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WASHINGTON, D C SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1936. Fight World Acclaims Schmeling : Louis’ Gameness Unquestwned SHOT AT BRADDUGK How Schmeling Score d Stunning Ring Upset DUE IN SEPTENBER Louis Handlers Lay Defeat to Injured Thumbs—Joe Done After Fourth. BY EDDIE BRIETZ. Associated Press Sports Writer. EW YORK. June 20.—The fight world today acclaimed Max Schmeling, the man who walked alone, for achieving the supposedly impossible—the knock- | out. of Joe Louis. | The beetle-browed German who | wasn't given a Chinaman’s chance | not only knocked the hitherto invin- cible 22-year-old Negro from the top rungs of the fistic ladder, but he did 1t in the most convincing manner pos- | gible—he stopped Louis cold. | Until he met the German schlager | in the drama-packed Yankee Stadium last night, the Negro boy simply was |Nazi News Bureau Declares | GERMANS DEMAND | 4 CHAMPIONSHIP G0 Braddock Should Defend Title in Rhineland. Br toe Associated Press. ERLIN. June 20.—A demand | bout between Max Schmeling | and James J. Braddock be | held in Germany was made today by the official German news bureau The news agency declared after | Schmeling’s victory over Joe Louis, “inexorably and not without justifica- | tion we demand Braddock shall de- fend the title on German soil.” Reichsfuther Adolf Hitler cabled Schmeling “most cordial congratula- Innns on your splendid victory." The | Chancellor also sent flowers and felicitations to the fighter's wife | “Germans know what s at stake | the world heavyweight title |- - - | from the Internal Revenue Depart- | | their | BY BURTON HAWKINS, ] tomobiles were lined up four derp 8taff Correspondent of The Star. as far as 12 blocks away from Yankee EW YORK, June 20—Marty | Stadium N Gallagher, the Foggy Bottom | Picture yourself sitting at the flag- belter; J. Edgar Hoover, direc- | pole in center field at Griffiith tor of the Federal Bureau of | Stadium, with the ring erected at Investigation, and Denny Hughes, ref- | home plate, and you gain a clear view eree. headed a sizable contingent of | of what some people paid $27.50 to Washington fight fans present at the | get Newspapers from Japan, shellacking Schmeling handed Louis. | Italy, France, England, Sweden, South | Incidentally, Hughes said Max | America, Cuba, Canada, Mexico and would upset the dope. Germany were represented. The policemen at Yankee Stadium Thousands of clever chiselers would have jammed Turner's Arena. ‘ viewed the proceedings through - Seventeen hundred bluecoats and | binoculars atop neighboring 300 detectives kept the crowd in some| apartment houses . . . Colored | | sort of order . A squad of 125 men boys selling binoculars bellowed ‘ that Schmeling would drop at ment saw that Uncle Sam got his your feet for 50 cents, | share of the profits. [ Mickey Walker, former world mid- Five hundred ushers wearing colored | dleweight champion: Tony Canzo- | tropical hats corresponding to the color | neri, lightweight ruler, and six to | of the tickets which admitted fans to | Escobar, bantamweight title holder, | respective sections showed lhe took bows from the ring . The spectators to their seats, which were | Jewish boycott on the fight apparen! used to stand up on from the third | was ignored by the Jews themselves roundon. .. 'BOMBER S VT OF PERFECT SCRAP Used Same Stuff on German That Others Couldn’t Stand Up Against. BY BURTON HAWKINS, Staff Correspondent of The Star. EW YORK, N. Y., June 20— The question of whether Joe Louis could take a solid sock on his jutting jaw and come | back fighting has been answered, ar despite the upset that rocked fistia as it never has been jolted before, t Brown Bomber is as game and cour- ageous a scrapper as ever pulled on a | glove. There was nothing wrong with Louis as he succumbed to an inspired Max Schmeling here last night. He fought as smoothly as ever. But Schmeling waged a nearly perfe battle—his best effort in 13 years of who 1 started for the round of last Seven hundred men ped- dled hot dogs, cokes, ice cream, etc. Five former heavyweight box- The camera snapped just as Joe Louis, knocked out eight rounds later, canvas under the teeth-rattling impact of Max Schmeling’s right in the fourth Joe never fully recovered from this knockdown. for Schmeling,” the demand asserted. | unbeatable. He was hailed as the Th (r\» Britain B Ily Well Peeved. greatest heavyweight prospect in his- er up the fa tory. He was the hardest hitter since | Dempsey and no man could endure ezainst him hmeling gave the laugh to all that. And today his feat. comparable only to the Cinderella story of Jimmy Braddock, puts Max on the threshold of another championship bout and the opportunity to become the first man in ring history to regain the heavy weight crown. 