Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-04-15
WIN,'L0sEO OR
HNAV BY FRANCIS STANN
Maxim a Keurns Masterpiece

NOW THEY ARE CALLING Bobo Olson killer puncher
because pounds the middlewegh king twice
Joey Maxim and beat the former Heavyweight champion
convincingy that Maxim Olson take Archie
Moore.
Moore, as you must know, makes career of beating
Maxim and challenging Rocky Marciano He is the
175pound champion but he has suspect heart condition.
although later will undoubtedly
to it that Olson meets with Moore.
But all of this is beside the point thought here
Maxim being dumped twice this the other
night in San Francisco that thoroughly amazing
gladiator is his way very few people
concerned about it. In his Maxim Is bigger than such
Ezzad Charles and Jersey Joe Waco and Rocky Grazano
Maxim, whose real handle Berardnelli has certain
followers who think that Joey coud-hgh There
others who differ but who the mileage this
man of Indifferent talent has obtained.
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MAXIM HAS FOUGHT for the heavyweight championship
of the world He had defended struggled to regain the
ight-heavyweght title heaven knows how times Before
meeting Olson he had younger evening taken Sugar
Ray Robinson
This hard fight to write. Maxim did practically
nothing of his title which Robinson presumably
taking dead The temperature rngsde vouched
for by other than the late Jim Dawson OF the New York
Times ITO degrees.
1t Robinson all the way outjabbing and out
stepping Maxim then with minutes to the Harlem
dandy swooned in his and refused to out.
Fresh out energy explained by his handlers
but when Sugar Ray reached his dressing he
up enough of the stuff because he the visiting
hard time and beraed the Mayor of New York. publ
czed friend of the fighter.
BUT GETTING BACK to Maxim, there's Doc kearnS to
consider In recent article Mickey Walker had nice
things say about Kearns He told his thoughts to Frank
Graham of the very best Of writer's and the meat of the
matter that Kearn bordered greatness manager
of fighters.
Kearns managed Jack Dempsey and he managed Walker,
too. Two better fighters never stepped into ring
Dempsey and Walker ruthless That hot after
when he the heavyweight title from Jess Willard
in Toledo Dempsey admits he weighed less than ITO
pounds.
Il gave the guy about 100 pounds and thought knocked
him out in the first round Jack recalls They called back
and Keans took charge He sad Look got bad break
Out here they don't know how to count too good Calm
down and belt out this bum after round two"
DEMPSEY AND KEARNs split up some years later, and
then it became WakerKearns team. This natural
because Mickey like Dempsey could and did fight up and
down the scale But the thinking here is that Kear
hit his peak with Maxim.
Joey ruggedly handsome guy out of Cleveland,
italian boy who grew up be fighter although he can't
knock off your hat Maxim good at abbing however,
and long sportswiter for want of something else
do changed his to Maxim Something to do with the
silencer on gun, ETC.
Joey the day he could mix with Dempsey
Walker and that the secret of Kearns magic e taken
this fellow far beyond his realm mace lot of money
both Joey himself If inclined press the
point Kearns perhaps has gotten more out of Maxim than
he ever did out of Dempsey and Walker.