The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-09-25

obance against the pro"lihs
nv negro, and the certainty
crew as the fight progressed.
Orlv at the end of the second
.o,,nd did Make threaten the
~ tornado. Catching Joe on
10 south ropes, Make smashed
liz s IN the chin with a terrl1lG
lG ,iia5trband right swing. 1t daLet
T Hoe for an instant, and IN ina
n slant the bell rang, put MAJ
n tnS and slashing like an en-
Md hull. rained blows on LOUIS
r@s a leaned backward over the
as n Referee Donovan pulled
Make AVA and told him 60 OBEY
the bell: . sbufflinp
boanfifuilv balanced position, Joe
pea anted stalking Make at the
sI%. bell, and seldom was fore
o o9 4n retreat a step. Joe stab,
he'd and hooked his larger. and
heavier opponent with whistllng
infts until Makes nose started
nonring blood in this first session.
Makes first hard punch land,
ed an the Retroiter near the end
of this round, when he hooked the
brown boy on the chin with a saw
ace left swing. Joe came back
fighting like a puma, in such a
III roalaa that fans throughout
the stadium leaped from their
seats and screamed at the top OF
their lungs. ur,od
This swapping session marked
the end for Make, because Joe
punched faster and faster as tne
furry went on. TIE backed Make
into the ropes and beat MN on
the head so savagely that Make
was almost out on his feet Wheh
the gong sounded. His face was
covered with blood from the nose
bleed and from cut between
lower lip and chin. ,
Make never had a chance.
Neither his body nor his style was
of calibre to compete with the Joe
Louis he fought last nighttime
Joe Louis who had just married
Marva Trotter, his attractive dus-
ky Chicago fiancee, two hours be-
fore the fight. :,
Perhaps the marriage inspired
the brown bomber to his heroics
although his style and execution
were about the same as IN his
former bouts. This time it was
against bigger game.
Baer, fighting for 80 per cent
of the net gate or about S3OO,OO0
fought the best he could, but that
wasn't very good--not much bet
ter than he did in June when ne
lost the heavyweight title to an
cient Jimmy Braddock.
Fighting from a "Jeffrles
crouch"-a scarborough in which
the head is supposed to be partl-
ally hidden behind the left should
err, Make attempted to avoid Joe's
steaming blows, and step in with
his own wild swings. But stalk
ing Joe merely waited for Make
to start a punch, or to move out
of position, as a nopening for
pistn blow.
He out-boxed and out-slugged
poor Make and every round. He
must have landed $50 or 300
punches on Makes head and body
during their brief combat.
When Referee Donovan count
ed Make out, Joe's negro retinue
rushed into the ring to congratul-
ate him: Co-manager Julian
Black, Trainer Jack Blackburn
and Assistant Trainer Larry Am
adce. Joe smiled slightly as they
slipped the robe over his sloping
shoulders and cut off the gloves.
These gloves, incidentally,
made no difference to Joe's per-
formance. They were special
"flores" or California-made gloves
demanded by Baer because of a
protecting flap that saves the
first knuckle from injury. Louis
consented to using these gloves in
stead of the regulation six-ouncers
yesterday afternoon, when Baer's
manager threatened to call off
the bout unless the "flores" mitts
were used.
Although Make out-weighed
Joe 210 1-2 pounds to 1919 IA,
and had advantages of height and
reach, as we'll as six years ring
experience aginst Joe's ID months
none of these factors proved of
any assistance. Nor did the
brute strength of which Make
always has been so proud. In the
clinches, Joe tied him up nicely,
and prevented him from using the
inside uppercut which did the most
damage to Braddock.
The result of the fight-most
important mixed bout since the
Johnson-Jefferies fiasco-proved
extremely popular with the huge
throng. The crowd forgot race,
creed and color in it's wild ad-
miration for shuffling Joe's splen-
did performance.
Louis we'll may prove the great
est negro fighter in history before
finishing his career, a figure to
rank with Slave Molineaux, who
represented America in the first
international heavyweight bout
back in 1918.
When Promoter Mike Jacobs
of the Twentieth Century Club
announced after the bout that the
gross gate totaled $932,944, six
tn largest gate in the history of
boxing, it meant that Louis at 81
and in Ia months of fighting
had drawn gates of nearly 81, 900
900. Not even the mighty Jack
Dempsey could boast of any such
record when a youngster.
When the fighters and theil