THE BOXING WORLD

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 25, 13 February 1937, Page 14

THE BOXING WORLD

NEWS QF CQMING BQUTS JOE LOUIS AND JIIVI BHADDOCK Mr. Sydney Hulls, prpmoter of the Neusel-V'etersen fight," said recentiy, "If Petersen wins the fights I -offer him. he cgn make £50.QQ,o this year," Writes the Lpfidon pQrrespondent of tfie Sydnpy Iteferee. There is eyery prospeci pf a £16,000 gate for this match. Foord's decisioii tp cancel his bout with Petersen, and take a holiday after his attack of influenza. probably cost him £10.0QQ, James Braddock has been offered £80,000 to meet Jpe Louig in New Yprk, in a match out oi which Louis tvpuld get £40,000, (Repprted tp be fixed for Jpne 15,) The prpmQter Who made this Offer, Jack "D,pc" Kearps, opce trainer of Jack Demp§ey, anticlpqted a £250,000 gate if the match cpmes off, The ppssibiiity pf this fight is ipcrtased by the fact that there 'is much opposition to the Braddock-Schmeling bout in New York. The very strong anti-Nazi feeling there applies to German boxers as wejl as to German goods.. A yoyng Finn, Gunnar Barlund, is put forward as. a possible opponent fpr Braddock, but his manager, Paul Damski, has just tumed dpwn an offer of £20,000 for°a m^tch between Louis and Barlund, pamski it wa* who brought Walter Neusel and Eric Seelig oyer here last. year, and whp agreed to Neusel taking Foord's place against Petersen. He said that Bar? lund was npt ready for Lduis, but that he would meet him. beat him, and collect the money, in a year's time, Barlund beat Foord here in 1935, and is meeting "Red" Burman, Dempsey'a. protege, next week, while some weeks after that he will probr ably meet A1 Ettore, who recently drew With John Henry Lewis. The winner pf tlie Neusel-Petersen bout wiil meet Max Baer in London, Barlund is under cpntract tp fight in London if called upon, and it is strongly rumoured that both Joe Louis.' and Max Schmeling will be here in the summer. "Buddy" Baer will be looking for contests in London, perhaps meeting the loser of the Neusel-Petersen fight, when his brother Max meets the winner, John McGrory, British featherwelght champion, how hoids both this and the Empire title. In April he has a match with American Pete Barrpn, wprid titie-hpider. if he wins this he Will be triPle champion, all accomplished in the past nine months, since ha took the British title from Nel Tarleton in September last, and ha* just returned from South Africa, after taking the Empire championship from Willie Smith.