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With

First round of a punch-packed series by PETER WILSON rations by ROBB

SMASH

N the 25 years I have been

watching boxing-thousands of fights at

of ring- scores aldes in dozens of countries- there is one night which stands out, filmed in colour, In my memory.

--It-was June 22, 1988-the night when Joe Louis became undisputed heavy-weight champion of the world. I stress undisputed because although Louis hnd technically won the title from gamo Jim Braddock exactly a year earlier at Chicago, there was still one man standing between the aleck young Negro and universal recognition. Max Schmeling, the German.

Schmeling, very doby. drated; almost like a dried fig and burnt by; the sun until his black- owbed face was even

Louis's derker than

alt

complexton

Up to that June night Louis New York's Harlem was ma had had 39 Oghts. He had black fortress, its hundreds and triumphed in 30 of them win- thousands one savage entity, a ning inside the distanco 32 times. Jungis pulding hatred against the

*Superman." But there was one blot on the 24-year-old's magnificent_record, - I have attended many fights Max Schmeling, the German. In America, but have never For in 1930 when Louis was known an atmosphere whten

a 1-10 paralleled this one. only underdog, had pounded Louis and

cats-au- There was no pretence at left him with his head, pliloved impartiality. No pious hope that on crossed anns, which were the better man might win.

walked over to his opponent's corner. He supported by the contre rope-- almost ake a hermit in colitary As zero hour approached on wore a black-and-wits chock prayer among the scrcoming the night of June 22, the huge dressing-gown, and he tapped. Yankee Stadium lay lite a stone Louis on the back so that they gallcon at anchor Seventy could share hands; ( thousand aficionados" had paid

It was only when Louis turn 1,010,012 dollars 10 $40 Lay's

fght. You could ed that one realised just what "grudge

the he had put into his preparation almost hang your hat an

Lor this fight of his lite. -Ho tension in the air.

The red exit signs gleamed weighed 14st. 241b-the light like the port light of a ship: est he was ever to weigh for the

thousands.

Destiny night

“CHMELINⱭ took the best part of 12 rounds to achieve this

astonishing arahbation, and the

HITS

LOUIS v SCHMELING

himself up once inore and for fa'third' time 'Louis-let fly at tha slack-jawed wreck in front of him, who like a drowning man

and drowning in pain he was went down for the third time.

This time he landed on his side, but now, he could only twlich bis body helplessly, and high against the lights soared; a while towel, symbol of sur render,

Max

Schmelings

and close friend. Donovan Ignored it, inuing tho count, and there

Schmelings or confualors in corner as Machon fought against restraining hands to get Into the ring, to get to the side of his stricken cham- plon and perhaps because his action would have involved.dls- qualification for Schmeling to. prevent him being

As it turned

counted Out,

out, he could haye daved efforta för Donovan, realizing that Schmal- Ing had no chance whatspover vẫn thường WRE Left end of medical attention, urgently

th6 count at about and the fight was over, Jus Louis was champion of

remembered how to breathe again, ENG

so that it would pick up the not fall and Louis moved in on the world, sound of the

him, destruction incarnate, punches,

their corners,

The next few seconds were They go back to their robes

at the stop- buat the 'incredulous? And thên, looked are removed, the frightening. Louis

nes From the opening handlers disappear Into the German's head from fist to fist Watches. darkness outside.

1ko the ring

moment when as boys playing blow-football gong to the

It looked for certain an like a man measuring warts returning to their caves, but a ping-pong ball to and Donovan throw his arms wide and the black man and the fro. white stand poised champions, though

seconds had elapsed.

Wiscteres in the fight racket High above, the batteries of rest of his fighting career and of two worlds, waiting for W, Schmeling sinck stallen imaginary-fab, precisely."

да

their heads shook

they streamed away from the Arena saying that a youngster would never be able to survive such a boating and come back with his resilience unimpaired.

But Louis had survived it. He had come back. He had won 11 more fights, rine of them inside the distance, while Schmeling, nearly nine years the older, had scored three wirta..