20 to 1. i of betting odds 0dds Leap to ( "' THE short end that soared to 20 to 1 just before | the fight, the quiet, determined. con- | fident Teuton jointly thrilled a dis- appointing crowd of 40.000 fans and broke poor Louis' heart by flooring the bomber for the first time of his pro career in the fourth round, blast- ing him into submission with a dyna- | mite-packed right hand in the fol- | lowing rounds, then ending the agony with another terrific right-hand clout after 2:29 of the twelfth had elapsed The ish was dramatic. A badly battered and crippled Bomber, his left cheek swollen to twice its natural ze. both thumbs sprained and ach- ing all over from Schmeling's rH'l‘r‘ less assaults. all but crumpled after taking two pulverizing rights to the head. His eves blinking. he staggered to the ropes. Here Schmeling fired an- other right-hand blast that barely connected. But it marked the end, at Jeast temporarily, of the Dark Menace from Detroit Joe's legs sagged and he crumpled 10 the floor on his back. He stared at | the sky with glassy eves as the time- | keeper droned the count. As nine was reached, Louis’ sleek brown body | jerked convulsively and he rolled over | on his stomach to hear the count of 10 for the first time in his meteoric two-vear career Collapses on ILeaving Ring. QOMEHOW they g s : feet and out of the ring. But he collapsed after a few steps and had to be carried into his dressing room Promoter Mike Jacobs. beaming in the face of the small crowd and the Rgate of on the million-d at one time was expecte mediately launched pl. new No. 1 contender for the championship Feall He has Schmeling signed already and if the champion can adjust his contractural difficulties with Madison Square Garden, the fight will be staged in the Yankee Stadium in September Braddock said he would be delighted to fight the German upset haim to his to g ns to h L Braddock was a tremen- to Louis and h handlers, but ccepted it as a tempotary reversal only and promised the Bomber will be back on the fistic bigtime before another year has passed dous disappoin Blames Injured Thumbs. ‘OHN ROXBOROUGH, one of Joe's managers, attributed the defeat to | Louis' sprained thumbs From the fourth, when he injured his digits, the Negro was not able to land a good punch. In fact, his thumbs. a badly swollen jaw. the re- &ult of the smashing right that spilled | him for the first knockdown, pained so he doesn't remember what happened | from then until the finish | Roxborough and Julian Black, Joe's | other manager, praised Schmeling's courage and sportsmanship highly, but | they give a large slice of the credit to little Joe Jacobs, the schlager’s man- ager. In his past fights Louis always hss used 12 feet of soft gauze and 6 feet of tape for hand bandages. Jacobs went before the Boxing Commission | this week and demanded that both | fighters be limited to regulation bandages—6 feet of gauze and 2 feet of tape. “This isn't enough protection for a | man with large hands,” sald Rox- borough. “Joe sprained his thumbs before the fisht was well underway. 