Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 149, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1938 — Page 8

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DOUBLE HEADER ' TO FEATURE ALL DECATUR TEAMS Three Decatur Teams To Play At Worthman Field Sunday League Standing W. L. Pct. G. E. 3 0 1.000 Mies .. 3 1 .750 Monmouth 2 1 .667 Pleasant Mills 1 2 .333 Preble 1 2 .333 Fuelling 1 2 .333 St. Mtwy’s 0 3 .000 Sundys schedule in the Adams county amateur league will he featured by a twin bill at Worthman Field, with the three Decatur■ teams all in action. The G. E. team, only undefeated I nine In the league, will meet St. Mary’s, cellar occupants, in the first game of the double header. ' starting at 1 o'clock. In the second game of the twin bill, to start immediately after the first tilt is concluded. Mies Recre-! at ion and Monmouth will clash in 1 a tattle for second place. Mies is in second place in the) league with three victories and : one defat. Monmouth is third with ) two victories and one loss and can | oust Mies from the runner-up posi-) tion by scoring a triumph Sunday.’

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Preble will journey to Fuelling for the third game of Sunday’s schedule. The Pleasant Mills nine drew the bye for this week’s card. o STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 35 25 .603 Cincinnati 32 23 .582 Chicago ». 34 25 .576 Pittsburgh 30 24 .556 Boston 27 26 .509 St. Louis . 25 30 .455 Brooklyn 24 34 .414 Philadelphia 14 36 .280 AMERICAN LEAGUE . W. L. Pet. Cleveland 36 21 .632 New York 32 24 .571 Boston . 33 25 .569 Detroit 31 29 .517 Washington 32 30 .516 Philadelphia 26 30 .464 Chicago 20 33 .377 St. Louis 18 36 .333 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 8. New York 2. St. Louis 2. Boston 1. Brooklyn 8. Pittsburgh 1. Chicago at Philadelphia, rain. American League Detroit 10, Boston 2. Washington 12. Chicago 0. New York 8. Cleveland 6. Philadelphia 7. St. Louis 1. o Trail r In A Good Town — Ikrntnr

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BAER FAVORED TO MEET LOUIS Maxie Baer Is Leading Challenger Spot For Heavy Crown I New York. June 24. U.R> The reformed Maxie Baer, ex playboy heavyweight champion of the world, was the man of the hour in fight circles today while managers itnd promoters throughout the world sought a new "white hope" to challenge Joe Ixrttis. Despite his four-round knockout by Louis two years ago. sobered by marriage, parenthood and the recent death of his father, stands out like a colossus as the No. 1 challenger now that Max S ■him ling is no longer a threat. While Schmeling was strapped in an iron bed in Polyclinic hospital today, recovering from a fractured vertebra he received in Wednesday night's futile bid at Louis' <rown, prombter Mike Jacobs was negotiating to match Baer and Louis in a September title match in New York or Chicago. The San Francisco exine sition was trying to induce Jacobs to stage a title match there next spring, and Los Angeles promoters also were dickering for a Louis title defense. Jim Braddock, who lost the championship to Louis a year ago, was reported ready to make a comeback “if he could get in shape.” Tommy Farr. British title holder who went 15 rounds with Lottis last September, wants to fight him again. Schmeling. not critically injured and resting comfortably. is demanding a third and ■ "rubber" match. Tony Galento faithfully challenges Louis once a month on a winner-take-all basis. With all these offers of sites and slammers. Jacobs believes that Baer would attret the biggest crowd, and that Chicago or NewYork would pay the biggest prices. I One of Louis' co-managers, Julian Black, wants the bomber to meet Maxie in Chicago as he says the former madcap titleholder is very popular in the mid-west. "I have wiped out every defeat when given a return match.” Baer said today, "and I want a chance to prove it against Louis. I saw Joe blast Schmeling, and I’m not afraid of him. What’s there to be afraid of? There used to be a time when I didn’t want my face mussed up. but 1 don’t mind scars row. I can’t tell Max. Jr., they are scars of battle. I used to not give a damn, but I've got to win now to redeem myself. One of the last things my dad asked me before he died was that I fight Louis again and prove I didn't quit like people said I did.” Louis, who pulled down a certified check for $351,245 for his one round knockout (124 seconds of wotk) of Schmeling, really seem- ! od to be ansxious to fight again in September, although he will gain

