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MAX BAER vs TUFFY GRIFFITH ROCKY KANSAS COMEBACK TEST

BUFFALO EVENING NEWS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1932 MAX SCHMELING vs MICKEY WALKER

Max's Win Earns Him Right to Meet Jack Sharkey

WALKER GAME TO LAST, BUT FOE TOO CLEVER Exhibition of Courage on Part of Rumson Bulldog Thrills Fans as Schmeling Scores Technical Knockout _ NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UP) - Jack Sharkey's next heavy- weight championship bout opponent has been determined by one of the bloodiest, most sensational ring battles since Lois Firpo battered Jack Dempsey through the ropes - by Max Schmeling's technical knockout of Mickey Walker after he floored the toy bulldog twice.

_ The twice-postponed Schmeling- Walker contest came to a close after eight rounds of slugging and clinch- ing. Walker, after holding his own in the early rounds, wilted definitely under a two-fisted attack by the Ger- man in the final round. _ Mickey, long before he was beaten, flashed over staggering rights and lefts to Maxie's head, especially in the fourth and fifth rounds. Schmel- ing was in such danger then that his supporters implored him to go in and score the blow they believed would end the fight. _ But Der Max weathered these storms, and in the seventh round took the lead and held it until the show was over. Sharkey Sees Fight _ The end came with a dramatic suddenness seldom equalled in heavy- weight championship fights, and al- most never shown in a non-title affairs. _ Walker no sooner sat down in his corner at the end of the eighth than Jack Kearns, his manager, began a one-sided argument. Their conversa- tion ended when Kearns strode away and beckoned to Referee Jack Den- ning. The referee nodded to an- nouncer Joe Humphries. Schmeling was termed winner by technical knockout. _ One spectator was Jack Sharkey. He was faced today with a certain de- mand for a return bout with the Ger- man who succeeded to the title va- cated by Gene Tunney. Schmeling won the title on a foul in a bout with Sharkey, recognized as a fight to de- cide the championship. Max Hits Stride _ Schmeling's first title defense came in a bout with Willie Stribling of Georgia. Max won this fight by a technical knockout in the final round. His next defense came in the bout last June with Sharkey. _ Schmeling, always a slow starter, hit his stride Monday night at the start of the eighth round. The round was less than a minute underway when he shot a crushing right jolt to Mickey's left temple. Mickey's knees buckled. He fell to the canvas. Gamely Walker rose at the count of six. Blood streamed from his mouth. _ But Schmeling floored him again with a hard right to the jaw. Mickey took a count of nine and staggered to his feet. Schmeling, eager for a knockout swarmed over him pounding lefts and rights to the face. Then the bell clanged. Gate Is $156,000 _ When the gong sounded again for the ninth, Walker tried to rise from his stool, but Jack Kearns placed an arm around his shoulder and insisted: "It's all over Mickey." _ Kearns realized that Walker was a beaten man. He could hardly see from either eye, and blood streamed from his mouth and a cut on the bridge of his nose. _ The Boxing commission announced the result as a technical knockout in eight rounds. _ The battle was a benefit for the Free Milk Fund For Babies, Inc., of which Mrs. William Randolph Hearst is chairman. It was witnessed by about 45,000 fans who paid $156,000 in estimated receipts.

Schmeling Wins Walker Fails to Come Out in Ninth

_ Groveling in the resin, taking the count of nine, Mickey Walker, after being floored in the eighth round for the third time during the bout by Max Schmeling.

_ Mickey down for the count of six in the first round, while Maxie goes to the corner and referee Jack Denning stands by.

