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Name: Alias: Toy Bulldog Birth Name: Edward Patrick Walker Born: 1901-07-13 Birthplace: Elizabeth, , USA Died: 1981-04-28 (Age:79) Nationality: US American Hometown: Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA Stance: Orthodox Height: 5′ 7″ / 170cm Reach: 67″ / 170cm Boxing Record: click Trainer: Bill Bloxham Manager: Jack "Doc" Kearns Mickey Walker Gallery

Mickey Walker World and Champion 1922-1930

Probably the toughest and hardest hitting middleweight boxer of all time, Mickey Walker was nicknamed "The Toy Bulldog" because of his aggression and tenacity. Yet only one of his eleven world title fights failed to go . A good boxer, Walker did his best.

Edward Patrick "Mickey" Walker (July 13, 1903 - April 28, 1981) was a multi-faceted boxer from New Jersey. He was also an avid golfer and a renowned artist. Some say he was actually born in 1901.

He boxed professionally for the first time on February 10, 1919, fighting Dominic Orsini to a four round no-decision in his hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Walker did not venture from Elizabeth until his eighteenth bout, he went to Newark. On April 29 of 1919, he was defeated by in round one by K.O. Phil Delmontt, suffering his first defeat.

In 1920, he boxed twelve times, winning two and participating in ten no-decisions. Once again, all his bouts were held in New Jersey, which was, at the time, one of the areas where scoring systems had not been installed in boxing, therefore, each fight that lasted the scheduled distance was automatically declared a no-decision, regardless of who the better boxer had been.

He boxed sixteen times in 1921, winning six, losing one and having nine no-decisions. By then, Rhode Island had already become one of the areas where scoring in fights had been installed to allow fighters to get decision victories, and this attracted Walker twice to the area. He lost on a disqualification to Joe Stenafik his first time there, but earned his first decision win, in twelve rounds, against Kid Green, the second time around. He also held world champion boxer to a no-decision back in his home state of New Jersey, and beat Nate Siegal in .

1922 was not looking like a great year for Mickey Walker, as he went 3-4-4 before getting a world title shot. He lost to Jock Malone during that span. However, on November 1 of that year, he found himself a world title challenger against Britton, who was the world's Welterweight champion. Walker outpointed Britton over fifteen rounds to become world champion.

He had thirteen fights in 1923, winning 11, having one no decision and one no contest. He defended the title twice, against and Jimmy Jones.

Nine bouts followed in 1924, Walker winning six and having three no decisions. He defeated and Bobby Barrett in defense of his world title, and had two of his three no decisions that year against arch-enemy Jock Malone.

After winning two fights to start 1925, he went up in division to challenge world Middleweight champion on July 2 but he failed to win the Middleweight crown at that time, losing a fifteen round decision to the 160 pound division champion. He went back to the Welterweight division, defending his title against , retaining it by decision. He won three bouts, lost one and had three no decisions that year.

On May 20, 1926, he lost the world Welterweight title in a rematch with Pete Latzo. It seemed Walker, now in his mid-20's, had physically matured out the Welterweight division; though many might also point to his extra-curriculars. Whatever the reasons, Walker then began concentrating on winning the world Middleweight championship. On November 22, he finally was able to beat Jock Malone, and on December 3, he conquered the world's Middleweight title with a controversial ten round decision over world champion . He kept that title for five years, although he only defended it three times during that span. He beat Mike McTigue and former world champion .

On March 28, 1929, he tried to become a member of the exclusive group of boxers who have been world champions in three different weight divisions, however, he failed in his attempt when he was defeated in a close ten round decision to world Light champion . On June 19, 1931, Walker decided to give away his world Middleweight title to take a leap into the Heavyweight division. His debut as a Heavyweight on July 22, against former world Heavyweight champion , ended with a fifteen round draw (tie). Many felt the Bulldog from North Jersey had been robbed. In 1932, he went 5-1, beating such fighters as and before facing former world Heavyweight champion , who knocked Walker out in round eight.

He went down in weight again, to the division, in 1933, when he lost a fifteen round decision to for the world title. The next year, Walker rematched Rosenbloom and was awarded a decision win. Unfortunately for Walker, Rosenbloom, though still champion, had taken Walker on in a non-title fight. Undaunted, Walker kept campaigning in that division until 1935, when he retired after losing to Eric Seelig by a seven round technical decision.

Walker opened a restaurant after retirement and his restaurant became a popular dining place in . It is said that he faced alcoholism problems after retiring. He became, however, an accomplished painting artist, many of his works being exhibited at New York and art galleries. During his boxing career, he found golf to be a suitable distraction to his training regimen, and he often dragged his manager Doc Kearns, and his kids to golf courses to play golf.

Walker was found by police in 1974 lying on a street in New York and taken to a hospital, where he was admitted with doctors initially thinking he was just a drunken man picked up at the streets. But further testing revealed that Walker was suffering from Parkinson's disease. Walker ignored who he was or where he was at when he was picked up by the police officers.

While he recovered from this incident, Parkinson's eventually took his life, and he died seven years later. Walker had a record of 93 wins, 14 losses, 4 draws, 46 no decisions and 1 no contest in 163 professional bouts, his 60 knockout wins making him a member of the exclusive group of boxers who have won 50 or more bouts by knockout.

He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, as an original member of that institution.

Logansport Pharos Tribune 25 November 1922

How long will Mickey Walker hold the welterweight title? Some of the boxing experts are inclined to the belief that Mickey's tenure will be a short one. There are a half dozen welters entitled to a match with Walker and every one of them is a dangerous contender. George Ward and Jock Malone, who hold decisions over Walker, are more than anxious for a shot at the new champion. Johnny Karr, who has a verdict over Malone is equally anxious. Then there is Dave Shade the brilliant Californian.

Will Uplift The Stage

Jack Bulger, Mickey’s manager, has temporarily called a halt to the many challengers by announcing to the world that Walker would shortly go on the stage He said bookings covering a period of three months have already been closed. Walker, it is understood, isn't very keen for the stage stuff but his manager opines otherwise and, of course, that settles it.

Walker is the twelfth fighter to hold the welter title. Walker, by the way, is the youngest man that ever won the title in this country. Jack Britton was the oldest boxer to win and defend the honors of the division.

Britton Beat Kid Lewis.

Britton won the championship from "Kid" Lewis at New Orleans in nine rounds at Canton, O., March 17, 1919. Britton has held the title since, finally surrendering it to Mickey Walker on points.

Walker Is Only Twenty.

Walker is 20 years old. He has been fighting only three years; His victory over Britton came as a great surprise because only a few months ago Jack had won all the way from clever , until the champ committed a foul, terminating the bout.

The new champion lives in Elizabeth N. J. and is proud of it .The home folks are equally proud of Mickey. He lives with his parents and is unmarried. Walker's 'ambition after leaving school was to become an architect. He served as an apprentice in an architect's office for some time, but finally passed it all up for a ring career. His specialty now is designing new 'punches instead of buildings'.

The Morning Herald 3 July 1925

FEATURE BATTLE IS MOST FURIOUS IN MANY MOONS "WINDMILL After Being Rocked Dizzy in 14th, Walker Bests Greb in 15th. CROWD IN UPROAR By DAMON RUNYON

POLO GROUNDS, New York July 2—One tremendous splurge of wild fighting In the 14th round, during which he had Mickey Walker, welterweight champion of the world, tipsy and teetering from his smashing punches, probably saved the title of middleweight champion to Harry Greb, the "Pittsburgh wind mill" here tonight.

Greb had been lagging along a bit behind up to this round when he suddenly clipped Walker on the chin with a swinging right that dazed the little fighting Irishman from New Jersey.

Walker backed into his own corner, dizzy, dropped himself there and stood with slightly swaying head and staring eyes as Greb emptied every in his locker on him. It looked for a moment as if there would be another pugilistic surprise equal to the one sprang a short time before, when Dave Shade, of , knocked out the sensational , of Buffalo, in three rounds.

Fifty thousand men and women, who paid approximately $376,000 to see the bouts for the benefit of the Italian Hospital Fund, were on their feet shrieking as Greb pounded at Walker. Then, presently, when little Walker emerged from the storm of blows shaking his head till the water flew from the gripping black hair and stayed of Greb's attack with a right to the chin, a roar rolled out of the bowl that must have echoed over all Harlem and Heights.

Walker outfought Greb in the 15th end last round, but the whooped-teedoo finished on the "windmill" marvel man of boxing had offset anything Walker might now do, barring a knock out There was little demonstration as Joe Murphy, the veteran announcer, raised Greb's soaking glove.

Round 1RRRR

They shook hands and returned to their corners to come out fighting. They immediately went close, where both scored effectively. Greb worked his trick of getting behind his opponent, confusing but not hurting him. Walker sent a hard left to the body as Greb rushed. Walker sent Greb to the ropes with left and right to the body but Greb came back fighting. Walker sent another hard left to the body and seemed to hurt Greb. Walker sent a hard right to the body after Greb had scored with his one-two punch to the head. They were fighting furiously as the round ended, with walker scoring heavily to the body with solid lefts. Walkers round.

-Round 2RR

They met in mid-ring and Greb sent a right to the body. Greb blocked left and right and when Walker insisted on mauling at close quarters, Greb gave him some of his own medicine. Walker sent a left low. Walker outslugged Greb at close quarters and Greb broke up his attack by forcing him to the ropes , holding with his left and pummeling with his right to the body, landing solidly, Greb suddenly stood his ground and traded punch for punch with Walker, making Mickey back up. A right to the head almost sent Mickey to the floor. It was a great slugging bee and had the crowd cheering. They continued the furious fighting until the bell. It was another Walker round, on his clean punching. Greb's seconds worked furiously on his arms and legs during the intermission.

Round 3

They went close and clinched. Greb pushed Walker to the ropes and clubbed him to the head with his right. Greb was wild with a left swing and Walker sent a hard right to the body. Greb sent left and right to the head and Walker out-punched him in an exchange of swings. Mickey was keeping up his concentration on Greb's body, trying to sap the Pittsburgher's vitality through this method. Walker sent another left to the body and Greb sent a right chop to the head. Greb crossed his right to the head and sent left to the head as Walker moved in. It was another round Walker, on his solid body punching.

