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< BOUT SEEMS SURE T0 PROVIDE THRILL | Gould Picks Negro to Win Inside of Five Rounds. | Figures Staggering. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, September 23.— ‘Whether or not it's a happy landing for the dusky war- rior of the prize ring, the sen- | sational pugilistic flight of the “Brown Bomber,” 21-year-old Joe Louis, comes to a climax tomorrow evening in the first million-dollar setting that box- | ing has known since Gene Tunney | took the long count at Chicago eight | years ago. The sullen, hard-hitting Negro from Detroit, whose rapid rise is synono- | mous with a return of pugilistic boom days that is little short of incredible, | stakes his unbroken professional win- ning streak and his championship ambitions against the rugged but erratic former champion, Max Adel- | bert Baer. | | 1 | They are matched for 15 rounds but ' it doesn't figure to go the limit. A| majority of the hundreds of fight critics gathered for one of the big- | gest fist-flinging parties in New York's | sporting history favors Louis to wln; by a knockout. { The betting odds are 1 to 2 in| favor of the “Brown Bomber,” un- | beaten in 24 consecutive fights and | a two-fisted puncher whose advan-| tages in youth, speed, boxing and hitting ability appear to outweigh the iron-jawed resistance or slugging | power of the curly-haired Californian. i Sees Early Win for Joe. i 'HIS writer picks Louis to batter down the playboy of the prize ring inside five or six rounds. On form and past performances, despite his youth and comparative inexperience, Louis looks to have a decisive edge. But that doesn’t mean there aren't two distinct sides to this fistic argu- | ment. If he's really in shape for | a rough-and-tumble punching party, Baer might product sufficient weapons to overpower the young Negro and abruptly end his dynamic sweep. Rated off his last appearance in a | New York ring, where he lost his title to Jim Braddock, Maxie has nothing ' to lose and everything to gain in *shooting the works.” Foening St SFporls WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1935. Baer Has All to Gain by Shooting Works, But ‘Centrifugal’ Nature Is No Aid 4 Will Hop Train Today if Outlook for Tomorrow Doesn’t Improve. By the Associated Press. PECULATOR, N. Y., September S 23.—Max Baer's training for his cross road battle with Joe Louis in the Yankee Stadium ‘Tuesday night vas over today, and the only thing that worried him was weather good enough to fly in Tues- day morning to New York. Spotty weather, with bursts of sun- | shine, then rain, endangered his plan | to take off at 9 am. (E. S. T.) from | Lake Sacandaga in front of the lodge where he has lived during his seven weeks’ training. If the weather turns out bad, he planned to jump on a train | late this afternoon and ride to the battle site. Baer finished his training with two | fast rounds against Abe Feldman be- | fore a crowd of 1,500, caught in a| heavy shower. He weighed 210. His | hands came through the mdmngl siege in perfectly sound shape. He | hasn't & mark on him, and appears | in perfect mental and physical con- | dition. Baer Is Like Man From every angle, it figures to be | 8 thrilling show for the greatest crowd that has ever witnessed a prize fight in New York. With only a few thousand tickets unsold today and an advance sale imounting to $860,000, Promoter Mike Jacobs, one-time as- ! sociate of the venowned Tex Rickard, predicted a sellout. | This, said Mike, would mean 92,569 ' ticket holders in the Yankee Stadium | and gross gate receipts of $1,176,930.10, a record for a non-championship fight. All Will Make Money. 'ROM a money standpoint, the fight, EW YORK, September 23.