BRADDOCK AND LOUIS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 17

BRADDOCK AND LOUIS

w BOTH IN TRAINING SCHMEUNC PUSHED ASIDE the world wonders why While there is still a lot of argument whetlier 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 Chicago on June 22, says a message from New York, dated May 10. Developments have reached the gtage where both Braddock and Douis are looking for suitable training camps. Quite recently Braddock motored 300 miles inspecting prospective quarters. In the meantime the champion has settled on a private estate on Lake Sissabagama, 420 miles north of Chicago, where h'e will do light conditioxfing work. There is a lot of feeling, though, that Schmeling is more entitled to the match than Douis, and his supporters will leave nothing undone in an attempt to stop the Bouis — Braddock contest from taking place. The raw, black-haired German, who first came to America away back in 1928 and excited Tex Rickard by knocking out one Joe Monte, has grown into a man who knows exactly what he wants and how to go about getting it. If he doesn't always ge( exactiy what he wants, he winds up as clQse to it- as intelligence and determination will take him. Right now Schmeling wants that fight with Braddock for the" title. He earned it, which is something nobody can deny. But Braddock's illness last summer forced a postponement, and since then the bout has been kieked around in a fashion that is scandalous. Schmeling hasn't given up on it, however. It is doubtful is anybody ever put on a more intensive campaign to regain something he once held. Usually the come-back urge — which every fighter knows at some time in h'is career— is strong for a while. But only for a while. It doesn't drive a man along as did the ambition he had when he was a youngster. But in Schmeling's case it did. Of course, in a aense that Max never had retired from the ring, the drive he is making now may not be a come-back.