Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1936 — Page 12

50,000 EXPERTS CAN BE WRONG

AMAZING MAX WRECKS A

“MYTH”

FTER what happened last night don’t be surprised if the

8t. Louis Browns win the American League pennant. , . . re 20 games behind, but that’s about the distance purageous Max Schmeling was behind in the betting before entered the ring and destroyed the “Joe Louis myth.” As a matter of fact the myth had grown to such proportions that the public and the sports-writing fraternity, in-| cluding “your's truly,” forgot the Detroit Negro is only

human.

In sports parlance, a sports expert puts himself out limb when he makes a prediction. . . . And when he missés there is a loud splash. . . . The splash was heard around the world last night, proving 50,000 scribes can be left on base.

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» Schmeling proved to the world that he did not get the title of ferocious frankfurter for nothing. His Teutonic calm is not a mask, as ‘most persons on this side of the Atlantic judged. And his fearless fashion of fighting doubtless had much to do with the bewilderment . and downfall of Louis. z ” ” s

HE first sign of a hunch that an upset might be in store came to the surface on Thursday afternoon at the weighing-in. It _/'was overlooked, however, except by ‘a few who grab the short end of ‘any kind of a bet if the odds are alluring. Louis, at 198, had a pull of six pounds over the German, but nevertheless Joe's weight was lower than ‘expected. Training camp announcements had him at 202 to 204. At any ‘rate it was enough for some hunch players to mark it down as an ill omen for the Negro's chances. ” n ” bi

If the Louis camp was caught ‘napping by overconfidence, the average fistic follower shared it. It has been an American trait since the days of old John L... .Few gave Schmeling a tumble when he said he thought he knew the secret of penetrating Louis’ defense... .He was cunning and didn’t disclose his scheme. You've got to hand him “ eredit for that. . . And now for a bow to the Buick Motor Car Co. for its efficient broadcast. ” on ” ED KILLEFER'S Indians returned to the “daylight league” in Columbus this afternoon in the ‘second of the series with the rampaging Red Birds. . . . The rivals \ took a day off yesterday. A doublehedded tomorow will complete the Tribe's second visit to the Ohio capital and on Monday the Redskins will come back to night ball on the home grounds against Toledo. The Louisville Colonels will follow the Mud Hens at Perry Stadium and then the Red Birds will invade before the eastern A. A. ‘ elubs pack up for a second journey through the ®estern half of the league. } ” ” ” After the Columbus series here, the Indians will be on the road for stops in six cities in the order of Toledo, Louisville, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Kansas City and Milwaukee. The Killeferites will come off that long tour to entertain the western nines again, beginning with St. Paul ‘on July 21. > = # 8 8 . The horse Rushaway is going out ‘after another hat tomorrow in the Chicago Derby at Hawthorne. He ‘won the Louisiana Derby, Illinois Derby and Latonia Derby. Then got smart and acted up at the post in the Detroit Derby and missed winning a fourth sky piece. ‘

Owens Given Large ( Order

Ohio State Hopes Rest on Ace Trackman; World Records Tumble.

‘By United Press ! CHICAGO, June 20.—Only those

famous flashing legs of Jesse Owens ‘could halt Southern California’s steam-roller drive. toward a second straight national collegiate track and field title today and there was a hint in the air the Ohio State flash might fail in the pinch for ‘the first time in his college career. Herman Wallender, from Texas, tched Jesse run, then stepped out on his own with an amazaing 100meters dash only three men in the world have equaled. His worldrecord time was 10.3 seconds. It was a sad day for world marks as the field ot 276 eager athletes called upon their best for the first major Olympic trial of the year. Forrest Towns of Georgia cli tenth of a second off the 1)0“meter hurdles in a preliminary heat

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. Bchmeling seemingly has led a clean : life and at 30 still has youth with him. . . . The difference of eight years between the German and Louis was of no consequence when Max the Bold started crossing his right over the Negros left jab. . Now you know why sports scribes don’t keep diaries and scrapbooks. + « . Thy don't want any reminders. . : ‘answered the question of “could he take it.” . . . He stayed in there “until the cobwebs got him and his punch and’legs failed.