A jungle of hatred

pulsed

behind Louis

bello

It

them

Shipped off

THEY

the

Rock

eck must

• which will reicass

Fortunately, refarce Donavan

this like wilds from the slips kept./

head. He forced Louis but so faintly backwards and

Judging rightly that neither

As sure that although Behmeling was fighter whether to go forward.

still technically on his feet hoe pleked up the ruin that after hesitating

was in no condition to defend was Schmeling, and took they himself, caught on a false start,

to count. started

him by ambulance to the Poly- moved towards each other. The

he had got to three clinic Hospital, where he was contrast in their styles was im

lurched forward off kept for three weeks and then andian Schmeling was like the ropes, and Louis met hir

him taken by stretcher aboard mediate. an old sporting print with his will a man's feet from

right: which Bremen and shipped back to right leg crooked under swept the

Gormany, arnfully extended under him, sent him

hartling

Once there, the former "Shock his loft and his by lay like Trooper No. was ignored by his shoulder, almost like a man. some gangling it with his mot by not a single member of 'Insect which has his former boosters, and was drawing a long bow.

legs waving helplessly in u

ely in the the Nazi hierarchy who had

previously found 60 much ru KAREVA Conched paganda value in himgat, a

And Joe Louis? When I saw him in his dressing-room after- warda and asked him his plans he had just this to say

"Ah aims to get mo lots

about fchtem hours. And then ah aims to "ent jes" "'bout as much fried chicken as ah can

Two lefts

flown into a

Now it was the night of the electric bulbs gleamed, brighter only 5lb. more than Schmel- Nogo's destiny. There was much than the stars. The night was ing more to this than a millors-dollar like. black cotton wool prossing**

All the puppy fat bad gone prize fight. It was a clash of down on the cauldron of aeology Hiller has sent a'pable humanity and somewhere a man from his face. Instead of the to Schmeling, congratulating him went grey and collapsed and normal impassive moon-faced in advance for winning back died as the heat increased the lock, his features seemed hard

three before he was, up, but by sport's supreme prize for the the strain of wafting mounted, and carved, and the thick lipsTHEN Lous attacked. Two now he had no idea where he Aryan race.

The roar of the crowd went had completely disappeared 10

lefts rammed the German's was, what he was doing, or through

the packed, sweating that his mouth was a sear.

dark head back between his whence came these sledge In the "black belts" of the

The Introduction of past thousands like a wave · surging,

shoulders: great American cities, Chicago and broke on the edge of the champions

From my ringside hammer blows which robbed was over now. where Lous had won the cham-

completed plonship Philadelphia, Detroit, ring. The two men seemed to The handlers had

mingled with, apprehen- prehension. sion, on Johmeling's" "Lace. and in the Deep South, millions lights which lighted the sales force

called Louis's punches were like dicks of coloured men and women leading to the canvas square, the two men together for the Left hook and right, left hook and looked on Zouls as someone who They were in their corners sur Anal Instructions. His voice right again, and Schmeling, who represented their race against rounded by handlers, whites for came metallically through the looked stiff and award with Hitler.

microphone slung over the zing that ungainly stance, Schmeling, blacks for Louis,

ready hurt,

Ho gambled on his own right down, this time on his anger+ -that straight right which had tips, with his great heavy black. won him the first fight. It shot head hanging low. He pulled. out now, but it only grazed the

and

where he had lived for so long, be swimming down the spol- their last fussy tasks and re- 1. roer. £. now, astonish-; him of all semblance of com- lege, past thos mighty things,

Arthur Donovan

The Pasha brings on the dancing girls

Paris.

FOR the 28th time in

three years, the 76- year-nid parchment-skinned

wero

PARIS

NEWSLETTERİ

Indoed Forbirate

dz

Number three lay me hands only Joe had

'NOTHER right from Louis

Was al-A A and again Schmeling was --

black stubble on Louis's jaw.

And that was the.

the German threw. in the

Beaut

For now Louls struck at his

man like the Black Death.

