Evening star., 1936-06-11
build 'SCHMEL|NG;
TEAR DOWN LOUIS
Great Drive Is Being Made
for a Gate of Million
Next Thursday.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK, June 11.-Eforts
N to build up the Joe Louis-Max
IN schmeling encounter 1It'., next next
n Thursday to a million dollar
gate are so simple in their devising
and so obvious in execution that any
one who has followed pugilism through
the years cannot have failed to detect
the spurious nature of the ballyhoo.
The Negroes lapses into a laziness
which causes his associates to shake
their heads gloomily; occasional poor
showings against his sparring part
ners; lack of competitive fire-these
and other indications of mental and
physical deterioration are employed to
establish in the public mind an idea
that, unless Joe bucks up, he Will be
in for a lot of serious trouble on the
night of June 18.
And on the other hand. Max
Schmeling constantly assumes stature
as dangerous opponent for the bronze
bomber as he knocks his sparring part
nerS about for the edifcation of pop
eyed spectators, who do not seem to
run-of the mill shock absorbers who
inhabit the Teuton'S camp is to take
it on the chin and go to sleep.
Mates Are Soft Picking.
ITO SAY that Jerry Pavelik is the best
of the lot is to give an authentic
line upon the sort of competitive prep
aration Schmeling is getting for his
meeting with perhaps the most accu-
rate and Furnishing sharp-shooter who
ever stood in ring.
Some competent critics may queS-
tion Joes status as the hardest hitter
of all time, but doubt if any of them
would affirm that any fighter ever
equaled his ability to see the slightest
shadow of an opening and to put his
glove through it in the absolute min
imum of time.
Watching Schmeling at work. the
thought occurs that the worst posi-
BILE service ever done for him was tc
change his style several years age
from the weaving method which he
copied from Dempsey to his present
scheme of standing comparatively
erect and pulling away. Weaving and
bobbing about in his old manner he
might make it difficult for Louis tc
get to him for perhaps seven or eight
rounds. But evidently he has for
gotten the art of making an ever
changing target of himself.
High Priced Entertainment.
THOSE who go to this fight week
from tonight, especially those who
pay for $40 seats, should realize that
they merely are paying for the privi-
lege of seeing how long the German
will last. Unless there is nothing al
all to the science of boxing and unless
every close student of boxing has
learned nothing in long years of as
sociation with this sport, Max Schme-
ling has about as much chance OF
putting up $40 or $25 or even $40
worth of fight against Louis as the
aged steamship Leviathan, rusting to
death at her Hoboken pier, would have
of beating the Queen Mary in race
across the Atlantic.
The return on any investment made
in this so-called battle will be kill
scene such as may be seen any day
at any slaughter house; at least, this
will be its character, provided Louis
for one reason or another sees fit moi
to draw out the battle. Otherwise
five rounds ought to be the limit.
say five because, whatever may bt
said about Schmeling, he can take il
II he has to-and if he wants to.