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. . Louis went down fighting and

Public Links Play Starts

at Riverside

City Golfers in First Round of Trials to Select Tourney Team.

More than 100 Indianapolis public links golfers were to roam the fairways of Riverside municipal course tqday on the first leg of the 72-hole medal play tournament to select the city’s national team. : The four low scorers for the entire 72-hole route are to represent Indianapolis in the national tourney at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, Long Island, on July 20-25, inclusive. The 32 low qualifiers will be eligible for city championship play which will begin after the national foursome has returned from Farmingdale. The title is open, Bill Russell, winner last year, having moved to Washington, D. C.

Second at Pleasant Run

Two members of last year's team are seeking to regain their berths. They are Billy Reed Jr. and towheaded Bobby Dale. Dave Mitchell, former national champion’ who completed the squad last year, is now residing in Birmingham, Ala. The second 18-hole chapter is to be played tomorrow afternoon at Pleasant Run. Action will conclude next week-end with the third round

at South Grove Saturday and the i

final 18 at Coffin on Sunday. Additional entries were to be accepted at the first tee at Riverside this afternoon. ’

Amateur Day Teams ( Clash

Four Clubs in Anniversary Double-Header at Perry Stadium. °

Four of the city’s representative sandlot baseball clubs are to line up today in a.double-header exhibition on the Amateur Day program at Perry Stadium.

i The annual bargain bill marks the silver anniversary of the Indianapolis Amateur Baseball Association. The first tilt will start at 2 with

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a stiff left to open up the Negro

U. 8. Tires squaring off with U. S.|

Corrugated Box. The second tilt pits Real Silk against the ChapmanPrice club. Today's lineup includes three of the foremost contenders for the Manufacturers League ' crown and Real Silk, undisputed. leader of the Co-operative League. : The Tiremen are pacing the Manufacturers circuit, their lone defeat this year being handed out by Chapman-Price. The Boxmakers are pressing for the lead.

Other Games Deferred

All other Satufday league schedules have been deferred to make way for the parade of sandlotters at the stadium. Organized in 1912 with three leagues, the association has expanded to 10 loops, einbracing 80 teams. Approximately 1000 players are in action weekly on municipal diamonds. The group was formed by James Lowry, then superintendent of city parks; Charles E. Carr, playing professional ball yith Kansas City, and Carl Calahan who was president of several amateur leagues. Today's program is in charge of Tom Quinn, vice president of the organization. The following batteries were announced for today’s contests: U. 8. Tires, Hosler and Mueller; Corrugated Box, Hill and Lentz; Real Silk, Profiitt and E. Whitehouse; Chap-

500-MILE PILOTS IN

Mat Aces on Hercules Bill Davis and Brown Sign for Action in Supporting Tussles Here. Big Boy Davis and Orville Brown, both nationally-rated heavyweight grapplers who have headlined nu-

merous mat cards, have agreed to accept spots on the supporting pro-

Joe Louis, right, -plainly shows the pain Max Schmeling’s blows registered in their big fight in New York last night. The German has just landed

Referee Arthur Donovan signals that the battle is over as the timer’s count reaches the fatal 10 in the twelfth round with Louis stricken and flattened, crushed by the relentless attack of Max Schmeling,

Stirring Scenes as

for a righthand

Fight Figures Sink By United Press i NEW YORK, June 20.—Figures on Louis-Schmeling fight: Estimated crowd, 60,000. Actual paid attendance, 39,878. Gross gate, $547,531. Net, $464,945. . Each fighter’s share; $139,483.60. Paid a far lower

comers were given available seats

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Parker Advances

in Court Tourney|

Enteks Semi-Finals * Stage

the former world champion who is effort to regain the crown. The German to be denied against the Brown Bomber. The ture supplies the evidence. It was one of the startling upsets in the history of pugilism.

Teuton’s Triumph Due to Great Fighting Heart, McLemore Says.

oe EY TLEMORE NEW YORK, June 20. — On his left side he carried a great heart—a heart which told him with its every beat that he must leave the ring one of two things—the winner or a ‘dead man. On his right side he carried a great hand—a hand which, starting from way down yonder, whistled down a string to land as a depth

bomb Ignds.

