1937-03-23 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 23, 1937.

BRADDOCK SUMS UP SCHMELINGS CANNOT SEE GERMAN SECURING

THE WORLD TITLE

WORLD CHAMPION WEIGHS ODDS

FOR AND AGAINST

(By FRANK G. MENKE) --

(This article was written in America before the announcement that Braddock will meet Lo June, în Chicago, instead of Schmeling. The winner is to fight Schmeling in Berlin in September)..

A FEW hundred thousand persons have it all figured out that Max

Schmeling will snatch the heavyweight title from James J. Braddock when they meet up with each other on June 3, 1937, but Braddock isn't included in the group.

BRADDOCK

James J. Braddock, holder of the world heavyweight boring championship, above, has some in- teresting things to say about Max

"I think I can 'take' Schmeling without using up the last ounce of energy to do it,” declares the champion. And he means every word that he speaks. Here is a son of Erin, quiet-mannered, soft spoken, unusually Schmeling, of Germany. reticent, always sure of himsel, but never over-estimating himself

"I'VE NEVER KIDDED MYSELF INTO THINKING I'M GREAT,” ADDED BRADDOCK.]take it easy again for six or eight "NOR DO I HOLD SCHMELING CHEAPLY. I THINK I HAVE, A GOOD LINE ON WHAT months.

I CAN DO, WHAT SCHMELING CAN. DO," AND WHEN I PUT THOSE TWO THINGS “Since I whipped Baer in 1935, I TOGETHER I CAN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE OUT HOW HE'S GOING TO BEAT ME," have boxed about 1000 rounds, and “AT NO TIME DURING HIS CAREER DID I RATE SCHMELING AS ANYBODY OF I have done what seems like a mil- GREATNESS. I THINK HE HAS BEEN A LUCKY FIGHTER. ALSO HE HAS A TREMEN-lion miles of roadwork. I've kept DOUS AMOUNT OF STAMINA. FURTHERMORE, HE CAN HIT WITH THAT RIGHT HAND. in shape every minute of the time, BUT HE WILL NEED PLENTY MORE THAN THE RIGHT HAND TO START ANY MONKEY There hasn't been any month when

BUSINESS WITH ME.

I couldn't have jumped right into a ring. I never have put on any extra weight because I keep tuned up all the time. My marksmanship hasn't grown rusty, because I've been boxing with the rough, tough, and fast youngsters,

"Remember before the Louis fight? Everybody said Schmeling, at the age of 30, was washed up. They pointed to his indifferent showings against Paolino, Uzcudun, Steve Hamas, and so on, as proof that he was long beyond the top of whatever mountain he climbed. Well, they had him gauged just right. But, because he bumped over Louis, everybody's gone crazy about his ability.

"I'm only sorry about one thing, and that is that I didn't get the first crack at Louis. It was tied up by a contract with Madison Square Garden to meet any opponent those people chose. Louis was tied up with Mike Jacobs, promoter of a rival or- ganisation, to meet any man that Mike chose. The Garden and Mike couldn't reach terms where by they could jointly promote a fight between Louis and myself. So Mike grabbed Schmeling, sent him against Louis, and Schmel- ing, did to Louis just about what I figured I could do.

"TOO GREEN TO BE GREAT” “Over a year ago I said Louis. was too green to be great; that he could be outsmarted. Louis has one style of fighting-and one alone If anybody fights him differently than he has been taught to expect, that somebody can whip Louis every time. I watched Louis in his im- portant contests, and felt he was an absolute sucker for a right hand punch. I said so publicly. A great many people laughed at me. Schmeling proved the exact truth of what I said.

Max Schmeling, of Germany, left, examining t before their sensational bout last year when the B ed out the Detroit Brown Bomber. Both figure in

"Schmeling hit Louis with about every right-hand lead he made. He figured to do that because Louis always carries his left low, and al- ways will carry it low. Every time Louis started to feint, Schmeling just walked in and nailed him, That's because whenever Louis around once in a while, or, feints he drops his left hand and leaves a wide-open boulevard to his the shoulders and the top

lucky, to land it anywhere

chin. I saw that weakness as well thead as Schmeling. That's why I was

Schmeling! where all the

"Sure, I'll

NEVER WITHOUT REFEREE "It has been my custom never to work without a

ring. I think wheree in the

you have "third man' in there, it helps plenty to keep you doing actual ring work. Without a referee the man who is

working out does pretty well as hass

pleases; he gets sloppy, and then, when he finally goes to fighting, with a referee ordering him around, he gets a little uneasy. It takes him a little while to become accustom- ed to breaking on sharp orders, or being broken by force. But Pm used to that by using a referee in my-sparring.

I'm not as young as I used to be and, therefore, not, so speedy. But Schmeling is close up to me in the matter of years. Blot out his fight with Louis, and what has he done for the past few seasons? Who has he beaten? Baer knocked ham out, didn't he? I met the same Baer, and he never landed a real punch If you take a line on our fights with Baer, you must give me the edge.

BET AGAINST ME!

“But you don't have to do it just to-oblige me. Do anything you want, and think anything you want,

and

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right.

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me up wi I'm told that rible

dle for body been they hitch

sure I could beat Louis But It I have nothing Schmeling got the chance, and now, world, I have a defence for because he beat Louis, everybody hand attack. I've been thinks he is sure to bang hell out and out of rings for a

of me.

THAT RIGHT HAND-- "Well, let me sa

Schmeling has for hand. The whole His left hand blows is cor well be

years, and ores, 28

took

Tho

Em a two-hand.

ver has been hit and punch, and Pm man who has only a Maybe Schmeling will

becom