Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1938 — Page 6

By Joe Williams

(Batting tor Eddie Ash) THE BATTLE OF THE AGES

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YOUTH ON SIDE OF CHAMPION

NE 'W YORK, June 22.—None of the bright young men associated with the enterprise got around to referring to the Louis-Schmeling fight, set for tonight in the Yankee Stadium, as the Battle of the Century—but it might properly be called the Battle of the Ages. Perhaps the main reason the young Detroit Negro has heen elevated to favoritism in the face of the known and established fact that the German challenger can hit him hard enough with a right hand to knock him out is because of hig age. Louis is 24, Schmeling nearly 33. Ag a general thing it is wise to string along with the vounger man in a prize fight. In practically every heavyweight championship the younger man comes out on top. True, there have been exceptions, but in the main youth has ruled the ring in tests involving the more amply upholstered brutes, If Schmeling repeats against Louig tonight, it will mark only the third time the championship has gone to a fighter who has passed the 32-year-old mark. Bob Fitzsimmons was 34 when he stopped Jim Corbett, and Jess Willard was 33 when he wore out Jack Johnson under a [Havana sun. All the other champions were 30 or under, You may be interested in a detailed resume of the champions’ ages. Corbett was 27 when he took the title away from the fabulous John L. Sullivan; to repeat, Fitz was 34, Jim Jeffries was 24 when he rode rough shod over Fitz: Johnson was 30 when he stopped the decrepit Jeffries. To repeat again, Willard was 33, Jack Dempsey was 24 t Toledo: Gene Tunney was 28 at Philadelphia; Schmeling was 25 when he won the crown sitting down; Jack Sharkey was 30 when he out-decisioned Schmeling in the return; Primo Carnera was 27, Max Baer, 25, Jim Braddock 30, and Louis 23 a vear ago at Chicago.

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THUS the average age of the new champion is around 98 and Schmeling is almost five years beyond that,

It the figures mean anything—and they probably don’t— becoming the first heavy-

too old to write history by And by the same token

ieht champion ever to regain his crown just about in his prime Iwo of the greatest heavyweights in the history of the ring won r championships at Louis’ present age. Jeffries was 24 when he triimphed over Fitzsimmons, and Dempsey was the same age when he 1ttered Willard to a sickly pulp on the banks of the Maumee. If anv significance can he attached to these circumstances Louis t only will hold his championship tonight but he will continue to be dominant force in the heavyweight division for at least four more hese are the conclusions vou read from the background of he division. They can mean little or much It so happens Schmeling is an unusual fellow in that he is a phys- | culture fiend and it is undoubtedly true he is younger at his going-on-23 stage of life than some of the other challengers who came into the ring carrvine fewer vears. For his vears the German is probably best conditioned athlete in the woild today Most of the challengers have won from champions who were pretty sl] was hed up, or lamentably ring rusty. One of the reasons why tonight's fight, which ever way it goes, figures to be furiously dramatic, hat ne ithe: participant is a battered relic. Louis should be at his peak and Schmeling is old, as fighters go, only in years. No ohe punch is going to topple him Sullivan was throu Orleans: Jeffries was a

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faced Louis last summer

" & #4 O if Schmeling repeats against Louis tonight he won't be kicking a defenseless child around. He will be winning over the best heavyweight in America. This may not be saying much, considering some of Louis’ well-known defects as a fighting man, but the young Negro does seem to stand head and shoulders above all the other big fellows in the country today. Come to think of it, the possibility exists that neither Louis nor Schmeling is a really great fighter. Certainly the German has had a very spotty career and even so Louis has yet to prove he can beat him. It may be that the tremendous interest evidenced tn the fight is die to the fact that it's the only one in town. You know the old gag 1bout the confirmed ¢ gamb! er who kept on playing the crooked wheel. He was crooked. but it was the only one in town, 211 the native fighting equipment he needs to win the that makes him a large and disturbing question mark generalship plus his glaring weakness for right hand head. And evervbody knows Schmeling has a fine more ring savvy and there can be no auestion of I'he reported odds of 2's and 3 to 1 against him

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F Schmeling's gesture was calculated to disturb Louis it was lost because the young Negro lacks the imagination to comprehend the dashing implications, This lack of imagination, by the way, may stand him in good stead tonight. A more nervous, sensitive type would have a hard time forgetting what happened in the first fight, 1 still think Louis’ best chance to win is to come out swinging and keep on swinging until he drops the German, or is dropped himself. In he must take charge of the ring from the start. He isn't enough to make Schmeling fight his way and if he dawdles around he will find that Schmeling is making him fight the way he wants him to They say Dempsey used

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pace is evervthing in prize fighting and probably it is. to set his own pace when he was on top and that's how he won his fights, Little Henry Armstrong isn't a great fighter in the accepted sense of the phrase, but he takes charges from the bell and outpaces his opposition. If Louis is to win he must do the same thing, stressing his superior two-handed attack and his youth. Of course vou can't get away from the fact that Schmeling knocked out Louis in the first fight, that he had him rubber legged as early as the second round, that he carries a murderous right hand and that Louis is easy to hit with this punch, When you try to add it all up you find yourself in the middle of & guessing contest. You feel you you night just as well fiip a coin

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1938

Champ ip Rules 2-1 Favorite | Over German

‘Crowd Expected to Exceed 80,000 and Receipts May Top Million.