This combination — a “ticker” which never skipped, even when

the firing became merciless and a fist which kept chunking, chunking, chunking—carried Max Schmeling of Germany to his almost unbelievable victory over Joe Louis of Alabam’ at Yankee Stadium last night. In my book, Max’s heart played the bigger part. For as I saw it, he won the fight from the brown boy by outgaming him. True, it was that winging right hand which finally ended it, with a punch which sent

the padding flying from the

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—Photo by Acme.

shot. The Detroit youth was short with his punches and is being rushed off balance. Shortly after this picture was snapped the Brown Bomber hit the floor, defeated in an upset international battle.

by Max the Bold in the

saliva from Joe’s gaping mouth. But that right hand never would have had a chance to sénd the Negro jack-knifing to the floor if the ol’ heart, from the first round to the finish, had not kept throbbing that song of the brave: “Keep moving in, kid; keep punching; keep swinging that fist.” : : German Took Punishment

Yes, he simply outgamed him. That's all he had over the Bomber. Louis struck harder than Schmeling did, and he hit faster and more often. He was a better boxer. He was younger and he was stronger.

| But his heart wasn't quite as big.

Don’t let any one tell you that Louis took the more severe beating, because he didn’t. During the 12 rounds the fight went, Louis landed two blows to one. He closed the German’s eye completely. He cut his mouth open. He beat his belly into

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Laabs Hits Homer With Bases Full

Brewer Connects in Final Frame; Millers Win.

lefts and rights—the same rights and lefts which left Carnera'bleeding on the floor, drove Paulino’s lips through his mouth, and sent the

| magnificent animal that is Baer

drooling to the canvas. But Schmeling never wobbled. As the blows crashed against his face and belly he spread out his legs, jerked the anguish off his face, and waded in, right hand cocked. Max scorned jabbing. After that fourth round when Joe hit the deck, back of head first, the German threw right hands and nothing else. And he was a great sharpshooter. He seldom missed. Both of them scorned defense in the closing rounds. Not once, but a dozen times, they stood toe to toe

‘{and measured each other, right

hands drawn like the long bows of old. + Thwack-—wham!—they’d cut ‘em loose. There would be a whap! as Max’s landed, and a wham! as Joe’s whistled to its mark.

Punches Are Brutal . Then a round would end. Louis, his legs doing a Leon Errol, would circle dizzily to his corner. Max, left eye closed tight, feet flopping flatly from weariness, would stagger to his corner. And down in the ringside you'd ask yourself: “In the name of God, who is going to call it quits first.”

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Gloom Fills Joe's Room

Beaten Idol Deserted by All but Four Faithful Friends.

. BY LESLIE. AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 20.—From a conquering fistic idol Joe Louis was transformed today into a beaten, pitifully dejected colored boy who craved nothing but seclusion from the world which had heaped glory on his kinky head and piled gold at his feet. Joe learned plenty about the fickleness of an idolizing public last night when he was annhilated by the so-called “has been,” Maxie Schmeling. He was deserted by all but four loyal members of his own race—Trainer Jack Blackburn, comanagers Julian Black and John Roxborough, and his recent bride, Marva. Joe was carried feet first from the ring to his dressing room. Even Mike Jacobs, the former obscure ticket speculator who rose to promotional fame on the power in Louis’ brown fists, turned his back on the Negro boy, in eagerness to

Marva Weeps Ouiside Door

Marva sat outside the deserted dressing room door weeping silently, as trainer and managers attempted to restorer him to consciousness. Newspaper men hurried to the quarters of the conqueror as soon as they had obtained brief statements through the bruised and swollen lips of the conquered. “After that punch sent me. down, I don’t remember nothin'” Joe mumbled. “He suah hit me hard.” His brown features looking more like a leather basketball than a face, the mutilated mutilator silently submitted to a doctor’s cursory examination to determine whether he had suffered any fractures. “No breaks,” reported Dr. Vincent Nardiello, “but he has a badly bruised jaw, and both of his thumbs are sprained.” “Yes, he told me when he hurt em,” interrupted Blackburn. “He complained about the left one after the fourth, and the right one in the ninth. _ He shudda had more tape on his hands.” The boxing commission made both fighters strip the tape from across their knuckles before the bout, leaving only a covering of gauze. Stretched out on the rubdown table, eyes closed and fingers drumming absently by his side the Brown Bomber was the picture of despair. He still couldn’t stand alone 20 minutes after the sight when Blackburn had to half-carry “Chappie” to the showers. Head slumped on chest, the late “Tan Tornado” didn’t even resemble a gentle breeze. Blackburn Keeps Faith

