The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-04-26
Butcher Boy Deserts Night
Clubs, Settles Down to
Serious Training
By HARRY GRAYSON
lpofts Editor. NEA Service

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As he prepares to pitch camp In
the Poconos. Max Adelbert Baer, re-
puted well.known man about night
clubs, Is not more than three or four
pounds overweight for the first de-
Tense Of his world heavyweight title
against the rejuvenated Jersey steve
dore, James ]. Braddock, in the Long
Island bowl Of Madison Square Gar.
den on June Is.
Baer was IS pounds overweight
when he started work for the Primo
Camera fight . year ago. He barely
had seen the inside Of . gymnasium In
Q year.
Spending four days with Baer re-
Gently, I was surprised to find him
reaching for the carpet slippers In
the early evening and In bed 1T $50.
It. was In Cleveland. where the erst-
while Butterfly Butcher Boy was
down for one Of those four.rounders
With Eddie Sims, . young Pole who
can knock your head off with q right
hand punch.
1--WE got to be ready for al these
fellows" asserted Baer. II never can
tell when one OF them Is going to
take liberties with me. - the Eng
lishman says. Do you know that I've
been through % rounds Of this with
six-ounce gloves since ! stopped Car
nera last June. Against some pretty
good fighters. too"
Baer commenced calling them off,
rather proudly. It seemed.
Jack Van Noy. Babe Hunt five
times, and every one Q fight" he
beamed. Dick Madden, Tony Can
celia. King Ievinsky, and 6lmms.
None Of them exactly sucker. ]
could have knocked out most Of them
but that would not have been any
thing to my credit. I belted out
LevinslEy only because he wouldn't
behave. In most OF the others I saw
to Il that I got In . good workout.
"You can add TO those o. rounds
fully 100 more than I have got In
gymnahums." J.
Met Active Champion
No champion. not even Jack Demp.
sey, was g active. John L. Sullivan
engaged many Z rough and ready
man with his bare fists In drunken
moments, but BAer Is the first heavy.
weight ruler, who. In full possession
OF his senses, insisted upon stx-ounce
gloves and that gause bandage b
limited to 10 inches and tape to sis
inches In exhibitions"
He would IKE TO start three timex
this year-tackle Max Schmeline
again and the winner Of the Camera.
Joe Lewis skirmish after Braddock
A great change has come over Bael
since last June.
Camera had to fall on me be.
fore I took Q tumble to myself" de-
clared the champion, getting . laugh
out Of tho remark he made 8 h
rolled over and over with the 40
pound Venetian Leviathan after be-
Ing pulled to the floor Ia the thirt
round.
THE last one up Is . sissy" cracked
Baef.
Baer he's reversed the customary rim
formula. Most warriors take the bes
care Of themselves on the way up
Once there. they quickly get Is soft .
tho cushions they recline IN.
| From the time that he first cam
east . 21-year .oid harurn- Is,
with . liveried chauffeur In 1880 d
tackle the late Ernie 6chaaf up Il
and including his training for Car
nere last summer Baer paid little o
no attention 70 discipline. Hs like
nieht lie and all that goes with Il.
0aer was % laclIadGisical only
few days beforA the Camera contes
that such : ksen Judge as Dill Brown