Evening star., 1938-02-14
BIG TITLE BATTLE
GIFT TO CHICAGO
New York Loses Rich Louis.
SchmeIing Gate as Ring
Body Bans Joe Jacobs.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,


n YEW YORK. Feb. 14-New York
N States esteemed boxing COM
" missioners have come through
4 again in the pinch and chased
another ''million-dollar gate right
out of town, no doubt to the relief of
Manhattans hotel men and tavern
keepers, who wouldn't want to be
bothered with lot of extra business
at the start of the summer season.
If there previously had remained
some slight doubt that the anticipated
championship meeting between Joe
Louis and Max Schmeling this coming
June would be conducted at Chicago,
it has been removed by the commits
sions masterful handling of the big
Tony Galento mystery of the past
week.
The commission practically relieved
Promoter Mike Jacobs of the necessity
of making a decision on the cham
pionship site when it socked a sus-
pension en- Joe "YusseI" Jacobs, the
manager of Galento-and likewise the
manager of Schmeling. 1t was a
great break for Chicago. which es-
Inmates the value of the scnap at
around $5,000,000 in fresh money.
Schmeling Tie-up Overlooked.
1P TO this time, Joe. to the writer's
knowledge, had been neutral. He
didn't care whether Schmeling fought
l,ora ~ u, Cl,icooo j,,ct ca tho off q ir
drew plenty of cahbages." as Joe
quantity puts it. But now he's all for
Chicago, and he has talked Julian
Black. one of Louis pilots of record,
into the same frame of mind. Pro-
moter Mike Jacobs, worried about the
New York Jewish boycott of Schmel-
ing. was eager to be swayed In Chi
cago's favor, anyway.
Galento, If you didn't read the
breathless details. had his license sus-
pended by the indignant commission
ers because he didn't let them know
he had a damaged left hand. He was
to have fought Harry Thomas at the
Garden Friday night. but now Jimmy
Adamick. the Detroit terror, is taking
Tonys place.
Everything would have been all right,
probably. If the alert commissioners
had left things go at suspending
Galento. It turned out that he didn't
have New York boxers license, any,
how. Tony is forgetful fellow. But
when the solons decided to take an
extra smack at the yussel for good
measure, they blew the works. Pos
sibly they forgot his ancient working
agreement with Schmeling.
Great Record for Mistakes.
THE record of the commission in its
effort to keep the super-f1ghts
out of its territory is remarkable. VIII
liam Muldoon. the venerated father Of
the body, chased the two Dempsey
Tunney bouts to foreign parts because
neither Jack nor Gene would give
Harry Wills a shot at the title.
It since has been pretty generally
agreed that Wills wasn't anything
special in the way of heavyweights,
and the muscle-bound Harlem Negro
is on the way to being completely for
gotten. But nobody could tell Null
doom that at the time.
The commission also forced the
Schmeling- Young Stribling scrap on
Cleveland because Schmeling wasn't
fighting Jack Sharkey. and more re-
Gently it outlawed the Louis-Jim Brad
dock bout to Chicago because Schmel.
ing wasn't being treated right. As one
Of the Broadway crowd put it the other
day, those guys are too honest for
anybody's good"
That's one Of the strangest parts
about 1t. Whatever else you hear
about the commissioners-and you
hear plenty in the course of time
there's nobody who questions their
honesty Of purpose. =