3t surprised us that he wasn’t knocked out long before the twelfth.” Knockdown Is Turning Point. FOR a time it looked as though it would be the same old story— that Louis would fiddle around for three or four rounds and then go to town. There wasn't much to choose be- tween two cautious boxers in the firsy; two heats. Joe turned cn thc steam in'the third aid appeared headed for his twenty-eighth victory. From then on he won only one round. Schmeling and a roaring crowd dis- cavered in the fourth that Louis could be hit with a right. Max fired a inger flush to the side of Joe's head. e Bomber crashed to the canvas, ~but bounced®to his feet before an offi- ‘tlal count was taken. " There was a look of utter surprise and bewilderment on Joe’s face as he went down. What they had told him could not hapren had happened. He B3d been hit. he had been hurt and he had been knocked down. < “That was the turning point. From that moment on Louis absorbed a ter- C beating, but in doing so proved that he can take great bogs of punish- ment and still stay on his feet. ‘Superbly conditioned, the 30-year- ¥ (5ce FIGHT, Page 12) ' night’s bout at Yankee Stadium. Passing of a fighter Louis here is shown sinking on the ropes in the twelfth—and final— round under a flurry of blows from Schmeling, who is being shooed to his corner by Referee Arthur Donovan. The Louis bubble bursts. aad heisless, jrom The knockout. his reclining position prone onto the canvas. A second later in that twelfth wwon Louis sank on the ropes, the blows of a fighter conceded “no chance.” His ebbing strength unable to keep his grip on the ropes, Louis slumps from After vainly trying to rise at the count of geven Joe fell flat and rol(ed onto his stomach, his forehead on his right arm, as the fatal count of 10 is tolled. Sports Program For Local Fans TODAY. Base Ball. Washington at Cleveland, 3. Tennis. City of Washington' boys and juniors tournament, Edgemoor courts, morning and early after- noon. Women'’s District championships, Columbia Country Club, late aft- ernoon. N [} . ‘Y’ LADS MATCH STRIDES As part of a Nation-wide track and field meet for juniors today, 30 boys from the Central Y. M. C. A. were to compete ‘at Central High School this afternoon, starting at 1 o’clock. Results of each of the eight events in the three age classes were to be wired to the St. Louis Y. M. C. A, which is sponsoring the meet. In addition to striving for national honors, the boys here will have an op- portunity to win local awards. Omer Durrett and Glenn Ferguson were re- garded as the local ¥.'s best bets: | —Copyright, A. P, Wirephoto. See Goebbel's Hand in It. HE form of the statement caused observers to believe it was insti- gated by the Nazi ministry of propa- ganda. Many attached high im- portance to the demand since it came from a news service controlled by Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, and was issued im- mediately after Goebbels telegraphed congratulations to Schmeling. Goebbels displayed keen interest in !'hr fight, sitting up during the early | | morning ‘hours to listen to a short- wave broadcast of fight results. | His telegram to the German fighter declared Louis’ defeat was a national achievement and added “we know you ‘fnuch! for Germany Difficulties which might have to | be surmounted before the bout | could be staged in Germany were | brushed aside in the news agency | statement with the declaration *no | obstacle “‘Duld be too grea( o | | Coucci were thrilled | | street OI\E chronicler of clouting, all the way from merry old England, was jolly well upset about finding hu, seat more than a block from the ring Snagging an usher he cooed ‘Lor)k heah, old chap, you cawnt do this to us, don't you know” .. . The bewildered usher flashed back some not so perfect English and the scribe slumped into his seat Mayor La Guardia muscled into | the working press section ... Tommy | Hitchcock, the 10-goal poloist, present . Also the entire Ct Cubs base ball team Connelly. the Nation's crasher, did it again. We wonder what the respective mental meanderings of the former cotton picker and former mine worker were when heard thousands cheer as they entered the ring .. The working press section was a bit more polished than usual, with the { Marquis of Donegal, who scribbles n Daily Mail, lending ing champions were present, in- cluding Schmeling. . . . The others were Jack Dempsey, Gene ! Tunney, Jack Sharkey and Jack | . Johnson. . .. Dempsey’s ovation, ‘ when introduced to the throng, | would have broken any applause i indicator. Those representing the theater in- cluded George Raft, Irving Berlin, Bill Robinson, George Jessel, Fred Allen. Jack Benny, Al Jolson and