THE BOXING WORLD

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)

THE BOXING WORLD

NEWS OF COMING BOUTS JOE LOUIS AND JIM BRADDOCK Mr. Sydney Hulls, promoter of the Neusel-Petersen fight, said recently, “If Petersen wins the fights I offer him. he can make £50.000 this year," writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Referee. There is every prospect of a £16,000 gate for this match. Foord’s decision to cancel his bout with Petersen, and take a holiday after his attack of influenza, probably cost him £IO.OOO. James Braddock has been offered £BO,OOO to meet Joe Louis in New York, in a match out of which Louis would get £40,000. (Reported to be fixed for June 15.) The promoter who made this offer. Jack “Doe” Kearns, once trainer of Jack Dempsey, anticipated a £250,000 gate if the match comes off. The possibility of this fight Is increased 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 well as to German goods. A young Finn, Gunnar Baxlund, is put forward as a possible opponent for Braddock, but his manager, Paul Damski, has just turned down an offer of £20,000 for a match between Louis and Barlund. Damski it was who brought Walter Neusel and Eric Seelig over here last year, and who agreed to Neusel taking Foord’s place against Petersen. He said that Barlund was not ready for Louis, 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’s protege, next week, while some weeks after that he will probably meet A 1 Ettore, who recently drew with John Henry Lewis. The winner of the Neusel-Petersen bout will meet Max Baer in London. Barlund is under contract to fight in London if called upon, and it is strongly rumoured that both Joe Louis and Max Schmellng will be here in the summer. “Buddy” Baer will bo looking for contests in London, perhaps meeting the loser of the Neusel-Petersen fight, when his toother Max meets the winner. John McGrory, British featherweight champion, now holds both this and the Empire title. In April he has a match with American Pete Sarron, world title-holder. If he wins this he will be triple champion, all accomplished in the past nine months, since he took the British title from Nel Tarleton in September last, and has Just returned from South Africa, after taking the Empire championship from Willie Smith.