The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-29
NEVER A NAzI
 AT HEART,SAYS JACK DEMPSEY
Max BOasted He Would Stop Louis, and He Did;
 Had to Protect Wife
BY JACK CUDDY 'nlted Press Stan Correspondcnt)

United Press Stan C0FrespondenO
 New York, May 2e-tUP)-News of Max Schmeling's death sobered Cauliflower Canyon today.
 The guys in the know regarded 1t particularly tragic because Herr Maxie never had Q chance to re- veal hls genuine affection for the late Joe Jacobs one of the greatest of all managers.
 Schmeling died in the Nazi cause, but along 10th street he Is regard- cd aS the victim of a political ma chine-victim of 6 philosophy which never permitted this fighter to find the peace he always sought.
 I was in Jack Dempsey's Broad way tavern when the flash came. Dempsey said 1t was c damned shame" because Maxie wasn't Q NaEl ct heart. He said "Schmellng told me he was merely going through the motions of being a Nazi for the sake of his beautiful wife, Amy Ondra tformer European movie star).'
 Promoter Mike Jacobs said, Knowing Schmeling as I did, I cannot believe that he sacrificed his life for Q cause in which he cer. tainly did not believe"
 The Schmeling l knew was & scientific boxer, always looking for an opening. Perhaps he thought he saw one ct Crete and was killed trying to take advantage of It."
 Schmeling was man who always sought the opening. Never can I forget the afternoon sat with him in February, l936, before an old rose fireplace in Maxie's apartment in suburban Berlin. He was signed to meet Joe Louis, the brown skinned super man.
 Schmeling said, "ThiS Louis is just on amateur. He makes miss takes. He leaves the big opening, which my right fist will take care of."
 paid little attention to this statement, because I figured he was merely whistling past the graveyard, just aS had that other Maxie (Baer) the year before.
 Jacobs Agreed
 When Maxie, the beetle-browed ex-world champion, arrived in tho United States, there was one man who agreed with all hls promises. That was little stogie-smoking Joe Jacobs. And whom Schmeling achieved the miracle of knocking out Louis In the 18th round, Mama ger Jacobs said, T told you so."
 This same little Jew had yelled "Foull foul" back in 1880 and gained Schmeling the world heavy weight title from Jack Sharkey,
 But when Schmeling returned ;o the United States In June, 1888, and tried to repeat his kayo victory over Louis, Herr Maxie would not listen to Manager Jaeobs-Who was rele- gated to the position of agent with a cut of 10 DOT cent instead of 8 i.3 per cent. schmeling listened to Herr Helnias, Q Berlin photogra- pher and to Trainer Max Machon, an avowed Brown Shirt. Little Yus- sle wanted schmeling to come ,ut hot for this tilt with Louis. But Maxie wouldn't lsiten and he came out cold and got knocked out in 2:04 of the first round, quickest heavyweight championship kayo In fistic history.
 Loyalty?
 Despite this, Yussel Jacobs-the unwelcome non-Aryan - stuck with his fighter. It was little YusSel who got the x-ray pictures showing the alleged Injury to Maxles sacro- lilac It was Little Yussel who marched beside sehmeling's stretch- CT aS the former heavyweight cham pion was carried upon a boat bound for Germany.
 Schmeling Is dead-the German Dempsey who could pluck that right hand of his breast, but Yussel-the- Muscle died before him. There was one of the greatest combinations in ring history Schmeling who could fight and who worshipped dol- lars and never spent them: and Joe Jacobs, one of the greatset spuasld- erers the ring ever knew.
 have been closely associated with schmeling since he first came to the United States in 1928, man. aged by the German, Arthur Won Bulow. And l believe that this Inaster-craftsman of the ring would like to join Yussei-the-Muscle In the Great Beyond, and pay tribute to the little man who made him champion.