Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-07
UHLAN SEEKS
GOOD DEFENSE
German Dempsey Viciously
Whipping Self Into
Top Form
BY EDWARD Y. NEIL
Associated Press Sports Writer


ENDICOTT. N. Y, June 7-QPl-
The bell rang again today for the
sparring partners, those battered,
patched disillusioned youngsters
whose thankless task is to condition
Max Schmeling for a world heavy
weight championship fight with
Jack Sharkey in the Yankee stadi-
UNI Thursday night.
They meander aimlessly around
his training camp during layoffs
such as the German has taken, I'M
noticed and apparently unnoticing,
some with swollen noses, bruised
eyebrows and court plastered
cheeks, others. the newcomers, fresh
and anxious for a punch at a title
challenger. They live apart, cat
apart and make no public appear
ances until called up to face the
clouting Teuton in his boxing drills.
For the most part they are absolute
unknowns to the fight game and sew
enteen of them have come and
gone In three weeks.
Schmeling, planning an aggressive.
punching fight against Sharkey, is
more than rough with his spar
mates He fights them as though
each was Sharkey himself. He cuts
and maulS and batterS. punches
them groggy, and then turns loose
all the power in his short right hand
to finish them as quickly as posi-
bic. The eagerness with the first
workout and from then on the chief
fight Is against time. To most Of
them the S25 q day pay is important
money and tie longer they are use
ful the bigger the stake.
Max Net Playful
When Schmeling first trained in
the United States he was proud Of
the fact that he never had to pun
ish a sparring partner unnecessarily.
During preparation for his trium-
phant parade through Pauline Uz-
cudun he boasted that he had never
IN his life tried to knock out a help
er. Apparently circui stances have
altered cases, for Schmeling today
Is setting a record for training saw
agery that only Jack Dempsey ever
has equalled.
Il pay my spar-ing partners to
get me in condition" Schmellng
reasoned out loa- as he discussed
the situation. For this match /
fight all the time to get in shape.
/ must 90 at top speed, throw
punches every second. hit hard. II I
hurt them, I cannot help 1t. That
is the chance they take. / do not
want to hurt them so much as I try
to get nv punches working best.
my sparring partners maybe are
no good. Everyone thinks that.
They ask me why : do not have
men who lab well with the left
hand and use right crosses as Shar-
key does.
"well, I tell you. I don't prepare
for Sharkey's left jabs because !
do not know that he will fight me
that way. II I am looking always
for left jabs and he does something
else all the time l am caught
what YOU call it-off stride, am l
not? I would get confused. No. !
must get ready for anything Shar-
key can do.
You Don't Say?
so I fight as many men as pos
xible In training. Maybe they are no
good, but each man has a different
style. / conquer those styles like l
mol Sharkey's style June Il.
Sharkey is not training to fight me
as I have fought In the past. He has
the same mariners he has had for
several years. They do not fight
like me"
Schmeling pausei for a moment
as he thought Of something that
has been irritating him.
They tell me Sharkey calls my
sparring partners buns and says
Johnny Crosse anG Paul Cavalier in
his camp ould beat me. I tell you
this. If they were in my camp !
knock them out just like the Others"
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