Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1935, Page 49

WASHINGTON, 'l'l'- SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DG, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1935. e Poening Star Classified Ads D—1 Braddock s Gameness Tells as He Battles Way to Heavyweight Championship WEATHERS BEST OF BAER'S BLOWS Bores in Continually as Max | Wearies After Too Slow a Start. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, June 14—The man who couldn’t win, the 10-to-1 shot who didn’t have a chance —29-year-old James J. Brad- dock—is the heavyweight champion of the world today in the most| astounding upset since John L. Sulli- van went down before the thrusts of Gentleman Jim Corbett back in the gay 90s. He couldn’t win—but he whipped the curly headed “man Kkiller,” Max Baer, by a margin that was close, but nevertheless convincing, in 15 slow, plodding rounds, before an amazed crowd of scarcely 30,000 cash custo- mers last night in Madison Square Garden’s half-empty bowl. He didn’t have a chance to cope with the bigger, stronger, harder- hitting Californian—but he kept fighting, punching, piling up points by paying strict attention to the busi- ness of the evening. He earned the unanimous decision of Referee Johnny | McAvoy and the two judges, George | Kelly and Charley Lynch. \ Braddock was just another flstlc‘ *“has been” only a year ago, getting up | off the floor in a preliminary to the | Baer-Carnera slugfest. That fight started a comeback which led straight to the end of the rainbow, with its championship glory and the pot of gold that means no more visits to the relief agency by the Braddock family, Jinx Gets Max. BAER was unable to dispel the jinx that has pursued every champion to stake his title in the sprawling Long Island City arena, including Max Schmeling, Jack Sharkey and Primo Carnera. Braddock won, not by any spectacu- lar methods or margin, but because he stuck everlastingly to his guns, stand- ing his ground in every exchange at close range and using every resource As Heavyweight Championship Crown Shifted From Baer to Braddock at his command to the best advan- tage. He proved not only that he was courageous, willing and a steady puncher, but that consistency has its own reward. Baer lost, despite a gallant finish, because he started too slowly, clowned too much and found too late that he could not put over anything resem- bling a finishing blow against an op- ponent who gave him few openings | and yielded no unnecessary ground. The Californian fought a bad fight, but Braddock made him look bad. Max hurt both hands, he said, before the fifth round, but he didn’t do it | because of using them too often. Retirement Not Held Serious. ISCONSOLATE but generous in | praising his conqueror, Baer said he was no one took him seriously. He probably will fight the winner of the forthcoming Joe Louis-Primo Carnera bout, in New York, and at- | tempt later to regain the world cham- | pionship. | Before he crouched, scowling, for the fifteenth and final round, knowing that his crown was slipping from him, Baer summoned a characteristic grin and whispered to Braddock: | “Good luck to you, kid, if you win | the championship. The gesture was a crowning touch | to a fight that added a strange and | surprising chapter to heavyweight annals. There were no knockdowns, | nor did either fighter exhibit a punch calculated to bring about a sudden turn of events. The crowd, though strongly partisan in the challenger’s favor because he was s0 much the underdog, frequently booed and yelled for action. Clowning Hurts Baer. FOR round after round the onlookers seemed to b> waiting for the| moment when Baer would open up, launch a characteristically savage at- tack and cut the plodding challenger down. Grimacing and clowning, the champion himself seemed to be coast- ing, if not actually pulling his punches | at close quarters and biding his time for the opening and the “kill.” Baer let five rounds slip past before | he landed anything like a solid, jar- ring punch. He was so far behind | after a dozen rounds that not even | his most desperate efforts could turn | the tide. Baer brought gales of laughter from the crowd with his antics, but also damaged his chances by tactics which | violated the rules and resulted in| penalties. ‘When Braddock missed a punch in| the eighth round, Baer feigned groggi- ness and, with a grin, swayed in his | tracks, hands down. But Referee Mc- | [ Avoy took three rounds away from | him—the fifth, ninth and twelfth— | because the champion either hit low or backhanded. The turning point came in the twelfth. Up to that point Braddock | had been hard pressed to keep his| early advantage. Baer was outpunch- ing him in close quarters, crowding the challenger more and looking for | the main target. Braddock Takes Blows. THE champion had taken the two | previous rounds. He had blood trickling from Braddock’s nose, which had been cut in the sixth. Baer was on top of Braddock near the latter’s corner when he let fly a low punch Just before the bell. The crowd jeered vociferously and Joe Gould, Jimmy’s manager, ran half way across the ring to yell a warning A