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rain late “this afternoon “could force a postponement. In the event of rain after sundown, Mr. Jacobs said, the fight might start at 7:30 p. m. instead of 8 o'clock. If such a change were made, the nationwide radio broad- | cast also would be moved back. Proof that it has roused this city | to an abnormal point was offered in the announcement from pelice headquarters as to how the city would be patroled during fight hours. More than 3000 extra policemen have been asigned to fight duty. In addition to the regular men on the beat, 1000 uniformed coppers will stroll the streets of Harlem, ready to quell any racial outbreak. Commissioner Valentine has not forgotten that several were killed and scores injured in Harlem the night Schmeling knocked out Louis.

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The Yankee Stadium will be alive | with police. More than 1000 of them | will swing their night sticks in and abdut the giant concrete pile. Be- | tween the Stadium and Harlem, a matter of a few blocks, 500 plainclothes operatives will watch for trouble. The flow of traffic from

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Manhattan to the scene of battle will be directed by 400 traffic cops, many of whom will be mounted. Cruising about. with radio communication, will bez numerous emergency cars, equipped with everything from sawed-off shotguns to tear pas bombs. | None of the policemen or armament may be needed. But the offi- | cials aren't taking any chances with | an emotionally worked up crowd of | 80.000 that will be inside, and the | millions on the outside. One Victory for Each

With the fight only a few hours away Louis still was a decided fav- | orite. He was held at 2 to 1 and | astute layers of odds predicted that he would be 3 to 1 or thereabouts | before ring time. Joe's position of |B favorite was not even shaken yesterday when the New York State Athletic Commission, in a surprise ruling, banned the use of the longthumbed Chicago gloves. Joe wanted | to use the Chicago gloves, but the | commissioners said they were unfit for a title defense and okayed the | New York glove, the one Schmeling | likes. Louis gained one victory at the | Commission meeting, however. It refused to grant Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's American manager, a second’s license, which means that Max will not have Yussell the Mussell in his corner. Yussell has proved himself a handy man to have, It was his all-time high shrieks of “Foul! Foul!” that swayed the tide to the German in his first fight with Jack Sharkey. It is generally | believed that the referee gave the | title to Schmeling that night just to shut up Jacobs. Schmeling Arrives Schmeling, simply bursting at the good health and conto New York last His pilot, in this was Dick Merrill

fidence, came night by airplane. surprise junket,

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HARVESTERS LOSE FT. WAYNE, Ind, June 22 (U, P) The Kansas City Monarchs, one of the strongest Negro professional baseball teams in the country, put on a 15-hit attack that gave them a 6-to-0 victory over the International Harvesters at League Park last night. The Harvesters collected eight hits,

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John Koehler, Dick Winson, Ward

Christine of Indianapolis left for New York by plane yesterday to attend

His contract with Promoter Mike Jacobs ruled out alr trips, but Jacobs, probably figuring that anv | man who could fly Harry Richman | across the Atlantic without mishap anything, anywhere, had!

Louis, a rustic at heart, did not break camp until the middle of this | morning. Then, with police escort | sirens screaming, he sneaked into | town in time for the weighing in. For reasons that even they cannot explain, the critics have overwhelmingly picked Louis to win. | The fact that in their first meeting | Joe wound up on his trousers in the | first round, bothered them not one bit. By a 2-to-1 margin the eritics | (same as newspapermen) chose him to retain the title, Maybe they know something. This much is certain; by 10 o'clock tonight we'll all know some- | thing—if it doesn't rain.

MATCH PLAY STARTS IN LINCOLN TOURNEY

LINCOLN, Neb, June 22 (U. P).

with Don Schumacher of Dallas seeking to retain the title he won a year ago.

first round 18-hole match with Matt Zadalis of Omaha, but if he repeat he will

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(Last of a Series)

NEW YORK, June 22 (U. P)

Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons was 40 years |

old before he learned that they never come back Fitz never was more overgrown midd!eweight. that crown in 1891 and took the heavyweight title from Jim Corbett in 1897. He lost it in his first defense against Jim Jefiries two years later. He was called “the freak of the | ring” because he was so small. He originated the shift and the famous “solar plexus” blow, both of which | he used in winning the title. In 1902 Fitz decided to come back. He had seen Jeffries knock out Corbett when Gentleman Jim tried to regain the title, But Fitzsimmons, even though he knew he would be at a {remendous physical disadvantage, still dreamed of being champion again.

