The Washington times., 1938-06-25

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take a second
Buck" O'Nein look at that
match. He's been talking about
Tommy Farr, who lost to Max
Baer, Joe Louis and Jimmy
Braddock.
When all the shouting dies
away do not be surprised if
'Two Ton" Tony Galento steps
into the ring with Louis next
June, or next September, or
whenever it is that the cham
pion decides to defend his title.
Galento will fight John Henry
Lewis in Philadelphia next
month. The inside dope right
now is that after Tony disposes
Of the light heavyweight cham
pion, he will be matched with
Max Baer, who did everything
but swallow his tongue while try
ing to assure newspaper men at
the ringside on Wednesday
night that the thing he really
craved was match with Joe
Louis.
There will be a bit of dicker.
ing over that Baer. .Galento bat
tie. Max, of course, may be ex-
pected to leap into high dudgeon
over what he will style an Gin
suit" to his ability. After the
way Baer quit to Joe Louis, he
is lucky to even be considered as
q championship possibility.
Baer Must Fight Tony
The whispering corners
around the Hippodrome in New
York have it now that 'Baer will
be forced to take the Galento
match or fade out of the pic
ture. Maybe the Orange suds
slipper will not be able to do very
much with Louis, but you can
bet your last penny that Tony
will enter that arena unafraid.
He will walk out with Louis or
any one else, firm in his deter
mination to "hit the other bum
on the chin first"
You hear lot Of interesting
stories before and after these
heavyweight hampio n ship
fights. They were saying on
Wednesday night that the first
time Louis fought Schmeling,
he fell into the trap that almost
ensnared Jack Dempsey when
the latter fought Georges Car
pentier in Boyle's Thirty Acres
in July of 1920.
True or not, the story vas
whispered that in the 1886
fight, Louis was advised that
a one-round victory would kill
the value of the motion pic
lures. Three or four rounds:
maybe five, would make them
worth while. Well Schmeling
belted the over-confident Mr..
Louis on the chin in the second
round. Just as a precaution,
or maybe by accident, Scllmel-
ing hit Louis after the bell in
the fifth round. He continued
the treatment until the end.
Doubtless the value Of the pic
lures was enhanced.
Richard Feared Fatality
Tex Rickard feared that
Dempsey would kill Carpenter
in the ring at Boyle'S Thirty
Acres. He told Jack of his ap-
.prehenSionS and Dempsey con-
Sented to box nicely for a while,
thus giving the crowd a run for
its money.
In the second round Carpen-
teir seized an opening and ex.
ploded a right against the
Mauler'S jaw. Dempsey's head
almost went into the third row,
and he tangle footed beauti-
fully. The crowd was anti
Dempsey, having been fed on
carefully prepared propaganda
that stressed Carpenters war
record.
Carpenter, Carpentier!" the
crowd roared.
Dempsey rocked back to his
corner and told Kearns that
motion pictures or no motion
pictures, he was going out to
win as fast as he could. He
landed a left hook to the body
in the third round that took all
the fight out of the French
orchid man, and in the fourth
rounds banged over a right that
ended the battle.
The motion pictures of this
last fight seem to lack little in
appeal. They reveal Louis as
one of the greatest forces of de-
Struction in the history Of
pugiliSm. AS a study in cold
fury they cannot be excelled,
and they prove that in fighting
brevity is the essence Of perfec-
ton.
Louis has a priced souvenier
in his possession today. When
Arthur Donovan threw out of
the ring the towel that Max
Machon, Schmeling'S trainer,
tossed through the ropes in
token of surrender, it landed
right in front of Murray Levin,
boxing writer of the New York
Mirror, and one Of the top
hands of the fight writer's. Levin
presented the towel to Louis,
who packed it away to be
handed down to poSterity.