, 1935-09-25
NEGRO BEATS
MAX EASILY
Ex-C champion Outclassed In
Convincing Fashion
BY Brown Boy
BY ALAN GOULD

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the slightest doubt Of the two-fisted
greatness Of ice Louis. least Of all
In the minds Of upward OF 10000
onlookers who saw the 2l-year-old
Detroit negro on his bridal evening
NOV down the once magnificent Max
Baer with a punching blast as dead
~ as machine gun fire.
Mercilessly, methodically. never
wasting a blow and rarely slacken-
ing a punching pace that has had
Few equals in heavyweight history.
Louis knocked out the former cham
pion In the fourth round Of a Is
round match that revived all the
glamour OF the prize ring In a near
million dollar spectacle at the YAM
kee Stadium.
Baer not only wa completely out
claSsed but made the fatal mistake
OF trying TO box Louis. He was
knocked down three times, twice in
the third round, where the bell saw
ed him as he sat blinking on the
floor. He was counted out while
swaying on one knee near the end
Of the fourth round.
Lasts II Minutes, so Seconds
1t was the greatest heavyweight
shCw but also OF the most one
sided, top : flight heavyweight
matches since the famous Tex Rick
ard oied and the great Jack Demp-
ARey retired.
In IL minutes and so seconds he
youthful negro punched Baer 20.
q bloody. senseless wreck; a batter
ed figure still trying to muster the
pretenSe OF his cnce marvellous pow
ers OF resistance. fading out Of the
picture IN defeat with magnificent
gestures OF futility.
II seemed that Louis must have
hit Baer nearly 500 times with as
vicious q two-handed onslaught as
any first-class heavyweight has abb
sorbed since Dempsey slaughtered
jess willard at Tciedc in 1919 or
hammered down Luis Angel F1rpo at
the Polo Grounds In 1923.
II was. in the words Of q late cri-
tic OF the fight business, modified
murder" in every sense OF the word;
a killing" so devastating and ccm-
plete as TO leave not a single ques-
ton for dispute.
On his honeymoon Wednesday,
upward Of 100000 richer. and { k
ing il all with the same GOODNESS
that characterizes his amazing ring
workmanship. ICE Louis seemingly
has no worries about a pugilistic
future that contemporary word
artists are painting in the gRudiest
possible hueS.
The brown bomber's 25th consec-
utive victory and his 2lSt Knockout
since he turned professional scarce
" "a months ago capped the climax
OF the most spectacular march since
Dempsey waoed through all oppoSi-
ton TO the world championship.
The title held BY the e~x-stevedore.
James j. Braddock. Is Louis goal
but II probably will be a year before
he gets the chance TO claim Il for
his race for the first time since Jack
johnson ruled the fistic heights.
Louis vs. schmeling
A match with Max Schmeling. the
German who once wore the heavy
weight crown. Is the next major
goal for the negro. Promoter Nike
Jacobs. heir 10 Richards mantle,
said he plans 10 match Louis and
Echmeling for a 15-round fight az
either OF New York's big ball parks
next June. the winner 10 BE- Brad
Ndcck for the title in September.
Louis told me he wants TO fight
as often as possible" said Jacobs,
who already has the negro under
contract for two more years with an
option on his fighting services until
1910.
He says that getting married now
also means he viii have to keep busy
but it's going TO be tough finding
opponents"
For those who saw Louis crush
Baer. there isn't the slightest doubt
that the chocolate soldier a and
will whip Schmeling and then take"
the gallant Braddock.
Baer was 70 provide the big test,
demonstrate whether Louis could
stake II" and make the going tough
er for Louis than all the other fight
ers he has met combined.
Max may have had fury I'm his
heart, but there was no dynamite In
his fists. Instead or setting a whlrl-
wind pace. he came out cautiously.
INSTEAD Of sluggirg. he tried 70 box
I As masterful a young boxer as the
ring has developed in a generation.
Attack Too Much
He absorbed, as he said he would.
all that Louis could throw az him,
but even concrete can resist T. n. T..
only for q brief time.
After taking e terrific lacing for
two rounds, Baer crumpled under
the negro's two-fiSted fire and sag
ged slowly to the floor for the first
time midway In the third round.
The blood through which he J. II
gTinned ~insolently. disdaintully In
earlier melees. dripped from his
face. now a grotesQue mask.
AS he sQuatted. the curly-haired
Californian managed another smile.
and with the instinct Of the great
snowman that he has always been.
waved TO the crowd that was on its
feet. yelling for the skill"
It was a characteristic Baer geS-
ture. q magnificent touch from a
warrior who knew the end was COM
hGng. Eyes bleary. Baer staggered
20 his feet at the count Of nine.
He met another whitening blast.
backed into the ropes. then sway
"a and toppled again. Re was saved
this time BY the bell. at the count
OF four.
Frantically Jack Dempsey and
other handlers told the battered for
mer champion 10 keep punching"
but the old fire was gone. Max knew
Il and 20 did everyone else.
Louis. still in no great hurry
intellectually stalked his man, shift
ing his crushing left hooks TO the