—| Max Baer and Joe Louis, a pair of names you may have heard before, now are ready for the bell, with all the artillery and ammunition each can lug inside the Topes. Either man would be completely looney if he hadn't got ready with | everything he had to give for Tues- day's million-dollar show. In addition to the 30 per cent Baer and Louis each will collect, a net that | should run over $200,000, the winner | of the slugging party stands face to | face with a shot at the heavyweight | | championship and at least an extra half-million more. It stands to reason neither fighter is going to let that gold- rimmed opportunity fade into the Autumn night, if skill, pow- er. speed, durability and even desperation can turn the trick. | Joe Louis, the tawny tiger-cat from | Alabama and Michigan, never two steps away from condition in his life, has had the easier road. The main burden has been thrown across the massive shoulders of Max Baer, who Here’s All the Dope' On Big Fight Bill By the Assoclated Press. Time and place—Yankee Stadium, New York, Tuesday night, September . Preliminaries at 7 p.m. (Eastern standard time). Main bout, 9 p.m. Principals—Max Adelbert Baer, 26- year-old Californian and former world heavyweight champion, and Joseph (Barrow) Louils, 21-year-old Detroit Negro. Conditions—15 rounds to a decision, with two judges and a referee officiat- ing. Seating capacity—92,569. Gate receipts—$1,176,930, if a sell- out. Probable odds—1 to 2, Louis; 8 to 5, Baer. Distribution of “gate”—30 per cent of net to each fighter, 10 per cent to milk fund. Probable weather—Fair and warm. Radio broadcast—Over combined N. B. C., WEAF and WJZ network. Referee and judges—To be assigned by the State Athletic Commission on Tuesday. Preliminaries—Buddy Baer, Liver- more, Calif., vs. Ford Smith, Kalispell, Mont.; Hank Hankinson, Los Angeles, vs. Eddie Mader, New York, six rounds each. George Turner, Sallisaw, Okla., vs. Heinz Kohlhaas, Germany; Bob Pastor, New York, vs. Terry Mitchell, Boston; Jorge Brescia, South America, vs. Paul Pross, New York; Nathan Mann, New Haven, Conn., vs. George Chip, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: Tony Cancela vs. Jim Meriott, four rounds each. LOUIS HOPES MAX Will Finish Him Quickly if He Does, Declares Dusky Battler. By the Associated Press. OMPTON LAKES, N. J, Sep- tember 23.—Joe Louis says he hopes Max Baer will come raging out of his corner Tues- day night, so that he can polish him off more quickly. His training over, Louis says the only question 1s how long it will take him to finish the former champion. “If he comes out a-punchin’ maybe I'll get him in a hurry. But if he plays safe and doesn't take chances, it'll take me longer. At most, though, I don't think I'll need more than six or seven rounds.” A crowd of 2,000 saw Louis wind up his conditioning yesterday with a few rounds of shadow boxing and bag punching. BUTCHER IS SLAB STAR. Chevy Chase Grays again won be- feating the Palais Royal nine, 12 to 3, yesterday. THE SPORTLIGHT /ith Only a Knife Against Louis Carrying Pair o’ Guns. BY GRANTLAND RICE———— evenly matched, with the Louis left as a stand-off for the Baer right hand | at the moment of impact, then the faster and the more accurate puncher has all the jump. Baer’s right hand must travel at least two feet before it develops the momentum needed to reach the danger zone. Once this right hand gets under way, it finishes with the speed of a rattlesnake on the strike. Against this, Louis needs only a foot’s leeway, half the distance, to in- flict just as much damage, and he has two hands with which to aim. It takes no deep expert or any scin- tillating brain to figure out what the true to form. The Louis Guess. or sidestepping the call, the one big guess surrounding Joe Louis is less than 15 months of professional fighting, against a flock of palookas in the main. Those who pick Louis must jam a lot of faith into form and style and TENNIS THRILLERS T0 REPLAY MATCH Mitchell-Markey, McElven- ny-Welsh, Deadlocked, to Set Precedent. BY BILL DISMER, Jr. RECEDENT is believed to have been set for Washington ten- nis with the rescheduling next Sunday of the entire match for the doubles champiofship of the Playground Department tournament which ended suddenly yesterday in a | dramatic tie after more than three hours of sensational play by the OPENS WITH RUSH hind Walter Butcher’s pitching, de- | on the fighters. Today he tells about the ‘“‘centri fighters of utterly different personality, He visited both training camps at th. to whose advice the fighters listen. Below will be found answers to | asking. BY J. L. MORENO, M. D. PECULATOR, N. Y., September | 23.