The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-24
RING HAS five
HEAYIES Who
COULD RETURN
Schmeling Fight
Show Possibilities as
to Comebacks
By JACK CUDDY
Copyright 1886 by United Press

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What will the harvest be - the
psychological harvest-after that
flabbergasting Schmeling Louis
brawl?
The world has just witnessed,
with popping eyes, one of the most
amazing proofs that the brain
plays a major role even in the
primitive business of beezer bash
ing. 1t has marveled at the tri-
umph of an analytical mind, intel
ligent courage and smashing
right fist over a brown automaton
who had been publicized into viz
tual invincibility.
Nothing that / can recall ever
brought home so impressively the
fact that the brai mis- just as i'm
portant in sports as brawn-or
perhaps more so-than the pic
ture of Joe Louis crumpling into
the resin dust in the fourth
round at Yankee stadium last FRI
day night.
Louis smashed to the floor in
the fourth round, the shattered
Louis idol webbing about the ring
thereafter, and lying there on the
canvas helpless after the knock
out in the 18th round-these are
candid camera flashes that world
will not forget. They will set men
MISUNDERSTANDING men of the
ring. And what will result from
their thoughts?
What will Make Baer think,
and what will he do-and cham
pion James j. Braddock-and Jack
Sharkey - and Joe Louis - ana
Max Schmeling?
Baer is trying a comeback. 80
is Sharkey. Braddock came back
and so did Schmeling. And LOUIS
will try to. And according to
Charles Atlas, the physical culture
expert who has made an exhaus-
tive study of the body stamina;
ETC., every one of these men still
has several years in which ne can
retain the physical ability asso-
ciated with a champion.
Atlas has juggled 10 tot heavy
weight statistics and emerged with
the news that the average age at
which men won in heavyweight
crown was 27 years, six months.
His figures show that the maxi
mum age for taking the title was
35-freckled Bob FitzsimmonS-
and that the youngest was 10
Jim Jeffries.
'"As far as stamina is concern
ed" saws Atlas, "the age when
men have the maximum endur-
ance in legs, heart and body, be-
lieve is around .33 or "a. A thor
ough study of the careers OF long
distance runners and other attn,
letes has convinced me of that. :
If Atlas is right--and the
miraculous" comeback of Brad
dock and Schmeling would ind.
cate that his dotrine smacks OF
truth-then Messrs. Braddock.
Schmeling, Sharkey, and OF
course, the younger Baer and
Louis. still have plenty of time
to 90 places after the bell rings.
What we mean is this: Every
one of. these stand-out heavy,
weights should retain the physical
ability during the next three or
four wears to keep or win the
championship If their brains
function properly:
Right now the heavyweight
championship chase is wide open,
But-who will win it and VINO
will keep it for any length OF
time. seems to depend upon the
use of the old bean.
Take Make Baer for example.
The statuesuue livermore larruper
must have received tremendous
shot in the arm when the news
came that Schmeling had knocked
ont Louis. Baer had stopped tne
bulldog of the Rhine without dill
ficultv-but he had his head al
most beaten off by the brown
t,omber. And what did Baer say
to himself? He must have sald
"What a sap ! was. Why dldn
7 sock that bozo right on the
whiskers with my right in the
first round just like l socked
Schmeling? Well, watch me next
time. Pm going to stralghten my
right out. l won't throw those
looping, round house punches any
more. III sharpen a straight rlgnt
and watch what happens to o e
Louis when l get in there with
him again." 40 or
And what does Louis say? VI
what does his mentor Jack Black
burn tell him?
"Chappie-you-all just got to
learn to keep that chin down there
behind that left shoulder. ana
You got to quit takin' you're time m,
dressin' those boys for the XII.
You gotta 60 out there and KNOCK
'em stiff in the first round. That's
what you should have done to
Schmei. Learn to protect yo'sei;f
against those right hands an yoll
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