Evening star., 1932-08-29
FAST FADING RING
HOPE ON THE SPOT
Fans BooS Have Stung Him
Into Promise of Wicked
Attack Wednesday.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

n IEW YORK, August 29.-Ernle
n Schaaf is heading straight
into fistic oblivion unless
he braces up and scores a
decisive victory over Max Baer
next Wednesday evening at Chi
cago. Baer was one of Ernie'S
victims when Schaaf was compil-
ing an impressive string of vic
tories, but the Sharkey-Buckley
entry seems to have fallen far be-
low his promising form and IS
now forgotten man when heavy
weight contenderS are mentioned.
Being beaten by Stanley Poreda and
permitting mediocre fighters to go the
distance. without a semblance of a
knockdown, does not speak we'll for a
fighter rated as high as Schaaf. 1t
may be that he has deliberately coasted
along in order to coax some of the
top notchers into fighting him. But
those who have seen him coming on
trying desperately to score a knockout
Geride this opinion.
CCHAAF is "on the spot" in tackling
- Baer. The latter is not the great
est fighter in the world. He is an
honest, courageous battler with a world
of confidence in himself, and now that
his marital troubles have been Smoothed
out it is possible that he will uncork
sterling brand Of milling against his
much-touted Eastern rival
Baer and Schaaf are decided con-
trasts in and out of the ring. The
Californian thinks he is a great fighter
and does not hesitate to tell you So
But he is not a boaster. He honestly
feels that he can beat the big fellows
and goes out to do so. While he has
been beaten. the margin of victory has
not been too wide. 1t would seem Max
may still accomplish his objective, with
q bit more experience.
Schaaf is the quiet type. He says
very little and gives you the impression
that he IS easy going. In the ring he
is far different. He plunges in deter
minedly and carries on too long in one
fashion. SO that he appears to be
slow thinker.
THIS opinion has been confirmed in
L several fights, as Ernie muffed op-
portunities an instructive fighter
would have grabbed instantly and
scored a knockout. These lapses on the
part of the Social-climbing fighter
Soured Eastern fans on him and 1t
would not surprise them in the least if
Baer trimmed him.
Schaaf realizes he is up against it.
The boos Of the fans have gotten un-
der his skin and rather than give those
who have been smiling a chance to
laugh out loud, Ernie has promised to
wade right in and take Baer's measure.
The Californian is strictly a fighter.
He does not know much about the fine
points of the game and. having scored
a raft Of knockouts, figures his punch
is more effective in winning than points
scored by outboxing the other man.
This style is just made to order for
Schaaf. Give him an opponent who
will walk in and lead, instead of the
cagey veteran who relies on lasting the
distance, and Mr.. Schaaf, late of
Uncle Sans Navy is the most danger
Gus heavyweight in the game today.
1t Is for this reason the writer ex-
poets the third ranking heavyweight
to outpunch and outlast his California
rival.
pY FAR the best heavyweight match
~ of the season will be staged the
following evening at Cleveland.
when Ed Bang turns Johnny Risko and
King Levi1sky lose in a 20-foot ring.
Here you have two men oozing with
''it' and when a pair like them get the
word to go there is no stopping them
until the referee sends them to their
corners at the end of round, or I'M
less a load Of bricks is bounced off
their heads. 1t takes more than one
brick to keep either Risko or Jevinsky
on the floor. Promoters refer to them
as placer gold" All you have to do
is match either one and you can de-
pend on a sell-out. The fans like that
kind of action. When the boxers are
gone and forgotten, fighters such as
Risko and Levinsky will be remem-
bered as those tough birds from Cleve-
land and Chicago"
Risko is back after remarkable vic
tories over Mickey Walker and Tuffy
Griffith. LevinSky dropped a 20-round
decision to Max Baer at Reno last
July. Aware of the fact that his op
ponent has beaten Baer, the only way
the kingfish of Chicago's Gretto can
overcome that is to defeat Risko. He
will be in there trying all the wav and
1t will not be his fault if he fails.
The winners Of these two bouts
should be matched, and the victor
pitted against the winner Of the
Understanding fight before an op-
ponent is chosen to fight Jack Sharkey
next June.