Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-10
.STR|B IS DECLARED
/. TO HOLD THE EDGE
Greater Experience of Yank
Fighter Is Regarded as
Telling Factor.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

NEW YORK, June 10.-Fighters, like
other athletes. have their on days. No
one realizes that better than Young
Stribling, who has been working out
in his Ohio training camp with the
idea Of reaching the peak Of his form
| gradually, so that when he steps into
the ring against Max Schmeling at
Cleveland on July 3, he will put up his
best brand Of fighting.
Strtoling and Schmeling have started
| to put in some hard ticks, and the fans
Will get(a good line on what Is to be
| expected from the big fellows when
they toe the mark for the highest prize
| in pugilism
Some fans are inclined to believe
| that Stribling does not show well against
| puncher. They argue that Schmel-
ing ID the best puncher in the heavy
cause the Southerner to box carefully.
Sees Nothing to Fear.
The writer does not think Stribling
has anything to fear from the cham
pion's punches. The Germans Wanted
punching power certainly did not ap-
pear in his work in this country.
Schmeling's first fight was against Joe
Monte Of Boston. He knocked Monte
down, but did not keep him there for
the count. The referee halted the con-
test while Monte was on his feet and
ready to continue.
Then came Joe Sekyra. At no time
during the 10-round period was Sekyra
in any danger Of being knocked out.
John Risko was the first good man
Schmeling faced, and Max was declared
the winner on a technical knockout.
Risko, went down, after leading on
points up TO the ninth round, and was
on his feet when he was waved to
his corner.
In Is rounds against Paolino Uz-
cudun, Schmeling failed to drop the
willing Basque. The champion won
handily. but at no time displayed any
thing resembling a crushing punch:
fight and you find It quite hard to pic
ture Schmeling as the one-punch
knockout artist his admirers would like
to have you think he is.
American Can Hit.
Stribling's work against Otto Won
Porat and Phil Scott certainly gives
him the edge In hard hitting. His rec
ord boasts something like lis knock
outs. Some Of the men he stopped were
of the rankest sort, but the fact that
Strib was able to put over finishing
blow in quick time counts for some
thing.
Experience win play an important
part in the Striking Schmeling en-
gagement In this respect the Amer
lean has it all over his German rival.
If there is any hard punching to be
done during the fight, It will not come
in the early rounds. Neither man is
taking anything for granted and it
looks like battle Of left hands until
an opening Is made. Then-anything
may happenl
Schmeiing is In the hands Of ca
pable men. Billy Mccartney and Joe
Jacobs have been around the fight
racket a long time and have studied
Stribling on q dozen different occasions
Schmeling will get the benefit Of those
studies and his workouts will be pat
termed along the style employed by
Stribling.
Jacobs Is scouting around trying to
hire men who have fought Stribling to
work with his battler. The right spar
ring mates are a necessity II fighter
Is to accomplish anything In the gym
nasium. and Jacobs knows this. On
his last trip to this city Joe was offer
ing big money for the services Of sev-
eral good men.