Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
BY WILLIAM M. BRANCHER.

~ NOE uponea time, when immigrant
entered America, the first thing he
looked around for a nice spot to
" open up banana stand shoe-em-
belliShing emporium, or applied for q
position manicurist on the B. & o.
He doesn't look or apply any more. Now
adays he sends his card down to the 70 pho
tographers, 46 prize fight chiselers and 80 ship
news reporters who await his arrival The card
informs the assembled balyhoo battalion that
Senior ChumpSkis presence will be available for
interviews and limited number of photographs
between IL and 1:R5 a. m, when the Senior
or the Herr or Signor, the may be-haS
emerged from his tub. Oh, yes!
For this is what might be known as the Age
of the International Angle. And 1890 promises
TO be another big year.
First of all, there is the matter of Herr Make
Schmeling. the Hurtful Hamburger who
smeared the features of John Risko and the
BruiSing Basque Paolino Uzcudun and this
must be attended to with all due excursions
and aarumS. For, in Herr Max, the ChiSelers
and chumpS alike believe they have what is to
be a worlds heavyweight boxing champion.
And considering that Max comes from Ger
many, this Is what Is commonly called news,
with an international angle Of As degrees.
1t may take all of 1890 to bring these two
heavyweights together, but eventually there
must be such fight. It seems that the world
cannot get along without a heavyweight cham
piOn, and among the candidates these two stand
out like Poland-China at B'nai Birth bar-
becue.
THERE may be some slight difficulty in ar
ranging the beak-bangng between these
two, because each has the highest respect for
the new currency. Between German marks and
Herr Schmelng there is as close sentimental
attachment as between a Scotchman and a
half-pound note. Make has no idea Of giving
his services. And even II he had his manager,
Joe Jacobs, would lose no time in disabusing
him of the generous notion. Mr.. Jacobs has
not yet reaped from Schmeling the benefits he
expected. But Mr.. Jacobs is not only very
tenacious, but he holds on.
Schmelng's future appearances in America
were for while tied up by Sgnor Humbert
Fugazy, the enterprising New York entrepre-
neur. Signor Fugazy was so fortunate as to
have Maxs name on the dotted line, and, while
this state of affairs existed, the millonaireS Of
Madison Square Garden were left the a1terna-
tive of waiting or hoping They tried both;
neither plan worked so they bought out FugaZy
at a neat but not gaudy figure.
Now all is in readiness for Herr Schmeling
to fight for Madison Square Garden, except
that Herr Max is just likely as not to fight
for somebody else. Philadelphia and Atlantic
City promoters offered the Hamburger $25OO00
for his presence against some stumbler In the
Atlantic City Auditorium And the Hamburger
likes the sound. So does Mr.. Jacobs. This
part of the international angle remains to be
ironed out Perhaps before it has all been set
tied finally, Mr.. Mellon viii have to be called
in and asked how much spinach he has lying
around.
The possibility Of holding the Sharkey-
Schmeling fight in Florida, after Max has sat-
isfied the Philadelphia people, seems not I'M
likely. The tourists down there proved they
would stand and pay for anything, even Shar-
key and Stribling They certainly would shell
out handsomely for Sharkey and Schmeling.
Schmeling, Of course, is looked upon as the
biggest of the big shots in boxing but he Is
only one little piece Of the international angle.
Pugilism throughout is shot full of odd-sound-
ing. names-and some Of the people who own
them are odd, too-such as Victoria Campolo,
Primo Camera (the Powerful Panatela), Kid
Chocolate, Eugene Huat and Young zazzar1no,
Just to mention few.
The year of 1880 is bringing to you all the
Mussonis and muscle-men of Europe and
South America. Then too there is Phil Scott,
the British landlord, who, even though Of the
tradtionally horizontal family of heavyweights,
has to be considered part Of the international
angle.
In fact, it begins to appear that good old
Mayficwer names like Mccarthy and McGih-
cuddy have left only the World Series to fall
back upon as an indication that Pilgrim SUI
premacy has not vanished from the earth.
During 1880 there will be international polo
international yachting. plenty Of international
golf and tennis, and, if you must, international
wro sting. Tennis players who have met him