The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-20

pletely closed left eye and moved forward to carry the attack. In the tenth round, he began to laugh at Louis punches, which had scored g knockouts in 27 bouts. He took three, four, five lefts to the face to get in close enough to rip over the short, damaging right.
 Louis Gr0ggy
 He had Louis out on his feet at the end of the tenth and 1lth rounds. The tide of battle shifted momentarily in the 18th round when Louis landed with several punches. And then came another low left hook to Schmelings groin. This punch sealed Louis doom.
 Raging mad, the German charg- ed. He ripped his right to Joe's jaw | in a rapid succession of punches too quick to count, driving Louis be- fore a vicious attack which finally paralyzed him.
 The negro fell backwards slowly, breaking his descent by throwing his arms behind him. Then he roll ed over on his side as if he wanted to go to sleep. He lay there while Donovan counted him out.
 The announcer fairly had to drag Max back to the center of the ring to raise his arm in victory. Louis sllmped onto his stool, completely spent. The negro was half-carried to his dressing room by policemen and his seconds.
 Schmeling stayed in the ring while photographers flashed pictures and then started his conquering march | to the dressing room.
 And there back in Max's dressing room was enacted another amazing scene. With one eye closed, his lips bloody, Schmeling made his speech in broken English, to the same re- porters who had written columns doubting his courage.
 Max Confident
 T am a proud man." he said. T would never have gone into a ring to allow myself to be beaten by colored man if wasn't convinced in my own heart that l could win. l saw the pictures of Louis fight with Baer and spotted many weak spots. Then came to this country and saw with my own eyes those same weak -spots against Pauline Uzcudun. signed to meet Louis be- lieving could beat him. Then everyone says I got scared. Fighting is a profession. If man is afraid he has no business in any profess sion. Dempsey, Corbett, Jeffries- they weren't afraid. I keep telling everyone that am not afraid of Louis but no one will believe me. But that does not doubt my convic- tions. And another thing had to spur me on was the humiliation heaped on me after I won the title from Sharkey on foul. When Louis hit me low, he hurt me. But made up my mind would never again win a fight on the floor"
 Tn the other dressing room, Louis was more broken -hearted than any, opponent he himself had ever| knocked out. He could only mumble| questions of what happened to himl The left side of his face was swol len. He had lump under his right eye.
 Jack Blackburn, his faithful traint- CT, refused to offer any alibis for his protege. He said:
 "He got tagged, that's all Yep, Schmeling hit him with short right in the fourth round from which Joe never recovered. Maybe it's best that Joe got knocked out Everything was coming too easy for him. I believe he will still fight his way to the title"
 Managers AllbI
 Julian Black and John Rbx- borough. his co-mapagers, had a lot of alibis about Louis spraining his thumb hurting his hand, but no lone would listen to him.
 A few other disgruntled Louis sup porters shouted faint-hearted alibis about Joe trying to carry" Schtmel- ing for few rounds for the mo- ton pictures and then losing out in the end. These were the usual ex- plantations after big upset. Definite plans as to the immediate future for both fighters are tlncer- tain. Schmeling was to announce what his next move will be today. Louis was hustled into seclusion immediately after he left the sta- dium. His future will be mapped out by Promoter Mike Jacobs, Who has him under contract through 1940.
 Despite the fact that the show was financial failure, Jacobs was far from disappointed.
 "The best man won," Mike said. And in every fight ever promote I want the best man to win. Louis was beaten by a great fighter and I expect to stage match between schmeling an Braddock in ssptem-