THE LITERARY POSE IN BOXING
A LAW WANTED i Under bis own hand and seal, Max I Schmeling now claims to be a great reader of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, j Bernard Shaw and so on (writes John ! Keeran in the “New York Times.” j Isn’t it terrible the way these pugilists ! are taking all the deepest books out of I the libraries? There ought to be a j law I ! One of the nice things about Jack i Sharkey is that, as far as is known, he never read a book. If he did, he kept j it to himself, which isn't a bad idea. J This literary pose in puglistic circles jis being worn just a bit thin. Popular : favour will swing to the first fair-to-f middling fighter who boasts that he » can’t read or write.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 9
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136THE LITERARY POSE IN BOXING Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1003, 20 June 1930, Page 9
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