G.A.H.E.M.

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 11

G.A.H.E.M.

i TEX RICKARD’S PATENT I ELIMINATING MACHINE | BACK-FIRES ON HEENEYSHARKEY MIXTURE

I_ i DEMPSEY KEEPS CLEAR The following entertaining comment on the Heeney-Sharkey fight and Tex Rickard’s elimination series is from the pen of Jack Kiernan, in the “New York Times”: “The Great Automatic Heavy-weight Eliminating Machine, patented by Tex Rickard, has stalled again. The silly machine never works right. The idea, of course, is to toss two heavy-weights into the eliminator and get one contender out on the far side. The main trouble has been that when two heavyweights were put in both were eliminated, and no contender came out. Perhaps the machine is too efficient. In any case, something is wrong. In-Out-In Again! “But Rickard isn’t discouraged. As soon as the heavy-weights are thoroughly eliminated, Rickard picks them up and tosses them into the G.A.H.E.M. again. Some of them are getting hardened, to it. They walk right in, turn right around and walk right out again. “Jack Delaney, for instance, was eliminated twice. Or perhaps three times. Maloney eliminated him. Risko eliminated him. And he eliminated himself in his bout with Renault, this being a double elimination. “The Heeney-Sharkey fight was another double elimination. But there is no need to worry. Both boys will be back in again as soon as traffic can be straightened out. Wise Old Jack “The really important point is that Jack Dempsey is keeping clear of this eliminating machine. He is wise. While the other lads are eliminating themselves in a serious way, Jack can start limbering up for his next meeting with James Joseph Tunney. “No matter how much roadwork the other "contenders do, they will be merely ‘running for Sweeney* until the third Tunney-Denipsey episode is a matter of history.”