A

left and right almost too fast to

the follow crashed on the Ger-

him

novelist bom Frenchman. man's jaw. Another left hook For him there are no fewer and

a right chop swung than 725 literary prizes a year round, and he half fell into ́an average, of nearly two the ropes with his left side a'day and many of these aro.

completely unprotected and followed by the public with fals back partially turned to flowers do- an intense interest reserved Louis," "=

cocond all action to tissa in Anglo-Saxon countries for For a

major sporting events,

ceased, Loul appeared "

120

Pasha of Marrakesh; El from SAM WHITE Glaoul "Guardian of the Atlas Mountains and Lord of the Caravans," has been watching his favourite Paris show, with its retinue of 24 scantily clad showgirls.

This time, however, he saw it Frenchi authorities in disputes in Marrakesh, not in Paris, For, with his 'Nationalist-mindedi to mark a great occasion, the rival, the Sullen of Mejocco. entira show was flown to Mar- rakesh for a two-night visit - at a cost of £13,000.

to

draw.

energy

like living Hentely wrapped paper," he said.

The Pasha is a pillar of. Last work two of the most back and then all treme French rulo in Morocco and sought-after prizes the Gos has often made his fierce Ber- court and the Renaudot wereg

exploded into one tremendous right-handed blow, It meemed. ber tribesmen available

to awarded by their respective to fart from the soles of his juries after a prolonged lunch foet, Bashed up through his in soparate rooms of the same legs, past those mighty bighs, restaurant.

and then with his full 14 stone Each prize is valued at about behind it it sank into the Ger £10,000 in terms of royalties man's lett, flank like a blacks on salds, Proceedings at the bludgeon, Gòncourt -; lunch were, in- terrupted by leaflet throwerk, the loaflets denouncing, the pro- peeiings us "farco and an excuse for publishers" pots to get a free lunch"

The Pasha's palace, known as the "Garden of Pleasures," maintained оть E scale The occasion: the opening of Oriental magnificenice Justine £20 million fortune Morocco's first casino at this by his exolle resort (a favourite with He has four official wives, seven *Mr Churchill), * eltuated be- sonis and 30 cars, including tween the Atlas Mountains and silver-plated Rolls-Royce. the Sahara Desert. Flown over for the opening along with the cabaret wore a stock of gamfol- ing chips with

a face value of 200,000 (highest denomina- tion £60). Before

the opening night there was an anxious exchange of cables between Marrakesh and Paris, Mohammedan Jaw

would

THEY SAID IT

UOTES: Mrs Marianne Roy

nels, former wife of

noldy. I have come to Paris to

The scream.

Bon but it was in'

LREADY the crowd was on'] Its feet, baying for the kill, birt through this pandemdalum

the cry de penetrating Results: the Goncourt weata

ear-old Mme. Beatrix high-pitched screech of circle Beck for her novel Leon Morin, lar saw ring out. teoneco millionaire. R. J. Rey Friest on an 8-3 votes the I thought it was a woman who Renaudos to 31-year-old Jac- could not bear to son Schmel- tight hours sleep and srques Perry for his novel Emply Ing's somo American movies.

fact

German

Himcair The Ars Elian: Although in Love after seven ballets,

In mortal agony for Easterner I drink champagne

The literary prize season will that

punch actually dis one punch vertebrae, frowned on demi-nudity, se because we must move with be wound up shortly with the lodged opp of h

the company arrivo the times.

anruanl": award by a group of Schmeling slumped with the with Bras Professor Maurice Cliantlery. Journalists (also after an excel top rope hooked under his

of the French Academy of lent lunch) of a prize for the right armpit and running" Acró EL Glacul has bestowed the Salence. The phenomenon

of His throat under his chin. bi; least-merited prize-winner concession" for the Marrakech octuplets is extremely rare, the year, casino on n 42-your-old former cireus tumbler, now proprietor of a chain of

Paris

billard par lours, M. Jean, Bauchet.

The ensino was built before war Baxt never used. But M. Bauchot, who headr Franco-Belgian syndicate, has agreed in orphange for a nine-year, tax-free concession

suitably b

ederen?

tho

#

to add to Marrakesh amontilca with a a night

club, cinema two hotola

Opening night

and

brilliant The Fatra, suitably altended by: calda onliphs and sheika, surveyed with satisfac tion an audiered composes local French-Moroccan society sund wenior Undled

oincère and their wives

gra

JOHNNY HAZARD

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