Evening star., 1938-06-28
Baer Is WisUuI White Wish as Jacobs Searches for
CR|T|CFEARS MAX
MAY DUCK CHAMP
Butcher Boy Already Has
Fooled Everybody by
Staying in U. S.
BY JOHN LARDNER.

NEW YORK, June 28-The hunt
Tor white hope again is on. Ger
many's white hope lies recuperating in
hospital bed. with sandbags along
his f1anks to keep him from moving
In his sleep.
At late hour, the only self f-con-
fessed white hope at large was Max
welton Baer, the bonny butcher boy,
and Marvellous best friends admitted
that Make was more of wistful
white wish than a white hope
To the surprise and confusion of
all concerned. Mr.. Baer did not skip
the country after witnessing the swift
and dreadful decapitation of Max
Schmeling by Joe Louis. Instead. he
stalked into the nearest night club
and breathed certain amount Of
modified defiance
Il will knock Louis cold and take
the championship back to my baby
son, Max, jr." said Max. MY son is
named after me-" he said, as an after
thought.
Mike Feared the Worst.
AS soon as the slaughter was over,
Promoter Mike Jacobs decided to get
in touch with Baer His first thought
was Canada
Send kilograms to all key cities in
Canada" barked the chief to his
underlings. Head him of at the
border if possible"
Mikes second thought was to the
South.
Maybe Baer is dashing for Mexico"
he said. Throw out dragnet."
Shall We throw out Galento. too?"
asked Wilton ST. Swithin Farnsworth,
the head assistant. "Galento is on the
doorstep"
Throw him out" said Mr.. Jacobs
with gusto. and check with the po-
lice of South America. If they have
any police That probably will be
Baer's first stop"
My guess is the South Pole" said
Mr.. Farnsworth.
At this moment courier appeared
with the news that Baer was no more
than half a mile away, acquiring a
neon tan at the semi-exclusive Stork
Club. Mr. Jacobs was astonished and
somewhat chagrined, but he smiled
bravely.
He must be nuts said Mr.. ia
eobs. We'll, ask him If he wants to
fight Louis. If he lies to you, we will
stage the fight. If he says no, we'll
find some one else. There must be
white hope around somewhere.
Dempsey had so Of them grazing in
his restaurant two years ago"
It's true that Jack Dempsey COL
lected herd of white hopes and sent
them out to pasture on his steaks and
chops in 1885. The herd was full of
strong. versatile eaters. but it boested
only two good pugilists-both black
Mr.. Dempseys friends never could
f1gure out why Mr.. Dempsey had two
black white hopes in his stable. But
Mr.. Dempsey explained 1t.
I'm not prejudiced," he said. With
me. all white hope has got to be able
to do is fight. I don't draw that color
line"
This Is stout reasoning. and it does
the old man-mauler credit. but it will
not appeal to Joe Louis. because Joe
does draw the color line At least.
his managers do, and Mike Jacobs
backs them up. They want a white
white hope
Before the Louis -Schmeling fight
Max Baer announced that he was the
white hope they wanted. Nobody
paid much attention. because they
figured that Mr.. Baer thought Schmel-
ing would win
Hes just talking" said a close
friend. summing up Makes lifework
In three words.
Four White Hopes Around.
The place where he was talking
vas-you guessed 1.-THE Stork Club.
Il would rather fight Louis than
Schmeling." said Make Louis is
soft touch for me. He's my dish.
I will take the championship belt
out to my little son in California
and let him strop his razor with it,
when he gets old enough to shave,
which ought to be a couple of years
from now, the way he's growing. My
son is quite guy. He don't talk yet,
but last week."
The gist of it seems to be that if
Max doesn't fight Louis his son will.
And There might be worse matches,
at that, right in the kids own family.
At the close Of the market the
white hopes lined up as follows:
l. Baer.
2. Gunnar Barlund.
3. Tommy Farr.
4. Tony Galento.
The public can have a Baer-Louis
night If it wants it. and If Baer wants
1t, and he says he does. But if you
happen to hear of cattle boat bound
for Portuguese East Africa some time
next August, with passenger named
John Smith aboard, that will be
Make changing his mind.
tCopyrisht. 1888, by the North American