Round 4

Walker started with another left smash to the body. Greb crossed his right to the jaw and followed with a left to the head. He was short with a left and Walker sent over a right to the jaw. Walker landed another solid right to the body and Greb crossed with two rights to the jaw. Walker rushed and sent right and left to the head but Greb only smiled. Greb sent a wild right which landed on Walker's back, then Harry wrestled Mickey around, again getting behind him. Harry sent another left to the body and knocked down a left to the head by Mickey. Greb, who was taking matters fairly easy at this stage, laughed as Mickey tried to free his arms in a clinch. Greb had a shade in the round, his first of the fight and Walker seemed to have tired considerably as he walked to his corner.

Round 5

Greb led the first punch, a right to the side of Mickey's body. Greb rushed in with both fists flying, forcing Mickey to the ropes. Walker rushed him back and scored solidly to the mouth. Greb spat and felt his mouth with his glove. A couple of his teeth had been knocked out. Walker was bleeding from his nose. They did a lot of and mauling. The action was very slow during the last half of the round. It was an even round.

Round 6

They immediately went close and flayed away to the body with their rights. Walker sent another left to the body. Walker ducked completely under a left and they clinched. Walker sent another left to the body as Greb started to move around him. Greb held Walker with his left and pounded his kidney's with the right. He repeated the operation. Greb again went completely around Walker but did no damage. They staged a holding and hitting session, with Greb winning the honors. Walker sent two lefts to the body. Greb jogged to his corner when the bell sounded. He earned a shade in the session on his work at close quarters.

Round 7

Greb rushed, but Walker blocked a right to the head. Greb forced Walker to the ropes but was unable to land effectively. Harry crashed a right to the jaw and stayed close to walker, pounding him about. They traded blows in close, with Greb having the edge. Mickey brought up a hard right to the body. Greb sent a right to the head and they traded blows in close. Both landed lightly to the head, and again they flayed away in a semi-clinch. Walker almost backed between the ropes, but Greb pulled him close and they shook hands. Harry had Walker against the ropes, hitting him lightly when the bell rang. The referee almost on top of them, wrenched his and fell down and as the men came off the ropes they had to step over him. It was Grebs round, he being the aggressor almost throughout.

Round 8

Greb came out full of fight and sent a series of short rights to the head. Walker retaliated with a left to the body. They traded left swings to the body, Greb scoring first and Walker countering. Harry began to weave up and down in Dave Shade fashion, and Walker nailed him with a left to the jaw. Harry came back, however, with a shower of punches which forced Walker into a corner. Walker scored with four hard blows to the body in rapid succession. Harry sent two fast rights to the head in a semi-clinch and Walker went to the wrong corner when the bell sounded. Greb again had a shade.

Round 9

They met in mid-ring and clinched, neither being able to break loose to land a punch. Greb crowded walker to the ropes and mauled away, but did no damage. Greb blocked a left to the body and again backed walker to the ropes when the referee parted them. Walker sent a hard left to the body and again Greb rushed him wildly to the ropes. The referee spoke warningly to Greb. Mickey sent a left to the body and put a whipping left to the head, followed by one to the body in return. Walker had the better of an exchange at close quarters. Greb again backed walker to the ropes, leaning his weight on Mickey. Mickey’s work at close quarters gave him an even break in the round.

Round 10

Greb backed away from a right to the head, Greb piled in with left and right to head, followed by right to body and another left to head. Greb sent another right across. He blocked several body blows and then whipped over another right to the head. Harry rushed furiously and backed Walker to the ropes under a windmill of punches. Walker steadied himself as his back touched the ropes and let go a right which grazed greb's jaw. Harry continued to do the forcing with Mickey getting in only an occasional left to the body. Greb jolted Mickey’s head back with a succession of rights to the head, and it was Grebs most decisive round of the bout. He was beginning to step on the gas and show some of his real speed.

Round 11

Greb backed walker into Mickey’s own corner and held him a prisoner there while he pumped an unceasing stream of lefts to his unprotected head, until the referee broke them. Walker was furious when he got out of this awkward position but Greb immediately backed him to the ropes again and belabored him with all manner of punches. He again forced Mickey back and was giving him a lacing when walker suddenly straightened up and sent a powerful left to the jaw, dazing Greb. The crowd yelled for Mickey, but before he could take advantage of his opportunity Greb was on top of him and found a clinch and hung on until his head cleared. Then he backed walker to the ropes again in a neutral corner and kept him there, smothering him with a mauling attack until the bell rang. During the fight the referee again fell down. Greb's round by wide margin.

Round 12

They started off at a fast pace, with Walker swinging right with Greb. He was outpunching greb, both to the body and head, although Greb was scoring the greater number of blows. Greb again backed walker to the ropes. It was Walkers round on clean hitting. Round 13

They started off swinging with both fists and Walker scored the first effective punch, a left to the body. Greb again circled around walker and forced him to the ropes, but did not land. They traded swings from a distance, both landing lightly. Greb piled in with left and right to the jaw. Walker was talking to Greb. Sent a right to the jaw. Greb again forced Mickey to the ropes and sent another right to the head and outfought him in close. Greb drove walker into the latters own corner and landed a good right to the jaw. Greb again circled around walker just before the bell rang. It was Grebs round by a wide margin. Walkers face was badly puffed as he went to his corner and he seemed tired and confused.

Round 14

They traded light blows at the start. The referee was having a lot of difficulty with his trick knee and several times had to grab the ropes to hold himself up when he turned quickly. Greb had walker completely at sea when he turned on his speed. A right to the jaw sent walker staggering into his own corner and he seemed to be on his way out. Greb piled in to finish him, but Mickey stood up under the rain of punches and came back with a solid left to the head in mid-ring. Greb tired himself considerably trying for a knockout. Walker was all but out on his feet when the bell rang and his chief second, Teddy Hayes, pulled him back to his corner. Greb also was exhausted from his efforts.

Round 15

They shook hands. Greb sent a right to the head and forced walker to the ropes, where he sent lefts to the body. Walker exchanged a few swings and then caught Greb off balance and Harry almost fell down. The crowd was in an uproar. Greb sent a right to the head and then forced Walker to the ropes, where he laid on him and mauled him with a game rally and slugged punch for punch with greb. Greb was stalling for time as Mickey rushed . Greb again got walker against the ropes and dropped an overhead to his chin. Greb sent another right to the head. Greb's round.

Syracuse Herald 30 June 1926

Mickey Walker, Former Champion, Followed the Wrong Highway.

Mickey Walker had his choice of the Great night Day and the Great White Way. A cocky. good- natured champion, with the winning smile which his fist cannot now support. Walker chose the latter. Today, still hardly more than a boy in years, he is a pugilistic has been – an ex champion beaten by another challenger. The vitality that once earned him the fearsome sobriquet. "Toy Bulldog." that made him a most redoubtable welterweight champion, appears to have deserted his outwardly sturdy frame. It's a price gay Broadway never fails to exact from those who insist on tasting of her richest pleasures.

No champion ever joined Broadway and lasted long as the king of his division. One might almost say there is a broken ring potentate for every electric light on the glittering lane. Not to mention the wreckage of champions who never arrived because they first became enmeshed in the fleshpots of the Great White Way

Jack Dempsey had a rather narrow escape from having his fondest ring possessions snatched from him while doing the sights along the great Mazda alley. Dempsey “trained” there on one occasion for Bill Brennan. He entered the ring in a shaky condition and put up the worst battle of his career. The incident brought out the man in Dempsey, if it did nothing else. After due philosophizing on his disappointing showing Jack resolved to see as little as possible of Broadway.

The scare sent him to Saratoga to train for Firpo, and never once did he appear on Broadway or its side streets till after Luis had been flattened. Dempsey couldn’t be coerced into living in New York for any length of time, although he likes New Yorkers individually and collectively.

The more one thinks of the ruinous effects Broadways allurements have on fistic stars the more one must admire Benny Leonard. Benny is a New Yorker, born and bred. In dress and general characteristics, bar one, he might be catalogued as a typical Broadwayite . He has been interested in business on the Great White Way and a good part of his time has been spent there. He is a popular figure in about every rendezvous that attracts the man about town, who in reality never wanders off Broadway. Yet Benny never succumbed to any of the manifold temptations that ruin many athletes and more professional and business men. Leonard never entered the ring in anything but first class condition. And it is a good bet today, after a long layoff from fisticuffs, he could again enter the ring and reveal pretty much all of his old time form. Walker was the type of fighter who could ill afford to spend much time in the gay whirl of Broadway night life. Though a capable and highly interesting ring performer, this writer more than once contended that Mickey’s prowess was vastly overrated. He depended more upon his remarkable strength, courage and whirlwind fighting technique than on anything else. Walker was never very much of a boxer. Hence the moment his extraordinary supply of stamina began to wane he was a marked man.

The Lincoln State Journal 22 June 1928 LINCOLN BATTLER VICTIM RAW DEAL Another Funny One Written Into 's Fistic Book

Ace Hudkins won the fight but lost the decision in his championship tilt with Mickey Walker at Comiskey park Thursday night before 30,000 people The little band of Nebraska rooters were stunned when Mickey's hand was held up at the end of the greatest fight Chicago ever saw. A tremendous thunder of resentment came from the multitude in the stands, a demonstration continuing and gathering force as it went for fifteen minutes.

The great Nebraska Wildcat won the moral side of the slate. He was the aggressor all the way and had the champion into the ropes under a barrage of lefts and rights to body and head much of the time. In the fourth, Ace took a 'bad beating. The rapier-like left of Walker damaged but could not stop the oncoming and ever crashing tornado. The two judges marked Walker on their score tabs while Referee Ed Purdy turned in a strong Hudkins card. The two carried against the one, and another fast and funny one goes down for Chicago. The judges were Ed Klein and Harry Carroll. One held a close score while the other, for some reason, held a long and thin one for Walker.

Ace Still Smiles.