—First let’s look at. Max | Baer and Joe Louis as the spectators see them in their training rings getting ready for the heavyweight battle at Yankee Sta- dium Tuesday night. Max enters the ring. He dances in circles, waves his arms, turns his head quickly around, laughs loudly, play- fully strikes his trainer in the | stomach. | He jumps at his sparring partners | with flashes of attack, then eases up, relaxes, forced to pause to refresh himself. In these pauses often he is an unskilled opponent. He becomes embarrassed, “wise- cracks,” and gestures to the onlookers as if to say “it’s all a joke.” After two or three flashes of such attacks he begins to breathe heavily, ! he tires. This uneven, jerky fighting, the ups and downs, are due tc his emotional make-up. emotional energy. If a fighter can concentrate all his emotional energy on the opponent, he gets the greatest | effect. But Baer's energy is divided between fighting and acting for spec- tators. Makes Him Absent-minded. Hls attention is split. He wants to i rule in two kingdoms. He has | to betray one or the other. He has | both attitudes aroused at the same | time, the fighting instinct by his op- | ponent, the acting instinct by the | spectators. This divided attitude disintegrates a helpless, defenseless target for even Every man has a limited supply of net result should be if the dope runs | WITH no thought of backing away | his age and his lack of experience— | ] teams of Dooley Mitchell-Tom Markey | the value of the emotions of fighting. and Barney Welsh-Ralph McElvenny. | Dating and breaking through the de- Probably the greatest match the | (ense. It makes him in spots absent- city ever has seen ended a few mo- | Minded while fighting. ments atter Mitchell had been helped | Ba€r tries to be savage. But he i off the ground where he had lain for | 100 0 by nature—it is second-hand five minutes, the result of a cramp | SaVageness. He wants to appear like A . | & super-man. He wants to create the mnc‘;f_‘i;’z‘m;okfif the game, set and Impression that he is above winning or losing, but he likes himself too Players Accommodate Public. much for his own good. IMPING perceptibly, one of the city’s greatest netmen insisted | that the match continue, but with i | to forget your ego. You have to fight | with your opponent, and not “solo.” Pighting is a job in which you have | agreed to end it then and there. Louis I. Doyle, president of the darkness looming, players and officials | | In this conflicting personality make- | up lie tremendous powers (most of the things his admirers are banking 'OUTBURSTS SAP MAX’S ENERGY, SAYS ANALYST Finds Louis, ‘Centripetal’ Man, Is Far Better Equipped and More Effectively Trained to Pull Through Great Crisis. A noted mental expert here looks at the Baer-Louis heavyweight fight Jor the Associated Press, contributes many interesting and new points of view Tomorrow he will pick the probable winner. fugal” and the “centripetal” men, two , different race, one @ human emotional volcano, the other an ezpressionless mask—a smokeless bomber. He lets you see the training through the psychological point of view e wind-up. He talked personally with Baer, Louis, trainers, managers and the little-noticed “under cover" persons many of the questions fight fans are Questions Asked By Mind Expert By the Associated Press SPECL‘LATOR, N. J., September 23.—J. L. Moreno, M. D., mental expert who is analyzing the Max Baer-Joe Louis fight for the Asso- ciated Press. asked, among others, three questions of each of the bexers Here are the questions and the answers: Joe Louis. 1. How do you think that you will knock out Baer? I don't know if I will knock him out. 2. Do you read books, and which one do you like best? I like to read the Bible best of all. 3. Would you like to go back to school? Why? I am getting mar- ried. Max Baer 1. Are you confident of winning this fight? Tl tear him to pieces. 