The Washington times., 1931-02-12
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Minus fanfare or trumpets be-
fitting a world heavyweight cham
pion, Max Schmeling, heavy
weight title holder outside OF New
York, arrived in Washington at
1 o'clock today to be exhibited as
q part of Joe Turner's wrestling
show featuring Jim Mcmillan and
Chief White Feather, at the
Auditorium, tonight.
Accompanying Schmeling was
his manager, Joe Jacobs, and Bill
Mccartney, New York, associated
with Jacobs and Schmeling in
their tour of America which
was started in Baltimore Monday
night, was resumed in Hagers-
town last night and is to con-
tinue tonight here. Max drew an
$500 house last night and $1,000
in Baltimore Monde".
Met at the Union . ion by Joe
Turner, Pat O'Con =, local vet
eran referee, and Fred Buchholz,
Washington sportsman, Schmellng
was taken to Buchholz'S home at
the Occidental Hotel and later
to the Mayflower Hotel, where
official contact with the German
legation was to be made later IN
the day.
Following tOnights wrestling
show, Schmeling and his party
are to be the guests Of Buch-
hOIz at a midnight supper.
No police escort was needed for
Schmeling either at the hour OF
his arrival or during his various
official and unofficial visits IN
the Capital. Neither the hour
nor the manner of his coming
had been announced and there
fore the curious, if such there
were, we're not on hand.
Max appears as good physically
as the night he fought Sharkey.
He says he weighs 100 pounds.
This is only a pound or two
above his best fighting weight.
The champ is bug about golf
and when he piled out of the
train at Union Station golf bags
were more prominent than fight
luggage. Max's best score, made
In Germany, was 96.
Max is confident, very conf
dent, and says he will lick Strib-
ling in June and Carnera in
September. Then he will go
after Sharkey, for he asserts that
he realizes that he must beat
Jack before the public accepts
him as a bona fide champion.
Wants Sharkey Again
Because no elimination
match was arranged between
Sharkey and Stribling," says
the Teuton, lit happens that I
will be busy with StribIing and
Carnera this year. Whether l
retain the championship or not,
/ want to fight Sharkey again,
just to prove to all the people
who think that he had me
beaten last summer that they
are wrong.
'It is hardly fair to Judge
that fight on what happened
in four rounds; to say that be-
cause Sharkey was ahead when
he fOuled me that / was a sure
loser.
"It isn't always the one who
gets started in the lead that
wins. In your game of baseball
one team may have six runs and
the other none in four rounds,
and yet the one that was behind
at first may win the game. In
horse races it is not the horse
that gets big lead at the start
that always wins.
"In fighting it is the same
way. People said l was losing
to RiSkO at the end of five
rounds, but knocked him out.
They said I made a bad start
with Pauline, but was far
ahead at the finish. l start
slowly, but after a while / get
warmed up, like a machine.
Lots of people said before
the fight that if 1 did not get
knocked out in the first four
rounds would have a good
chance. Everybody knows that
Sharkey is best at the beginning
and that if he does not get you
quick he gets discouraged.
Pre-Fight Plan
Jacobs and / decided before
the fight that would not open
up until the sixth round. In the
third round Sharkey hit me as
hard as he could and did not
knock me down. / did not even
take the smelling salts when /
went to my corner. You remem.
her sat on the edge of my
stool, did not lay back like a
fighter who was hurt. / sat up
straight and / was the one who
forced the fighting in the
fourth round. 1t seemed to me
Sharkey's heart had grown
small because he hit me as hard
as he could and did not put me
on the floor.
IF I had not been hit low,
would have won. The further it
went the better for me. 1 am
young and strong. He is older.
He is married and has children.
/ am young and get stronger
and better as / go along.
"After Stribling and Camera
I want to fight Sharkey to
prove that can heat him and
would have won if he had not
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