Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-17

BY his own assertion and by
confederation of his friends and
German sports writers, the ankle
which Schmeling injured in
jumping from the stage of a To-
cal theateA has completely healed
and shows no i'll effects from his
training grind in his forest camp
Though the Inflammation was
admittedly aggravated by his
trip to Dortmund Immediately
after the injury. the ankle was
subsequently brought back to nor
NAL on Something's trip south to
italy and Africa, according to Max
Machon, his trainer.
Uncertainty prevails here as to
whether Tuffy Griffith or the Negro
heavyweight, George Godfrey. will face
Schmeling at Atlantic City. Schmeling
has respect for both, but especially for
Godfrey, whom he regards as one of
the few heavyweights able to offer COM
petition to Sharkey for the crown.
Picks Sharkey to Win.
Schmeling picks Sharkey as a sure
winner over Scott at Miami in Febru-
airy. He says Scott lacks endurance
and speed while Sharkey has expert
Schmeling Is busy just now making
a motion picture. The movie is the
conventional Drawn and beauty stuff,
though Max swears his own business Is
to fight and not to make love as lead
ing man. His training program includes
light routine and road work. He
weighs around 1s5 pounds. but expects
to put on five pounds before the
Atlantic City fight.
Schmeling was seen in modest
konditoref'-German version of
confectioner's shop-on the Nollen-
dorf Platz, one of his favorite haunts
Shrewdly he observed that too much
talking before q fight made you feel
moore foolish after tiff you lost.
II believe can beat anybody they
put against me-" He said. II will not
know until 40 days before the fight who
it is to be, but whoever it is" the
statement trailed off into a conven-
tional, half-embarrassed. 81 will do my
best" without conceit, without buster.
Popular in Berlin.
Schmeling is q popular figure among
Berlin fans, though he has lived here
only three years, coming by way OF
Hamburg and Cologne from Klein
Luckow. Though it may smooth pride
to be hailed as Max de Crosse boxer"
by pretty fraulein and urchin alike.
there are drawbacks to this wide repu-
tation. Thus, when asked why he APP
peared in the telephone directory as
MAX Schmeling, artist" he explained
that this classification saved him money,
though, for while, it concealed his
identity.
Every one knows that an artist has
no money" Schmeling grinned, but
every one believes that a boxer has
more than he knows what to do with.
Now the tax collectors, seeing me listed
as an artist, would not even bother to
visit my house, but when they know I
am q boxer they come sure enough. 1t
worked for two or three years, but now
when the papers publish that I have
$250,0o0 guarantee in America-ach!
I have to pay plenty!"
Herr Schmeling guffawed and drank
his coffee. Neither before nor during
his five years of fighting has he used
alcohol or tobacco. He likes to sit in
a "konditorei," from which he dis
patches an adoring brother on divers
errands and with messages to
"mamma"--with whom he lives and
who seems to worry as much about him
as If he were an adolescent and fragile
youngster-and where he can talk with
friends
The rush is one thing about America
he does not care for. But S25o,000
guarantees, on the other hand, he bears
with easy resignation.
(Copyright, 1880, by the New York Sun
Foreign ServiceD