Evening star., 1936-06-01

This is the mountain greenery
" where Max Schmeling is train
ing for his fight with Joe
Louis, and a local ordinance, effective
within radius of 10 miles, prohibits
you from saying that Max can lose
the fight. The stuff I am sending
you, therefore, is strictly bootleg.
In order to get through to civiliza-
tion with the news that Louis still is
q triple-plated cinch, you must run
a complete gauntlet of revenue agents.
The first limb of the law to block
your path is none other than Joseph
'Laddie" Jacobs, the manager of the
unSaddled Uhlan.
But Mr.. Jacobs is only the first
hazard You have also got to get
past Max Machon, Schmeling's trainer,
who insists that you are ready for
the psychopathic ward if you bet on
Louis. You have got to get past
Signor Francesca Albertanti, who is
major -domoing m this camp and has
never major -domoed for a losing
fighter. Signor Albertanti, a first
cousin of Tony Lazzeri and Joe di
Maggie, believes that there is small
fortune to be made by putting your
shirt on Schmeling at the current odds
of to l.
Training for Long Fight.
a ND after you get past these three
\ tough hombres-Jacobs, Machon
and Albertanti-you are apt to be
thrown in your tracks by Herr Schmel-
ing himself. Herr Schmeling says in
a calm and quiet way:
II never felt better and will not
lose to Louis"
Schmeling is not the sort of fighter
who floors his sparripg partners. He
works against them with method and
logic, concentrating on this or that
weapon and seeking to remedy what
ever flaws there may seem to be in
his equipment. He thinks about him
self. not the human punching
Therefore, you seldom see knockoutS
in a Schmeling performance in train
ing. When somebody gets in the way
of right. he is likely to fall. But ii
isn't often that somebody does get
in the way of right, because Max is
working on his left hand, his timing
and his defense, more than anything
else.
He also is working hard to achieve
the sort of stamina whcih won him
his fights against Pauline, Stribling
and Sharkey (he won that No. 2 fight
with Sharkey, though the judges said
different). Stamina was Maxs long
suit in the days when he was the
best fighter in the country. A slow
starter, he used to come on strong
and land that good right hand repeat
edly in the closing rounds.
Max Seems Confident.
THIS line of attack is his best BET
against Louis. The smart money
says that Joe will stop the German
in four or five heats. But the smart
money does not say what will happen
If Max survives the Bomber's early
blasts and keeps coming up for the
seventh-and the eighth-and the
ninth. Louis is almost unproven as a
late round fighter. No one knows If
his added weight carries with it the
necessary amount Of endurance, late
speed and gameness. Joe hasn't needed
any Of those qualities as yet.
So Herr Schmeling is shaping him
self for long fight in which the
tide may turn his way. He goes out
on the road in the morning, branch
of training that he seldom bothered
with in the old days. He spars six
hard rounds, exercises the diaphragm
strenuously, and clouts the heavy bag
to keep his arms immune from fatigue.
81 must admit that Schmeling seems
Confident and lighthearted. Baer never
seemed that way when he trained for
the Bomber. Neither did Carnera nor
Uzcudun. Maybe the Teuton is bluff
ing, and maybe he really thinks he
has chance.
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