Managers Roxborough and Black were too bewildered to say much. “Of course we are not thinking of fighting for a while,” Black said despondently. “A good long rest will do him plenty of good.” Trainer Blackburn, himself one

|of the greatest of ail fighters, re-

fused to lose confidence: “You mark my words,” he said, helping Joe into his coat, “Chappie will come back from this defeat to be greater than ever.” ; Marva met her Joe at the door and threw her arms around him. Arm in arm they walked silently to a waiting automobile which carried them to a hotel where they met Joe’s mother and sister, who had seen their son and brother take a the first time. :

All Germany Surprised —Except Victor's Wife

By United Press { BERLIN, June 20. — Maxie Schmeling’s victory over Joe Louis last night dumbfounded the German sports world, but his tiny, glamorous, movie-actress wife—the Ondra—was confident

REIGN

Ex-Champ ‘Proud Man’ as Foe Believed lvincible Sinks in 12th Round.

BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent

the echo of the mighty Jight fist of Max Schmeling. Helanded the fist against the jaw of Joe Louis last night in Yankee Stadium before 60,000 stunned spec. tators. Down went the Brown Bomber and with him all the legends of the fistic superman who had never met defeat in 27 consecutive bouts—the “perfect” fighter who had slaughtered two former champions, Primo Carnera and Max Baer. In his place rose another exchampion, the German plodder who six years ago won the title while flat on his back in the same ring where last - night he achieved a triumph still strange and all unbelievable to thousands." Marked as a man condemned to the lethal fists of Joe Louis, the beetle-browed German wiped out the stigma of his “foul” victory in 1930 over Jack Sharkey in their bout to determine the successor to the retired champion, Gene Tunney, when he knocked out his would-be “executioner” in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round bout. Referee Arthur Donovan counted out Louis after 2 minutes 29 seconds. The up and down swing of Donovan's arm tolled a requiem over the broken body of the 22-year-old Negro who less than an hour before was recognized as an ine vincible fighting machine.

Schmeling Stood Alone

And when the gray-clad referee spoke the fatal words—‘“nine—and out”—over the writhing wreck, all previous fistic upsets dwindled into the background — even James J. Braddock’s year-old champio triumph over Baer. ‘ The 30-year-old German — the man who stood alone from the moment he signed a contract last De~ cember to meet Louis—surmounted every conceivable obstacle to smash his way back to the threshold of the heavyweight championship. He is now closer to winning back the title than any man ever before has been. The title every one was so sure Joe Louis would win is now within his easy reach and he is determined to become the first fighter in history ever to regain it. He signed two weeks ago to meet Braddock in September. : __Even Jack Dempsey, who came the closest to winning back the title, believed today .that Max might finally succeed where he failed. “Nothing is impossible for a man with as much courage as Schmeling,” Jack said.

Hears Plea of Dying Trainer

And it was courage last night— plus those five steel-like knuckles— which destroyed the casket they had built for Schmeling. That courage, which stood up before the most withering criticism any fighter ever had to face, was ° tested severely, even before he climbed into the ring. Tom O'Rourke, who piloted George Dixon, “the little Chocolate Drop” into the world’s bantamweight championship, died in the German’s dressing rqom just before the fight. The 80-year-old mane ager spoke his last words to Max. “You beat him, Max—you have to beat him, Max,” O'Rourke said, and then tumbled off a rubbing table before the German’s very eyes. They carried him away and he died of he heart attack a few minutes

With O’Rourke’s last words throbbing against his brain. Max went out to face the hostile crowd which expectantly -awaited an execution, The ringside odds were 10 to 1 Louis would win; 4 to 1 he would score a knockout and 2 to.1 Schmeling wouldn't come up for the

tual fighting—elapsed. The Brown Bomber was flicking his rapier-like left in Max’s face. Louis had won (Turn to Page 13)

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