MAX SCHMELING’S VICTORY

Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 20

MAX SCHMELING’S VICTORY

BAER’S COMPLAINT Max Baer breaks into voluble chatter every time he is asked his opinion of the Max Schmeling-Joe Louis fight, (says a Sydney writer). Baer does not begrudge the German’s victory over the Detroit negro. But he does protest against the negotiations looking to a championship match between Schmeling and Jimmy Braddock next year. “The record speaks for itself,” the Livermore Larruper argues. “I knocked out Schmeling convincingly. I lost to Braddock in a dull fight. My hands were bad in that one, and were no better for the Louis match. With few exceptions the history of the ring shows that a defeated champion was given an opportunity to meet his conqueror in a return bout. “If the Louis match had not been so important and I was so confident I could beat him, I would have passed Louis up and awaited a return fight with Braddock this year. “If interest in the fight game is to be kept at a high pitch, I think the best plan would be to have me fight Schmeling, with the winner to fight Braddock. Then if Louis comes around after that drubbing he took at the Yankee Stadium, there would be three big matches instead of one as now planned.” Baer pointed out that all talk about his taking singing and polishing up on his acting was just so much “hooey.” While reports were going out from his manager’s ranch, Baer was working hard with his brother, and getting in shape for the tour he is now making in the West. Quite a schedule is being mapped out for the former champion, and if hurried jumps from one city to another do not take more out of him than gym work, the Livermore butcher should be in fine shape when called upon to fight any one of the trio mentioned above.