2. What kind of books do you read? Detective stories and news- papers 3. What will you do after this fight? A. I will win the champion- ship back—and then I will quit bexing. You see here the amateur golf champlon of 1937, Baer and Louis will seem to be alon~ in the ring with the referee. Actuali; this is not so Several othet brains will aid indi- vidually each fighter, a brain trust that has helped condition each mar and that will carry over into the ring as an unseen psychological aura, Aides Unbalance Baer. “?HAT kinds of brains are these? What influences have they fo: good or bad? I found the people around Baer to throw into him a mixture of cross- purpses and feeling, partly unbalanc- | ing each other and unbalancing Baer. Frank Picassi, one trainer, arouses Baer's fighting spirit by making him angry and hurting his vanity. Izzy Klein,. the other trainer, tickles his vanity through sympathy and flattery. Baer listens to both, but does what he turned from the primrose highway t0 | method when you look at most of the | Washington L. T. A., said this morn- | On). as well as weaknesses. Before we 'pleases in action. He reverts to the on a sellout basis, will be second only to the Firpo-Dempsey battle of 1923, which produced a “gate” of $1,188,000 from 82,000 cash customers. ‘The non-title record is $1,083,000, set by the Dempsey-Sharkey fight at the Yankee Stadium in 1927. Win, lose or draw, it's a certain gold mine for all concerned. With a net “gate” of slightly more than | $1,000,000, after the deduction of State and Federal taxes, each fighter will collect 30 per cent, or about $300,000. | An idea of what this means can| be gathered from the fact that the| last title fight, between Baer and | Braddock last June, drew only a little | more than $200,000. Until Louis came along to skyrocket fistic stock wim! his knockout punch, fe boys along| Tin-Ear Alley thought the million- jcal workman who does as thorough dollar “gate” was a thing of me“a. finishing job as anybody the busi- glamorous past, buried with the boom 'ness has developed. days and retirement of Jack Dempsey, | Both fighters. remaining at their | greatest drawing card in boxing his- camps today, will make fast trips to tory. town for the weighing in about noon | The task of turning the huge ball tomorrow. Scaling around 210, Baer park into a fighting arena was begun | probably will have an advantage of last night, with a force of 600 men | & dozen pounds. working in three shifts. They are | installing nearly 25,000 “ringside” seats, which will cover the entire in- field and most of the outfield in the famous “house that Ruth built.” With speculators getting as high @s $175 each for the choicest ring- side tickets obtainable, the aggregate outlay involved reaches staggering proportions. At least half the fans who will see the fight will be from outside New York. Fans Spend $10,000,000. SPECIAL trains from San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Boston® Phila- delphia, Washington and other -large cities were due today or early to- morrow. Business men fizured $10.- 000.000 would be spent as a direct Tesult of the bout. The main Jure undoubtedly is the prospect of seeing more fireworks than the heavyweight class has produced altogether in the last half dozen years. The match itself is a “natural,” bringing together the two outstand- ing contenders for the crown worn by Jimmy Braddock. Far and wide the fame of Louis and his explosive punch has been the chief factor in reviving pugilistic in- terest. Baer, too, has a tremendous following and his adherents Will be out in force in the hope of seeing the one-time movie hero of the “Prize- fighter and the Lady” attempt a come- back. Whereas Louis has been rated a “known quantity” right along, Baer has been the beneficiary of extraor- dinary ballyhoo since he manifested serious attention to the business of getting in shape at Speculator. His “do-or-die” attitude has been broad- cast loudly. Although his work-outs have been alternately unimpressive and tigerish. Baer undoubtedly is in better condition than be was when he lost the title to Braddock with a clownish performance. Louis may labor under the handi- eap of entering the ring a pronounced favorite but so far the slow-moving Negro with the rapid-fire punch in either hand has manifested no fight- ing worries. He looks the part of a finished ring warrior, with years instead of only months of experience behind him. Expertly handled, he knows all the tricks of the trade. He’s tremendously powerful as well as shifty, a method- LY A stubble he won't shave till after the ing playboy of other days. sepia slugger get Max as easily tomol Gambling Heavy, With Louis 2-1 BY JACK DOYLE, Broadway Betting Commissioner. EW YORK, September 23.