During the great ovation for a victor who didn't win, the Ace, hero of the might, smilingly faced the rain-soaked crowd with his hands clasped over his head and a smile on his face. While Walker landed some hard and clean punches, the Ace was the stronger except in the fourth. The worst he could have expected was a draw. It was a slashing blood and thunder scrap, but many of the ringside neutrals gave Ace four, Mickey two and called four even.

Some went even further with Hudkins. Certainly he was piling them up at a dizzy pace toward the finish. Too bad it didn't go fifteen rounds — too bad for Mickey's title. The early rounds were fought in a drizzle, the late ones in a drenching rain.

One More Robbery.

Just another robbery in Chicago. That should not startle the folks back home were it not for the fact that the victim lives in Lincoln. A pair of Chicago business men sitting in as judges reached into the hip pocket of Ace Hudkins and pulled out the world's middleweight crown earned decisively by the lion hearted wildcat. This pair of business men outshouted Referee Ed Purdy, rated as one of the best ring officials in the country. Ira Vorhies, Nebraska state boxing commissioner, had much to do with the selection at a time when there was fear in the Hudkins camp that some such person as Benny Yanger who was the referee at the time of the Walker-Tiger Flowers outrage might be picked.

Rain Blinds Them.

Maybe the two business gents acting as judges had their umbrellas up and failed to watch Ace pile his points higher and higher as the rounds went by. Vorhies had nothing to do with the appointment of judges which is all the more to his credit Even Chicago newspaper writers who looked for the champion to slaughter the Ace held their noses and spoke with emphasis concerning this latest Chicago stickup. The decision could not have been worse had the fight been held in Cicero.

Even the folks who were shouting for Walker thru the fight were ready to scalp the two judges when the staggering decision was realized. If you know the value of a world's title you can figure how much they took from the Ace in this, the greatest fight of his career.

Just before the fight the Wildcat promised to give the champion a trouncing that he never could forget. He did just that. Referee Purdy gave to the Ace a fair and square a decision as any fighter ever earned only to see the two incompetent judges it away.

Outside the monetary loss it was a great Hudkins victory. Imagine a champion crawling thru the ropes amid a big boo and hiss demonstration and imagine also this champion looking back over his shoulder at a smiling challenger. The fight was over. The robbery was done.

Warren Morning Star 22 June 1928

Walker Defends His Title Against Hudkins Assault Decision Is Given After Ten Rounds Middleweight C h a m p ion Successfully P r o t e c t s Crown in Chicago Tilt Spectators Are Stunned by Verdict, Greet it With "Boos" and Great Disorder; Judges and Referee Disagree

COMISKEY PARK, CHICAGO, June 21

Mickey Walker, world's middleweight champion, successfully defended his title against the assault of Ace Hudkins Nebraska wild cat, when he was awarded the verdict at the end of 10 savage rounds here tonight, finished in a terrific downpour of rain. The decision stunned the spectators, who greeted the verdict with boos and disorder. The crowd evidently believed that the Wildcat who kept everlastingly on top of Walker with a murderous body assault, was entitled to the verdict.

The two judges, Harry Carroll and Edward Klein, Chicago business men, voted in favor of Walker with the referee, Eddie Purdy, casting his ballot for Hudkins.

Some experts at the ringside in their tabulation of rounds credited Walker with winning only two and giving Hudkins the shade in five. Hudkins, bleeding from cuts over both eyes, came charging into Walker in almost every round with the exception of the fourth, driving both fists to the body and keeping the champion backing into the ropes in an attempt to escape Walker seemed to have no defense for Hudkin's body attack.

Walker's best showing was in the fourth when he had Hudkins wobbling and on the verge of a knockout from a terrific battering to the head. He shook Ace to his heels with a sharp left hook and then made his knees sag with a right to the chin. Hudkins, rallied, however, and came back fighting like a wounded beast, always boring in and driving both fists to the body. After the fourth round Walker appeared unable to slow up the charging challenger no matter how many times he cracked him under the chin.

The battle for viciousness and plain and fancy slugging was like the ones often read about in fiction but seldom seen. It was like a fight between a couple of longshore men, enemies for years, coming in at opposite doors of an old time saloon, and meeting in the center for a knockdown and drag out fight Hudkins appeared to revel in the going. He continually got into close quarters, placed his head under Mickey's chin and whaled away with both hands to the body with the champion backing into the ropes under the heavy assault.

Hudkins was the aggressor in close fighting with Walker landing the cleaner and sharper punches. Both were bleeding early in the battle, with blood dripping from Walker's nose in the first round . By the time the second was finished he was bleeding from a cut over the left eye. Before the fight was half over Hudkins was bleeding from cuts over both eyes and a large gash on his nose.

The battle was finished in a terrific downpour of rain. It started to sprinkle in the seventh round and in the eighth and ninth completely submerged in water, Walker and Hudkins were splashing around, neither able to get a firm footing.

The spectators, sitting out in the open, were soaked to the skin. The result of the fight was a distinct surprise to the majority of the boxing authorities as they figured Walker a 7 to 5 favorite in the betting, might dispose of the wild swinging, determined Nebraskan with a knockout punch within five or six rounds Hudkins, however, fooled them as he piled into Walker showing absolutely no fear nor respect for his flaunted punching ability. He fought as he said he would— tearing in from the start and centering his attack on Walker’s body.

The challenger entered the ring under a weight disadvantage but no disadvantage in courage. He scaled 155 pounds this afternoon with Walker tipping the beam at 158, two pounds under the middle-weight limit. The champion, however, probably entered the ring weighing around 160 pounds.

The contest was fought under the direction of promoter Jim Mullen, while the official attendance was not available tonight it was estimated that the bout drew a crowd of 25,000 to 30,000 spectators with the receipts around $130,000 to $150,000, a record gate for a middleweight fight.

Round One Hudkins appeared to be nervous to start. Walker landed a left hook to the body followed by a right to the head. Hudkins clinched backing into the ropes. He backed Mickey into a corner throwing both hands to the body Walker hooked a left to the body and brought his right into Hudkins' stomach. Hudkins threw a left to the head.

They exchanged lefts to the heads on the ropes. Walker ripped two lefts to the body. Hudkins was warned for hitting low with his left. Walker drove a right and left to the body as they clinched. Both missed lefts to the heads. Walker backing into the ropes. Hudkins missed a left to the head. They exchanged lefts to the head. Hudkins hooked a left to Walker's head and two rights to the body as they came together Walker landed a left and right to the head. Walker was bleeding from the nose. Ace missed a left to the jaw and caught two rights to the ribs.

Round Two Hudkins rushed out of his corner and clinched, chasing Mickey to a corner, pounding the champion around the body as they were locked together. Mickey crossed a right to the jaw. Hudkins missed a left lead. Ace struck two lefts in Walkers face up against the ropes. They clinched driving punches to the body.

Walker was bleeding from a cut over the left eye. Ace crowded in close pounding both fists to the body landing a right uppercut. They exchanged lefts to the head, Walker planted a right to the body. They slugged in mid ring trading punches to the head. Walker blocked a left to the body. Walker landed a right to the jaw and a right to the body. They clinched with Ace sending on a body attack. They were still clinched at the bell.

Round Three Walker drove a left to the body as they came together. Hudkins landed four hard lefts to the head and body. Walker backing into the ropes. Ace was bleeding from a cut on top of his nose. Hudkins kept tearing in, hooking his left to the body. Walker planted a left to the jaw, and then rapped him on the jaw with the same punch. Hudkins landed two lefts and a right to the head and caught a right to the jaw. Hudkins kept banging in close, driving his punches to the body. Walker backed away driving a right to the head. Hudkins backed his foe into a corner pounding away at the body. Walker landed a left to the jaw and came in close pounding the body. Hudkins landed a hard right to the jaw and Mickey clinched as the round ended.

Round Four The seconds treated Walker's bleeding eye in an effort to heal the wound. The fighters exchanged left to the head and Hudkins then brought a right and left to the body backing Mickey to the ropes. Hudkins landed two rights to the head, Walker backing away. Walker missed a right to the head. Ace drove Walker to the ropes with another left to the head. Walker hooked a left to the head but he missed another attempt. Hudkins scored with a right. Walker going into a corner. Hudkins kept up mauling Walker's body in close.

Walker missed a right to the head and Hudkins came tearing in pounding his body. Ace missed another left and landed with an uppercut, driving Walker's head back. He ripped both hands to the champion's body in close. Walker sunk a left to the body making Hudkins back away. He staggered the challenger with a right and left to the head, driving Hudkins into the ropes. Hudkins gamely fought back as the round ended, but his punches lacked steam.

Round Five Walker hooked a right to the head and was short with another. Hudkins got in close driving a right to the body and head. Hudkins was warned for hitting on the breaks. Walker backed away from two lefts. Walker’s left hook caught Ace on the neck. Mickey drove a right to the stomach and Ace planted two rights to the head. Two lefts to the head drove Hudkins back. Ace came back however with two lefts to the head, and a right to the body.

Walker hooked two lefts to the head and a right to the body. Ace centered his attack to the stomach in close. They went into a rally, both exchanging rights to the head and body. They ripped lefts to the body. Walker beat Ace to a left lead and missed with a hard right. Walker sent a left to the body and a left to the head. Hudkins landed two lefts to the body and a right to the head in close as the round ended.

Round 6 They clinched in mid ring. Both missed lefts to the head. Ace drove two lefts to the body pushing Mickey to the ropes. They exchanged lefts to the head. Rain started falling in the ring. Ace landed a left to the jaw and Walker a right to the body. Ace countered with a left to the body. They mauled in close. A left uppercut drove Walker's head back. Mickey then brought a hard right to the body and two lefts to the head. Ace landed a hard right hook' to the jaw.

They went in close with Hudkins swinging a right to the head. Mickey missed a right to the head and Hudkins landed with a left hook to the jaw. Walker hooked two lefts to the head. Ace missed a left, but pounded Walker with body punches on the ropes, as the round ended.