policeman leaped in to “through” with the ring, but | | Baer’s greatest weapon, his right, fails in the fifth round, as it did in _ most of the fight. Playboy’s Punch Lacks Drive As Foe Becomes Easy Target In Early Rounds of Contest BY GRANTLAND RICE. EW YORK, N. Y., June 14—| N The miracle rider still is on his way. Last night at Long Island Bowl in the greatest upset in the history of the ring, James J. Braddeck of Union City, N. J, hammered Max Baer's heavyweight crown from the top of his curly-black head to win going away after 15 rounds | of slugging and mauling, with Brad- dock leading the attack from start to finisn. The fans saw Max Baer put up one of the poorest fights a heavyweight champion ever made in defense of a crown. They saw the ring relic of a | year ago. the has been and the for- | from his heart. | gotten man of pugilism, come from | (Copyright, | poverty and the relief rolls to drive | News| the champion of yesterday from pillar | to post, from rope to rope with a | fusillade of leather that rarely took | & moment’s holiday. Outweighed by 20 pounds, outclassed.| Rogers. Hornsby of the St. in physique and reach, in youth and | Browns has announced he has re- the bulldog Braddock out- | boxed, outslugged and outfought Baer | hander obtained from Cleveland last the greater part of the route with an | Fall, on option to Albany of the Inter- strength, offensive charge that took a big jump | | through the first four rounds and held this margin with something to spare through the final frame. Braddock fought the greatest fight of Ris life and Baer fought the worst of his career. Ancil Hoffman, his manager, says that Baer broke both hands in the fifth round, but that must be a poor excuse for the beating that Braddock gave him and the big lead the Jersey man piled up in the early charge. For these first four rounds Baer gave you the impression of an actor putting on a show, rather than a henvywe!ghc champion with his title at_stake. It was Baer’s inability to put Brad- dock away from the fifth through the seventh round that fells the main | the floor 11 times, had little effect on , | Bos| 61 3 | couraged and bewildered fighter. He | saw his crown slipping away and | there was nothing he could do about it. The playboy had come to the end of the primrose trail. His strength and stamina seemed snapped. The punches that had knocked out Max Schmeling, that had hammered the giant Carnera to Braddock’s square-cut chin or Brad- dock’s stout body. Up to the tenth round there was | | still a feeling that Baer would now | come along to win. But after the | tenth had passed the crowd sensed | that a miracle was on the way. It was Baer who was weakening, with the steam gone from his punches, the strength from his legs, the will to win | 1935. by the North American r Alliance. Inc.) BROWNS GET NEW HURLER. ST: LOUIS; June 14 (#). —Mnnlzfi: leased Pitcher Bob Weiland, left- national League. Roy Hansen, also & southpaw, will report to the Browns immediately from Albany. Major League Statistics Copyright, A. P. With head down and fist boring to the body, Braddock backs Baer into corner on first round. Max Well Beaten Critics Declare EW YORK, June 14 (#.— Ringside experts, all of whom figured Max Baer a certain winner in advance, agreed after it was all over today that James J. Braddock fairly earned his right to be the new heavyweight champion. A concensus gathered by the Associated Press credited Braddock with winning a margin in eight rounds, with six for Baer and one even. Some gave the new cham- A few thought it was so close that Baer might have been given the benefit of the doubt—a draw— the but none conceded fallen champion an edge. 'PARENTS ‘SPORTING’ | ABOUT MAX’S LOSS Mother Says Her ‘Mickey’ Is Sure 1 to Regain Title—'And There's Buddy,’ She Reminds. By the Associated Press. AN LEANDRO, Calif, June 14— The Baers aren’t out of the heavy- weight fight picture yet, even if James | J. Braddock did take the title away from the Baer's Maxie. You can take the word of Papa and Mamma Baer—Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Baer. They were disappointed today | at the loss of the title, but sporting | about it. “Well,” said Mamma Baer, “my Mickey (Maxie to you) had to lose | sometime. It might as well be to a | nice boy like Braddock, who needs the money and who deserves the chance. “This is hard for a mother to say, | but then Jimmy has a mother who is | very happy today, and I know just | how she feels. I felt that way after the Carnera fight. “But don't think the Baers are out | of it? Say, thy Mickey will win back that title in no time. And if he| doesn’t there's Buddy Baer, you know.” Fight Statistics YORK, June 14.—Following are the estimated statistics on{ the Baer-Braddock bout here last night. Official figures not yet given out: Attendance, 30,000. Gross receipts, $200,000. Federal tax, $20,000. State tax, $10,000. Braddock's share, $25,500. Baer’s share, $72,250. Garden's share, $72,250. FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1935. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Chicago, 10; Wsllhlnm 8. clev:l-nd. rhmdzlnhl-. 3. