New Britain herald., 1929-02-02
NEW CONTENDER FOR HEAVY TITLE
M,l SchmelinS Knocks Out
 Johnny REko in Ninth Round

New 4ork, teD. WA new pre- tender to the vacant heavyweight throne has arisen. ready to back his kingly aspirations with the power of hls two fists. Max Schmeling is his name and his calling card lists Ger many as his address.
 The Teuton. saturnine of face and deadly of punch, hammered tough Johnny Risko into technical knock out defeat while 10000 fans roared in Madison Square Garden last night. The end came after one minute and five seconds of fighting Tn the ninth round of . ten round bout.
 Thus in one short but furious eve ming. Herr "Mocks" accomplished more than did a half dczen or more of the leading heavyweights in the last year or so. Johnny fought them all last year and with almost uni versal success. Since late in 1927 Risko has beaten Jack Delaney. Pauline Uzcudun. Jack Sharkey and George Godfrey. He lost during the same period to Tom Heeney, Jimmy Maloney and Ernie Schaaf on deci- sion and to Roberto Roberto on a foul. and during all that time none of his rivals could put him on the floor.
 Schmeling accomplished that four times. The bout had hardly started when Teuton swung his deadly right and the Cleveland rubber man went down. He bounced up, however. without count.
 After taking a drubbing for the first two rounds, Johnny found him. self in the third and began a steady body attack that had the German badly puzzled. The fourth was even but Johnny punished the weaving, bobbing foreign target in the fifth and sixth and took them both. Then came the turning point. Early in the seventh round a sizzling right cracked Risko on the chin and 1 the Clevelander went down like a log for count of nine. He got up, a groggy staggering. blood stained | figure, but barely lasted out the round. The eighth was the same story and before long the Germans heavy right again thudded home and Johnny was down for nine once more. Only his gallant, fighting heart carried the rugged rubber man ! out for the ninth round. Schmeling. who resembles Jack Dempsey not only in appearance but in the weav ing, bobbing. ferocious style of his attack promptly smacked the Cleve- lander down for another count of nine and was whaling away at the | helpless Risko when the referee stepped into the picture and half- carried Johnny to his corner. Only once before in his long brilliant career has Risko been stopped. Chuck Wiggins hold such a verdict over ! him, Risko refusing to continue the match after he had been struck what | he said was a low blow.
 The defeat. coming as it does on the heels of reverses by Schaaf and Maloney. virtually removes Risko from the heavyweight picture, al least temporarily. Schmeling, or the other hand, has vaulted into the forefront rank of the contender ship list His first tour American sta rts all have resulted in victories. He stopped Joe Monte in eight rounds and Pietro Corri in one and ut-pointed Sekyra in ten in his ether appearances here.
 The weights were: Risko 190: Schmeling 1S5.
 In the semi-tinal, Otto Won Porat. hard hitting Chicago Norwegian. 1 won on a technical knockout in the fourth round of his ten round bout non was down three times before the referee stopped the uneven struggle. Non Porat sealed 195; Gagnon 190,