppercuts; but Max merely smiled and bounced two more rights to Sharkey's left cheek as the gong again sounded.
TENTH ROUND
Schmeling marched out as fresh as a daisy. Jack was still cautious but stuck a left into Max's face; Max caught him, however, drove him into the ropes in his own corner. Jack whaled away with both hands, forcing the German to wrap both of his hands about his head in order to escape the storm of blows. Max stabbed carefully then ripped a left and a right to Sharkey's chin. Schmeling stung Sharkey again with a right to the jaw, then danced to his corner as the bell rang.
ELEVENTH ROUND
Sharkey came out more forcefully and with a right to the head drove Schmeling back; then followed a barrage of left jabs. The lads then came together in a clinch. Both whipped in rights to the head. Max ducked and came up inside Jack's guard flashing both hands to Jack's chin, missing with the left but connecting with the right. Jack landed a couple of head blows but Max stormed back hooking with both hands to the head. Sharkey's left eye was swelling rapidly. Jack was jabbing carefully as the gong ended the round.
TWELFTH ROUND
Both boxers fell immediately to hammering each other at close range. Both had one arm free and Max chased the American into the corner and then whipped loose with both hands to the head but they came out swapping jolting lefts. Sharkey's left eye is closing fast but continued to stab Schmeling in the face until he found an opening and then shot a short right across. Schmeling came crowding in but
Sharkey picked a left and flung it right at the German's head. They swapped rights crossed to the head and again Max bounced an extra hook off the American's bad eye. They milled at close quarters with neither landing heavily. They were jabbing at each others heads at the sound of the gong.
THIRTEENTH ROUND
Sharkey marched straight out with his head again behind his left shoulder to keep Schmeling away and let loose a right to stab the German in the head. He then switched suddenly to a right cross which caught the German flush on the chin, but Max came right back as the crowd began to count in unison. Sharkey jabbed Schmeling and Schmeling shot a left to the body, then a right uppercut to the chin that jarred Sharkey. The German was close in pounding Sharkey's body at the bell.
FOURTEENTH ROUND
Sharkey's left eye is now just a narrow line of white as a result of taking several severe punches on that part of his anatomy. Schmeling stepped into him with a left hook to the head and they boxed slowly and cautiously with Schmeling constantly crawling forward. Sharkey was stabbing with a left and countering with a right when an opening came and he got two left hooks into Schmeling's head; he hit another right and then the German was on him again and was belting him with both hands as Sharkey wilted and held on as Max rammed a right flush onto Sharkey's chin, the latter backing away under the German's remorseless charge. Schmeling was crowding in at the gong.
FIFTEENTH ROUND
Sharkey's second worked frantically upon him to bring him out in the final round. He ripped in with both hands but the German met him with a two-fisted volley; the American was forced to break ground. Sharkey ripped into the German again hammering away with both hands to the body but again was the first to stop as the stolid champion, fresh and eager, hammered the tired Jack's body. They locked heads, then flashed both hands to the boy. Then away to dance around the ring stabbing lefts and rights at each other. Sharkey nailed the champion on the chin with a right uppercut. They fell together again in a clinch and were belting with both hands to the chin. The fighting now was fast and furious. Sharkey glanced another uppercut off Max's head; the champion bounced back at him to slug it out with both hands. Schmeling missed with both hands as Sharkey leaned in and belted his body. Then the bell rang.

















































































































































































































