The Washington times., 1929-06-28

quer only on the field of sport
The world is not yet Max Schmel-t
ing's for the mere asking but one
more victory such as that scored
over Pauline Uzcudun. the Spaniard,
in Is rounds at the Yankee Stadium
last night and the foaming stein
will be the water bucket and the
pretzei the favorite bouquet Of
Fistiana. Schmeling today needs
another step up the ladder and the
heavyweight championship of the
world will be his, to have and TO
hold until the better man comes
along.
He will try to take that crucial
step in September in a final bout
of the heavyweight series against
Jack Sharkey, the voluble one, and
many last night in the milk fund
crowd of 10000 seemed convinced
/ that ultimate failure would not and
could not be his Unbeaten in five
American starts and with successive
/ victories over Risko and Pauline.
they regard him now as a man OF
destiny.
Schmeling was only lad just
out of his tOddling kits when
the Germans broke over the
borders of Belgium In 1914 but
from the tenth round onward
last night he was just another
fighting Prussian of the old days,
staunch i'm adversely and desper-
ate in his will to win.
Going into the tenth round Of
what had been dull fight and a
fairly even one, he fairly cut the
stout old Basque into human ham
burger with short. chopping. pun
ishing punches. and, at the end,
Pauline was pitiable sight as,
with eyes all but closed and his
face a vague. unhurlan smear OF
crimson, he tottered on the verge
of Knockout for the first time in
his career.
The knockout didn't materialize,
but Schmeling was quite without
blame in the matter. He hit that
staunch old whalebone that Pauline
carries directly below his lower lip
with punch upon punch with almost
cruel monotony. The Basque, not
unlike the stricken animal in the
bull ring just before the kill at his
own Seville, stood hraced in mid
ring, his mouth open and glazed
eyes peering azonizingly out from
puffed and bleeding lids, and took
the rain of blows upon head un-
bowed.
He reeled but he didn't fall. His
knees buclsled and drooled, but they
didn't forsake him altogether. Pau.
limo was stirring figure in defeat,
although grewsome one.
Schmeling was equally impress
sive i'm victory, He looked the
part of a downright good fighter
once his handlers sent him out
to fight.
They said afterward that they
were pacing" him. If this is the
case. / would tinnorousiy sugsest
that they try him out hereafter in
some of the trotting events. Schmel.
ing. much after the manner of the
rest of the world. is "a good fighter
only when he fights.
His own version Of the circun.
stance after the fight was that he
injured his favorite right hand on
Paulino's favorite eyebrow in the
fifth round and that, thereafter, he
had to fight largely with his left,
supposedly an inferior weapon.
Whatever the reason-and this
wasn't tone must go thumbing
through the dictionary for another
word for courtesy in order to call
this fight a fight at the end of
nine rounds. Neither had done any.
thing to the other on a very large
scale. The first two were Schmel-
ing's because he wss willing to let
go with a left hand and Pauline
was unwilling to let go with any
thing.
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