Being Knocked Out Is Sweet Says Jack Sharkey, You Collect Your Wits and Money--Gridiron More Strenuous Than Ring

"Aren't they going to make you an "H" man out there at Harvard, Jack?" someone asked when he saw a CRIMSON man interviewing John Cucloskey, who fights under the nom do guerre of Jack Sharkey. But the latter refused to comment on the question.

"It sounds sweet to be knocked out: no feeling at all," the heavyweight champion of New England told the reporter. "It doesn't bother a bit: you just get up and collect your wits and your money." He stopped to weigh in, while the CRIMSON representative watched various near-great boxers punching the bag or each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been for the knockdown in the seventh round there wouldn't have been any fight at all. But I think that Tunney could have gotten up on the count of three." (in the seventh round Dempsey had protested a long count over the prostrate Tunney.) "Dempsey couldn't win; he was outclassed. I feel that I myself would have beaten him when I fought him last year in the Yankee Stadium, if it hadn't been for the foul they didn't count."

Asked which he thought more strem: ous, football or boxing, Sharkey answered. "I think playing football is hardier than boxing, and I was fullback on the Navy team A boxer can run around the ring and then rest, but there's no rest in football Besides college training is stricter than a boxer's."

"What was your most thrilling ring experience," he was asked Sharkey finished tying on his gloves and said. "There are no thrills in boxing," then fell to punching the bag till it sounded like a riveting machine.