BRADDOCK AND LOUIS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 4

BRADDOCK AND LOUIS

BOTH IN TRAINING SCHMELING PUSHED ASIDE THE WORLD WONDERS WHY While there is still *a lot of argument whether James J. Braddock’s opponent should be Joe Louis or Max Schmeling, it seems fairly certain that the champion will defend his title against the “Brown Bomber’’ at Cnicago on June 22, says a message from New York, dated May 10. Developments have reached the stage where both Braddock and Louis are looking for suitable tiaining camps. Quite, recently Braddock motored 300 miles inspecting prospective quarters. In the meantime the champion has settled on a private estate on Lake Sissaoagama, 420 miles north of Chicago, where he will do light conditioning work. There is a Jot of feeling, though, that Schmeling is more entitled to the match than Louis, and his supporters will leave nothing undone in an attempt to stop tne Louis —Braddock contest from taking place. The raw, black-haired German, who first came to America away back in 1928 and exeited Tex Rickard by knocking out' one Joe Monte, has grown into a man who knows exacvly what he wants and how to go about getting it. if he doesn’t always get exactly what he wants, he winds up as close to it as,intelligence and determination wilDtfcke him. Kight now Schmeling wants that fignt with Eraddock for the title. He earned it, which is something nobody can den}. But Braddock’s illness last summer forced a postponement, and since then the bout has been kicked around in a fashion that is scandalous. Schmeling hasn’t given up on it, however.

It is doubtful is anybody ever pul on a more intensive campaign to regain something he once held. Usually the come-bacic urge—which every fighter knows at some time in his career—is strong for a while. But only for a while. It doesn’t drive a man along as did the ambition he hai when he was a youngster. But in

Schmeling’s case it did. Of course, in a sense that Max never had retired from the ring, the drive he is making now may not be a come-back.