Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
FIGHTER CAUTIOUS,
DETESTS SCANDAL
Max Has No "Best Girl" Is
Careful Financially, but
Is Sympathetic.
BY EDWARD ]. NEIL,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, February 2S.-
M Some day, when Max
Y Schmeling is through with
fisticufing, he is going to
marry some nice, solid German
home body and settle down to
enjoy life. In the meantime no
dazzling ladies need apply. It's
o waste Of time.
This engaging young Teuton never
has had q steady" girl. Furthermore,
he doesn't want one. He'll walk out
politely but cagily from q gathering IL
too much female attention is focused
upon him, He doesn't like actresses.
He's very proper.
Scandal he detests and he's very
proud of his family. In Europe MS
mother travels with him constantly.
She looks like his sister. He revels
In any courtesy shown her. That Is
one certain way Of gaining his eternal
friendship. His mother doesn't come
to the United States with him because
she Is afraid Of seasickness.
Keeps Hls Own Books.
sehmeling hates to be under obliga-
ton to any one. Insists on paying TOR
everything he gets. Gifts embarrass
him. But each trip here from Ger.
many he brings newspaper men cuckoo
clocks or Dachshund pups. He u
meticulous in his financial arrange
ments. He keeps personal records 70
the cent Of what he earns and figures
out himself what he owes the Govern
ment in income taxes. At this moment
he could tell you to the penny just
what he Is worth.
Apparently he has no nerves, though
his mind Is keen and active. He learns
amazingly fast. Until he sailed for
New York he had never stepped on Q
dance floor. He thought dancing took
o young man-particularly an athlete
into the wrong environment Kept MIN
indoors when he should be out IN the
open air, up late ct night when he
should be sleeping.
He watched the young people dane
ing on the boat coming over and he
started thinking about it.
Every one dances but Max" he told
Bill Mccartney, his travelling partner.
That is not good. Maybe I learn"
Dancer in -Four Hours.
Now Mccartney, at one time or an
other, had been q dancing instructor.
He volunteered to take Max In hand.
They took 10 their cabin. Four hours
later the professor staggered out for
refreshments and Max went looking
for music. With perfect confidence he
was the first on the dance floor. He
danced es though he'd been practicing
all his life.
Nothing seems TO ruffie him Ia or
out Of q ring. His actions have been
under newspaper fire here and in Ger
many 90 long that when on the con-
tinent he won't allow wine or beer
70 be served TO companions In public
places. He neither drinks nor smokes.
Il must be careful" he insists, then
no one can say dissipate."
He sings German marching songs In
time TO his roadwork. He never goes
into ring without . fixed plan Of bat
tie and he changes 1t himself IL neces-
sary without reference to his handlers.
He drives o car fast and prefers TO
travel by air. He missed by one flight
the crash OF Q passenger plane In the
West that cost several lives.
Has No Alarm Clock.
Once Schmeling goes to bed all noise
must cease. There are no alarm clocks
in his scheme Of things. He sleeps
until he wakens Of his own accord. He
what Is good for him.
Radio and golf are his twin hobbies
He carries q portable radio on trips
His golf il mediocre. Some day he'd
like to build municipal courses in Ham,
burg and Berlin, where golf still Is a
rich mans game, so the poor can ride
out on their bicycles and play. He
thinks that would start golf craze In
Germany.
He likes opera and children. He
called OF an exhibition in Pocomoke
City, on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland,
when he was in Baltimore recently
and passed up q 81 500 guarantee be-
cause IL would have interferred with O
trip he wanted TO make 10 the indus
trial school where Babe Ruth and Joe
Dundee once lived.
Boys with no papas, no mammas?
We 60 there" Max insisted.
MAX Sympathetic.
Willie, last name unknown, Q chauf-
feur at Schmeling's Endicott training
camp last Summer, died suddenly dur
ing the past Winter and the fact was
mentioned casually in q cable to Joe
Jacobs abroad. Jacobs mentioned 1t
to Schmeling, who had seen Willie only
few times. An hour later Max sat
staring modify out . window, still
muttering:
Poor Willie"
He met Dempsey, . country boy
viewing king, when the former
champion made o triumphant tour
abroad in 1926. He flashed in and out
Of picture for o moment because he
resembled the man nauler. Three
years later Max stepped from q plane
In Los Angeles and there was q crowd
there TO cheer him. Dempsey stood on
the rim. Schmeling saw him, rushed
through the crowd, his hands extended
"Chack, Chack," he said. Look
Berlin-here"
II he hadn't become O prize fighter
he would still solicit advertising for
some Berlin newspaper. He likes news
paper work. You meet so many inter-
estine people and no pumbs adver-
tise," he says.