Evening star., 1936-08-25
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Louis Dates Poor Pickin's
After Bad Paw Retires
Champ Until June.
BY JOHN LARDNER.

Champ Until June.
BY JOHN LARDNER.
n YEW YORK, August 25.-The
nj fight between James j. Brad
~ dock and Max Schmeling, for
the heavyweight champion
ship of the world, is very much of. 1t
may stir back to life some time next
June, but, in the meantime, the best
thing you fight fans can do is to stick
your dogs up on the stove and try to
fake an interest in the National
League pennant race.
BY your correspondents count, 1l2
licensed physicians have focused their
trained eyes upon the left hand of Mr..
Braddock in the last week. The med
ical peepshow reached a climax in
front of the New York State Athletic
Commission when the giants of science
chose up sides and decided, by vote
of Sc to Sc that they didn't know what
it was all about.
"The champ is suffering from sub
acute arthritis," said DR.. somebody.
'.Nuts!" said DR.. Somebody Else.
These two terse diagnosis threw
everybody into state of confusion.
II am going home by the next
boat" yelled Max Schmeling.
The next boat was the Bremen,
which left almost Immediately.
But I will return" shrieked Herr
6chmeling as he bolted the joint in
O frenzy of haste.
Some Oil Is Poured.
"DONT bother!" hollered Mr.. Joe
Gould, Braddock's manager.
Now, now, now!" said Gen. Phelan,
the head commissioner.
This is hell of situation" said
Mr.. James j. Johnston.
It was almost an hour before the
various parties to the affair Gained
down and began to cope with the crisis
in a normally sane and larcenous
manner. The spectacle of so devious
skulls laid together was inspiring, and
the conclusions they reached were
even more so, being doughty as fol-
lows:
% Mr.. Braddock, the champion,
will have to subject his ailing duke
to further inspection on September
is.
90 This means that there will be
no Braddock- -Schemling fight this
year. because the lateness of the date
of inspection leaves no time to pre-
pare for an outdoor bout.
t3) Herr Schmeling is definitely op-
posed to another battle with Joe
Louis and will accept nothing but a
title contest.
a. Herr Schmeling will return in
June and take swing at Braddock
for the vaterland.
(5) Joe Louis will make the best of
the situation by fighting Al Ettore in
Philadelphia on September % and
Georges Brescia, the large Argentine,
on October in New York. He will
fight a third minor fight in Madison
Square Garden on December 13.
90 Mr.. Braddock, the champion, Is
very unhappy.
This last conclusion was established
by Mr.. Braddock himself.
BraddOck Rueful.
sCOLLY," said Jim, IT would rather
dose my hand with novocaine
and fight Schmeling next week on a
flatboat than have the guys think
I am yellow. Ny arm is sore, all
right, but not too sore to knock
Schmeling kicking. Let me at him
right away"
Manager Gould vetoed this sug-
gestion with considerable alacrity.
MY guy don't fight till his arm is
right" said Mr.. Gould. land how
can it be right when IS doctors say
he is suffering from subacute arth-
ritis, which Is the worst kind of arth-
ritis?"
II do not think Jim Braddock is
holy and solemn scorn which settled
upon Herr Schmeling's pan when he
heard this colloquy.
Il don't think Jim Braddock is
stalling," said the German, because
Jim is a brave fellow who doesn't
care who he fights with or when he
fights. But somebody is stalling for
him. There is something very fonny
about this. Somebody is trying to
make me fight Louis again, and I
have said rs million times that will
not fight Louis unless it is for the
title.
Il can beat Louis any time. He
still looked to me like q bonn (don't
get the wrong idea. Schmeling means
bum) when he fought Sharkey
Sharkey was stupid and crazy to fight
the way he did. saw a couple more
weaknesses in Louis that I didn't see
before, and he is my meat any time.
little, or Nothing" Yells Max.
"RUT am after the chompeenship,
see, and I fight nobody but
Braddock till they take the title away
from him. I will beat him if I have
to wait till June"
It was at this point that the unruly
Uhlan bolted for the liner Bremen,
shouting that he would be back. It
was at this point that Joe Louis re-
signed himself to series of BUSH
league sallies at the expense of Ettore,
Brescia, etc. Mr.. Braddock went
away looking very rueful.
Mr.. Johnston and Mr.. Mike Jacobs
were last seen with their heads so
close together that there was danger
OF collision. Or collusion. Spell it
your own way.
lCcpyright 1885. by the North American