Round Seven Rain was starting to fall heavily as the seventh round started. Hudkin's left nook was wild and he caught a left to the head. They exchanged punches to the body in close. Walker backed away from a left lead. Ace threw two rights to the head.. Ace mauled lefts and rights to the body, as Walker backed into the ropes. Mickey shot two lefts to the head. Walker was wild with a hook and Hudkins drove both fists to the body. They slugged on the ropes, with fairly even exchange. They exchanged heavy lefts to the head. Hudkins drove two rights and lefts to the body. They came together both landing body punches. Walker was tiring under heavy body attack. Walker hooked a left to the head and Ace returned it.

Round Eight Hudkins came out with a rush and missed a wild right to the head. He backed Walker into the ropes. They exchanged lefts to the head on the break. Hudkins hooked a right and left to the head with Walker duping it. Hudkins hooked a left to the head and Walker came back with a left hook. Both missed lefts to the head. Walker scored two rights and two lefts to the jaw. Hudkins came in close, hooking his left to the body. The champion seemed to have no defense for the body attack. Hudkins was bleeding from cuts over both eyes.

Walker hooked a left to the head and a left to the body. Mickey suddenly sent his attack to the body and scored two rights. Hudkins got in close, driving Mickey to the ropes under a heavy body attack.

Round Nine The rain started furiously as the ninth round opened. Walker missed a left hook and Hudkins brought a half dozen lefts to the body forcing Walker into a corner. They exchanged lefts and rights to the head. Hudkins was wild with a right to the head and hooked two lefts to the body. Hudkins hooked a left to the head and drove two rights to the body with Walker backing to the ropes. Mickey landed two rights to head and right to jaw. Hudkins. kept bringing his left to the body as they were locked together. Mickey missed a right to the jaw. Ace bored in, punches to the body. Walker then hooked a left to the head and then backed away under Hudkin's body attack. Walker was short with a left to the jaw and Ace crowded him into the ropes, driving both fists to the body as the round ended.

Round Ten Hudkins forced Walker into the ropes driving his fist to the body, the champion having no defense. Walker retaliated with two rights to the body. Hudkins landed a right to the body. Walker was short with a left to the head. Mickey landed two lefts to the body. Hudkins drove both hands to the boy as the round ended.

The Standard 23 September 1928

Jack Kerns Has Walker Headed for the Heavyweight Crown

Mickey Walker is headed for the heavyweight championship. This is no new idea of Jack Kearns, his manager. When Kearns took Walker in charge he was still manager of , then heavyweight champion. Kearns told the world that when Dempsey retired Walker would whip all the other heavies and take the title. Walker was then welterweight champion. But as strong as most of the . Kearns started him up toward the big men by matching him with Harry Greb, middleweight champion.

Greb decisioned Walker in a close and desperate 15 round fight, and for a time there was no more talk of Walker as giant killer. But Greb lost to Tiger Flowers, and Walker whipped Flowers and became middleweight champ. He is still, but this past year Kearns has been shoving him up more slowly and carefully, Into the heavier classes.

Walker knocked out Mike McTigue in sensational style, and last week knocked out Armand Emanuel who had given light heavyweight champion Tommy Loughran a close fight. Now Kearns is out with challenges to Loughran for the light heavyweight title, and to Jack Sharkey as a sign that he considers Mickey ready to pick on the heavyweights.

Says Kearns “Walker will be heavyweight champion in another year. He is a better fight today than Dempsey was when I made him champion. He will take on jack Sharkey with 10 days training and flatten Sharkey in less time than it took Dempsey to do it. This isn't intended to be a knock for Dempsey. He was great, and nobody knows it better than I do. But Walker is a better boxer and can time a knockout punch like old Bob Fitzsimmons whose equal at that never lived. Walker is big enough to beat the heavyweights. He's as heavy as Fitz was at his best right now and at 175 pounds a few months from now he'll take all those big boys as fast as they can throw them into the ring."

SOME GOOD LITTLE MEN K. O.’D SOME BIG BOYS

Kearns always has been a master of the ballyhoo. But he seems to really believe everything he says about Walker, and in the past his judgment of a fighter's ability has been pretty good. Of course Walker isn't to be compared to Jack Dempsey as was in his great days. Mickey would last about a couple of rounds, if lucky, with Dempsey of Toledo. But among the present day heavies he might not do badly at all. It's a matter of history that a good little man can whip a second rate big man without too much trouble.

Dempsey was the good little man when he beat Willard.Bob Moha, 5 feet 5 inches tall, whipped Joe Cox, just a foot taller, and Cox had a decision over Willard. Terry McGovern knocked out . Joe Walcott knocked out Joe Choynski, who was a much better fighter than Armand Emanuel and better than any of the heavyweights around today.

Mickey Walker always reminded me of Joe Walcott. He has much the same build, but of course is bigger. Walker is six inches taller than Walcott was in his fighting days, and his natural fighting weight just now is 165 pounds. He has come up to that gradually, having started his fighting career as a lightweight.

Mickey is very stockily built, with powerful shoulders, arms and legs. He is hard to hurt. He is a very good boxer, and he is one of the cleanest fighters in the business, although as aggressive as any of the lot. He can start a man with one punch and finish him with the next one which is an art few fighters developed in recent years have mastered.

MICKEY'S WORKING THE LIGHT HEAVIES NOW.

They call Walker the "Toy Bulldog." The name fits.

Walker is likely to have something to say about the light heavyweight title, at least. He has begun knocking out men in that class, with Mike McTigue and Emanuel. He is unlike most of the sluggers in being able to show as well against the fast, clever boxers as against the tough boys. He can catch the dancers and slug with the sluggers.

Mickey may possibly tie Bob Fitzsimmons record by holding three world's championships in different classes. Fitzsimmons won the middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight titles. Walker has been welterweight champion, losing that title when he had to run himself ragged to make the weight, is now middleweight champion and may become light heavyweight champion. As for him adding a fourth title by smashing his way to the top of the heavyweight class that seems unlikely, although there are fewer good heavyweights now than at any time in the last 30 years.

Walker may have a lot of trouble getting past Loughran, a clever boxer, fast and slippery, adept at holding and going along nicely for a decision. Tommy has no punch, but he has no fear of fighters who can punch. He decisioned Lomski after being knocked down twice and nearly out in early rounds. Loughran might be able to take a decision over the Toy Bulldog.

The Burlington Hawke Eye 29 KEEPS TITLE BY TAKING DECISION IN TEN ROUNDS Verdict Not Unanimous; . The age old adage that a good big man can beat a good little man still holds good insofar as Tommy Loughran, world's light-heavyweight champion is concerned. Loughran, the master boxer, successfully resisted the assaults of Pug- Nosed Mickey Walker to win his third world boxing title tonight by decisively defeating him in a ten round battle opening Paddy Harmon's $7,000,000

The verdict, however, was not unanimous, as Davey Miller, the referee cast his ballot for Walker, the middleweight title holder, with the two judges, Eddie Klein and Phil Collins, one of the aces of Chicago's referees, voting for Loughran The score sheets show Collins gave six rounds to Loughran with Klein giving him eight, Collins gave Walker two rounds and called the other two even. Klein gave Walker one round, and called the other even. Referee Miller gave four rounds to Walker, one to Loughran and the rest square.

The battle, completely devoid of knockdowns and lacking in stirring action, except for four or five rallies, failed to draw a capacity attendance as had been expected. Instead the monster arena, largest indoor sports palace in the world, held less than 20,000, with the gate receipts estimated at $175,000. The upper balconies, holding the occupants of the cheaper seats, were packed to capacity the main floor of the arena and the mezzanine section had yawning gaps of empty space.

The Montana Standard 5 May 1929

Unless Mickey Walker develops a streak of timidity he never showed before, the next "big fight" will be for the middleweight championship. It will not be a dancing exhibition or one of these slap and tap séances.

It will be a FIGHT because it can't be anything else. Both men concerned are fighters of the strong back and beetling brow variety who would rather sock than look pretty. Neither expects to be a movie star when his fighting days are over.

When Jack Doyle, the promoter, offered Mickey Walker a flat $100,000 for his end to fight ten rounds to a title decision June 4th, Mickey's manager. Jack Kearns, didn't jump at it. He yawned and remarked that "there are other promoters in Chicago, New York and Detroit, who'll want to bid on this one." He didn't say Hudkins could go get a reputation. Everybody knows Hudkins is next in line.

Mr. Doyle was given to understand that his first offer wasn't interesting Mr. Kearns, who is a bit blasé about money after handling Dempsey's affairs for several years. While handling Dempsey Mr. Kearns acquired a peculiar deafness in both ears. He got so that the sound vibrations of small sums like a hundred thousand had no effect, on his ear drums. He could hear anything from three to seven hundred thousands, and was just, getting tuned in on a million when Dempsey dumped him.

Kearns intimated to Mr. Doyle that he might hear better if Mr. Doyle would say something more important. But. Mr. Doyle's reply was characteristic. "Jack," he said. "I'ye told you what I'm willing to pay, and I don't let anybody put me in the red ink on a boxing show. I'm kind hearted, but I'm not running a charity. Think it over. You know what Mickey drew in Chicago with Loughran. You know Hudkins is taboo in New York since the De Vos match. They're busy making automobiles in Detroit. Hudkins and Walker are both popular in this town and a lot of people think Ace can lick Mickey. That’s why I offered you the limit right of the bat."

Withstood Rough Tactics.

Micky Walker and Ace Hudkins put up a tough 10 rounds In Chicago last spring. Mickey won the decision. Ace tells his friends he was robbed, but as I saw it Walker won. He outpunched Ace whenever he could get arms loose from Hudkins' grip. Ace dived in headlong, grabbed, butted, roughed, slugged as long as he could in the clinches, while Walker didn't hold at all 'and tried to fight according to rules. But physically Ace wasn't" licked. He was just as tough at the end as at the start, and lots of people count their points on that.

Mickey staggered Ace with clean hits more than once, but Ace came right back mauling harder than ever. He'd be a wonderful fighter in a cellar, with the lights out and no referee. I doubt that Mickey is as anxious to fight Hudkins as Hudkins is to fight Mickey. The prospects of fighting a fellow who uses head, elbows, wrists and wrestling grips as much as his fist isn't pleasant, especially when Mickey knows Ace has been allowed to use his rough, stuff in Los Angeles fights so much that the crowd goes to see him because he's so different from other fighters. Hudkins has "educated" them to the rough stuff in L. A. until the fans think they're being cheated when boxer blocks a punch or feints for an opening.

