The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-20
LOUIS REMAINS 2 TO 1 CHOICE OVER SCHMEL|NC
Heavy Title Bout "Gate" Is a "Cinch" to Reach
 Million Says Jacobs
By HENRY McLEMORE

NeW YOTK, June lU-NOE)-lliSh in the hills of New Jersey and New York today Jeo Louis and Max Schmeling hammered home their final training blows.
 Here in the city, in sprawling Yankee Stadium, workmen ham, mered home the final nails in the gallows-like ring in which the Negro and the German. on Wednesday night, will fight before 80,000 per- sons for the heavyweight boxing championship of hte world.
 New York city,s size is so vast that it usually swallows a sports event, no matter its magnitude. World series scarcely cause crush on the subway. Olympic tryouts go on un- needed. International tennis matches are just murmurs in the city's roar. But even New York and all its mil- lions couldn't submerge this fight today. It dominated everything. Newspapers gave it more columns of space than they did pressing world problems. From the Bronx to the Battery it was the chief topic Of conversation-in homes, hotels, bars. common carriers, and on the street corners.
 On The Way
 And with each move of the clock hands toward ring time (10 p. m., E. D. T.) on Wednesday, the fight tide rumbled toward the crest. Not 8 train pulled to a stop in Grand Gen. tral or Pennsylvania stations with out pouring out fight customers. Not bus jerked to a halt in the city's dozens of terminals without unload- ing more of the same. Not an air. plane taXied to halt at Newark airport without fight fan listed on its cargo.
 "We did better'n nine hundred grand with Louis and Baer, and right now we are heluva lot ahead of the dough we had in three days before that fight" Jacobs exulted.
 Specs" Move In
 No one ever will know the exact figures on Wednesdays fight be- tween Champion Louis and the man who knocked him out two years ago. because the spectators have moved in and are doing a job of "scalping' that makes the Indians work on Custer a haircut and singe by com- parison. They were demanding and what is more, gettng-any- where from $50 to $75 for single seat inside the first ten rows. This for tickets clearly marked at $50.
 HyNiv,iovoc fhn nIIfanr11n common as frostbite in the Arctic. For every man who thought the champions superior hitting power and youth would enable him to gain revenge for the beating he absorbed there was one who had the utmost in the first meeting of the two men, faith in the stamina and ringcraft of Schmeling. Not since Dempsey and Tunney went at it for a second time. in Chicago, has there been a fight that produced such diversity of opinion.
 The only men unwavering in their opinions were the bookmakers, the layers of odds. Along the betting boulevardS Louis was 2 to l favor 32-year-old German, with the crush ite to withstand the challenge of the ing right hand. Louis was held at no better than 8 to on Saturday, but he lengthned the price yesterday in a training performance that was from Harlem) looking on, he turned when, with 6,000 worshippers (mostly beautiful in its Savagery. Dull and uninspired in most of his workouts, Louis was every bit a champion yes- terday. He tore his sparmates apart with a drumfire of rights and lefts. He danced about with the speed and efficiency of lightweight, and rolled away from right hands shot at his chin with flowing grace.
 Will Louis Scare?
 Critics (meaning us smart ones who picked Louis to slaughter Schmeling in the first fight) are particularly interested in the weigh- ing in ceremony, because it will mark the first time that the two strong men have stood face to face since that fateful night two years ago. The psychologists among us want to watch the Negro's reactions when he is thrown alongside the man who beat him into shapeless mass. We probably won't get any reactions at all, because Louis prob- ably will go to sleep and be dream ing of his next meal just when we figure he should be covering before Schmeling or meeting the Germans cold stare with a colder one of his own. He is like that.
 If you can't make New York for the fight there is little danger of your not being able to read about 1t. More than 600 accredited newspa- perment will be at the ringside, rep resenting 36 of the AS states and Australia, Mexico, Sweden, Cuba, Porto Rico, South Africa, England, Belgium, Holland, France, Jugo- slavia, Germany, Poland, Japan, Ar gentina and Brazil.
 Wonder what those Fiji Islanders are giong to do for news of the fight? Maybe Gene Tunney is writ ing for them. He seems to be ex- porting for everybody else.