“BOXING JUST A BIG LAWSUIT”
DEMPSEY’S STRONG COMMENTS (Received April 23, 11.50 p.m.) DALLAS (Texas), April 23. Citing the Braddock, Louis and Schmeling tangle, Jack Dempsey predicted that boxing would all be washed up in another year at the present pace. “Something must be done or we won’t have any boxing. The game needs a tsar, similar to baseball’s Landis, to wash the sport’s dirty linen in its own backyard. Boxing is becoming just a big lawsuit. If contracts and promises are no good what good is the fight game? Schmeling was promised a shot at the title, but now he has got only a piece of paper. Louis can give punishment, but cannot take it. He has not got a fighting heart,” he said.
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Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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