And you have to hand it to Hudkins for one thing. He isn't afraid. There isn't a timid hair on his head. He'd fight a buzz saw. He thinks he can lick anybody and he can't be convinced to the contrary. Hudkins is Nebraska farm bred. He is round built, with long smooth muscle.

There isn't a "physical culture" bum on him. Consequently he has endless endurance. Smooth muscled men have that, bumpy, hard muscled men have none at all. I think Ace Hudkins has everything Bat Nelson ever had except the whiskers punch. Knock him on his heels and he rocks forward and runs in again. He's always pounding away somewhere. He can box a little and he has a knack of unexpectedly hitting a clean right hand punch, straight to the mark.

He startled New York by flattening Rube Goldstein that way. In his most recent fight he almost knocked Emanuel, the heavyweight, out in the second round with this punch, so that he didn't have the slightest difficulty in giving Emanuel a good beating in the 10 rounds. Of course Emanuel; who was knocked out by middleweight Mickey Walker and whipped by middleweight Ace Hudkins, is now classed as the world worst fighter, but he was a heavyweight and had given Tommy Loughran a couple of battles, and Ace, who fattened up to weight in officially a the required 166 pounds, was only 162 at the ringside.

Hudkins has been after a Walker fight at the middleweight limit ever since that Chicago affair. When Doyle gave out his offer Hudkins and his two brothers. Art and Clyde, who manage him, rushed down to see the promoter.

Popular With Crowd.

Doyle had offered Hudkins seventeen and a half per cent of the gate Ace didn't haggle.

"Give me anything you want to," he said to Doyle. "I don't care what money I get if I get Mickey into the ring. I was robbed in Chicago, but this time I'll get even." That's Hudkins dally chant: "I was robbed in Chicago, 'but wait till I get that guy." And he believes it. He believes he'll whip Walker just as he believed he'd whip Emanuel when he told Emanuel: "You’d better come there in good shape because I'm goin to knock your block off."

Whatever happens and wherever Walker and Hudkins fight this out for the middleweight crown. Hudkins will have a little better than a slim outside chance. He's so persistent, untiring, furiously aggressive and punchproof, that he'd have it chance with anybody within 10 pounds of his weight.

And the crowd favors the man who is always crowding in and mauling away, however unscientific and the Judges and referee are sometime swayed by the crowd. Hudkins has lost decisions and deserved to in them, but the crowd always gives him the unofficial vote and razzes winner. It's hard for judges and referee to go against crowd psychology. Sometimes, when there's a bit at stake, they may not do it

Walker should beat Hudkins and keep his crown. Walker is incomparably a better boxer and fighter. He’s a clean fighter. He's a knockout walloper, but he does his walloping acording to the Marquis of Queenberry. He's a sportsman, because when the other fellow fouls Mickey refuses to retaliate with the rough stuff.

The Montana Standard 17 November 1929

By ROBERT EDGREN.

Looking on at Los Angeles a few nights ago while Mickey Walker gave Ace Hudkins the most complete beating that ever was handed anyone without the accomplishment of a knockout, I couldn't help mentally comparing Mickey with our other middleweight champions as far back as my recollection goes—which is quite a way back.

Others have contrasted Mickey with Fitzsimmons, Ketchel, Papke, Greb, Ryan, etc. etc., usually with the comment that any of these gentlemen could have knocked Mickey for a goal in a round or two. I don't figure Mickey so low in the championship scale. I'd say that he could have given Ketchel, Papke, Ryan or any of the lot a whale of a fight with a fairly good chance of winning. But we'll leave Fitzsimmons out.

It is cruel to compare any other middleweight with Fitzsimmons because no other middleweight that ever lived could have had a possible chance against Fitzsimmons. Fitz was a man with a peculiar fighting build. He was about six feet tall, had very wide shoulders and long arms, and a light body and small waist and thin legs. His weight was all hitting weight. He was the hardest hitter in the world—even among the heavyweights when he still was a middleweight.

He had the quickest, coolest and most resourceful mind in his profession. There was only one Fitzsimmons, and I don't expect ever to see another. He weighed only 147 ½ pounds when he knocked out the great Nonpareil Jack Dempsey for the middleweight championship — and Dempsey never had a chance in that fight from the moment Fitzsimmons put up his hands. He was well under the middleweight limit when he knocked out Jim Corbett, cleverest and fastest of heavyweight champions.

But barring Fitzsimmons, Walker looks just about as good as any of the . There is a glamour and glory about past champions that makes them seem greater when they are gone from the ring than they seemed when we looked at them in action; Tommy Ryan was a great middleweight, but if you analyze his fights they were no better than Walker's. The same could be said of any of the rest — barring only Fitz.

Greb never knew much about boxing. He was a windmill of action, swinging endlessly from bell to bell and able to sop up any amount of punching. Even the great doesn't figure so much better than Mickey, If you look at facts and cut out the glamour of past glory.

Looks Are Deceiving.

Perhaps they looked the part of a champion more than Mickey looks the part. Mickey isn't tall, and square shouldered and thin legged. He is short, almost dumpy in build. He is thick all over. He has very thick legs and thick arms, and his body is short and thick. He has no neck at all, that you notice at a glance.

You wouldn't think that Mickey could move fast on his pillar-like legs. They look like good legs to lift with. You could picture Mickey being very good with a shovel, heaving dirt and rocks out of a trench, standing on one spot, but you wouldn't picture him swiftly around a ring. Yet he moves with plenty of speed, in spite of the heavy legs and the thick, dumpy build . He has fighting intelligence and is a perfect boxer as well as a fast, hard hitter. He is an accurate hitter too. He very seldom misses. When he lets a punch go he isn't guessing. He knows where it is going. He times it and his eye is good. Being husky he can take punches and fight back hard, and he’s most dangerous when he has just been walloped on the chin.

Mickey doesn't look as fast as he really is, because whenever he moves you see those thick legs. Thin legs seem to move faster because they don't impress the eye so much. Mickey looks clumsy, and he isn't. He's a deceptive fighter in that way.

But the story, that the Fitzsimmons build, with thin legs, and wide, square shoulders and long arms, is the only proper fighting build, is all wrong. Benny Leonard was built like Mickey Walker, and he could go as fast as the fastest, and outbox and outhit any lightweight of his time. Benny’s legs were so thick that he worried about them and was always wearing heavy woolen tights and trying to train them “light”. He wanted to have thin legs like Joe Gans, his ideal lightweight.

The Havre Daily News – Montana 20 August 1929 Walker takes Decision In Furious Ten round Mill With Lomski BOXERS PUT ON REAL SLUGGING Score Sheet Gives Toy Bulldog Six Rounds; Lomski Three With One Even

By EDWARD J. Neil

PHILADELPHIA,. Aug. 19. (AP) —Mickey "Walker, the embattled toy bulldog, who has ruled two fistic divisions in his ten years of leather slinging, geared himself up another notch tonight and punched his way right into the heart of the light heavyweight domain. Before a crowd of 25.000 in the center of the Sesqui Centennial stadium, the king of the middleweights, hammered out a ten round decision over Leo Lomski. clouting blonde from Aberdeen. Wash., and did the job so thoroughly that three times the ace of the light heavyweight contenders was on the verge of a knockout.

The victory gave walker, welterweight champion before winning the middleweight crown ,unofficial leg on the light heavyweight title, which Tommy Loughran, is expected to relinquish in order to joust in the future with the heavyweights.

Scaling six pounds above the middleweight limit, the Jerseyman tonight raged all over the ring as the battered and mauled Lomski, the man who twice floored Loughran in a title fight almost two years ago.

In the third, seventh and ninth rounds, Mickey's furious attack, 'studded with left hooks that rang out on Lomski's chin and body, hammered the Pacific coast star to the verge of a knockout. But each time Lomski came back.

From the opening gong with never a let-up, the air was filled with flying leather as the clean cut gladiators, both in splendid condition worked into a fighting fury and stayed there.

Although Walker as well as Lomski was badly stung at times, punishment seemed only to make the pair fight the harder. The speed and fury of the milling kept the crowd, a mere handful compared to the 'mammoth throng that filled the famous stadium for the Tunney-Dempsey battle here in 1926 in a constant state of uproar.

Aside from Walker's occasional lapses into his usual and weaving style of milling, the pair cast science aside and slugged the thing out. The Associated Press score sheet gave Walker a decided margin in six rounds, with three for Lomski and the tenth even. The decision of the judges and referee was unanimous.

ROUND ONE Lomski poked cautiously at Walkers head with a left and took two solid left hooks in return. The Aberdeen slasher chased Walker into the ropes, hooking his left hand steadily to the middleweight champion's chin, but another rousing left stung him on the chin. Leo was wild as he rushed Walker across the ring. Two solid rights however shook Mickey to the heels just before the gong.

ROUND TWO Lomski fought aggressively and stung Walker with a straight left to the chin. But he ran into a storm of leather as the infuriated toy bulldog lashed back with both hands to the head. Walker smashed his foe all the way cross the ring with a punishing barrage of left and right hooks to the head and body. They battled wildly on the ropes and back to mid ring swapping clouts until the bell rang.

ROUND THREE Thoroughly warmed up now, they swapped left in the center of the ring, danced and hooked and filled the ring with fast, exciting action. Walker threw two long rights to Lomski's jaw but Leo increased his pace and speared the bulldog's face with, left jabs. A hard left drew blood from Lomski's lips just before the gong.

ROUND FOUR Mickey outsmarted the Pacific coast star shifted his style frequently and stung Leo with the speed of his attack. Mickey's left hook seeped steadily through Lomski's guard and one terrific left smashed to the body almost floored the Aberdeen boy. Badly hurt, Leo held a moment and then ripped back furiously with both hands. He was forcing the issue at the bell.