—The heavyweight fight between Joe Louis and Max Baer is the big- gest betting fight in history, with Louis a 2-to-1 favorite on the eve of combat. Most of the large wagers are on the colored man, but there is enough Baer money, mostly- in small sums, to keep the price against Max from skyrocketing. I am laying the following odds on the fight: 1 to 2 against Louis. 8 to 5 against Baer. 3 to 2 against a knockout by Louis. 5 to 2 against a knockout by Baer. 5 to 4 against the fight's going the limit. If there is any change in the odds before ring time, it will prob- ably establish Louis an even strong- er favorite. (Oopyright. 1935. by the North Newspaper Alliance, Inc. )Amerlun | Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK, September 23.— N Cincinnati (hey are about ready to start the Civil cause a couple of South Carolina foot ball seouts were caught poach- Don McAllister, new South Caro- lina head coach, is a former among the high school foot ball braves. . . . He wanted a couple But the Cincinnati boys gariged up on the visiting gumshoemen, palmed BY EDDIE BRIETZ, Out at the University of War all over again.. .. All be- ing on Cincinnati territory. . . . Ohijoan and knows who's who of them awfully badly. off a blank on them and On the eve of their battle in New York tomorrow night Max Baer and Joe Louis present a study in contrasts. the deeply wrinkled brow and firmly closed mouth, surrounded by the The dusky Detroiter, on the other hand, un- concernedly whiled away his last hours at training camp in his favorite recreation of pocket billiards. An instant after this picture was snapped Louis sent that No. 4 ball squarely into the corner pocket. ‘The ex-champ, at top, with bout, is far different from the laugh- Will the Joe says he will ~—A. P. Photos. SENATE GIANTS TRY FOR MORE HONORS rrow night? Maryland County League Champs Seek Metropolitan Title Game With Valets. 'HE Senate Giants, who won the championship of the Maryland County League with an 8-to-4 tri- umph over Cabin John at Wheaton yesterday, is seeking additional laurels. | Brooke Grubb, Giants’ pilot, came forward with a defi to the Blue Flame Valet team to meet his tossers in a single game for the championship of the Washington metropolitan area. The Giants jumped off with a 5-to-0 lead in the first inning of the game with Cabin John and were never in danger of being overhauléd. They collected 16 hits off Simpson and Howard witk the Stevens boys—Mike, Bobby, Leo and Raymond—garnering nine of these. HEURICH SOCCERITES WIN. CUMBERLAND, Md., September 23. —The Heurich Brewers soccer team of | Washington defeated the Celanese eleven, 4-1, here yesterday to chalk | up their fifth straight win of the sea- | son. Freddy Watson, Brewer goalie, was outstanding for the winners, mak- the Northern woods for six weeks of the hardest training he ever has known. | Baer has done all any fighter could do in six weeks’ tige to turn the free and careless living of several years into the sinew and stamina, the power and the punch that will be needed to | break through the Bomber's catlike | guard and stand up before his two slashing sets of claws. There is no questioning the fact that Max Baer has gone to the end of the road to get ready for this showdown, ‘Three months ago his crown was hammered from the top of his curly head by a fighter who had been beaten 22 times in previous starts. Baer was not only beaten, but almost disgraced by the weak, faltering defense he put up that night as Braddock came along | to win. Tomorrow he has his chance to re- | cover not only the territory he lost in June, but to head for the prom- | ised land loaded with fame and gold. Baer's Big Burden. ‘I\IAX BAER has got ready with the best he has to throw into the | lap of the gods. The big question is | this—will this best be enough? | He has not only had to carry the heavier load of regaining physical form. He also has had to get ready | for an opponent who can outbox him | from here to Halifax—who can out- | punch him in a two-handed attack— who is much quicker when the gun- fire opens with either hand. As a sporting philosopher once sald, “The race is not to the swift—nor | the battle to the strong, but that is where to look.” Baer must gamble on raw gameness, a cast-iron jaw and the stunning thud of a whistling right hand to find the open way to victory. He