FANS SIGH RELIEF WHEN BOUT IS ENDED

_ _ _ By WILBUR WOOD _ NEW YORK, Sept. 27. - Max Schmeling of Germany, his famous right hand loaded with dynamite and disaster, punched Mickey Walker out of the heavyweight picture in eight rounds of savage fighting in the Madi- son Square Garden Bowl in Long Island City Monday. A crowd esti- mated at 60,000 sighed with relief when Walker, his face a bloody mask, failed to come out for the ninth. _ Though he took the worst beating of his long and colorful career Walker displayed superlative courage and won the admiration of all. Schmeling, al- ways a sportsman, paid tribute to the beaten Jersey bulldog by raising Mickey's right hand and waving it to the crowd as Walker staggered out of his corner to congratulate the victor. _ At the start it looked like a quick victory for Schmeling. Walker was staggered several times by straight rights and was floored by another right late in the first round, the bell ringing just as he arose at the count of seven. The German punished the bulldog severely in the second until Mickey made a rally late in the round. _ Most of the onlookers expected the finish in the third, but Schmeling put on the brakes and Walker recovering fast, rushed the black uhlan repeatedly and landed more and cleaner punches. Walker also took the fourth and won the fifth, with plenty to spare, making Schmeling cover and back up. The German took the sixth by jabs and short rights to the face. _ Walker roused the crowd to en- thusiasm in the seventh, when he slammed Schmeling repeatedly with both hands and shook him up with one smashing right to the jaw. That seventh round assault turned out to be Walker's last bid.

Walker Gives Courageous Exhibition But German's Right Has Telling Effect Mickey's Attempt to Keep Going in Fatal Eighth Round Earns the Admiration of Spectators

By GRANTLAND RICE _ NEW YORK, Sept. 27. - Max Schmeling's hammering right hand was too much for Mickey Walker, the Jersey wildcat, in their heavyweight elimination fight here Monday. _ The German's bludgeoning right fist battered down Walker, the great- est natural fighter of his weight and time, in a fusillade of punches that closed out the fight at the end of the eighth round. _ Walker had taken such terrific pun- ishment when the eighth came to a close that Jack Kearns, his manager, let the battle go to the blackhaired, beetle-browned German after one of the most dramatic rounds in ring his- tory. _ The game and gallant Mickey stepped into this final round with a slight lead. He had taken an early beating and from this ragged start had come back with a series of counter-charges that had Schmeling badly worried. he had recaptured a lost lead and a big crowd of more than 50,000 spectators was pulling for a Walker coup. _ _Mickey Fights Ferociously _ The German, looking for an easy victory after an early charge, sudden- ly found himself caged with a human wildcat. _ There were rounds when Walker was all over the Teuton, smothering the invader with savage attack that drove Schmeling around the ring. _ And then the eighth round came along. The Jerseyman put on a classic in the ring history for sheer game- ness - for a throwback to the old-time school of fighting. _ Walker was plainly tiring after his savage, relentless attack that had car- ried him to the front. Outweighed by 14 pounds, outmatched in years and stamina and reach, the tide had switched against him. _ The eighth had barely opened be- fore Schmeling brought his bludgeon- ing right fist squarely to the point of Walker's chin. And it was apparent that Walker, with all his gameness, with all the fury of a true fighting soul, had shot his bolt and had come to the end of his road. That right- hand jolt drove him back, and Schmeling, sensing the kill, was on him with a rush. _ _Refuses to Stay Down _ Mickey stepped away, but this time Schmeling landed with terrific force, a right hand flush to the jaw, and the Jersey man dropped with the thud of a steel girder tossed from the top of a skyscraper, At the count of eight he was up again and once more the German tore in with rights and lefts that cut Walker's face into rib- bons and closed both eyes. _ Another solid shot to the chin, and once more Walker went crashing to the floor. This looked to be final. It would have been for any other fighter in the ring today, but the episode that followed electrified the big crowd. _ At the count of nine, the Jersey wildcat again came to his feet and met Schmeling's charge with a right and left to the head and body. _ At this stage Walker was practi- cally blind. Both eyes were closed, his mouth was split into gory slit, there were cuts and bruises on each side of the face. He looked like a sponge dipped in crimson tinting. _ _Fighting at End _ But he was still fighting. he was still coming on, helpless, blind, tot- tering and still swinging as the Ger- man rushed him again. _ Here was a throwback to the Bat Nelsons and the old-timers who fought as long as they could stand. In this eighth round Walker took one of the worst beatings the ring has ever seen. He was slashed and cut and driven all around the ring. _ He was knocked down twice, and he had nothing left to offer but one of the greatest fighting spirits the ring has ever known and yet, blinded and bleeding, staggering and badly hurt, he finished the round to grope in the general direction of his cor- ner, where his manager, Jack Kearns, wisely signaled the referee that the war was over. _ "There was nothing else to do," Kearns said a moment later. "Both of Mickey's eyes were closed. His lip was badly cut. It would have been murder to let him go on. He is too great a fighter to ask for more."

