The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-23
Mdx Hopes for Rubber"
Match With Champion
German Alibis
With Claim
Of Foul
By PAT ROBINSON

NEW YUM, June Is N1.N.0 'J
Say, you all hear that Smellin
scream when ali hits him2. He
sure do scream like a woman
don't he"
Joe Louis is voicing his aStonish
ment over the strangest incident
that ever happened in a title fight
as he lies on the same rubbing
table long used by those otheI
noted bombers from Detroit
Gehringer. York and Greenberg.
THE second punch an hits
him brings home the bacon"
Joe explains. "Ah turns him
half way round on the ropes
with a right to the head. Then
ali lets him have a right hook
to the kidneys-right here
and that's when he screams.
You all hear him? Sure sounded
funny. For a minute ali thinks
maybe ah socked a woman by
mistake.
"Yessuh, right there is where
all takes control. All knows
then he's through. Shucks, ali
amt even got me a good sweat.
WhusSat? Hurt me? Say, he
amt hit me but one punch-a
right to the face and ah'm fall.
ing away from it and ah hardly
feels it. Then ali goes to work
on him and the last time ali
hits him with a right to the jaw
and thass all there Is, there
amt no more"
TALKS DESPERATELY
Then to the Yankees dressing
room where Max Schmeling is
standing naked, gesturing forcibly,
talking desperately, wildly. Gone
now is his pnlegmatic stoicism.
Gone his majestic calm, mis- rlow,
measured speech. He seems to
be trying desperately to alibi his
defeat for the fans back in the
Fatherland who made him a 2
toll favcrite and for Der FuehrCr
Hitler, who had sent a cable Ito
the coming champion"
Somehow you feel very sorry
for him as a torrent of words pour
forth. HE hit me ON the ropes
right herein the kidneys. That
is a foul punch"
The writer disputes that and
Max insists: yah, on the other
side it is foul. Right away can
not move. The pain is terrible.
Never do feel such pain. I am
like a dead man. My mind is clear
but cannot move"
If your mind was clear, Max,
why didn't you take q count after
the second knockdown?
Il know not. All ! know is,
the pain is awful. That one
punch changes everything.
After that, am what you call
q soft mark. think if he does
not hit me on the kidneys I will
win the fight just like the first
time. Anyhow, we each now
have one knockout. Maybe I
can get the rubber fight. Amt
it SOP"
Dead pans greet that question
because everyone realizes, as
Schmeling must, that he had his
one great chance and blew it. But
he insists he will return here to
fight somebody, even If he can't
get Louis.
DONOVAN EXPLAINS
AS we leave to hunt up Art
Donovan, the referee, we can still
hear Max explaining over and
over about that kidney punch.
But, when the question of a
foul is put to Donovan, his reply
is:
"That was no foul. Joe half
turned him with a right to the
jaw and then shot a right hook
to the body. The blow landed
we'll above the belt on the kid
ney. Max himself has landed
many a punch just like it. Sure
that punch paralyzed him. He's
right about that. But he's dead
wrong about it being a foul.
And by the way did you see
Max Machon toss in the towel
when Schmeling went down the
last time. OF course, tossed it
out right away and if I could
have got hold of Machon I'd
have tossed him right out after
the towel. Max simply never
had a chance. He missed with
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