must throw this gamble against a finished boxer who can hurt any- body he hits with either hand, thrown from a shorter range, with better speed and greater accuracy. As the two men shape up, it will be the overpowering margin of speed and accuracy that will decide this fight—and these happen to be two of | the biggest guns Joe Louis will carry ing many fine blocks of Celanese scor- ing attempts. the Southerners left the reserva- tion highly elated at getting what they thought was a 50 per cent break. . . . Please pass the smell- ing salts to Col. Sam Latimer of the Columbia State when he hears the sad news. If you have $100 you possibly might buy a ringside seat for the Baer-Louis shindig. . . . Only nine of the present Giants will be re- turned to the Polo Grounds next year. . . . Ohio State’s highly touted eleven will specialize in down field laterals season. . . « A tremendous to break in into action. pulverized puppets his two fists have | ing that not to his knowledge had a | brushed aside. | match which had reached the ad- It isn't the people Louis has beatm! vance stage of this ever been en- that counts with me, but the method | tirely replayed. Except in the case doesn’t have to prove his gameness when he moves in—when he shuffles forward from the first second of the fight. hit—if he thought he couldn't take it. he would be much more of a de- fensive fighter than he is. Men rarely move into danger zones with shaking knees or fluttering hearts. Both Louis and Baer are game enough, as far as that section of the diagnosis goes. I know Max Baer can take it until the lights go out—and I'm not looking for Louis to jump out of the ring, no matter what happens. There still must remain the guess as to what will happen if Baer happens to park one of those savage, whistling rights against the Bomber's jaw. It won't then be so much a ques- tion of quitting, but it will be a new and strange experience in his pro- fessional career—to which the final answer can be given only Tuesday night if Baer happens to land on a vulnerable spot. Against this, Max first must find some way to loop that right around or over the quick and cunning Louis guard. And against this, one might ask, what will happen when Max 1s hit harder than any oné has hit him yet—harder and oftener? The Chances Summed Up. IF MAX BAER can whip Louis with the weapons he has, against the weapons that Louis carries, he will have handed more then 80,000 spec- tators one of the best jobs that com- petition has known in many years. As we have suggested before, any man who can take a knife, walk into a sharpshooter with two guns, and still win deserves a chaplet of wild laurel blossoms. With a double sprig of olive bloom thrown in. Baer is like a battleship that is outmanned, outgunned, and out- speeded, where the lone chance for victory is to explode a shell in the middle of a powder magazine and blow up the works with a shot that rides on the fickle flight of chance. If you grant that the power is affected. . . . Operative E. T. Bales has been assigned to it. Fight tip: Fifteen of twenty ex- perts polled at Pompton Lakes last week like Louis Also, Jack Dempsey may do a last-rhinute fade-out as Baer’s chief second . . . Hank Greenberg will be voted the most valuable player in the American League this year . . . Just the same, Micky Cochrane rates at least a tie .. . Correction: Joe Louis will not tour Europe on his honeymoon . . . His prospective bride favors banke ing those potatoes. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette sprinter, directs & dance band in Chicago , . , Charlis Barbour, Bi- (See SPORTLIGHT, Page 13.) Gamecocks Foiled in Quest of Ciney Grid Material Only Nine Giants Will Return—Ohio State Goes in for Laterals—Fight Tickets Dear. State umpire, fined a player, then forgot to report it . . . The league president fined Charlie for forget- ting . . . Don McAllister said plenty when he found his heaviest line man weighed only 192 pounds. Golf fans want to see Sam Parks and Alfred Perry, American and British open champions, in -the Ryder Cup singles . . . They say * Tarzan Parmelee's losing streak started the day he lost two China pigs he has been carrying about since 1933 . . . Rogers Hornsby has made a swell little hitter out of young Harland