The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-18
HOOD OF LOUIS WILL DECIDE
 LENGTH OF 60
Negro Promises K. o. : Within 4 Rounds; May
 End in First Heat
By HARRY CRIMSON gRorts EdIteF, NEA Service

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 That seems to be the only question n connection with the ,0erman's scheduled 16-round engagement with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium, June is.
 Just to be different, I'd like to say that c rejuvenated echmeling stood as much as a cueless Chinaman's chance of closing Louis eyes, or something, in opening those of his critics. But I fear that those of us who refused to become excited about the affair at the outset had the right slant. I saw nothing at the ex-champion's Napanoch camp to make me change my mind.
 The way see 1t, the distance of the scrap depends on Louis mood, and the Negro can in no sense be chased as Q young man of many moods when he buckles down to dressing the boys Up, as he calls 1t.
 Schmeling punches just hard enough with his right hand to be too dangerous to carry, and, like Jack Dempsey, Louis is not the type to lug an opponent along even if he believed it safe.
 Although Louis never has seen Schmeling in the flesh, he has noth- ing but utter contempt for the Teu- toms ability. Jack Blackburn's opin- ions are Louis and the famous old lightweight never considered the Black UhlaIa anything more than a slow and awkward second-rater. Louis has studied the pictures of two or three of Echmeling's battles, including the one in which he was stopped by Max Eater. That alone convinced him that there was no cause for apprehension in . match with the Pretzel Founder, partic- ularly after the easy fashion in which he ironed out the Californian. Louis Says He Will
 KayO Schmeling in Four
 I asked Louis what he thought of SChmeling, while we sat watching Schoolboy Rowe and the Dark An- gels favorite Detroit Tigers Subdue the Indians in the American League opener in Cleveland this spring. Coming from him, Louis reply prac- tically amounted to speech.
 "He can't fight" said the Ala bama- born darky.
 I asked Louis at Lakewood II ne felt the same way about 1t. He nodded his head in the affirmative.
 The following afternoon we fol. lowed Light Hose Harry Cooper m the Open at BaltuSrol, and asked Louis how far he thought the bat tie would go. Smoky Joe denotes ring distance with his fingers. He put up four.
 echmeiing will fall like Q broken nffplane the first time he leaves an opening, just as have g Of Louis 27 previous adversaries. The crash may come in the first heat. l VIII pc more surprised than the Embalmer fl the condemned man is among those present at the end of four.
 What comparatively little betting is taking place is on the length oI the shindig, with the price depend ing on the number of rounds. .,
 schmeling, who perhaps has all the money he ever will need, quick ly will learn that the best he can vet out of the bout is the $500, ,oOO purse. which is what brought him back to this countrq. The German will do his best, no doubt, but, un- der the circumstances, he would be a rummy to take any unnecessary pasting.
 Same old Story
 One Coming, Other Going
 It's the same old story-one conn ing. the other going, and, while ne was at his peak from 1928 to 1852, Schmeling didn't have enough or any one thing to whip the Louis or today. The colored clouter is many jumps ahead of the commercials who have passed as first-raters since the retirement of Gene Tunney. A man now. he may be at his pinnacle against the Black Uhlan.
 Louis is more than eight years younger than Schmeling and has every physical and mental advant- age over the erstwhile Ferocious Frankfurter. True, Schmeling mas knocked out Walter Neusel ana Steve Hamas since being halted by Baer and beaten by Hamas, but he also has been through two l2- rounders with the battered Paulino Uzcudun without getting anywhere in particular. Louis completely wrecked Pauline with the first two real punches he let go in the fourth round.
 Louis edge over Sclfmeling ex- tends even to the highly important matter of ring rust. Herr Moxlc hasn't been in the wars since July T. 1885, when Pauline held him even in Berlin. Smoky Joe made 1t as painless as possible in executing Charley Retzlaff in Chicago in his last start early this year.
 After wathcing Louis fiatten Paul lino and studying pictures of other of his fights, Schmeling and ms trainer, Max Machon, announced that the Brown Embalmer had 8 weakness which the German would use to advantage. We will have to wait until June 10 to know whether their eyes are sharper than the fin- est judges of boxers alive.
 While the Louis-Schmeling scrap, which Is expected to attract more than e0,000 persons and bring back the million-dollar gate, isn't likely to last very long, the customers like to see big fellows fall and the Ring Robots artistry is such that he ale ways sends them home satisfied. uADUAnn AnMV