LIGHT UPPERCUT DID DAMAGE, SAYS MICKEY

_ NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (AP) - Mickey Walker's head hung low Monday night. It just seemed to him, as he sat on his rubbing table. while his trainer, Teddy Hayes, plastered up his wounds, that the fates, and nothing less, were against him. _ "Max Schmeling never did hurt me until I couldn't see, and the punch that closed my eye was the strangest thing that ever happened to me," he said. _ "Coming out of a clinch in the eighth round, he hit me a light right hand uppercut. It glanced off my right eyebrow, I thought he cut it." _ "Then the next thing I knew the eye was swollen shut. I could see that Schmeling is in front of me. I was helpless." _ Walker doesn't think much of Schmeling's punching power, insists that he was the stronger of the two until the right uppercut ruined his vision. _ "He's a good puncher," he said, "but not a knocker out. He hit me in the first round when I was cold, and careless. But he didn't hurt me." _ "I could hear him grunt time and again when I hit him in the body with left hooks. In the seventh round he was gasping." _ Jack Kearns, his manager, was equally upset. _ "I'll turn him loose among the mid- dleweights again," he said. "And we'll fight our way back. He'll lick Schmel- ing yet, but I couldn't stand to see him take any more punishment to- night when he couldn't see." _ Mickey, otherwise little hurt but with his left eye jammed shut, thought that would be alright. _ There wasn't a mark on Schmeling's face. He smiled at the thought of the game little fighter who stood and tried to slug it out with him.

SCHMELING'S MOTHER HEARS OF VICTORY

_ BERLIN, Sept. 27 (UP) - Max Schmeling's mother listened to a report of her son's victory over Mickey Walker, transmitted over an open telephone line connecting her home with the United Press bureau in Berlin. _ Frau Schmeling sighed and said: _ "Thank goodness. I'm so delight- ed and excited I won't be able to go to bed. I guess that settles for once and all the question of my boy's abilities."

Dempsey Receives Ovation Jack Is Introduced at Schmeling-Walker Bout as Greatest Heavyweight of All Times