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| he stepped into the ring against ! Jack Johnson, first Negro titleholdTen thousand fans jammed into | was whipped before the bell rang— San Francisco, to see the scrap | | cause, as he phrased it,

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Thirty seconds after the first | round started, Fitzsimmons had Jefface bleeding. He chopped, side-stepped and chopped some more, Every time he hit Jeffries he drew blood. For eight rounds Bob cut, slashed, and battered the champion. In the seventh he land-

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The Original White Hope

Jim Jeffries was the original “white hope.” He tried a comeback when he was 35, five years after he had retired undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. He said long before

went down, and

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but he had to try to comeback be“TI didn't have guts enough to say no.” Jack Dempsey came within a split second of being the only man ever to regain the heavyweight title. He got his chance—and failed—on the | night of Sept. 22, 1927, against Gene | Tunney in the famous ‘Battle or the long count.” No one ever floored Tunney for That will be a sub- | as long as the

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104,943 Saw Fight

A crowd of 104.943 persons, which | paid a record $2,658,660, jammed | Field, Chicago, and saw | at the age of 32, try to win back the crown from a man who had taken it from him a day less than a year previous. Dempsey. looking back now on the | so-called long count, says: “It was the greatest blessing T | ever got. I would have had to fight Tunney again and he would have beaten me. As it was. most I got national sympathy and it gave me more help in later years than anything that ever happened wo me.” Tunney says he was shaken badly that he was conscious when Referee Jack Barry counted two. At nine he rose to his feet and kept away from Dempsey until he recovered himself. Near the end of the round he landed a right to the heart which Dempsey himself says was the hardest blow he ever took. In the eighth, Gene floored Jack for a count of one. In that round and the next two, Tunney fought like a champion. He gave Dempsey a sound beat ing and won the decision. It was a 10-round bout. Dempsey was offered a return bout. But he had learned by then that they never came back.

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third and fourth round matches of the 28th annual National Clay Court Tennis Championships today at the Town & Tennis Club, Riggs gained the fourth round by defeating John Krifta, River Forest, 6-0, 6-0, and today will meet an opponent to be selected. Grant Pairs Cal, in

ers, three of them seeded, joined | Riggs in the fourth round. The most surprising upset of the tournament came yesterday when | Frank ©. Parker, Los Angeles, America's No. 3 ranking amateur and a Davis cup player, was defeated in a third-round match by George Pero, Miami, unseeded in the draw, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4,

AMBERS TAKES DULL FIGHT FROM VAUGHN

LOS ANGELES, June 22 (U. P). Lew Ambers, the lightweight champion from Herkimer, N. Y, scored an unimpressive 10-round victory last night over Vaughn of Cleveland in the final tuneup for the defense of his title

against Henry Armstrong in New York July 26. Ambers, who weighed 137, a pound

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Cincinnati in National and Cleveland in American Grab Limelight.

By GEORGE KIRKSEY

(United Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, June 22 (U. P.) = The major league pennant races had a definite “Ohio tinge" today with the Cleveland Indians come manding a two-game lead in the American League and the Cincinnati Reds surging upward from second place only a game and a half behind the Giants in the National. Cleveland hurled back the Yankees yesterday, 10-5, with Bob Feller triumphing over Red Ruffing before 18,000. The defeat dropped (he Yanks to third place, 2'4 games be hind the league-leaders. One of the season's crucial double-headers was scheduled for Cleveland's Municipal Stadium today with a crowd of 60. 000 expected to see Cleveland, with Johnny Allen and Mel Harder on the mound, attempt to increase their lead, opposing the Yankees’ Lefty Gomez and Monte Pearson. Cincinnati climbed closer to the fading Giants by beating the league champions, 6-2, and frustrating Carl Hubbell in his third attempt to score his 200th major league triumph, Jim Weaver and Bucky Walters combined to pitch a four-hit game. Ival Goodman hit homer No, 16 and Ernie Lombardi hit No. 9, Cubs Also Gain The Cubs closed in on the Giants, foo, by beating the Phillies, 4-3, and are only a game and a half off the pace although a few percentage points behind the Reds. Billy Her= man scored the winning run when Pitcher Clyde Passeau dropped the ball in trying to tag the Cubs’ second baseman at the plate, Before a crowd of 25000 Pitts burgh defeated Brooklyn in a night game, 9-3. The Pirates slugged Mungo, Tamulis, Butcher and Frankhouse for 14 hits including homers by Todd and Young. Although walking nine men and allowing seven hits Bob Feller hung up his eighth victory in pitching Cleveland to triumph over the Yanks. Rollie Hemsley's double with the bases loaded was the big Tribe punch, 12 Straight Hits Pinky Higgins broke Tris Speaker's 18-year-old major league record by making eight straight hits to run his consecutive hit record to 12 as the Red Sox divided a doubleheader with Detroit. Higgins, who made four straight hits against the White Sox Sunday, collected three singles and a double in the first game, won by the Red Sox, 8-3, and made four gingles in the second game, won by the Tigers, 5-4. Rudy York hit homers Nos. 18 and 19 to tie Jimmy Foxx for the American League lead. Harry Kelley pitched Washington to a 7-0 victory over the White Sox, allowing only five hits in winning his first game for the Senators since he was bought from the Athletics. Oral Hildebrand pitched a five= hit game as the Browns heat the Athletics, 5-2. Sullivan and Heath hit homers for the Browns.

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