Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-12
STOPS SPARRERS
WHO TRY RUSHING
Flowers and RuggirieIIo Are
Punished BadIy-Goes to
See Tigers Today.
BY EDWARD J. NEIL, .
Associated Press SporAs Writer.

oMPToN LAKES, N. j., Sep
- TENDER 12-In training camp
at least, Joe Louis has proved
II that crowding him in prize
ring, which Max Baer plans to do in
the Yankee Stadium September "a,
gets you just about the same thing
that backing away got Primo Car
nera and Kingfish Levinsky.
Camera lasted six rounds, mostly
on a dead run: the Kingflsh went less
than one. A couple of sparring part
ners, Lou (Tiger) Flowers and Saliva
tore Ruggiriello, could tell you today
that getting fresh, moving in to take
the play away from the brown blast
from Detroit, meant cutting their &C
tivities down to about 80 seconds.
The experts have been lolling about
the Louis camp specializing on just
one thing-what will the 2l-year-old
sable sphinx, short of only one thing,
experience, do when a big. rough,
bully fighter of Baers type roars into
him, slugging from both sides? Every
thing else they know of Louis-his
terrific betting power with either
hand, his cleverness, his eternal ag-
sressivenesS.
Joe Makes EN- Suffer.
FLOWERS and Ruggiriello are no
Baers, but when the Tiger got
fresh yesterday, tearing into Louis
with both hands, Joe stretched him
helpless and bleeding on the ropes
with half a dozen Surging Srlashes,
Ruggiriello, once great prospect and
still big, rangy right-hand puncher,
nailed Joe with half a dozen solid
rights, and took so many left hooks
on the chin in the next few furious
seconds that he had to quit.
II come back, fight two rounds next
time" he said as he teetered back
and forth in the sunlit outdoor ring.
He specified today but perhaps he
knew that Joe was going into New
York to see his beloved Detroit Tigers
open their series with the Yankees
In the stadium.
Louis, who is getting positively
gabby as the shyneSs of his previous
camp here leaves him, discussed
charging fighters, particularly Baer,
as he took time off from pool game
and gave up the funny papers he
was trying to hold out against others
who wanted to read them.
Warns Fiancee About Coins.
A FEW minutes earlier, talking by
long distance to his fiancee, Mar
va Trotter in Chicago, where the
young lady is furnishing the home
they'll have there after their marriage
directly following the Baer fight, he
announced like a long-term husband.
Don't go spending too much money,
honey. We amt got much yet"
Joe says the one fellow who really
tried to rush right over him in a
fcur-month professional career that
has brought him 20 knockouts in "a
fights was Adolph Water, in Chicago,
future.
He tried to crowd me-" he said.
"He hit me one good lick. But I
paid no attention. I kept slipping
punches. moving back in on him.
Pretty soon hit him couple times.
He didn't crowd me after that I
guess Baer'u be about the same"
Louis managers, John Roxborough
and Julian Black, are going down to
the Boxing Commission soon to ask
that the methods Of handling the
judges and referees slips be changed
for this match. They want the vote
of the officials delivered to Chairman
John J. Phelan after each round, to
be totaled by him.
Under the present system the Off
Gals keep their round count and de-
liver the complete verdict to the an
nouncer at the end of the match.