The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21

Rudy Lyman, gifted band leader, is
on account OF his kayo punch cor
A picture showing Mr.. Abe Val
gladiator upon whom he has bestow'
pany the projection. This makes it
agent either.
The big fight is also looked upon
as fair game by the politicians. For
some battling reason they seem to
think a f1uttery world sits back
with bated breath awaiting their
analytical digest.
Aha, a Real Expert.
If note of envy seems to run
through these lines it is because 1
am OF the conviction the art of
naming the wrong man as the win
ner is something that should be
reserved exclusively for the profess
sional experts on newspapers. Band
leaders, politicians and such merely
confuse the picture
But Mr.. Gene Tunney is differ
ent. He isn't trying to crash any
news columns. He'd Just as soon
you'd leave him out of public dis
cussions of prize fights these days.
He isn't sure the public is interested
in what his viewpoint is. Il don't
get around TO the training camps
any more. you know"
But Mr.. Tunney still follows the
sport with keen interest. He goes
to all the important fights. He will
have his patrician beak in the resin
next Tuesday night when Baer and
Louis come together before what
promises to be the first million dol
lar audience since the Tunney-
Dempsey melodramatics.
81 Like Louis" He Saws
4 like Louis" says Mr.. Tunney.
4 think he Will knock Baer out.
+ The knockout may come early or it
may come late. But l feel fairly
certain he will win by a knockout.
Possibly he may batter him so Sc
verely the referee will be moved
to stop It In any event, look for
decisive ending"
Mr.. Tunney then went on TO eX-
/ plain that his confidence in Louis
/ grew mainly out of the mediocre
I performance Baer made against
Braddock. "Baer seemed to be
washed up in that fight. Once
Braddock hit him with a right hand.
a long overland right that didn't
have much on it. certainly no snap
to it. and Baer's knees actually
buckled. If a real hitter had hit
him he must surely have gone
down"
Mr.. Tunney doesn't believe Baer
can possibly come back to the form
/ he used to show as a topnotcher in
the short space of time he allotted
himself for training between the
Braddock misery and the Louis adj
venture. Unless he is fortu-
nate enough to tag Louis early
don't see how Baer can escape a dis
agreeable evening. Louis won't give
him any time for breathing spells in
the ring And the punches he will
be throwing won't be blanks. They
will be exploding violence all around
him"
A Potentially Great Fighter
On the subject of Louis ability
or WillingneSS-to stand up under a
stiff whack on the chin Mr.. Tunney
said that would have to stand as
anybody's guess until the interesting
and breathleSs moment arrived.
From what we have seen of Louis
we've got to call him a potentially
great fighter. He's got about ev-
erything a fighter needs except ma
tured experimental up to now
he has done all right on limited ex-
perience. But you can't definitely
call him great fighter until he has
bee nhit Solidly. been plunged into
acute distress. battled back through
the miStS and conquered his man"
II is this doubt about the rugged
ness of the Negroes jaw and morale
and the known fact that if Baer
can do nothing else he can Tor at
least there was time when he
could write blood and thunder
stories in the air with his booming
right hand that has yanked the
prize fight racket back where it was
in the hilarious days OF the gold
rush.
They said there would never be
another million-dollar gate. And
Yet here is one right on Uncle
Knick'S doorstep that does not even
involve the championship; what is
mora. it presents as one of its par
Elephants a fighter who made such
a miserable showing a few short
weeks ago that his handlers were
worried about how they would ever
rebuild him into an attraction.