Burns and Allen. . . . Jockeys Sonny Workman, Don Meade. Wayne Wrignt and Silvio the spectacle No. 1 gate Harlem Quiet After Battle. ]\RLE‘\! where hundreds of fans Rathered around radios in the as aearly as 6 o'clock, was strangely silent after the scrap . Joe Louis Booster Clubs, prominent | throughout the colored sector, housed | dejected forms who couldn't believe what they had heard . More rnan three hours before the fight au- KAYD NEWS T FROMLOUIS' DAD Step-parent Is Down With Paralysis—Brother Says Joe Needed Whippin’. | Sports Mirror By the Associated Press. Today & year ago—Tommy Loughran, floored. in fourth round for count of nine, outpointed Ray Impellittiere in 10 rounds. Three years ago—Max Carey and Bill McKechnie named to aid John McGraw, manager Jof National League all-star team) Five years ago—Ed Dudley won Western Open golf tournament with 72-hole ageregate of 280; ‘Walter Hagen lleeond with 284. | Py the Associated Press. | ETROIT. une 20.—Gloom | hung like a pall over Detroit’s Negro district today, but in the home that Joe Louis built for his mother out of his ring earnings | there was double trouble Patrick Brooks, Joe's 65-year-old stepfather. was so seriously ill, the Te- sult of a paralytic stroke, that hours after Joe was knocked out by Max Schmeling. he had not been told of the debacle | | It might break his heart” ex- plained Dr. J. A. Moore, the family | physician, Lonnie Louis. the fallen bomber’s | brother, accepted the result philo- | sophically. | Sees Benefit in Defeat. “"HAT whippin' will do Joe good.” | Lonnie s=aid. “Every fighter | needs one. “But I'm sorry mother was there to see it." Lonnie, .who had a “hunch” that all might not go well in the ring last | night, remained behind when other | members of the family went to Nru‘; York. but he sent his “girl friend.” | Dorothy May Ferguson, East with a | word of warning | “I knew it was going to be Joe's toughest fight,” he said. “so I told Dorothy May to whisper to him: ‘Joe., boy. you'se gonna get licked if you don't watch out. Dat German is tough.” I thought that might give him ! an extra punch.™ Family Didn't Wager. THE Louis family, Lonnie said. didn't bet on the fight, but just about | every one else did on the near-East | side. where Joe had reigned as un- crowned king. The winners made the most of their | | first opportunity to yell over a Louis | | defeat since he punched his way to| fistic fame. Police reinforcements were rushed into the Negro district as automobiles filled with exultant celebrants swarmed through the streets. There were numerous fist fights, but no serious | injuries. | : A Negro girl took the defeat so to | heart that she attempted to drink | poison in a drug store. She was re- strained and taken to a hospital. oy GOLF WINS HABITUAL NEWPORT NEWS, Va. June 20 () —Lily Harper. Portsmouth’s golfing sensation who has been winning tournaments since she was 14 years | old, was in possession of the Virginia women’s championship today for the third straight time. The little Tidewater star stroked her way calmly to a 3-and-2 victory over Mrs. H. N. Allen, Newport News, in the finals of the fifteenth annual State tournament played over the James River course here yesterday. Lily, who will be 20 on August 18. won the Tidewater Women's Golf As- sociation meet six years ago and at 17 years took the State title which she has held since. The Portsmouth lass was eliminated | in the second round of the national women's tournament last year after gaining a place in the championship flight. EASY FOR MARSHALL. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 20.—It took Everett Marshall of La Juata, Colo,, only 25 minutes here last night to throw Walter Podolak of Syracuse, E\perts Take It on Whiskers In Last Two Big Ring Scraps; ” Wux Becomes Boxmg Immortal BY PAUL MICKELSO! Associated Press Sports Wr EW YORK. June 20.