The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-20
Talkative
Coast Pug
Just Fair
BY JOE WILLIAMS


NEW YORK. Dec. 20.-When
IN you are asked to accept a
young heavyweight who has had only
tTenty-seven fights and these
mostly against dried gourds-as an
other Dempsey. and he steps out
against a third rater. and blows
The duke. as the boys say-well, you
Just can't get hysterical about him.
or course. Il you've got a .sense Of
,g The bsfllyhoo. you are S0 going 70 Know
ight of that II taxes a great deal more
han twenty-seven fights. even reel lights,
make another Dempsey. granting tia,
e necessary raw essentials exist som9-
acre IN the boxing gold mines
Young Max Bser Of California came into
e Garden ring Friday night rated high.
lie and handsome and after ten rounds
- battling. which ran the Eamut from
'igh drama TO law comedy. the decision.
ell merited. was given 10 his opponent.
ETnie scbaaf Of Boston. one Of the younger
s-iaI horses of the worlds oueensberry
abe.
After it vas all over the best you could
raw without trihing with the facts was
hat. the coast youth is a prospect. Some
5nt prospect. and for al 1 know maybe
lie Is. At any rate he didn't beat Schaaf.
nd others less DISTINGUISHED have. and
aturally he didn't stop him-Yhich was
hat he had to do to crash into the
cevyweight picture.
n
THE young man who had scored
4 no knockdowns in 100 rounds
r-or to his start Friday night didn't
nave Schaaf on the floor once
which goes to prove, I suppose, that
u knockdown against a stuffed shirt
Is one thing and a knockdown
gainst a geezer who knows what it
s all about is something else.
st that there were moments when 1t
soked as If Bser might not only fatten
his knockout average. but do what his
more emotional cappers predicted be would
do. namely. st,ffen the iourneyman sailor
for the full count. But Baer tired easily.
His condition seemed poor. and what OBJ
portunities he had he wasted or vas in
capable of capitafziHg.
n
Paer's unskilled technique vas evident
from Jiie start. His msnnerisms- suggested
an individual demonstration Of the ring
gym class at an Uptown dQIb. He threw
punches ike an outhelder trying to cut
he was wide open for counter shots. il
wac lust as well he was not racing 2
sharp shooter. He wouldn't have gone
n
II viii be long time before he is ready
for any OPPOSITION more formidable than
the Earnest Schaafs of the ring. He is a
good hitter in much the same way that a
slugging batter is good hitter. He is
lust as likely to score home run as strike
out--and he was striking out more often
FRIDAY night than biting.
Il
suspect. too. that his hitting powers
have been over-estimated. He banged
to drop him If there had been any real
dynamite in his gloves a couple OF times
he spun him around with clean hit. but
that was as close as he came to blowing
up the works.
ID AER flashed his best form in
ID the carly rounds His idea, if
any, seemed to be to concentrate OH
Schaaf's middle and bring his
guard down Tor chin execution. AS
early as the third he had Schaaf
holding on and breaking ground.
There we're two fast toe-to-toe raj
lies in this round and the exertion
seemed to take lot out of the
westerner.
From then on he didn't show so we'll
Although he had enough left TO cOlabo
with Schaaf in Surround fare up that
was the high light. of the fight. I mean
ii was a high light il you can call the
spectacle of two young brutes standing
nearly erect taking deliberate aim and
firing. fist after fist, few of them missing
az each other.
There was about as much science in
volved in the procedure as Is attached to
the business OF scratching one ear. Yet
such is the spiritual depraVity OF our mod
the Garden stood on his feet and shrieked
With pagan frenzy. The guy. who LED the
shrieking was old Colonel Williams down
in the press row.
A F'TER the orgy of punching
N Baer was definitely finished,
and in the next round, Schaaf bet
ter conditioned. and more hardened
70 the hammerirg game, came back
with an attack that had the CAL
ifornian staggering and helpless.
Any kind of a we'll directed punch
would have put him down.
n
But schasf is a confirmed third rater
lacking the capnciay--as well as the
runch--to rise to big moments, and Baer
weathered the round. Again in the eighth
Sohasf took measured punches at his fast
weakening foemsn but it all came under
the head of healthful exercise under arc
i'ghts.
n
Baer was gamester to the end and
tn the fight already gone against him
he made a gallant effort to prove the
callvhoo on which he RODE into main
Tout in the Garden wasn't entirely with
cut foundation. He tagged Schaaf with a
ight that vas both startling and damag-
ing in its effect and when the ANAL bell
Hanged he was still in there winging.