ROUND FIVE Lomski increased his speed by jabbing furiously with his left and tying up the toy bulldog effectively in the clinches that followed. Buried under the leather storm, Walker hung on and slowed up as Lomski shifting to a wild swinging attack smashed the middleweight champion around the ring. Walker reeled under a straight right smash to the chin, stumbled into the ropes and took a thorough hiding up to the gong.

ROUND SIX Despite the terrific pace, neither sought to slow the milling and Lomski fought furiously to keep the upper hand. He rushed Mickey across the ring before two busy hands but was stopped short by a left hook to the chin. Lomski lashed a hard right and stinging left hook to Walker's cheek, but Mickey managed to land two short hooks at the bell.

ROUND SEVEN Walker took the upper hand again, swinging his left in wide arcs, from crouch to Lomski's chin. One solid smash as they battled on the ropes staggered Leo. They called each other names as they broke clear and the referee scowled. Lomski wilted as Mickey swarmed all over him with left hooks, but rallied and battled Walker grimly in a neutral corner as the bell sounded.

ROUND EIGHT A left hook to the ear and an overhead knocked Lomski to the ropes and brought him out battling furiously. He stayed close to Walker, pounding for the head while Mickey beat a drum fire on his body. A right smash to he head failed to stop Walker and he ripped both hands to Lomski's head and body on the ropes. They stayed at long range until the bell, Lomski swapping his right to the head for Mickey's sturdy left hooks.

ROUND NINE Lomski rushed Walker to the ropes and battered heartily with both hands opening a cut over Mickey's left eye. A left and right to the head knocked Lomski into the ropes and his knees buckled under him. He was badly hurt and held on as Walker belted him about the ring. Lomski well in close, staggering as Walker kept up his battering attack. Shaking his head clear, Lomski threw two rights into Walker's head and held on until his head cleared and the hell sounded. He staggered to his corner bleeding from a cut under his right eye.

ROUND TEN They shook hands for the final round and Lomski apparently fully recovered, drove Walker into a corner with a stream of rights to the head. Mickey fought back courageously, but took another storm of smashes to the head, as Leo drove him across the ring and into another corner. Walker fought his way clear and looped a hard left to Lomski's chin. The pace never slackened as they smashed at each other's heads without any attempt at scientific mauling. They fell into the ropes, still pushing wildly and fought their way out and across the ring again without a letup. Lomski smashed in a final wallop, a right to the chin.

Jefferson City Post-Tribune

8 Oct 1929

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8.—Will Ace Hudkins be the next middleweight champion?

The Nebraska. Wildcat is certain that he will. Mickey Walker, present title holder, is equally sure that Cat won't. But the question will not be decided until October 29, when Hudkins and Walker- meet at Los Angeles, for the championship.

The bout is holding the spotlight in the boxing world as one of the best "naturals" of the year, with the tearing, savage Cat matched against the hard-hitting, crafty Walker. "Sure " I’ll beat him," says the confident Hudkins, who has recently removed the last obstacle in his path before the Walker bout, taking a six round technical knockout over Kentucky Joe Anderson.

Walker has memories of a decision over Hudkins in Chicago some time ago, and is certain that he can "take" the Cat again.

Los Angeles fans are boosting Hudkins in the bout. Hudkins, always a good drawing card, definitely put himself in line for a title bout by decisively whipping Kentucky Joe Anderson. He carried a vicious, slashing attack that had Joe in a bad way in four rounds, and brought an end in the sixth.

Both Walker and Hudkins can hit and take it. Walker may hold a slight edge in betting, due to greater ring craftsmanship and greater boxing skill, but should Hudkins be timing in his one two’s with the same accuracy that he displayed against Anderson, and should his right and left hooks carry the same effectiveness, a new champion may be crowned.

Walker has not defended his title for some time, but has been doing considerable work, so that he should be in condition for the bout. Hudkins has been fighting more, and is in top shape for the affair. The Cat came through the Anderson bout with hardly a mark.

Hudkins is a dangerous infighter. Anderson won only the round that he stood off Hudkins and boxed him. Walker has gone into the light heavyweight division for several bouts this year, but should have no difficulty in making the 160-pound limit. Hudkins fights best at 157 pounds, well under the limit, and the few pounds should give Walker no advantage.

The Billings Gazette 30 Oct 1929

Mickey Takes Eight Rounds Of Fast Mill

Ace Sees Barrage of Leather as Champ Warms Up to Early Finished Form.

Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, .Cal., Oct. 29.—(AP)— Mickey 'Walker successfully defended his middleweight crown here Tuesday night when he gave Ace Hudkins, the Nebraska Wildcat, a terrific punching in 10 rounds.

Fighting in all his old-time form, the champion, not only 'outfought Hudkins in nearly every round but had the Nebraskan groggy on several occasions. It was the second meeting of the pair, Walker having defeated Hudkins in 10 rounds In Chicago last year.

A crowd of 25,000 persons accounting for a gate of around $110,000. saw the contest. Walker's devastating short lefts and rights to the jaw had Hudkins in a bad way in the opening round. Again in the sixth round the champion clipped his rugged opponent with a right to the jaw that had him dazed and holding on. Walker had eight of the 10 rounds, Hudkins one and one was even. The champion received a fine ovation when he left the ring.

ROUND ONE Hudkins danced out they clinched and belted each other at short range. Hudkins forced the champion around the ring, mauling at him and beating a tattoo to the body. Walker unleashed a two-handed attack to the body and clipped Hudkins with a hard left to the chin coming out of a clinch. Walker drove in two more lefts to the body.

As Hudkins rushed in and connected with another pair of jolting lefts that nearly dropped the challenger, Hudkins recovered and drove into a clinch, flailing away with both hands. Walker landed four pile driver punches to the body and both exchanged punches furiously at the bell.

ROUND TWO Hudkins rushed across the ring but Walker hit him with a left hand to the body. Walker was boxing in nice style and clipped .the Wildcat with a sharp left to the chin as the latter bored in, They locked arms in the middle of the ring, Hudkins pounding to the body. Walker slashed over a right and left to the chin us Hudkins drove in, but took several stinging punches to the midsection. Hudkins never stopped coming in and threw rights and lefts to the body, meanwhile shaking off half a dozen rights and lefts to the chin. They were at the bell.

ROUND THREE The challenger rushed across the ring and forced Mickey to the ropes, mauling him in the rnidsection Walker speared Hudkins with a long left to the face and drove in a hard right to the body as his opponent charged again. Hudkins pushed Walker around the ring, landing three feeble lefts. Walker battered the Wildcat in a terrific body attack that, made Ace wince. Walker was forcing the fighting and landing with both hands to the face and body as he tried desperately for a knockout, Hudkins rallied and drove in several body punches which appeared low, and he was cautioned by the referee. They slugged toe to toe as the bell sounded.

ROUND FOUR Hudkins rushed out with determination on his face and belted Walker to the body, They exchanged punches. Walker playing for the head and Hudkins trying for the body. At short range Hudkins slipped over long lefts to the body and alternated with a right to the jaw. Walker landed a sharp right that cut Hudkins' left eye and he battered the Wildcat with both rights and lefts to the jaw. Walker danced away clipping Hudkins at long range .repeatedly. The challenger backed his opponent into the ropes and 'pounded away with both hand's as the round ended.

ROUND FIVE Hudkins charged across the ring, got his head down, and threw punches from every angle. They exchanged punches during a short flurry in mid-ring with Walker having the better of the milling. Hudkins stuck three lefts into Walker’s face but took two hard right hands in the body as he rushed in a second time. Walker stood back and pasted his opponent with a right and left to the jaw which brought the claret from Hudkins' nose and eyes. Hudkins rushed Walker into the ropes without damage. Walker scored a left to the jaw, The challenger forced Walker back to the ropes and belted with both hands to the body.Walker scored a right and left to the jaw as the round ended.

ROUND SIX Walker debated Hudkins bull-like rush and speared him ,with a left and right at close range. Hudkins tried to rush Walker into the ropes, but failed. They exchanged rights und lefts at close range. Walker hooked to the face with a left and right and dropped both punches to the body in another exchange. Hudkins came in again and received two more lefts and rights to the chin that half spun him around. Hudkins wrapped his left arm around Walker’s neck and belted him with his right to the body. They exchanged rights to the body, each reeling back from the blows. Hudkins drove In with his head down but received three rights and lefts that brought him up sharply. They milled furiously as the round ended.

ROUND SEVEN They clinched in mid-ring but broke away quickly to exchange light punches. Hudkins tried to feint Walker into a lead then jumped in himself to receive a right to the jaw. Hudkins started a furious rally that had Walker on the run. Hudkins whipped over half a dozen lefts and rights. Walker rallied, throwing terrific left and right hand punches to the jaw that slowed up Hudkins, They exchanged rights and lefts to the body, but both slowed up visibly, under the grueling pace. Hudkins forced Walker into the ropes and found a mark on the champion's body. They mixed it in another fast rally both throwing punches wildly at the bell.

ROUND EIGHT Walker livened up to take the play away from his opponent, and belted the Ace with a hard body attack. Hudkins kept coming in, flailing away with both hands and scored with a looping left to the jaw. They mauled around the ring without damage. Walker missed a wild left hook, and they clinched. Walker connected with a hard right to the body but took several lefts and rights to the mid-section in return. Walker missed a right to the jaw but connected with a left uppercut to the Jaw. Hudkins rallied and chased the champion back around the ring with a two handed body attack as the gong sounded.

ROUND NINE The Nebraskan landed a left to the body to start the round. He rushed in again, shot over a straight left to the face but took a right and left to the chin in return. They exchanged rights and lefts to the body. Walker scored a short right uppercut and a left to the body and Hudkins bored in. Hudkins landed two rights to the kidney but dropped back from two hard rights to the chin. Walker speared his opponent with short rights and lefts to the chin as the challenger rushed in with his head down. Hudkins landed a right and left to the jaw, and drove Walker back around the ring from punches to the mid-section as the gong rang.

ROUND TEN They shook hands, exchanged lefts to the face on the next exchange. Walker brought Hudkins chin up with a bristling right uppercut. A right opened the cut over Hudkins eye while he bled profusely from a spilt lip. Walker whipped over rights and left to the jaw as Hudkins rushed in.