_ NEW YORK, Sept. 27. - Forty-five thousand fight fans turned out to see Max Schmeling, the German, and Mickey Walker, the Jerseyman, meet in their 15-round fight. _ Bill Carey, Jimmie Johnson and other Garden officials wore their best fight clothes and an expression of great financial satisfaction. _ They had been worried concerning the sale of cheaper seats, but the customers arrived in heartening quantities - arrived early, too. _ Patrick H. Joyce, president of the Chicago & Great Western R. R., was in a ringside seat. Mr. Joyce was the man mainly responsible for taking the Tunney-Drmpsey bout to Chicago. he had Louis Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox with him. Mr. Comiskey is an expert on hitting averages and was expected to keep score of the extra base hits. _ Another Chicagoan present was George Getz, coal man, African hunter and a member of the Chicago Boxing commission. When he said he expected the principals Monday night to fight like tigers, he was talking as an expert. _ Charles Francis Coe, formerly of Buffalo, sat in a press seat. Mr. Coe usually is accomanied by a mega- phone, but Monday night he was alone. He picked Schmeling to win. _ Experts in the press box consisted mostly of politicians, managers, friends of the management and women. _ Bruce Barton, an inveterate fight fan, also was on hand, looking for material for editorials. _ Rex Cole was another who was close to the ring. Mr. Cole had dined with Grantland Rice and was well posted on everything which possibly could happen. _ Most of Madison Square Garden's famous 600 former millionaires were in their accustomed seats. _ Bernard Gimbel, once an amateur champion and Gene Tunney's chief advisor, watched proceedings closely. Mr. Gimbel is one amateur who really is a judge of boxing. _ One well known figure in the press box was Jack Dempsey. If Jack had been in the ring, the chances are that the crowd would have been doubled, but Jack contended himself with look- ing on. _ The former Manassa Mauler never had seen Schmeling in action and was anxious to learn what the German had. _ Doc Kelton, the tennis expert, and Joe Page, the baseball man from Canada, chatted with their friends. _ Doc used to do a bit of boxing him- self, and if there is any sport Joe Page doesn't know about, it is not in the books. _ The seats as well as the ring were filled with boxers, Tommy Loughran was on hand. He first picked Walker, but switched when he found that Mickey weighed 174. Tommy figured that weight would slow up the Rum- son Bulldog. _ Walker was the first in the ring. He entered wearing a purple sweater, with his legs bare. Jack Kearns and Teddy Hayes were with him. _ Jack Denning took his place in the corner. It was evident that he was to referee. _ Max Schmeling climbed through the ropes in his gray bathrobe and im- mediately went over to shake hands with Walker. Accompanying the Ger- man were Joe Jacobs, his manager; Max Machon, his trainer, and the faithful Doc Casey. The men posed for pictures. Mickey had a piece of plaster on his nose and one on his left cheek. _ Jack Sharkey, heavyweight cham- pion, entered the ring and shook hands with both men. _ The real applause came when Dempsey climbed through the ropes. The crowd cheered the old Manassa Mauler to the echo. _ Dempsey stood with Joe Humphries in the middle of the squared arena while Sharkey, Primo Carnera, Jimmy McLarnin and other fighters took lesser places against the ropes. Humphries introduced Dempsey as the greatest heavyweight of all times. _ Joe then presented Sharkey and the others. The applause given them was feeble after the cheers for Dempsey. _ When it came to the principals, Humphries introduced Walker first. Both he and Schmeling were gener- ously applauded. The weights were given as Walker 174, Schmeling 188. _ Referee Jack Denning followed the fighters to the middle of the ring and instructed them. _ It was evident from the first that it was to be left hand against right. Mickey was keeping his left to the body and Schmeling concentrated on his right to the jaw. _ At the end of the first round Mickey was on the floor from a right to the jaw, but the bell rang at the count of four, with Mickey still in a trance. _ In the eighth round Walker showed his lion heart. His eye was closed and he was down for counts of six and nine, but he finished the round on his feet. _ When he went to his corner the referee gave Schmeling the fight on a technical knockout.

DEMPSEY ENDS FUED Shakes Hands With Kearns at Max-Mickey Bout

_ NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (AP) - Jack Dempsey created the major sensation at the Walter-Schmeling heavyweight bout here Monday night. _ He shook hands with Jack Kearns. _ The bitter feud between Dempsey and the man who managed him into a world's heavyweight championship had become proverbial in the fistic cir- cles and had left the men so far apart that mutual friends had abandoned all hopes of ever getting them to- gether again. _ But Monday night, just before the main bout went on, Dempsey was called into the ring and amazed the critics by dashing over to grasp Kearn's hand and mutter a greeting. _ Whether or not Dempsey's action meant a burial of the hatchet could not be immediately learned. _ Kearn's, who now manages Walker, said he was as muched surprised as any of the boxing writers and could offer no explaination.

