St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-07-01
Louis Victory
BalkS Plans for
Race Hate F'ete

BERLIN, June 70 (CNA)-Ine
plans of the Nazi regime to utilize
the Louis-Schmeling championship
bout for racialist HISTORIAN and
phoney "Aryan superiority" claims
went by the board last night as the
news came over the ether that
Louis had f1attened out the "Nazi
Hope" in the first round of their
scheduled 15-round go.
A German hook-up with Yankee
Stadium, New York, permitted
broadcast of the fight throughout
Maitland, with Nazi commentators
whipping up racial feeling towards
the expected climax of a jubilant
announcement that the superior"
Aryan had triumphed over the Gin
ferior" Negro.
Millions of Germans clustered
about short-wave radio sets in
cafes, bars, clubs and homes under
orders of the government that
everybody was to listen in or else.
The faithful went to bed a sad
dened lot, while opponents of the
regime tried hard to conceal their
amusement at the chagrin of the
Nazis.
Something's crushing defeat at
the hands of Louis was taken here
as a disgrace" from the Nazi
racial viewpoint, and it was pre-
dicted that Make faces oblivion or
even the concentration camp if he
returns to Germany. 1t was re-
called that Baron Won Cramm, Ger
man tennis ace, was tossed into a
concentration camp following his
defeat by Don Bulge last fall at
Forest Hills, New York. Schmel-
ing's "crime" is far more serious,
since his defeat puts to ridicule
Nazi's claims of "racial superior
ity."
For weeks the regimented Nazi
press had played up the bout, free
ly predicting that Schmeling would
win "on the basis of the blood"
The weekly, Box Sport, devoted
it's entire last issue to proving"
with quotations from Nazi trace
scientists" and seventeen boxing
authorities "the utter impossibility"
of a defeat for Schmeling at the
hands of a Negro.
Yesterdays afternoon papers
carried banner-like dispatches from
New York on the fight. Sports
pages were crammed with pictures
of Schmeling. The shot displayed
most prominently was that of
Louis stretched on the canvas two
years ago when Schmeling de-
feated him.
The papers played up news from
Italy that the Mussolini regime was
also treating the fight as a major
political event and had ordered a
national hook-up with Yankee
Stadium.
It was reported that Adolph Hit
Ter sat up all night at his Bavarian
retreat at Berchtesgaden to hear
the fight broadcast, which went on
the air at three o'clock, Berlin time.
The disappointed Fuehrer had
made no comment so far on the
outcome. He will probably ignore
it as he ignored the American
Negro stars at the Berlin Olympics
in 1886.
The keen interest of Nazi au-
thorities in the return match be-
tween Louis and Schmeling was
in marked contrast to their attitude
toward the first Louis-Schmeling
bout two years ago. Then they
shared the general belief that
Schmeling did not have ghost of
a chance with redoubtable Brown
Bomber, and feared that Schmel-
ing's meeting with Louis could re-
suit only in embarrassment to
Nazi "racial science" They there
fore discouraged interest in the
fight in Germany. Something's
freak victory caught them mapping,
without preparations to symbolic
Louis's defeat as "proof" of al
legged Negro inferiority." This
time it was another matter, but
then so was the outcome of the
fight last night,