JACK DOYLE-LEVINSKI
JOE LOUIS IN WHITE CITY BOUT
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT IN ENGLAND?
(By HAROLD LEWIS)
London, April 1.
WEMBLEY'S boxing tournament, arranged for
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FIGHT OFF
U.S. DAVIS CUP TEAM SELECTED
next Tuesday, has been postponed. Follow- ing the news on Tuesday that Jock McAvoy was unable, through illness, to fulfil his match with Eddie Phillips for the light heavyweight cham- Joe Louis, above, who will meet James J. Braddock on June 23 in pionship, came a further blow yesterday when it
Chicago, will make his first ap- pearance in England on July 30 at was known that Jack Doyle was unable to box..
the White City Stadium against- a. DOYLE, WHO WAS TO
boxer yet to be nominated. HAVE MET THE AMERICAN, "KING LEVINSKI, HAS RUPTURED FIBRES OF THE CALF
statement is curious..in several MUSCLES OF THE LEFT LEG. AT THE MOMENT HE CAN DO NOTHING BUT REST. THE TOURNAMENT WILL TAKE ways. If Louise beats Braddock and PLACE, IN ALL PROBABILITY, WITHIN TWO OR THREE fights here, it will be the first time days of Tommy Burns WEEKS. THE NEW DATE MAY BE FIXED NEXT MONDAY, since the
that a foreigner has come to Eng- WHEN DOYLE'S INJURY WILL BE EXAMINED AGAIN.
Mr. A. J. Elvin told me some time ago that financially the land to defend the world's heavy- show was an assured success and that the receipts would be in the weight title. region of £15,000. The postponement will enable Len Harvey, the Wembley match-maker, to find a suitable contest to take the place of the Phillips-McAvoy match.
GERMAN ATHLETES COWED
MUST BE GOOD SOCIALISTS
EXAMINATIONS FOR ALL
(By FREDERIC OECHSNER)
that
BOBBY RIGGS IS OMITTED
JOSEPH HUNT AS RESERVE
New York, April 23.
Bobby Riggs, sensational young schoolboy tennis star, has been dropped from the 1937 Davis Cup team contestants, it was announced without explanation to-day.
It was believed Joe Hunt, of Los Angeles, might possibly replace Riggs.
On the basis of his sensational 1936 season, Riggs had been con- sidered an outstanding candidate for. No. 2 singles berth on the Davis Cup squad!
He has been barnstorming through the South in the past few months, however, and has been eliminated from every tournament, PROBABLE TEAM
The United States probably will depend upon Donald Budge and Frankie
Burns demanded, and received, a
Parker to play the lump sum before entering the ring. Yet Louis-is to risk the title for Davis Cup singles matches against It was stated last night that percentage only that is assuming Japan at San Francisco, on April 20 and May 1 and 2, with Budge Joe Louis, the American colour-lhe beats Braddock.
Of this trio of famous heavy-and Mako handling the doubles. ed heavyweight, will definitely
Baer has knocked out These three with Joseph Hunt, of fight in London on July 30, and weights, that his opponent will be the Schmeling, Louis has knocked out California, were selected to-day to winner of a Farr-Baer-Schmeling Baer, and Schmeling has knocked meet the Japanese, but Hunt will series. It is proposed to stage out Louis. Louis, however, is the probably be held in reserve. the Louis fight at the White only "young man" of the three. City.
Braddock is older than any of them, be obtained, for one thing. and has not fought for nearly two The position is further compli- Yet Baer thinks Braddockcated by the fact that negotiations are afoot for Schmeling to meet Braddock in Germany. I had a mes- sage from New York only yester- day to that effect, and I am as- sured that, although Braddock's manager first signed to meet Sch- meling in New York, and then stat- ed he would accept the Chicago of be fer instead, it is quite likely he will throw both overboard if the Ger- man offer is good enough.
THE POSITION
The plans cannot taken as concrete. Home Office or Ministry of Labour consent has to
Mr. Hulls, the promoter, ex--years. plained the position to me thus: may beat Louis. "Schmeling is under contract to
SCHMELING'S AMBITION meet Braddock for the world title Schmeling, incidentally, has bea- in New York on June 3. That fight ten his fellow countryman, Neusel, is obviously not going to take place, rather badly. He is, moreover, a because Braddock has elected to wealthy man, and his only real in- Berlin, April 16. defend his title against Louis at terest remaining in boxing is the German athletes must prove Chicago on June 22. But until June world's title, which he is anxious to
they are good National [3 arrives Schmeling is not free to recapture. Socialists' as well as Aryans in sign any other contract. order to participate in athletic "I have invited him to come to competition, it was reported to-Harringay on April 15, when Tom-. day.
my Farr, the British champion, Members of the nation's athle-meets Max Baer, to challenge the tic clubs are now in the process winner. He has not accepted yet, of taking examinations ordered but I think he will do so. I also by the German Alliance for Phy-believe that he will gladly take the sical Training which controls all opportunity to fight the winner, in German sports, over the follow-the hope that on June 22 Louis will ing questions:
beat Braddock, so that Schmeling: "1. What are the duties in keep-land Louis would meet for the world ing racial inheritance pure?
title on July 30 in Löndön.”:
"2. What is understood by folk
and race?
WHO WILL OPPOSE NEUSELT Louis, Mr. Hulls told me, has ac-
3. Who are the founders of the cepted the terms offered, although Gérman race?
they are on a percentage basis
out
"4. Do frontiers of the Reich en-only. compass all the German race?
"5. What is the German Alliance
for Physical Training?
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This new statement leaves of the reckoning Walter Neusel, the German, for whom permission had
(^6.” What is the basis in world been sought for a match in Lon- philosophy of physical education -indon with Baer. That permission "the new state?""
THE ANSWERS
was granted by the British. Boxing Board of Control provided that Baer first beat the reigning British champion.
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A memorandum containing an- swers to questions, which were provided to members of athletic Mr. Hulls is evidently intending clubs, explains the frontiers of the to fit Neusel in somehow. Reich do not take in all the Ger-was with him last night to discuss man race, and declares racial fr the position. tiers in Middle Europe extend from
IF LOUIS WINS. East Prussia to the English chan- The situation created by the nel, including parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy, fore May 1. Switzerland, France and Belgium | Observers recalled non-Aryans The memorandum further says have already been eliminated from there are 96,000,000 Germans liv-German athletic clubs, which are ing outside of the Reich frontiers. all affiliated with the German Al-
·MUST BE UNDER 19 -
liance for Physical Training. Ex- Athletes over 19 years old willuminations were seen as an effort be unable to enter competition un-to weed out Aryans who were an less they pass the examination be-sympathetic to the Nazi cause.
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