Evening star., 1935-06-30
Mas Baer Flies to Ne,v York With Bride
Who Fr0,Uns on His Career IN Prize Ring
E1-Champion Says Loue
Match Greatest He
,EUer Won.
Hints He Viii Enter
Ring Again to Fight
Way to Top.

bride Of O few hours after winning
q love match almost as suddenly as
he lost the title match two weeks
ago.
The grinning, sun-tanned Max and
his comely wife, the former Miss
Mary Ellen Sullivan, waved farewell
to Washington as their airliner beat
down the runway and took off into
lowering storm clouds.
They left behind twoscore reporters
and camera men with whom the
couple had played hide and seek since
| news of their marriage plans leaked
out at midnight Friday.
Max, the night -clubber, familiar to
Broadway and Hollywood. was en-
barking, he declared, upon a new life
where the home, the future and pros
pect of children will be of first i'm
portance.
Bride Six Years His Senior.
The girl of his choice Is six years
his senior, a graduate dietician and
native of Ithaca, N. Y, who came
here two years ago to be hostess at
the Willard Hotel Coffee Shop.
1t must have been a whirlwind
courtship, for not until her wedding
day did the former Miss Sullivan ap-
prise her employers of the impending
wedding. She hastily went over the
menus before departing to dress for
the ceremony. They met 18 months
ago when Baer was appearing at the
Fox Theater. Friends said many long
distance calls from California fol-
lowed.
The couple was married shortly
before 3 pm. by Justice F. Dickinson
Let's of the District Supreme Court
in the living room Of his residence
at $500 Garfield street.
The groom was attended by his
financial adviser, Jay O'Brien, New
York life insurance man, and the
bride by Mrs. Claire Wagner of Wash
ington.
The bride was dressed in white with
blue blouse and wide-brimmed hat.
Max, in his white linens, blue shirt,
tie, handkerchief and buttonaire,
matched this color scheme to perfec-
ton. The former Miss Sullivan was
wearing spray of orchids.
Almost hail hundred reporters and
camera men, including the personnel
of seven sound movie trucks, waited
for two hours on the shady lawn and
veranda of Justice Let's residence.
Justice Let's graciously permitted
them to tramp down his lawn, drag
movie equipment through his hedges,
play cards on the grass and when
some one asked if they might have
some cool beer brought In, not only
acquiesced, but contributed case
They were beginning to think the
couple had given them the slip when
the two appeared in hired limousine
amid welcoming glare of flash bulbs
and click of cameras.
Kisses Bride Repeatedly.
After the brief ceremony, in which
the bride promised to love and honor,
but not obey her husband, Max
obliged the photographers by kissing
Mrs Baer again and again. The bride,
a slender brunette, drew back from
the publicity attending the caresS, but
the photographers prevailed.
II was not until Baer obtained the
license at the District Supreme Court
shortly before noon yesterday that the
identity of the bride was learned.
Baer gave his age as 26 and that of
his bride as 80.
The former champion had identi-
fled Miss Sullivan only as Mary, a
Washington business girl" who never
had seen a floor show or prize fight,
and who neither drank nor smoked.
Max added that his BRIDE -to-be
did not approve of prize fighting.
Asked if this would affect his ring
career. Max, a former married man,
shrugged and said. We'll, that de-
pends."
He added, however, that he is well
on the way toward permanent III
come of 5000 a month and hoped
to reach this goal in four years. The
former champion limited he would
fight again in September, either VITA
James Braddock, the new title holder.
or Joe Louis, the brown bomber "
As Max and his bride left the Let's
residence, the former champion called
back over his shoulder:
Boys, this is the biggest match
ever won! Come on down to the
Shoreham Hotel and we'll have u
party. The drinks are on mel"
The heat of a typical June after
noon in Washington made the invi-
tation doubly acceptable. At the
hotel the couple posed for additional
photographs and received the con-
gratulations of their guests.
They left for New York at $50
pm. A large crowd of spectators had
assembled there to see them off
After a brief stay in the East. where
Max is completing radio engage
ment, Mr.. and Mrs. Baer will go
to the home which Max is building
in California.
Max came to Washington several
days ago with O'Brien. announcing he
was getting away from the tall build
ings" for a rest. He spent much of
his time swimming and summing on
the terrace at the Shoreham pool.
No hint of his marital intentions
escaped him until he was questioned
by an Associated Press reporter after
coming home from a party at mid
night Friday.
Max hinted to his parents in Cali
fornia of the approaching wedding,
but the ceremony came as surprise
to members Of the brides family in
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