Hudkins drove over a left and was cautioned by the referee. They exchanged lefts to the body. It was a low left. Each connected, With rights and lefts and they slugged toe to toe in the center of the ring. Walker landed a right to the jaw and pounded Hudkins with both hands to the face and body. They missed rights but Walker jolted Hudkins with two more lefts and a right to the jaw as the round ended.

Letherbridge Herald

26 Feb 1931

Mickey Walker, Middleweight Champ, Hammers Out Decision Over Risko Estimated Crowd of 20,000 Present at "Pa" Stribling's Boxing Show—Finishing Last Two Rounds in Whirlwind Fashion, Title Holder is Awarded Victory Johnny Has 30 Pound Weight Advantage

In a slashing slugfest Mickey Walker pounded out a ten round victory last night, over Johnny Risko in the feature bout of "Pa" Stribling's heavyweight show. The middleweight champion won the judges decision by staging a great finish in the last two rounds.

FIGHT BY ROUNDS

Round One Risko and Walker wore white gloves, ordered by the boxing commission as a means of detecting foul blows. Walker landed the first blow, a light left to the head as they came to a clinch. Johnny tore in with both hands and they were soon head in a brisk slugfest. Mickey caught Johnny with a smart left to the ear, and they clinched.

Grounding in his very best style, Risko repeatedly leaped in with both hands and kept the mauling at close range. Walker was jarred by an overhand right to the head and they exchanged lefts to the body. Johnny was on top of his smaller rival at the bell.

Round Two Walker stabbed with his left and clinched, but Johnny fought himself loose and flayed Mickey with both fists. Risko charged his rival but was clipped by two hard rights to the chin. Walker bent a tattoo on Johnny's ribs and sent the bouncing one back on his heels with a stiff smash to the jaw.

Mickey caught Johnny with another swift left to the whiskers and they battled away at a fast clip. Walker was getting the range and tying Risko effectively at close quarters as the gong sounded.

Round Three Mickey sank his left Into Johnny's midsection as they rushed into action. Risko continued his aggressive tactics but was being beaten to the punch consistently by the hard punching Irishman. They were pried loose from half dozen clinches without much damage having been done. Johnny was missing a lot of punches as he absorbed a pounding around the middle. Walker was showing speed and out-boxing Risko as the round ended.

Round Four Johnny swung both hands to the head but Mickey rolled with the punches and cuffed the bouncing one briskly in return. Risko connected with both hands to the head and roughed Walker along the ropes. Mickey hooked a beautiful left to Johnny's ear and ducked the counter swing. Risko used his weight to advantage at close quarters and kept on top the middleweight champion. Johnny took three jabs on the nose without even blinking as the bell sounded.

Round Five They slugged at a furious pace from the tap of the gong and soon had the crowd in an uproar. Johnny seemed to have a little better of it but Mickey came of the ropes and fired both hands to the head with telling effect.

Both were swinging from the hips in a succession of wild mixups. Johnny battled his way out of a clinch but was thrown off balance by a left hook the jaw and backed away. Johnny was grunting, pushing and mauling Mickey along the ropes at the gong.

Round Six Mickey sank his left into Johnny's middle and the baker boy grunted. Mickey was warned for hitting low but Johnny made no protest and bounded back at his rival with both fists. Risko flailed Walker earnestly while the crowd cheered. They were mixing it like a couple of stevedores as the punches flew from all directions.

Walker continued his attack to the body but was cut over his left eye by one of Risko's wild swings. They were head to head at the bell.

Round Seven Risko started the blood flowing from the gash over Mickey's eye. They were soon in a wild melee. Walker landed heavily to the ribs with his left and forced Johnny to clinch. Walker speared his rival with both hands after avoiding one of Johnny's bull-like rushes. The smaller man cuffed and slashed his rival with a sustained attack as Johnny looked baffled. Walker's face was a bloody smear but he was fighting desperately. Walker sank his left to the ribs at the bell . Round Eight Mickey fired a straight right to the jaw and stepped inside Risko's counter, Risko landed an overhand right to the jaw but Mickey ripped into his rival with both hands. Johnny continued to force the fighting and they were head to head most of the time. They exchanged hard lefts to the head and the blood was pouring again from Walker's cut eye. Risko tore into his rival without the slightest letup. They were in a clinch at the bell.

Round Nine With little to choose thus far they rushed out with both hands swinging. Mickey rocked Risko with a vicious left to the head, crossing with his right and Johnny hung on grimly. Johnny rushed back in but took two more terrific wallops to the jaw followed by a left that had him groggy. Risko clinched and lost some of his aggressiveness. Johnny was grunting with every punch and seemed tired. Walker ripped a left to the body as the gong sounded.

Round Ten They shook hands and Risko slugged Mickey with a left on the ear. Johnny bored back in with both fists working like flails but had his head snapped back by a right uppercut. Walker met Risko's rush with a right smash to the jaw that nearly put Johnny on the floor and followed with a terrific left to the body. Johnny was tired and badly battered but still game as he forced Walker to the ropes. A right uppercut staggered Risko and he fell into Walker's arms. Johnny was still full of fight but wild as a hawk and taking terrific punishment at the bell.

Montana Standard 19 July 1931 By Robert Edgren

Mickey Walker comes to grips with Jack Sharkey Wednesday night in Now York. This ought to be a fight. Walker always fights. Sharkey fights when he isn't suffering from an inferiority complex, and he isn't bothered that way against smaller men. He knocked out Light Heavyweight, Champions Delaney and Loughran quickly, suddenly and with no especially noticeable effort. Mickey is only a middleweight champion who has resigned the title, temporarily at least, to get a chance to fight Sharkey in New York. Sharkey has recovered his speech after a year of near silence and is telling the world that he won't try to knock Mickey out in the first round, but will keep him going a while to get a little needed training in the ring.

The Shark says boxing 10 rounds with Mickey will be cheaper than hiring a good sparring partner. He says he will just pop Mickey back on his heels and put over the kayo when he's ready. This sounds like the old Shark.

Mickey’s a Body puncher

Bluster aside, Sharkey must know that he has a fight on his hands with Mickey. Mickey is short, but isn't small. He has the powerful legs, arms and shoulders of a heavyweight .He is the Joe Walcott of today. Being short he'll be hard for Sharkey to hit. The Shark always had trouble hitting dumpy fighters, like Risko and Heeney. Walker is better than either of these. Joe Walcott, only an inch over five feet tall, knocked out Joe Choynski, a doggoned good heavyweight.

Walker has a good a punch as Joe ever had. He is a grand finisher when he gets his man going, and he is a great body puncher. That last item is worth thinking over, Shark.

Mickey is a lot better fighter than the Sharkey man, and he has a better record. This doesn't mean that he can whip Sharkey. There's a difference of fully 30 pounds in the weights, in Sharkey's favor. That gives Sharkey a break that may be hard to overcome. Sharkey ought to win this fight and if he doesn't he might as well retire and go on with the business of part- managing , who looks like a better fighter than Sharkey ever has been.

Walker Clean Fighter.

Walker is one of the cleanest fighters I ever saw in a ring. He never hits low, roughs or wrestles or fouls in anyway. He's a natural sport and loves fighting. I saw him against Ace Hudkins in Chicago. Ace heeled, elbowed, hit low several times, and butted continually for 10 rounds, and Mickey never retaliated with rough stuff even once.

He fought whenever he could drag his arms free from Hudkins clutches, grinned as if he enjoyed it and never mentioned the low punches to the referee. It was the best exhibition of self-control I remember seeing in the ring. I saw Mickey butted by until his eyes were so cut he could no longer see, and even then he didn't protest. No, even when the fight was stopped and given to Dundee on a T.K.O.

If anyone does any appealing in Wednesday night's imbroglio it will be the Shark. He has the habit. It was so certain that Sharkey would appeal to the referee the night he fouled Dempsey that the following conversation took place between Flynn and Dempsey in the training cottage at Saratoga lake, while I listened with much enjoyment over getting an earful of inside stuff:

One Battle Planned In Advance.

Leo Flynn, (acting as Dempsey's manager): "Now, Jack, that big bum never had a fight in his life where he didn't claim a foul and turn his head to appeal to the referee. He even did it when he knocked out Maloney — one of the softest touches he ever had. If you keep hitting him in the belly he'll appeal sure. He'll stop and try to tell the referee he's been fouled. The minute he turns his head, sock him with everything you've got. Just him in the belly a few times and hold the big punch back. Keep on pecking at his belly no matter what happens, He'll turn to look at the referee — and you know what to do."

Dempsey (chuckling;):'"I'll know what to do. If that bird takes his eye off me he'll never know what hit him."

That thing came out exactly as planned. Sharkey half murdered Dempsey in the first two or three rounds, but Jack's grim courage walking into punches, and pounding at Sharkey's body finally made the Shark back up, As Sharkey retreated Dempsey followed, crouched over and pocking at Sharkey's waistline with short rights. The referee was on Sharkey's left side. Finally Dempsey socked in a hard hook in the pit of the stomach. Instinctively Sharkey turned his eyes toward the referee, and bam .Over came Dempsey's left hook and the fight was finished just exactly as programmed that night at Saratoga Lake.

Sharkey learned something in the Dempsey fight. He takes his chin out of range before he looks toward the referee. Sharkey is a confident, cocky fighter before every fight and at the beginning of every fight. If he makes a, good start he bears down hard. If he doesn't make a good start he isn't so wild and wooly. If he makes a good start with Walker, and he ought to, considering the difference in weight, he'll fight with a contemptuous sense of superiority and when he's in that frame of mind he's a mighty dangerous heavyweight. Sharkey uses a looping on shorter men. He may be able to drive Mickey into the ground with it.

Walker's chance lies in the fact that he is as tough as a hickory knot,in spite of some years of reckless living, and he can take a lot of punches without in the least losing heart or losing his own ability to sock over a knockout. He is a great boxer and a born fighter, always rushing and tearing in to fight. It's impossible to hold him off without knocking him out—and they never have had any luck trying to put Mickey down for a 10 count.

