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Japanese newsorgans, barred from headlining Grand Maneuvers, last week gave the Baer-Louis fight the biggest play ever received by a U. S. prizefight in Japan, emphasized with satisfaction that the man who won is colored...
Statements like these last week, two weeks before Max Baer and Joe Louis come to blows in New York, were a fair sample of the ballyhoo which has for the last month preceded the most exciting prizefight since Dempsey met Tunney in 1927. Whether newspapers publicize prizefights because the public likes fights or whether the public likes fights because the newspapers publicize them is one of the many riddles of pugilism. No riddle is the fact that while newspaper readers were last week absorbing the details of Negro Louis' romance with a dusky Chicago stenographer named Marva Trotter, whom...
Meanwhile last week another fight which will be fought the same day as the Baer v. Louis engagement with equal significance to prizefight enthusiasts was receiving no ballyhoo at all. This was the fight between Colonel John S. Hammond, board chairman and principal stockholder of Madison Square Garden Corp., and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president and lesser stockholder, for control of the No. 1 sports-promoting organization...
That Twentieth Century is currently kingpin among prizefight promoters is not based solely upon this summer's fights. Promoter Jacobs may have a contract with onetime Champion Max Schmeling to fight the winner of Baer v. Louis next year. To match this the Garden has only Champion James J. Braddock, generally considered sure to lose his title in his next fight. That the Garden will have to find better ways than it has heretofore of dealing with Twentieth Century-either by competing efficiently or conceding defeat and renting out its boxing concession -was clear last week...
...hope of re-establishing its prestige as the foremost prizefight promoting concern in the U. S., what Madison Square Garden Corp. arranged last month was a fight between Jack Doyle and Jacob ("Buddy") Baer Jr. Doyle is a handsome young Irishman who, since arriving in the U. S. last February, has distinguished himself by failing to get a job in Hollywood on the strength of his appearance, by marrying a minor cinemactress named Judith Allen, and by defeating three hopelessly obscure heavyweight fighters. Buddy Baer is the 238-lb., 6-ft., 6-in., 20-year-old brother of one-time...