The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-20
TEUTON WARRIOR SHOCKS ENT IRE FISTlC WORLD
Louis Legend Is Proved Fable By Dynamite
 Fisted Max
R1 GEORGE KIRKsEY

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 He landed the fist against the jaw of Joe Louis last night in Yankee Stadium before 60,0O0 stunned spec tators.
 ! Down went the Brown Bomber and with him all the legends of the flstic superman who had never met defeat in 27 consecutive bouts--the perfect fighter who had Slaugh- tered two former champions, Primo Carnera and Max Baer.
 Tn his place rose another ex- champion, the German plodder who six years ago won the title while nat on his back in the same ring where last night he achieved a triumph still strange and all unbe- 1ievable to thousands.
 Clears Record
 Marked as a man condemned to the lethal fists of Joe Louis, the Drowned German wiped out the stigma of his foul" victory in 1880 over Jack Sharkey in their bout to determine the successor to the retired champion, Gene Tunney when he knocked out his would-be "executioner" in the twelfth round of c scheduled 15-round bout.
 Referee Arthur Donovan counted out Louis after 2 minutes, % sec- onds. The up and down swing of Donovan's arm tolled a requiem over the broken body of the 22- year old negro who less than an hour before was recognized as an invincible fighting machine.
 And when the grey-clad referee spoke the fatal words-"Nine-and out"--over the writhing wreck, all previous fistic upsets dwindled into the background-even James J Braddock's year old championship triumph over Baer.
 The 30-year-old German the man who stood alone from the mo- ment he signed contract last De- cember to meet Louis-surmounted every conceivable obstacle to smash his way back to the threshold of the heavyweight championship. He is nv closer to winning back the title than any man ever before has been.
 Title Next?
 The title everyone was so sure Joe Louis would win is now within his easy reach and he is determined to become he first fighter in history ever to regain it. He signed two weeks ago to meet Braddock in Sep tember.
 Even Jack Dempsey, who came the closest to winning back the title believed today that Max might final- ly succeed where he failed.
 Nothing is impossible for a mar with as much courage aS Schmel- ing" Jack said.
 And it was courage last night plus those five steel-like knuckles-- which destroyed the casket they had built for schmeling.
 That courage, which stood up be- fore the most whitening criticism any fighter ever had to face, was tested severely even before he climb- ed into the ring.
 Tom O'Rourke, who piloted George Dixon, '"The Little Chocolate Drop into the worlds bantamweight championship, died in the Germans dressing room just before the fight The 80.year-old manager spoke his last words to Max.
 "You beat him Max-you have to beat him, Max" O'Rourke said and then tumbled of . rubbing table before the Germans very eyes. They carried him away and he died oi the heart attack . few minutes later.
 With O'Rourke's last words throb- ping against his brain, Max went out to face the hostile crowd which expectantly awaited an execution The ringside odds were 10 to ] Louis would win; { to he would score . knockout and 2 to Schmel- ing wouldn't come up for the sev- enth round. Scarcely anyone had been foolish" enough to bet on 9chmeling.
 Three rounds--nine minutes o1 actual fighting-elapsed. The Brown Bomber was fiicking his rapier-like left in Max's face. Louis had won the first and third rounds and wal held even in the second. His left jab had Schmeling's left eye swol- len and almost closed.
 When they answered the bell for the fourth round, the crowd wal saying: "This is the one." It was but not for maxie.
 Dynamite Explodes
 Midway in the round, Schmeling's mighty right exploded on Joe's jaw and he went down for the first time in his professional career. For one moment which seemed eternity, the Brown Bomber was a brown statue frozen on white canvas. Bewildered dazed, he struggled up on unsteady legs just as the time-keeper reached the count of two.
 Tn those few seconds, one of the most dramatic scenes in boxing his- tory flashed before the eyes of 60,00O spectators who had paid $547,53l to see it. Even the reporters-prac- tically all of whom had derided 6chmeling's chances screamed wildly for Max to finish him.
 Max kept pumping the short right to the chin but there wasn't enough time to do further damage and Louii went to his corner on paraffln legs But the next seven rounds were merely Q reprieve. Max, taking Louis left six or seven times on his injured eye in order to score once with his laundering right, won six. Twice Louis. apparently fight lng in e daze, hit the German be- low the belt. Four times Joe barely was able to reach his corner after the bell.
 Tie fury of the battle mounted 60 high in two of these rounds that both men failed to hear the bell and continued failing away.
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