SCHMELING WINS

Grey River Argus, 15 December 1937, Page 9

SCHMELING WINS

THOMAS STOPPED In the Eighth Round [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received December 14, 7.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 13. Schmeling, scaling fourteen stone, defeated Thomas, who weighted 14st. OHb., on a technical knockout in the eighth round. Thomas won the first, third, and fourth rounds. The fifth round was drawn.

Thomas was warned by the referee In the second round, bchmeling winning that round on a fpul. Joe Louis was a spectator. He said: “I want to get a look at Schmeling from the outside. Maybe I will spot a weakness in his defence, like hs did in mine when I was fighting Uzcudun.” '

Thomas, who entered the ring first, was mildly applauded, but Schmeling received an ovation.

Schmeling opened quietly, withholding his attack till the second round, when he crashed a stinging right to Thomas’s head, following this with two lefts, and another right. When the fourth round opened, Schmeling’s nose was bleeding, and Thomas’s lip was cut. Thomas then loosed a barrage of lefts and rights to the body, forcing Schmeling to give ground, and, in the next round, which was drawn, Thomas had Schmeling spinning around, but he himself appeared to be tired, missing two rights to the head. .

Both men stood up to a terrific battering in the sixth round. Schmeling drove Thomas to the ropes, where a series of rights and lefts had him groggy.

The • German continued to inflict punishment in the seventh, round. Thomas was down at the bell.

Schmeling knocked Thomas down for a count of one when the last round began. Thomas indeed offered little resistance, he being knocked down five times before the referee intervened and declared Schmeling the winner. CARNERA DISCREDITED. ROME, December 14. The Italian Boxing Federation has ruled that Camera shall not-be allowed to fight abroad after his recent performance in Paris. i BRADDOCK AND FARR MATCHED. [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received December 14, 8.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 13. The boxing promoter, Mike Jacobs, has announced that James J. Braddock and Tommy Farr have been matched for a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden on January 21st.