The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-06-14
HANDS NOT BROKEN
EXAM REVEALS;
DECISION IS OKAY
Retirement Announced BY
Baer But Is Not Taken
Seriously

New YORK, June l4.~-NOEJs--
The greatest furore OF modern box
Ing threatened to break today
around James Jay Braddock's
amazing victory over Max Adelbert
Baer in their world heavyweight
championship fight last night.
Braddock, once definitely relegat-
| ed to fistic oblivion, came back
from the shadows to win q title de-.
clsion unanimous with the three
officials and stamped 100 per cent
okey by boxing writer's.
Yet circumstances, most puzzling
and confusing, challenged his right
| to bookings richest prize.
This was because:
4. Baer, WHO pounded huge
Primo Camera to a pulp and who
was making his first defense of
the title, didn't fight a lick.
2. Although he blamed injured
hands, Max never once struck
Braddock hard enough to break a
fingernail. Doctors who examined
him after the fight said his hands
were Only bruised.
8. The state athletic commits
sion meets today and will, accord
ing to Gen. John Phelan, chair
man, CONSIDER. the fight.
A. Braddock, was q 7-to-1 shot,
But, TO add to the puzzle, there
was unusually light wagering and
no evidence OF q "killing" By
| gamblers.
To make the whiri Just n little
| dizzier, Baer Wflnounced his retire.
ment from the ring. But no one
t-ok It seriously.
The heart. Of the rumpus was the
fight itself.
Worst Fight
| Veteran followers OF heavy
weights were unanimous in brand
ing. the Braddock- Baer 60 as the
most " insane is championship
rounds In Marquis Of Queensberry
history. Braddock's Wanted left,
although often aimed at Baer and
often scored, never once bothered
the defending champion.
Baer, who was credited with
killing one man in night and who,
In not more than half a dozen fur
ries Of fury, annihilated Camera,
never opened up.
For round or two II seemed no
was merely biding his time. The
fight went on and on to It's dreary
conclusion. But Baer never opened
up.
Not the least amazing angle was
Baers hands. The writer sat at
Baer's corner. AS Max went to his
seat at the end Of the tenth round
he turned, held out his right hand
and glanced down at It.
"It's gone" he said. rs II
broken?"
Eyes, broken"
He held up his left.
TITS gone too. Both broken,
broke 'em In the fifth. Come back
after and I'll show YOU"
| But the hands were not broken.
Braddock's victory saved boxing
at the Garden. Braddock had sign.
ed an agreement to defend his title.
IL won, under the Garden banner.
Baer, who signed a similar agree
ment before the Camera fight, had
refused to tie himself up for a fu-
ture bout II he beat Braddock. The
Garden Is In line to stage a Sep
TENDER title bout with Braddock
probably meeting the winner OF
the June rs bout between Joe
Louis, Detroit negro, and Camera.
Last nights bout was relatively
lightly wagered. The important
money was on Baer, and a lot OF
small lets were on Braddock. The
hard bitten Broadway bettin
clique, certain that Baer would win,
took 1t on the chin.
| Agreed
For once the heavyweight cham
pionshjp changed hands on a de-
cision without the usual argument
among sports writer's over the YER.
dict. Eoxing writer's, by custom,
look around the ring at each other
and vote on the decision by nod
or a stake OF the head. There were
only mods last night.
Baer surprised the writer's who
crowded into his dressing room by
announcing his retirement. That
was tho last thing they expected to
hear. Baer insisted he had some
dough hidden away from my man
ayers and that under no circum-
stances would he ever again don n
glove. But nobody believed tho
California playboy, who chucked
away nearly half million dollars
In tho few years he was a topliner,
VIII quit now.
Braddock's position Is curious.
He is champion Of the world. Had
the 1ght been close, and he would
be hailed as the all-time miracle
man Of boxing. As 1t is, it's a
miracle he's cha n, pion XII