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' little financially.’’ 1 "Mike Jacobs is my promoter, > , and I'll fight anybody, anywhere, . anytime he says.” the 23-year-old I brown-skinned champion said. “I knows that most of my share will - go to Uncle Sam for taxes, but i the more I fights, the less chance I have to get rusty like I was when I Schmeling whipped me two years t ago.” i Joe and Biack and their wives will sail for Europe July 6 for a . short vacation in London and Paris, i but Joe plans to return in time to see the Henry Armstrong-Lou Am- ■ bers lightw’eight title fight here on ' July 28. Schmeling will leave for Ger- : many July 2 if his condition per- • mits. Meantime, having seen the fight ’ movies, Schmeling’s American : manager, Joe Jacobs, decided > gainst making a foul claim to ‘ the New York boxing commission. ‘ The movies revealed that a kid- > gey blow had little, if anything to ’ do with the outcome. There were ' two punches that landed in the ' region of the kidneys, but they f came after a series of smashing ' head blows that already had Max i out on his feet and hanging on ’ the ropes for dear life. Schmeling Better New York, June 24. —(U.R) —Max ■ Schmeling, who suffered a severe f spinal injury in his fight with - world heavyweight champion Joe i Louis, “had a very good night.” at--1 tendants at Polyclinic hospital re-

ported today. The German boxer, whose injury was disclosed by X-ray photographs after the fight, “slept well” and his condition a-ppeared not to be "too serious.” it was said. New York. June 24—<U.R) —You’ve read and heard a great deal about the "killer .instinct” in prizefight-: ers. Now you can see it if you are so inclined. The slow motion picture of the 124 seconds of the Joe Louis Max Schmeling fight is probably the] most faithful recording ever made of human savagery: The picture is much more terrifying to watch than the fight was. In the Yankee stadium the rapidity with which the butchering oc. curred. against the background of oise and excitement, prevented anyone from getting a cold and objective view of it. In the quiet darkness of the smay lhegter where I saw the fight pictures yesterday afternoon. 1 was appalled by 'he knowledge that this ruthless, unmerciful killer there on the) screen was one and the same man | as the Joe Louis whom I had just left a few minutes before —a Joe Louis who talked of ice cream, and trios to Europe, and his new pinstriped suit. 1 saw Joe again after I had seen the pictures and although he was

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sittiiu; in the same chair and talking in the same low voice, I didn't feel fully comfortable around him. It was as if 1 had seen a savage tiger behind the bars of a cage suddenly loosed to walk free among the people who had been watching him. The Louis of the slow-motion pictures has no connection with ice cream and pin stripe suits and discussions of the weather. He is a jungle man. as completely primitive as any savage, out to destroy a thing he hates. Even the style of fighting he had been patiently taught, was abandoned. He fought Instinctively and not by any manmade pattern. There is one moment in the picture that made me want to turn my head away, and I have seen some pretty dreadful shambles in the ring. This is the moment when Lx>uis sets up Schmeling for the final blow, then delivers it. This was a right hand smash to the jaw of a falling man —a beaten man who needed only a push to topple him over and not a blow driven home with every ounce of strength in Louis’ 200 pounds. The picture shows very clearly that Louis did hit Schmeling in the kidneys, not once but twice. But it also shows with equal clarity that neither punch was intentional. Schmeling is wrong if he thinks these kidney punches cost

him iho fight- When he leaven ih»* hospital, let him go co nee the * I film and he will hav*- to admit that , he was a badly beaten man. with Ito chance of victory before either kidney punch was delivered lie! was on the ropes, out of his head I and helpless. And these kidney l blows were mere tups compared to the rifle shots that it)) but tore his head off. It Is to be hoped that Max Baer does not see the pictures of the fight. If he does, and then signs to meet Joe. It might be wise also) to sign an alternate heavyweight . In case the Californian doesn't ) show up. (Copyright. 1938, by United Press 1) o ——- Takes Ball Team To St. Mary’s, 0., On Wrong Night •—- o i Manager “Molly” Mies had the right city, the right state and the right hour hut the wrong day when he took his Mies Recreation baseball team to St. Mary’s Ohio, last night. Accompanied by the team and a group of ardent supporters. Molly after arriving at the lake citv. learned that the game was scheduled for tonight instead of Thursday. Undaunted by one failure, Manager Mies expects to make the trip * tonight—and hand the St. Mary's chib a sound trouncing partially to allay last night’s disappointment. Trmla In A Rond Town

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