Evening star., 1940-07-03
Crafty in Cutting Foe,
Max Is Too Aged .
To Battle Joe
Fat Two-Ton Is Bloody
Figure as He Remuins
In Corner After 7th
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


JERSEY CITY, July 3.-Two tired,
fat old fighting men slugged each
other into state of utter exhaus-
ton out on the Jersey marshes last
night, and finally one of them, Tony
Galento, was unable to go on any
| longer.
The fat tavernkeeper was sitting
on his STOOL blowing blood like a
harpooned whale, when the bell rang
to start the eighth round. His han
dlerS wouldn't let him go out, so
the referee raised Max Baer's hand.
1t went into the books as a tech
nical knockout in the eighth.
The Highland it was a hard one
while it lasted-proved only that
there isn't a heavyweight in the
world worthy of challenging Joe
Louis for the championship.
Will Evade Joe If Smart.
Baer, eXuberant in his dressing
room afterWard, was shouting his
defiance of Louis and demanding
another shot at the big Negro to
whom he once surrendered while on
his knees. But Max is about six
years too late. If he is smart, he
will challenge Louis from the house
tops now, but not get into the ring
with him.
Max fought about as brainy a
fight last night as one would hope
to see. He took his time, lodged
Galento's mighty lunges, and stead
lily punched the fat man into a
state bordering on helplessness.
But, even so, he did not look like
fighter to face the Louis thun-
derbolts. He looked old in the face,
and without fire.
Tony. who had been a solid ia
vorite, found the handicap of 244la
pounds of fat and barroom cut on
his chin too much. The pounds
slowed him to where he was awk-
ward in the clinches and a sucker
for Baer's sharp blasts. The cut,
administered originally by a beer
glass pegged by his brother, opened
up round by round until finally he
was checking and blowing froth.
Tony Wins Lone Round.
Some near Tony's corner claim
they heard him humble that he
had enough. I was about four feet
from him, but didn't hear that.
Whitley Blumstein, Tony's chief sec
ond, said he was the one who
stopped it. Tony. through heavy
bandage about his mouth, said he
had broken his left hand in the
second round.
That, on the Associated Press
lento won. The other six belonged
to Baer Max nearly foored his
foundering opponent with tre-
mendous right to the chin at the
start of the sixth round, and he
gave Tony an awful going over in
the seventh, even smacking him a
couple after the bell. Tony went
to his knee once, but it was hard
to say whether he had been hit or
slipped.
A crowd of 22,711 paid ssS ,oo4 to
sit in Jersey City's handsome ball
park and watch the two veterans
slug and butt each other and
grimace like couple of wrestlers.
Referee Joe Mangold went clucking
around and warning them in almost
every round, and he took the fourth
from Galento for taking running,
jumping butt at Baer's jaw.
Galento Aggressor at Start.
Tony was the aggresSor at first.
He obviously intended to stop Make
in a round or two, and was trained
for about that distance. He swung
furiously with his great, club-like
arms, and sometimes he landed
squarely. Baer took it well, to his
credit, and came back punching.
AS the rounds rolled on, Tony's
rushes came less frequently, and by
the fourth Baer was stalking him
calmly, leading with long straight
left and banging in his famous right.
In the last two rounds Tony was al
most too tired to swing at all. 1t
was right to stop it.
They are saying that Baer will
fight Louis at Chicago in September.
This is doubtful.
P. S.-Galento even had his end
of the purse attached.