—What the amazing upset of Joe Louis, now the Chocolate Drop, by Max Schmeling. the | incredible Teuton, meant to the box- ing world today: That every man, after all, is man. He is not invincible. human master somewhere. licked. That Max Schmeling wins another fight, will go down in ring history as the “man who re- | J'HAT the majority of fight fused to walk the last mile.” a fighter again courageous who chased the most fear- | of the some nightmare that ever haunted a | the white man in the ring. |last night many fight fans and ex- BN perts the world over said Dempsey was lucky to have set his s t Still Right. ore the shuffing fi G Toa Eoiilc THAT the experts. to a man, are | cast its shadow over the fistic horizon easily swayed by glory. They | That the men who must feel like can be wrong and have been wrong in | the most foolish ones in the world, two out of the last three big fights. | excluding the experts, are Max Baer They picked Max Baer to beat Brad- |and King Levinsky. They read the dock. He lost. They picked Louis to | stirring tales of the Brown Bomber, massacre Schmeling. | about his ruthlessness and dynamite, That “Lucky Pete® Francis Peter | and they believed them, crashing into | Albertanti, press agent de luxe, still | defeat and oblivion through fear and rides high. Over 20 years of press dread wmm: rnr big fights, “Lucky Prle | Th?l Ha lem is br nk» The Battle Round by Round Lo never has worked in the camp of a | loser. He wrote long st Gene Tunney's camp both times he trained for Dempsey. He did the same for Braddock as he prepared for the shocking upset of Ba Up in Nappanoch, N. Y., he wrote himself out. trying to convince the hardened experts that Schmeling had a cha"re ‘They wouldn't believe me.” }"P i a bit sadly after it was all over, * ‘nmcr believe a press agent.” hu- He has a He can be 1 s fucyen Turn Back to Dempsey. fans Albertan ROUND ONE. he bout thus far v came out r Louis_1abbe Do Max crouched o Max_clinched as_Louis quarters. Joe worked nmrndx:nm to counter after tak a the ch Schmeling _came ¢ marked most of e ~and Max hooked a left exchanged light to be tr‘)n'n ed at pa n«- vell o ch fo'a bods punch ! d an ‘attempt o connect to the jaw 5 i ht. Max bobbed and cronc! 3t one side of the ring while Louis feint- d for an_ opening. They were in a clinch at the bell choose. and the r ‘s : was Max's round. ROUND FIVE. Schmeling came out with & rush and mmediately fired his right hand to the aw staggered by & fought along There was little to d was even. IND TWO. e Schmeline carrying his left sho high_swunz_and missed & hard left g BT R RO S O jlaw. They sparred in midring as Joe fought —methodically for an opening Schmeling landed a hard right to the Jaw after taking both hands to the head. | as Max dicked a right and Joe was wiid with an uppercut. ~ The Germain's straight | hard right hook and | left” stopped Louis as the Bomber forced | clinch. Max fired his right hand twice as the bell rang and swung again after the pace at a faster cli oe pumped J 3 BiS RI® dice 10" The foke. Phe “eleiee | the mone. . The Neiro's handiers claimed thnn:hl the gong had and by denied I mistake started the figt for their corners. They were back quickly. sparring. but there was little action before the beli nrluah;‘ ;an: It was Schmeling's round ade ROUND THR! Both continued to be wary. but Schmel- ing seized an opening to smash . hard right to the jaw. The punch Jarred Louis. and the Negro rallied with his first reai burst of fighting. Joe drove the ropes. swinging both hands German covered and soon Wi again_in the middie of the ring. gave ground steadily. but blocked most of Joe's ‘punches Louis pumped his left a ‘dnxdcn times to the head without a return and crossed with a hard right to the | FIGir® b, FOT s took a terrific heel The Negro was = rin"fl\ &2 | overhand ?mn to the side of the head | Se bt finding Schme ing s de: | as 'the bell rang. It ~was Schmeling's | A It o penetrate. It ¥as LoUS' | [Gund by a wide marsin | round on points. ‘ ND SEVEN. | | | A Joe was vicious smash_as they pes. The Bomber backed and desperately to cover Schmeling la: twice with straight rights to the as the Nezro countered desperat his left. The Bomber was dazed. but kept punching wi Schmeling took & sharp rigl Lowss fought corner. Louis ed to the chin out of ~his a foul but it Schmeling’s round ROUND SIX. was was crossed & hard right to the head. They slueged at close range before the German again_found the tarset with his right. | The Negro held on despera but