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. National RESULTS nflnu!. New York, 7—9: atd, Chlfi 12—0 g‘i‘l‘m Dhll. 6—7. 8 Pl"-llm uumnm ur HEEHH viudppenud uorBuge, oot 1g) “om ‘310X MoN]| EI Y] 21 31 515 6 6] 6@aoLeRTT, . NE—T 280 a! 4 61 bl _jazugl 711 Chil 38— 8 1| 3 6/ 21 4127|191.887] 2% StLI 21— 31 2| 3| 5[ 31 6i20119].604 51 4(31]211,596] 4!4. 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'New Champ to Defend Title In Garden-Promoted Battle Next Year, Manager States | By the Associated Press EW YORK, June 14.—A long, lean black-haired Irishman, tired as any man alive, lay stretched out on a bed today, | | trying hard to keep awake—the new heavyweight champion of the prize- fight world, James J. Braddock. There was a badly bruised rib ach- ing in his left side. His left ear was plastered. He grinned automatically all over his wide, even, Irish face. Just wouldn’t stay open. o'clock in the morning. The crowd roared through his hotel suite, the usuai crowd that greets a new champion. In all that milling mob there was just one question: 3 “What's the new champ going to 02" Braddock knew was that he wanted to sieep. He had to stick his fingers in his eyes to keep them open. “Tired? I'm dead. I hurt a rib in training two weeks ago. I had to wear a protector all through the last part of the training. Max didn't hurt me much. Those right uppercuts were tough. He cut my ear with a right in the ninth. He was hurting that side at the finish. “Is it all right if I go to sleep?” Joe Gould, energetic little manager of the new .champion, roared around the place. “What are we going to do?” asked It was 3 Poor Ring Craft Cost Baer Crown YORK, June 14 (#).— ‘Tommy Loughran, the Phila« delphia boxing master who once gave Max Baer an effective lesson in ringcraft, attributed the cham- pion’s defeat by James J. Brad- dock to ‘“clowning” and lack of competition. “Baer ~evidently thought he would scare Braddock and win whenever he chose to open up,” said Loughran. “By the time he_ found out this wouldn't’ work it- was too late. Baer beat himself by his poor tac- ties. He warmed up slowly and he was wild, Braddock deserves a lot of credit, but Baer was not at his best. “No champion can stay on top, Mhun( only once a year, Baer’s performance is further evi- dence of that fact.” | Joe. His nose was| But his eyes | “Well, Madison Square Garden gave us our chance. We're sticking to the Garden. We've got a contract that says we've got to defend our title for the Garden in 1936, not until then. That's what we're going to do— defend the title for the Garden in 1936. “In the meantime? We're going out to grab all the shekels there are loose for little Joie and Jimmy.” The Little Man on the Label Brings the Best Beer to the Table Made of Hops and Malts that's Best Always Wins by Every Test GOOD OLD “The Tasty Way to Health” [ Baer gets in a good blow to the chin in the third round and neatly evades Braddock's left. FRICK PUNISHES FRISCH. NEW YORK, June 14 (#).—Frankie Frisch, manager of the world champion St, Louis Cardinals, has been fined $50 and suspended for two days by Ford C. Prick, president of the Na- tional League, for his run-in with Um- pire J. W. Sears in Boston Wednesday. MAXS CLOWNING ATLAST GETS HIM Dillydallies Too Much in Tussle With Very Serious Foe, Avers Dempsey. BY JACK DEMPSEY, Former World Heavyweight Champion. EW YORK, June 14—Max Baer’s dillydallying and clown= ing caught up with him in the ring at Long Island Bowl last night, and he was unable to break the jinx that has toppled every champion who tried to defend his title in that great arena. So he lost the world's heavyweight champlonship to a de- ’tvrmmed and serious Jimmy Brad- dock. | There was not a dissenting voice | raised when the champion was de- clared th= loser. A great cheer went up when little Al Prazin, pinch-hitting for old Joe Humphries, announced through the loud speaker, “winner and new champion —.” That was as far as he got. That was as far as he needed to go. Braddock won clean= ly on aggressiveness and clean hit~ ting. IT WAS a poor fight for a world heavyweight championship. I do not wish to take anything from Brad- | dock. He fought his best and his best was better than Baer's miserable de- | fense of the title i Low blows in at least two roun | counted heavily against Baer. An. | other time he wrestled Braddock, and | the referee, Johnny McAvoy, penalized him this round also. There were no thrills, no spectacu« lar moments. It was a drab affair. Baer looked to be in perfect physical condition, but that was all he did look. Aggressiveness, a stout heart, game« ness and a willingness to keep fight | ing at all times gave Braddock the victory. 'HE decision of the judges, Charlie Lynch, George Kelly and the ref- eree, Johnny McAvoy, was unanimous for Braddock. And for once, when a champion failed, and miserably, too, the decision was popular, It was a sad exhibition on Max's part. He simply clowned his title away. (Copyright. 1935.) £ SPORT CENTER MIRACLE VALUES Sunday, . June 16 | Is | Father’s in a special -Saturday Selling Lmuled Number ! Get Here Early! Regular $24.85 8-Pec. 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