The Washington times., 1937-06-05
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By DAVIS ]. WALSH

I'VE" 4OAGGA, OAAAO O'-NNAA iii
glum and very dour in the utter
defeat of all his hopes, Max
Schmeling, the suddenly glowering
Uhlan, will be on his way back to
Germany within a comparatively
few hours, leaving a sense Of last.
ing bitterneSS-and a radio script
that never got an airing. Airing?
They say fumigation might be
more like it.
It was, they insist, an eXcoriat-
ing blast at the New York Boxing
Commission for it's failure to hold
James j. Braddock to his contract,
calling for a defense Of his heavy
weight championship here on
Thursday night. and against
sports writer's who did not see fit
to attack Braddock'S shift Of al
legiance to Chicago and Joe Louis
on June %.
Schmeling, having personally
written the outburst with a pen
dipped in vitriol after Thursdays
meeting, in which the board only
fined Braddock but did not at
tempt to take his title, had plan
ned to go on a national hookup
with his message. It never got
past the anteroom.
Script Destroyed?
It was said at the time that the
script was destroyed. But there's
reason to believe it hasn't been and
the writer, for one, would and will
be interested in seeing it.
Bitterness Is strictly new act
with Schmeling. Heretofore, ne
has been evasive, urbane, uninfor-
NATIVE and slightly patronizing
with all interviewers, his air being
that of a man who sees all. knows
all-and tells nothing. But, be-
yond all available doubt, he has
got more pushing around this time
than a wheelbarrow and it rankles.
Five years ago, he lost his heavy
weight title to Jack Sharkey on a
decision that was almost univer-
sally condemned, with few excep-
lions, the writer being one of them.
Last year, they got him back as an
intended morsel for Louis, but by
the fourth round, Louis had a
stomach ache and by the eleventh
the pain went all the way to his
neck.
Made Five Trips
This fight was widely advertised
as being held for the purpose OF
sending the winner in with Brad
dock for the title. But the wrong
guy won and so the loser gets
Braddock while Schmeling-yeS
quite so: Schmeling gets a sea
trip. Five of them, in fact, al
an announced cost Of $4,000
and he's pretty irked. And, as
long as we're telling our Christian
names, don't know that blame
him.
NEW YORK, June 5.-Before
he leaves tonight for Germany
Max Schmeling may sign a con
tract to meet the winner of TIE
James Braddock-Joe Louis bout
Promoter Mike Jacobs announced
today.
Jacobs said the German heavy
weight had agreed to such bout
He plans to promote it in New
York in September.
BERLIN, June 5 Q.NS.i
Wrath was the dominant emotion
in German sporting circles today
as Max Schmeling prepared to
return home-glum and empty
handed-from his trip to America
in search Of a whack at James j
Braddock and a shot at the heavy
weight title.
There were even predictions
that the Nizi Reich would boy
colt the American pugilistic pro
fession and send no more German
! fighters to the United States
Such ban would prevent Schmel
/ ing from returning to America II
: September to fight the winner 81
j., the forthcoming Braddock JoC
Louis Chicago bout.
New Title Bout
Instead, if this plan goe!
through, Schmeling would NEE
the best European heavyweight
available in a bout for a "worlc
. title" under auspices of the III
, ternational Boxing Union.
Possibility that this scheme
which might set up world heavy
weight title in opposition to tina
: now held by Braddock. was indi
? Gated in a front-page editoria
: published in Chancellor Hitler
: own newspaper. VoelkiScher Bee
bachter.