Sharkey Should Win.

Mickey is short and stocky. Tall men often have trouble in putting up their fight .against those compact fellows. Jim Jeffries told me a month ago that Tom Sharkey - much like Walker in build - was the hardest man to fight he ever fought. "He was so short that he came in under my punches," said Jim "and he was always tearing in fast with both hands going all the time. He was so tough it was almost impossible to hurt him. When I broke three of his ribs at Coney Island, he didn't slow up. He didn't know he was hurt until after the fight."

Mickey Walker is of a very similar type - but more skillful and resourceful. He also has Jack Kearns in his corner. That's a hard combination. Sharkey should win the fight. He has everything to win it with. But will he win? I feel like George Low when George was talking over a golf match: "'Tis the surest Thing in the world, but I have me doots”.

End

Twin Falls Daily News, Idaho 27 September 1932

Gallant Irishman Fights Heroically For Eight Rounds Loser Takes Two Times in Course of Bout Witnessed by 55,000 Fans In Madison Square Garden By ALAN GOULD

Punishing power in Max Schmeling's deadly right hand abruptly checked the heavyweight surge of gallant Mickey Walker tonight and gave the German heavyweight a technical knockout victory over the chunky little Irishman after eight sensational rounds of a 16-round match.

In a dramatic and,-unusual finish, the fight was stopped after the bell ended the eighth round with Walker so badly cut and bleeding around the eyes that he was unable to continue.

Knocked down twice for counts of six and nine seconds in the eighth, Walker staggered to his corner with his left eye tightly closed, his right eye cut and gashes about his nose and mouth. Without hesitation his veteran manager, Jack Kearns, accepted defeat for the fighting Irishman, and notified Referee Jack Denning, who immediately awarded the decision to Schmeling.

In effect Walker was "stopped," the victim of his knockout since he was halted 1928 by Joe Dundee after previously losing the world welterweight title to Pete Latzo.

55,000 Fans Gather

A crowd estimated by Promoter James J. Johnston at 55,000, contributing to gate receipts of about $175,000 saw Walker battered to shreds in the eighth round by Schmeling's spectacular right-hand attack after a spirited rally had carried the fighting Irishman back from the verge of' being knocked out in the very first round.

Walker was knocked down for a six count with a terrific right-hander to the jaw in the opening round, cut about the mouth and otherwise battered as a result of his over-confidence in trying to swap punches at long range with the German.

Safely past this spot. Mickey rallied so effectively, carrying the fight to close quarters and punishing Max's body, that he took four of the next six rounds and appeared to have the upper hand when the fatal eighth started.

It looked as if Schmeling had been slowed up by Walker's body punches in the third, fourth, fifth and seventh rounds. The German was backing off, befuddled by Mickey's rushes, trying to regain his bearings. The barrel chested little Irishman himself appeared confident he had taken the steam out of his rival's right hand for at the outset of the eighth he again decided to risk a free- swinging exchange. From under his chin, Schmeling right hand lashed out suddenly and caught Mickey squarely on the right temple. It was a short blow, traveling not more than a foot, but it had dynamite In it. Walker bounded back, dazed and reeled into the ropes. Another short right connected and Mickey hit the floor, rolling over on one side.

Walker Fights Gamely

Up after a count of six, his left eye beginning to close and blood pouring from a cut in his mouth Walker gamely lashed back at his rival. Schmeling closed cautiously then quickly seized a fresh opening and landed his right to the chin with telling effect. Mickey rolled of the ropes to the floor, turned a half somersault and landed with his nose in the resin on all fours.

He regained one knee and this time took a count of nine before coming up. He rushed back Schmeling with all the fury of bulldog. Half-blinded and so groggy he didn't appear to know what was going on. Walker still had enough fighting instinct left to keep swinging. He so completely tied up Schmeling that the German was unable to connect effectively again before the bell.

After the fight Walker said the blow that proved the most damaging was a right upper-cut that bounced off his cheek, hit his left eye and put it out of commission. Thereafter Walker said, there were at least three Schmeling’s in front of him.

Schmeling displayed his big punch in only two of the eight rounds the first and eighth, but It was entirely too much for even so rugged and seasoned a warrior as Walker Mickey was able to hold his own and frequently outbox the German so long as be kept in close, working his left to the body and blocking Schmeling's rights with his or shoulder.

Schmeling also won the second and sixth rounds, on The Associated Press score sheet, thereby making the score exactly even—four and four— so far as the rounds were concerned, but that didn't happen to be the payoff.

Walker's best rounds were the fifth and seventh, in both of which he chased his bigger and heavier opponent around the ring with effective punches to the head body. The big crowd, bundled in furs and overcoats, cheered the little man as he out-boxed and outgeneraled Schmeling but there was obviously little damage in Mickey's best wallops.

Schmeling’s decisive victory, three months after he lost the world heavyweight championship to Jack Sharkey, furthered and strengthened the German's position as the only real contender for the title. Max clearly out-classed the powerful little fighter who had held Sharkey to a draw.

ROUND ONE

Walker, paying no attention to the size of the German, jumped right into him with two left hooks to the body and a short left to the side. Moving slowly and carefully, Schmeling banged Walker's body in a clinch. As they pulled away Max ripped into Walker with both hands smashing his right to the head, shaking the little Irishman with a volley of whistling hooks to the jaw. Mickey shook his head, held for a moment then whaled back in again with a thudding hook to the body Schmeling claiming as low. Walker rolled away from a right hand smash and ripped his left to the chin. Schmeling floored Walker with a right to the chin for a count of six. The bell ending the round stopping the motion of the time keeper's arm. Mickey went to his corner unassisted and seemed not badly hurt.

ROUND TWO

Cooly and with great care. Schmeling followed the dancing Irishman, watching for his right. Mickey slapped Schmeling on the chin with a right and belted his body in close quarters. A right flushed to the chin staggered Walker. The little fellow with the pug dog features fought back gamely but again Max nailed him with three straight rights. Walker was wobbily, badly hurt, but he flung himself on the big German belting away Schmeling’s body. Max ripped back with a half dozen upper cuts in close. As they pulled away Max whaled three more close quarters. He pinned Schmeling on the ropes and was hammering rights at Walker's head but Mickey shook them off and stormed back to his head and body in a great rally that set the crowd in an uproar as the bell sounded.

ROUND THREE

The swarthy-faced German with the high cheek bones and beetling bronze of an Indian dancer, walked slowly out to pin Walker's arms as Mickey rushed to close quarters. Walker bounced a left hook off the careful Teuton's chin but took another sharp right to the jaw They clipped each other's body at close quarters and Walker dropped a short right on Schmeling's chin as they pulled away. Walker leaped in with a left hook to the head and again they slugged at close quarters. Where Mickey's experience gave him a decided advantage. The little fellow nailed Schmeling's chin with a perfectly timed upper-cut and swarmed in on him again, drilling to the body. Max tried to catch Walker with his right as the Irishman tore in but it landed hard on Mickey's temple. They were pumping away at the bell.

ROUND FOUR

Frantically seconds in Walker's corner pleaded with Mickey to continue his fight at quarters. Mickey promptly dug a left hook in Schmeling's body and caught a hard right on the chin. As Walker bounded in again Schmeling met him with a sharp left hook to the jaw but Mickey sneaked over both hands to the head in close. They locked heads and swung fists to the body. Gaining momentum with every charge Walker shook off two smashing rights to the head to hammer Schmeling across the ring as the crowd roared at his brave stand. He had the Teuton slightly dumfounded as he danced around and suddenly ripped into close quarters with his sharp left hooks to the body. They were in a clinch at the bell.

ROUND FIVE

Schmeling was wild with a left hook and Mickey slipped in close to nail him with a right upper- cut. Walker nearly floored Schmeling with a left hook to the body that echoed all over the arena. Schmeling bent in pain as Walker ripped him around the ring, flailing at the German's head and sides with both hands. Max covered desperately, his arms around his head, but he finally fought Walker back in a torrid head to head slugfest that set the crowd to howling. Mickey sunk another left hook deep in Schmeling's body and shot the German's head back with a deep left hook. As Mickey shot home another left hook Schmeling knocked his mouthpiece from between his teeth with a right hand smash to the jaw. Walker took another hard right to the head at the bell.

ROUND SIX

The crowd roared at Walker's grand comeback as they met in the ring and thumped to the body. Schmeling became more aggressive and shot his right to Walker's head as Mickey landed a left hook to the chin. A short right opened a gash in Walker's upper lip but he brushed the blood away and bounced into Schmeling with another hard left to the body. There was new fire in Schmeling's attack as he Jabbed1 Walker with his; left to We head a half dozen times and forced Mickey to cover. They traded lefts and rights to the head in a blistering exchange and blood flowed freely from Walker's lips. Again they locked heads at close quarters and punched to the body. Walker drilled a right and left to the body as the bell rang.

ROUND SEVEN

Schmeling jabbed away at Walker's face, apparently in an effort to widen the deep cut in Mickey's lip but Walker met him on even ground and banged three left hooks to the body. Walker traded rights to the head with the Teuton and then drove him across the ring with a thunderous body attack. He pinned Schmeling to the ropes and shot his head back with upper- cuts left and rights to the jaw. Schmeling got away and again they traded rights to the head before Mickey got the upper-hand and flailed Schmeling with both hands. Both took tremendous rights to the head, apparently without flinching, flinging to close quarters as the crowd roared again and the bell sounded.

ROUND EIGHT

Schmeling jabbed Mickey neatly on the nose and rammed his right to the jaw. Walker bounced right back at him with a left to the chin but again the German shot his head back, with rights which sent Walker reeling. Mickey went down for a count of six under a right to the chin. He was almost helpless as Schmeling smashed him about the ring, his left eye closed. Another right floored Walker for a count of nine. Schmeling followed the helpless little man trying to nail him. Walker reeled and stumbled from one side of the ring to the other gamely firing but in a terribly weakened condition. He stood up under a fierce attack and swung back but Schmeling could not put him down again. He was reeling in his corner when the bell rang.