Clift . . . He's flirting with the .300 mark and can connect when the chips are down. If Louis were afraid of being | | and manner of his work. A fighter | of international matches of the great- | est importance, it is customary to re- | sume play from the quitting point. But in order to give their public (and it is countless) the benefit of | seeing a complete thriller, all agreed | to replay the match from the begin- ning. The possibility of one of the teams starting play with a “hot hand"” which might give them the first two | ames—and the match—also swayed | the decision. | Early Start Suggested. THEREFORE, on next Sunday Mitchell and Markey again will take the courts, seeking victory from the national public parks champions, | Who never were closer to defeat in the | last two years than they were yester- day. After a 15-minute intermission, at which point Welsh and McElvenny led two sets to one, Mitchell and Markey started as if reacting from a stimulating hypodermic. Whereas each of the previous three sets had been decided, 5—7, 6—3, 9—7, with the | champs ahead in the latter two, Dooley and Tom broke out in a scoring rash which netted five straight games be- | was 6-1. Then began the epoch-making set, lead washed away by a rain of blows which tied the score at 4-4 and 5-5. It was in the next game that Mitchell slipped and fell, the second time within the last two games that he had arisen with his right side marked with the red dirt of the court. And it was then that a halt was called. It might not be a bad idea to start next Sunday’s match at noon. No Markey-Mitchell and Welsh-McEl- venny match this year has been fin- ished under three hours. PIGEON RACE CLOSE |and Tennyson flew 3 yards more per minute than the next fastest in the third young bird race of the season of the East Potomac Racing Pigeon Club from Lynchburg flown over the week end. Following is the speed flown, in yards per minute, of the first return to each loft, the first four being diploma winners: Robertson and Tennyson, 1,004.82; E. A Eslon, 109141; H. Vyfold, 1,088.94; P. Bobbington, 1,084.32; F. ‘Wiesbaker, 1,078.16; William Gaylor, 1,077.48; E. A. Eslon, 1,076,37; C. How- lin, 1076.36; Theodore Robertson, 1,070.14; Robert Bird, 1,046.77; W. C. King, 1,036.08: J. Gray, 1,029.63; E. Edwards, 1,011.89; Thomas & Son, 1,006.90; Guy Bryan, 930.04. How Ring Crowd Is Distributed By the Associated Press. YORK, September 23.— Here's how the cash custom- ers will be distributed if it's a “full house” tomorrow night for the Baer-Louis heavyweight fight at the Yankee Stadium. 9,883 at $3.45 19,999 at $11.50 25963 at $5.75 9,183 at $16.50 4434 at $7.75 23,107 at $25.00 4 fore they could be stopped. The score | Mitchell and Markey seeing their 3-1| A pigeon from the loft of Robertson | | analyze these powers let us go to Joe Louis. Louis enters the ring silently like a cat. You would not know that here is the hope of his race, unless | some one told you. He looks anony- | mous, casual, without any affectation. He fights as if no one else exists but himself and his opponent. He is unaffected by the crowd. He moves at an even pace toward his opponent, to and fro in a smooth machine-like | manner. | Every moment you feel that here is |a man who knows his job well, ready | for emergencies, who cannot be taken | by surprise easily. Betrays No Emotion. H!s face is expressionless. If he is hurt you cannot see it. If he is mad you cannot see that either. He 1S & “centripetal” person. This means | that whatever he is is conserved with- in him. His ways of saving his energy are | not on the surface. You see only | their effects. He spots every motion of his op- ponent. He wastes neither motion nor emotion. He fights “with” his op- ponent, flexible, shifting and svd- denly aggressive if there is an opening. He follows his victim pitilessly if he sees him softening. After seven fast rounds, unlike Baer, his breathing is as even as at the start. His sparring partners go to their corners panting. Louis is un- changed, doesn't speak a word. No | drop of perspiration is visible on his skin. By contrast with this “Centripetal” man, Max Baer is “centrifugal.” | Everything Baer has he throws out on though dangerous as a buzz saw. The greatest contrast between the two fighters