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NEW YORK, June 14 (AP) - As
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Jimmy Braddock basked blissfully
to-
day on top of the heavyweight heap.
with no fighting to do until he tackles
Max Schmeling a year from now, Max
Baer, defeated champion, came out of
the shortest retirement on record to
accept a match this September with
either Joe Louis, Detroit Negro, or
Primo Carnera, former champion he
once demolished.
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Baer, after x-rays showed that he
had suffered injuries to both hands
last night as Braddock, in an aston-
ishing upset victory, battered the
heavyweight crown from his head,
will fight for the 20th Century Club.
Mike Jacobs, promotor for Madison
Square Garden's strongest rival, an-
nounced today that Baer's opponent
will be the winner of the Louis-Car-
nera match scheduled for June 25 at
the Yankee Stadium.
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Thus Baer set up the future
lineups
of the heavyweights on the two sides
of the promotional war and removed
himself as the only possible opponent
standing in the way of Schmeling's
comeback chance at Braddock's title.
If Baer had wished, the Garden would
have matched the two former heavy-
weight champions as it did two years
ago, when Baer knocked out Schmel-
ing in 10 rounds. The reward then,
too, was a championship chance, and
by that victory Baer got his oppor-
tunity to blast over Primo Carbera.
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Jacobs said that no contracts had
yet been signed by Baer, but that
a verbal agreement as to terms had
been reached. Baer, who said last
night he would never fight again, and
instead would spend the rest of his
life raising "white faced" cattle on a
ranch in California, will return to
Asbury Park, N.J., his training site
for Braddock, to rest his hands and
condition his younger brother, Buddy
Baer for a match on the Louis-Car-
nera card.
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Baer's switch to the 20th century
Club gives the Jacobs organization a
monoply on all the prominent heavy-
weights with the exception of Brad-
dock and Schmeling. Jacobs said that
Art Lasky, Minneapolis heavyweight
who was beaten by Braddock, also
has joined his side, and all will be held in
reserve as a possible opponent for the
Carnera-Louis winner if Baer's hands
fail to round into shape.
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They sat on the top of the fistic
world today - Braddock, and his man-
ager, Little Joe Gould - just as they
sat on the bread line bench for so
many years outside Jimmy Johnston's
office in Madison Square Garden
grinning, hopeful, dazedly happy at
the smile of fortune.
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Thousands of telegrams poured in
on the ring' new hero. Proudly Jimmy
showed one from Mr. and Mrs. Corne-
lius Vanderbilt. Just as proudly he
showed sheafs of others from family
people all over the country who heard
over the radio last night his plodding,
desparate 15 round decision victory
over Baer in the Garden's big bowl
on Long Island.
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London, Paris and Berlin papers
called by trans-Atlantic telephone to
interview the big Irishman who
doesn't have 20 words to say in an
hour.
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The Garden announced that Brad-
dock would not defend his newly won
title until next year and probably
would face Max Schmeling, Germany's
former champion.
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From Germany Schmeling an-
nounced that he was hustling right
over here to press his claims for the
title shot, and out in Minneapolis Art
Lasky, the last heavyweight Braddock
whipped to get his championship
chance, asserted that he had been
promised by all concerned the next
crack at Jimmy's iron chin.
POTSDAM, Germany, June 14 (AP)
- There wasn't a more surprised per-
son in the world today over Jimmy
Braddock's rise to the heavy-weight
boxing championship than a former
titleholder, Max Schmeling, but when
the German battler regained his com-
posure he announced he was willing
now to go to America, provided he
could meet Braddock in a title match.
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Schmeling scoffed at an
invitation
to go to the United States this spring
to meet Braddock in an eliminating
tournament preliminary to selecting
an opponent for Max Baer. He didn't
figure Braddock was good enough.
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"The decision entirely changes my
plans," Schmeling said. "I'll go to
America unless they put me aside
again and refuse to recognize my right
to a championship fight."
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Braddock's victory also altered
the
plans of Walter Rothenburg, the
Hamburg promoter, who had made
tentative plans for a Baer-Schmeling
title match in England on August 17.
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"I was ready to deposit 800,000
Dutch gilders ($540,000) as Baer's
guarantee for the Schmeling bout."
Rothenburg said. "The decision at
New York came as an utter surprise
and changed my plans."
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Rothenburg said he had now cabled
Braddock an offer for a title match
with Schmeling somewhere in Europe
on August 17, and failing that, would
attempt to bring Baer over with a
sharp downward revision in terms.
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