MICKEY IN NO HURRY _ _TO FIGHT MAX AGAIN

_ NEW YORK, Sept. 27 - Through battered but still smiling lips, Mickey Walker went on record Tuesday tabbing Max Schmeling as the best fighter he ever met. _ "I guess I just tried one that was a little too tough," Walker said. "I might have gone on to win on points if my eye hadn't closed, but then again I don't know. This Schmeling can fight, take it from Mickey. If it's just the same to you I don't think I'll ask for a return match right away. When I meet him again I hope it will be socially."

M'GEEHAN SAYS MAX BETTER THAN RATED

_ _ _ By W. O. McGEEHAN _ NEW YORK, Sept. 27. - In the eighth round of the bout in the Ex- Millionaires Hole in Queens, Max Schmeling battered Mickey Walker so badly that Jack Kearns, who never has been noted for being sympathetic or kindly, refused to let Walker go in for the ninth. Technically Schmeling won by a knockout in the eighth. _ In the eighth Walker was dropped twice, once for the count of six and once for the count of eight when the bell saved him. He was a gory sight as he staggered to his corner but some of the blood-hungry were clamoring for him to be sent back. He staggered to his corner and slumped into his stool, with his mouth twisted and bleeding. He was still full of fight. Schmeling had been pleading with Referee Jack Denning to stop it after the first knockdown in the eighth. _ Within a few seconds of the time for the bell to sound for the ninth round Jack Kearns stepped toward the center of the ring and signalled to the referee that it was over. An Unequal Match _ But in the meantime, Walker, the little toy bulldog as they called him, glared through two eyes that were half closed. He was punch drunk, half conscious but still was full of fight. _ It was an unequal match from the start. Walker was outweighed by many pounds. Also he met a master of boxing. To all intents and pur- poses it was over in the first round. Then Schmeling dropped him to the canvas, with a left and a right to the jaw. At the count of seven Mickey was sitting on the floor, when the bell rang and saved him from more punishment. _ But after that the Toy Bulldog began to earn sobriquet. For sev- eral rounds he tore into Schmeling, lashing blows to the body and annoy- ing the bigger man no little. The Walker contingent began to wax hopeful and they were cheering wild- ly for Mickey. It began to look as though this would be another of those long drawn things. _ But in the seventh, Schmeling ripped Mickey's mouth with a rasping left. In the eighth the inevitable hap- pened and Mickey was dropped again. He came up slowly as the referee re- layed the count. Tulips for Sharkey _ Schmeling in dumb show pleaded for the referee to stop it. The ref- eree only motioned him to the neutral corner. _ Schmeling shook his head regret- fully. Then he went back to his work as though it were distasteful. His heart was not in it. But he must have remembered the Sharkey de- cision very vividly. He proceeded to batter down Walker again. _ And what next in the cauliflower industry? Walker holds a draw with the current heavyweight champion, Mr. Sharkey. Sharkey holds a very questionable decision over Schmeling. It looks very much as though Mr. Sharkey must meet Schmeling again or retire permanently to his tulip planting. _ It is my notion that when he does meet Schmeling again he will retire to his tulip planting anyhow. This Schmeling is a better fighter than he has been rated. Probably not the world's greatest, but the best we have around at the current writing. _ Mr. Sharkey saw the bout. He might decide to start planting his tulips at once.

COURT ORDERS MAX'S _ _ GUARANTEE SET ASIDE

_ NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (UP) - Supreme Court Justice Bernard L. Shientag Monday temporarily re- strained the Madison Square Garden corporation from paying Max Schmeling a $150,000 guaran- tee for his fight Monday night with Mickey Walker. The court's action was taken because of a suit by Primo Carnera. Italian heavy- weight, against Schmeling. Carnera claims $100,000 damage because Schmeling allegedly failed to go through with a match against him in September 1931. Carnera al- ready has been granted a writ of attachment of $25,000 against Schmeling, but he has been un- able to collect.

MAX BAER vs TUFFY GRIFFITH ROCKY KANSAS COMEBACK TEST

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