Evening star., 1938-04-30
>ouis Scmeling Promise Best Mill Since Melee
HATRED TO COLOR
PUNCHERS' SCRAP
Bout Will Break Monotony
of Heavy Title Series
Smacking of Cheese.
BY JOHN LARDNER,

NEW YORK, April 30-For $50 YOU
can have a ringside seat at the best
heavyweight fight since the Dempsey
Ffrpo thing. For considerably less
money 5000 Mex, to be exacO you
can stay away entirely, and that's
what millions Of people will do, because
$50 Is lot Of parsley in these times.
or any others.
But 1t will be a great fight lust the
same, even by radio-provided that
Uncle Clement Mccarthy does not
get five rounds ahead of his story. and
Graham McNamee does not swoon
oead away, and Theodore Husing does
not say, Believe you me-" and Sam
1auo does not trip over a pile of
strangled syntax and sprain his ankle
Michel st. Gaudens Jacobs, insti-
gator OF more quarrels than a Balkan
prime minister, has announced the
price list for the second Louis-Schme-
ing hight, Yankee Stadium, New York
June $3.50 the top price, s5.75 the
potion, not to speak of sundry splendid
oleacher seats, believed to be early
Chippendale, from which you can get
clear view of the eclipse of the moon
If there is one.
Some Fuzzy Heavy Fights.
This fight should be great because
the heavyweight championship of the
world is at stake. because there is a
strong mutual dislike between the
nghters, because both can punch and
both rely on punching for success and
because the first performance of the
same show was terrific.
It's no lavish compliment to call it
the best match since Dempsey and
F1rpo, is years ago. Most heavyweight
fights in the interval have been dreary
cloWnish or cheese favored.
Remember these?-
Dempsey Gibbons - The original
pursuit race, with the chivalry of
Shelby, Mont, bringing its own am
munltlon to the ringside There we're
more guns in the first five rows than
there were in the whole of Lees army.
Mr., Dempsey did not seem to have
his mind on his work.
Dempsey y-Tunney-There were two
OF these, and the second one had its
points, but ballyhoo and So 900 600 in
the box Office made it seem a better
hght than it was.
Dempsey-Sharkey-The reticent tar
from Boston was winning this one
handlly when he paused in the seventh
round to discuss ethics with the ref
cree. They never did settle their po;n-.
because Mr.. Sharkey became uncon-
scious almost at once.
1unney-Heeney-A routine lob OF
slaughterhouse work on which eyery-
BODY lost dough but Mr.. Tunney
otrlolng- -McTigue-The decision on
thls one changed three times as the
referees train moved North. It was
Strlbllng's victory in the deep South
out a draw when the official reached
the Mason line, and a turkey
any way you look at it.
Sharkey-Schmeling-The German
won the title in the first of these hv
ciutchng his thigh on the canvas.
while Joseph Jacobs screamed "stav
GOWN! The Lithuanian won it hack
.he second time by decision which
left him speechless, while Josenh
Jacobs screamed. I'VE was robbed!"
Sharkey- -Carnera - Mr.. Sharkev
crumbled beneath q savage invisible
punch in the sixth round. but he won
moral victory by outstaring his on
ponent from the floor. Primo WINGED
under the baleful glare of the sailor
delivered horizontally at an angle of
20 degrees.
Baer-Carnera-There was action in
tnls one. but only when Baer could
catch his breath. Between spurts he
would go to neutral corner and pant.
While Primo waited at respectful
distance.
linen there were the Louis fights.
some were bad-Farr, Brown. Levin
SKY, Pastor. Some-Carnera, Shar-
Key, Braddock. Baer, Mann-Vere ex-
citing spacta cles, because anv punch
er OF Louis swift and deadly power is
good to watch when his shots are
landing. But the greatest of all Louis
ngnts was the one he lost, to Schme-
Ing. and that's the fight they'll repeat
IN June.
l don't mean that they'll repeat it
from the original scenario. Joe has
other plans, and the public has so
much faith in those plans, rightly or
wrongly. that the betting is even BY
ring time there is good chance that
the Bomber will be the favorite in
spite Of the fact that he was out
smarted and outfought by this same
Uhlan two years ago and got the tan
ming of his life.
Mr.. Joseph Jacobs, the polo PLAYER
and fighters agent, known to the
Newport set as "Laddie' Jacobs. en-
powers me to report that Schmelinp
will sail from Germany on the Sd day
OF May. He will repair to French
Lick Springs, Ind, for a short whirl
at the waters, and then he will 20 into
solemn training in the chilly mountain
country at Spectator, N. Y.
Spectator Is an ominous choice
Max Baer trained there for Louis.
spending most of his time on his
knees in prayer, which did him no
good in the end, except to teach him
to stay on his knees. But Mr.. joseph
Jacobs is unabashed by precedent
Forget it, says Joe. Superstition
Is the coise Of the upper middle
class"
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