ap- peared to have no defen: Schmel- ing's right hand. Louis absorbed an- other smash to the cheek and backed to Joe connected with a long the head as thes maneuvered They exchanged bods blows Louis sppeared completely dazed as he punched aimlessly at close quarters along the ropes. Schmeling was playing a wait- ing game. looking for an opening. and generally when he let his ROUND FOUR. _blinking_his _left _eve They came to the middle of the ring | ~See ROUND BY ROUND, Page 12.) £ and repeated the sparring that had | Schmeling rushed from hie corner, and they Joe pil picked Louis to win as he pleased left was there with the sar ving force that h 27 cons Grn Schmeling absorbed dozens of and puffed his lef mony of the f; For Loui: in be backers ol odds, yet red the hearts 8 40.000 frenzied fans plucky stand he made against perfect | apparatus tha before F smooth Loui nera, Levir low. Defeat May ’]‘HE s! Hvln Louis. inert bulk o fighter flop t ! bounced three bulletlike rights Louis' crinkly dome in the t Louis is young, clea natural fighter. Despite things that have beer him, he apparently is hur not the best mittman has known, as many of we back-track ing sports writers wou believe before Schme demonstrated h Joe had profi s past mis- takes. There is no reason to believe he will not gain knowledge from his first loss. He's game to the core and a mighty ticker thumps within his massive chest His record still 1. impressive, as 23 knockouts in 28 fights will testify In the meantime. however. may rejoice in rightfully that it possesses a fighter night at least, was one of clever larrupers ever to part ng effectively Germany assuming who last the most the ropes Fights Last Night 7 the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Max Schmeling, 192 Germany. knocked out Joe Louis, 198, Detroit (12) HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Art Lasky, 195, Minneapolis, and Butch Rogers, 178, Los Angeles, drew (10) SAN DIEGO, Calif.—Lee Ramage, 192, San Diego, outpointed Don Conn, 184, Chicago. ~ . Homer Standings By the Associated Press Yesterday's homers—S. Martin, Cardinals, 1: Medwick, Cardinals, 1; Whitehead, Giants, 1; Lombardi, Reds. 1: Schott, Reds, 1: Kam- pouris, Reds, 1; Selkirk, Yankees. 1. The leaders—Foxx, Red Sox, 17; Gehrig, Yanks, 16. Trosky, In- dians, 16; Dickey, Yanks, 12; Ott, Giants, 12. “Most Exciting, tor, the fighter’s wife explained she had felt Schmeling would win, be- cause, for the first time in his career, Max had talked to her of his excellent form and had told her of his firm belief that he would defeat Louis. “But I believed Max possibly would win on points,” she said, adding the knockout came as a complete surprise. Schmeling, she explained, had told her he would leave America as soon as possible, because he felt homesick. He will come heme to a turbu- lent reception—far different than By the Associated Press. ERLIN, June 20.—To blond Anny Ondra, Max Schmel- ing's wife, the beetle- browed schlager’s knock- out, victory over Brown Bomber Joe Louis was unexpected, and gave her the “most exciting” night of her life. Although the German fim ac- tress persistently refuses to see her husband in action in the rilig, she stayed up all night to hear the radio accotint of the battle in New York and bubbled with joy at the result. From the home of Dr. Paul N. Y, in a one-fall match. Marshall weighed 220 and Podolak 210, his leave-taking for the fight, when mo:t German papers did not even Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, where she was a visi- Says Mrs. Max Great Homecoming Planned for German Heavy, “Officially” Congratulated by Nation. register his departure, and the Reichsportblatt, official sports or- gan, printed only criticism “You bet he will,” was the film actress’ reply, when asked if he would receive a wild celebration Schmeling received the con- gratulations of official Germany, represented by Dr. Goebbels, by & cable dispatched a few minutes after his victory was announced over the radio. “To your wonderful victory,” Dr. Goebbels cabled him, “my best con- gratulations. I know you fought for Germany,; that it'’s a German victory. We are proud of you. Heil Hitler, Regards.” #