TWO ACES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1934, Page 23

TWO ACES

FORWARD LEAP Ifil BOXING

I With two champions-, both colourful fighters, ascending' the- 'throne ill a month's time, the boxing game took a sudden leap forward that may got the sport back into tho big money field I before tho summer is over (writes Eddio Bordcrn in "The- Ring")- When Max JBaer won tho world's heavyweight title from Primo Camera in. the Garden Bowl, and the popular Barney Ross vanquished tho rusty Jimmy McLarnin in the same, arena a fow wooks previously, boxing gained two aces as standard "bearers. The fact that Boss iiqw holds tho lightweight and tho welterweight titles and is a lighting champion, unlike the man whom lie- recently whipped, should benefit boxing considerably. No fighters who place their crown in camphor balls can aid. the sport any, and that is why the average fan and the promoter is glard that Ross came through with a triumph. There is no more- popular fighter- in America than McLarnin, but ho lost.many of his admirers by his inactivity, a rustincss that undoubtedly had its effect on him when he unsuccessfully defended his title against the youthful Barney Ross'. It is a flue thing for tho game to

have such a sterling lad as Koss holding both the lightweight and welterweight titles, a feat never before accomplishes by any gladiator. Eoss is a young man of common sense, and ho is handled by two fine- managers, Sam Pian and Art ;> Winch who, through proper handling of their charge, will make plenty of money; both for their fighter and themselves. They know tho game, know tho intricacies of the managerial end, and ar« eager to have Boss fight of£en.

Baer, by winning tho' greatest pugilistic plum in boxing, that of tho world's heavyweight championship, covered himself with glory and emerged a colossal King Kong, a supcr-Dempsey, ;t veritable giant killer, i It was -a popular victory. Twelve times the gigantic Camera struck the canvas in eleven rounds before the massacre was finally stopped. Camera was completely outclassed. All ideas of his super-fighting qualities were dispelled by the iron fists of Baer. Max supplies colour in quantities, has a magnetic personality that attracts ,thq female sex, and his ego matches his fighting characteristics. His chin is impervious to the heaviest blow and while he reigns as the titleholder, the division need not lack for colourful copy. Baer is loaded with. it.