HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 170, 19 June 1936, Page 11

HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING.

TO-DAY’S BIG FIGHT. NEW YORK, Juno 17. Max Sclnneling and Joe Louis rested to-day having completed their training for to-morrow’s bout. Louis finished training at list. 611). and Sclnneling at 13st. 101 b. Louis remains an overwhelming favourite. LOUIS FAVOURED. Recent mails from America indicated that Joe Louis was a five-to-one favourite in the contest with Max Sclnneling. Some American critics were by no means definite that the negro would repeat the knock-outs he administered to Camera and Baer. A few went so far as to give the German a really good chance of coming out of the fray with the Swastika flying. In 57 contests Sclnneling has scored 33 knock-outs—a high average. An American critic stated that apparently he did not intend to vary his tactics, for he had openly declared that lie had ■set his heart on knocking out the former heavyweight champion inside four rounds. * But every round the fight went without either being badly hurt would add to Schmeling’s chances. Joe Louis, the American negro, has fought in 27 contests; has knocked his opponent out on 23 occasions and has received four decisions on points. In all, he has earned in these fighis 397,794 dollars. Louis’s biggest fight was against Max Baer, whom be knockout out in four rounds in Septeml>er last in New York. For this contest, Louis was paid the largest purse ever received by a coloured boxer, the amount being 217,337 dollars.