lies in the way they warm up to a punch. Baer fatigues easily. Why? Louis never seems to fatigue. Why? Baer warms up quickly, emotionally and physically, but his warming up is uneven and involves the generation of an outburst of vicious, savage rage. In this outburst he breaks away from the normal pattern and throws him- self into a spontaneous state which is unpredictable, in which he does not act according to plan, but as in a wild inspiration. Pays for Outbursts. UCH outbursts consume many times fighting. He pays heavily for this. When he is through such a rage the after-effect is momentary as if he were paralyzed. Louis, in contrast, relaxes between is like the heart beats, contracting and relaxing. That is why he never seems to tire. Joe Louis’ warming-up is even, in- creasing gradually to heat. Even his flashes of attack seem organized, in the line of normal development. He flares up in attack, in the training ring at least, in tempo with his op- ponent. When his sparring partner hits hardest, Joe wades in with still harder punches. However great the contrast seems between the pair, they have several fundamental things in common. Both are yet to mature mentally, both have an unusual narrow range of interests. Both possess a deadly punch, To the spectators Tuesdsy night the surface, easy to be seen, even | more energy than smooth, regular | the punches. His rhythm of fighting | instinctive fighting pattern we have described. The cross suggestions make him at times restless and uneasy. So he asks every one he meets, newspaper men or fighters: “How do you think I'm doing?” As he has little faith in the advice of others, he has to depend on him- self. And this “himself” is a mystery to himself. Under cover there is perhaps one man in the camp, Billy McCarney, Wwho more than anyr one else giv Baer a plan of battle. But the pres- ence at the training camp of Mama |and Papa Baer. his brother, Buddy. | and Baer's wife, however delightful persons thgy are and however strong the family attachments, makes the emotional situation more difficult. They do not belong in the training camp. You cannot be at the same time a son, a husband and a fighte: in training. The Why of Dempsey. THESE things have to be separated. It is due perhaps to this lack of co-ordination that the Baer brain trust searched for a famous doctor—Jack Dempsey—to be in Baer's corner. At the ringside Dempsey’s influence might spur him or hurt him. The man in the corner should grow grad- ually with the fighter during training into an emotional relationship. Other- wise he might not be the quick, re- liable aid in emergencies, when deci- sions have to be made almost without words. Onc of the greatest contrasts in pugilism is the difference presented by | the smooth-working brain trust in the | Negro training camp. The atmosphere there is harmonious; | better co-ordinated in purpose, less anxious and perhaps even more hu- man. No family members are around—ex- clusively men who have something to do with the coming fight. Training is entirely in the hands of one man, Jack Blackburn, himself an old, experienced fighter. In less than a year he has transformed an un- known Detroit Negro youth into & fighter who may bring again to his race the laurels of championship. What rare relationship could have done this? This relationship is “transference,” a scientific principle. This means the passing of ideas and emotions from |an authority to a receptive disciple and vice versa. They understand each other like {father and son, sometimes almost without words. Blackburn told me: “I show him something once, and he does it better than I did. But he does what I say.” = Managers Leave Him Alone. BAER lacks this transference. Louls | by possessing it is saved a tre- mendous amount of worry and plan- ning. This division of labor is impor- tant for a fighter. It makes him freer in the ring. | There are only three other persons {in this Negro brain trust. They are |the two diplomatic managers, both shrewd business men—John W. Rox- bury, who acts the role of godfather, and Julian Black, co-manager. Neither | mixes in the fight. The fifth is Louis’ tutor, Russell Cowans, with whom Joe studies the New Testament, the life of Booker T. Washington, geography. history and (See OUTBURSTS, Page 13.)