BRADDOCK RETIRING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 54, 1 February 1938, Page 7

BRADDOCK RETIRING.

“FOUGHT LAST FIGHT.” NEW YORK, Jan. 30. James J. Braddock has announced that he is retiring from boxing. “I have won my last fight, he said, “and I think I could still beat most of the outstanding contenders for the championship, but I have spent lo years boxing, and in fairness to everyone, especially my wife and children, 1 believe it is time to withdraw. He intends to associate with the manager, Gould, managing boxeis and other business enterprises. . . As tlie result of Braddock s decision, Mike Jacobs said that lie was attempting to match Farr and Max Baer on March 11, the winner meeting Joe Louis in the spring before fighting Schmeling. . James J. Braddoclc, tlie Irisii-Anieri-can, was on the dole when he got his chance to become heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and took it by beating Max Baer ill the fifteenth round of a world championship bout at New York on June 13, 1935. After a lav-off for two year.s, be lost bis title to Joe Louis, the youthful negro, at Chicago, on June 22, 1937, being knocked out in tlie eighth round. Braddock, however, put up such a game showing against Louis that be enhanced bis reutation. He gained a points decision over Tommy Farr, British Empire champion, in a ten-round bout at New York on January 21, 1938.