The times-news., 1938-06-20
VANGUARD OF
BATTLE FANS
POUR INTON.Y.
Betting on Lewis Speeds
up and S7O0, 600 Ticket
Sales Recorded
By JACK cuDDf -.
Ir-..I Pras< Staff Correspondent

United Press Stat IorreSPon,SN
=, NEW YORK, June 20. tUP)-
The vanguard of visiting Iahs
started pouring into the city gun,
% dav by train, plane ana 9uS ,oI tTi
. the miliion-dollar LoulS-SenIet- .i
s;no 6eht wednesday night at yam
kre Stadium. where 200 worHmen
are busily setting the stage 1or
tbo mammoth drama OF maui.
& As early arrivals ot some 49,
600 out-of-townerS started nlatch-
mo into downtown hotelS, eham-
MON Joe Louis and challenger
Wox Schmeling virtually complet,,
ed training for their internationa.
heavyweight title bout.
Louis did his last boxing at
Pompton Lakes, n. j., and the
German slugger went through his
next-to-last sparring session at
Speculator, n. Y. Make will mn
ish with four rounds today.
Hotels catering to the sporting
crowd. such as the New Yorker
park Central, Edison, Alamac,
Commodore and Governor Clinton
reported the heaviest fight arrlH-
ais and bookings since the LOUIS,
Make Baer bout in 1888. Ana
the betting tempo increased with
Louis still quoted the Sl2 to D
favorite in friendly wagering.
Promoter Mike Jacobs was Ju-
Lilant over the booming sale OF
tickets, saving Sunday: 1--WE can't
miss n million dollars now. We're
RIGHT up i'm the old Stratosphere,
with more than 100000 in cash
already in the strong box. That 5
a lot more than we rad IN three
davs before the Louis Baer night,
which drew nearly a million.
Jacobs added: The only fly IN
ny ointment now is that argu-
ment over the gloves. Looks like
we're going to have some trouble
there. | was up to Louis camp to-
day and his managers insist that
Joe will wear only gloves made IN
Chicago-six-omce gloves with
long thumbs. Joe Jacobs tele-
phoned me from Speculator that
Schmeling won't fight with the
Chicago gloves because the thumbs
are too long. Max insists on
New York gloves, weighing seven
ounces. hope the boxing COM
mission can Straighten this thlng
out some way. ~
Commissioner Bill Brown told
the United Press: We'll settle
that glove business at Tuesday
commission meeting. Gloves for
heavyweight title fight are sup
posed to weigh six ounces. wen
nut them on the scales and see
what they weigh. II the New YORK
gloves weigh six ounces I'm pref
ty sure we'll favor our homemade
product. We'n have this straight
ened out before the weighng-ln
at Madison Square Garden, We'd
nesday noon"
Schmeling will motor from
SpeculatOr to Amsterdam, \. l.,
Tuesday morning, and entran at
Amsterdam Tor New ioFk ClIS'
He will spend Tuesday night at a
hotel in New York. Louis plans
to motor into the city from Pomp-
ton Lakes, Wednesday morning,
lust in time for the weigh-in.
Meanwhile publicity director
sWalter St. Denis was running
in wide circles at 2Oth
Century headquarters trying to
arrange for the largest press sec
tion in boxing history. More than
600 newspaper men from all parts
of the world will cover this bout.
Four hundred of the writers are
from outside of New York. News
papers representing SO of our 4s
states will have their own CORE
spondents and wires at the rlng-
Side. Foreign countries that Will
have their own correspondents at
the fight are Australia, Mexico,
Sweden, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Eng
land, South Africa, Belgium, Hol-
land, France, Jugo-Slavia, Japan,
Germany, Poland, Argentina and
Brazil.