SHARKEY TOO STRONG

Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 23

SHARKEY TOO STRONG

CALIFORNIAN DEFEATED

BOSTON "GOB'S" COME-BACK

Rated before the battle,as a championship prospect and considered easily .the most promising of the younger heavyweights, Phil Brubaker, Californian heavyweight, bowed to the superior science and skill of ex-world's champion, Jack Sharkey, in a Boston battle recently. Too cagey and clever, Sharkey, by his victory, started hopefully on his attempted come-back to fistic fame, a come-back inspired not so much by lack of cash as by a belief that he is superior to the best of today's heavyweights. Arid to give him credit, the "Garrulous Gob" gave a fine showing. The nickname still sticks to him. It was given him before he won the world's title, when garrulity was not the least of his attributes. The "Gob" part, of course, comes from his association with the U.S. Navy years ago. Brubaker is only 22, clever enough, fast on his feet, with a sizzling right and a left of merit. In the first two rounds of the bout with Sharkey, he cut loose, hard rights to Sharkey's head, sending the old warrier storming into, clinches for rests. Sharkey then was out on his feet and an easy mark for an experienced boxer. But'Brubaker was too eager. He crowded in with everything he had, and Sharkey clinging on while his senses cleared, weathered the storm. TOO SCIENTIFIC. In the third round he boxed his way back to normal, keeping out of the road of Brubaker's right. Then in the fourth, Sharkey started on his own, and though at no stage was it considered likely for him to score a knockout, his boxing was much too scientific for the Californian. He weaved and ducked, landed a punch, and skipped clear, and Brubaker, exasperated by his non-success, tried cautious tactics arid failed badly. ;. By his defeat, Brubaker's/career in the Eastern United States, where the big money lies, began. and ended. He has returned to California sadder and 'wiser, hoping to restore his prestige by more successes against the leading men' of the 'West Coast. But it will be many .days before he forgets that he held the bout in his hands and then threw it away. Meanwhile Sharkey hopes to .continue with his came-back campaign. He himself considers that he has better prospects than any of them and he is not afraid to tell the world about it. But th6se who know consider 'he may win a' couple of bouts before he slips back again" to the obscurity from which he has arisen. '