| Show Baer Hailed as Next Heavy Kingpin Critic Picks Californian to Bring Back Dempsey Days DaysS Shows S h M Mean ea n Attack Atta c k Against Aga i n st Te u ton By BILL BILI NEA Service Editor The Thc new world champion has ap ap- ap He is Max Baer the balmy butcher boy from Livermore CaL land and he begins where Jack Dempsey left left eft off The outcome of the Car Sharkey nera fight light June 26 now begins to lose Its ts significance After the thc tenth round of the thc battle balUe of the two Maxes here and after Max tax Bacr's Baers splendid exhibition of sheer punching power the he heavyweight championship battle balUe this month somehow lost its The fight itself brought back memories mem memo ones ories of Dempsey Baer came out outfighting outfighting fighting and by the force of furious as assault won the first two rounds from After that he began to slow up It appeared in the third and fourth rounds that the superior defense of S would win the fight slid from under punches and backed up from swishing uppercuts upper upper- cuts culs B Baer Bacr hit the German krman repeatedly on the arms and elbows elbow DEFENSIVE FIGHTER Baer Bacr was up against a fine defensive sive fighter As round followed round this b became ame more and more apparent was vms making Baer miss But the westerner was trying everything He Ho was warned several times by br Referee Art Dono van an against agam t throwing low stabs He cuffed time after time with left and andr r right ht Several times he held S hmel ings ing's head still with his left and brought down cruel rabbit punches on the back of S n neck k did not seem to mind Once he be laughed at Baers Baer's inability to lo hit him hint solidly That was in the fourth the first round that won von and on the strength of his showing in irs that round supporters supporters supporters of the German took hope that he would come on to win Baer Bacr kept eternally pumping away with both He was not landing often When he did land during the first eight rounds ducked the full force of the blows blows and and kept coming in A right hand in the tenth did the business was against the ropes and doing his best to avoid Baers Baer's furious attack He ducked a left and a right hand caught him flush on the chin For the first time he wavered backed up He covered as best he could against the thc swift fusillade of lefts and rights right Another Another An An- other right caught him and he went vent down Donovan began hi his drone and he had reached six before knew what it was all about Max start started d to get set up thought better of it H and waited for tor nine HARD liARD PUNCHES I He might as well vell have stayed down for Boer Bacr rushed In for the kill and drove him from post to post raining stiff sUlf short punches to his body and head was out on or his feet trying vainly to cover up from the gloves that were pounding upon him As his hand was raised In victory victory- with slumped helplessly on the ropes ropes ropes-Baer Baer was recognized in ina a tremendous tribute Here was the two fisted fighter the thc crowd had been waiting for the for thc kind of fighter they had not seen since Dempsey Dempey failed in that terrific fe seventh round attack against Gene Tunney In ChIca Chicago o. o Here was a man who would tie lie Sharkey and who ho would reduce the exaggerated power of the huge Camera Carnera to a Grimms Grimm's fairy tale talc Those two thudding fists that kept forever pumping away beat down the theman theman theman man most people had been led lcd to believe be lieve hove was impregnable The crowd had been of the opinion the thc cave-boy cave would forget his busl busi ness Not for an instant did he forget He threw punches from first to last Finally one clicked The rest was easy What of ot the thc others What of Sharkey Shar Shar- key Camera Carnera It just looks tough for whichever of those gentlemen that wins June 26 Offhand I would say Baer will be world champion before the end of September And what a champion |
