Show AXIE BAER FIGHTS BETTER BETTE THAN HE ACTS lamp mp Ought o 0 0 Stick to Ring Jling Tricks it t je o e Fans Prove Far More Patient Than Boxing Customers Custom Would Be BeBy BeBy j By PAUL AUL GALLICO W YORK July 4 This usually is diffident and Otis ous about expressing itself upon of ot a prize fighters fighter's skill left eit hooks and md right crosses and s acting on on premeditated hes ches will never Insist that o one onee e c e fighter r is very vcr good or another try ery ry bad is deceptive Things often orten not what they seem or seem to What they are arc not Refer to a aa as a bum burn and he will m knock out champion or your our favorite prize ter iter Praise a boxer to the skies he hc will get himself slapped dizzy s some me sixth rate preliminary boy o 0 to a training camp and see sec an apparently in the pink of conion conion con con- ion assaulting his sparring mates matesi I i t you report him as such The turns turn out to be a hollow shell the ring and falls down from ex ex- Or decide that a nn m in lining nIng is barely staggering through workouts and will vill not be able to toWI fort WI through thra the ropes and he fights blazing rounds without drawing a aj j breath No No such d difficulties es or puzzle puzzle- or deceptions exist when dIe fI fighters take lake to the state stage 0 D reap us easy benefits from their in the ring I attended i f performance given riven by Max laer heavyweight champion at atie atlie atlie lie ie Paramount theater the other where he is appearing Ive ye times daily dally in company with tuddy addy Baer Bier his brother and he heas as simply awful I do not think have hae ever seen a worse actor actori i ST imy 1 my life I am now treading n sure ground round I have not the lightest fear that Bacr will wUl turn p In Cleveland next month and ike tko the acting championship way from Clark Gable es es Baer BaCr is pretty bad He cant can't ho he cant can't dance he cant can't act isn't funny He stands up in front he microphone most of the time 1 1 the strangest look on his lace face I Ir Ir Ir r saw on any human being Its It's ls l's f of a cross among a leer a simia sim- sim fa ia sneer a twinkle twinkle twinkle-an an great nobility id you ever see a guy six two and Shing pounds with a l caulier cauli cauli- er ler ear car looking roguish a la Ia Shir Shir- T Temple mple s a matter of ot fact the tho real cal ext ext ex ex- t at the Paramount in the line on view is not Baer but new strong man of ot the age a ae ae e pound gentleman named ny Rubin who for something like liker jr r 15 minutes carries both Baer his brother around on his back lout even drawing a deep breath went to see the Baer performa perform perform- a in considerable of a flutter besa be be- sa I had been assured that here Edwin Booth Richard Mansfield E. E H. H Sothern rolled into one a ait at at it t facile hoofer with a voice oice of ol olt it t timber and a fellow with a fine edy sense But no one had told that when he approached a micro micro- ne he burbled that when he hed any kind of ot a high note he heed ted ed that when delivering ng a line simpered and that whon when he was wasting wasting ting Ung he hC merely shifted his hips looked embarrassed You may quarrel with me mc If u do not think that Bacr Is t the greatest hitter in the rin ring nee ace and maybe even before and that t he Is not a eat fighter but i if his theatrical kind of made you ant to jump out of your skin or orad orad orad ad a good book brother you id iii I have a a. lot In common and to talk about Why he be heId held Id ld not put on a a. training spar spar- ng nr and clown down boxing act some some- he can do to perfection and too too which would give o gloie ie e ladles a chance to look at his metes no one will ever er know t B B S sat l t quietly through the performs perform perform- s e and did not boo hiss or make makee z e remarks I hate to think what lId ild happen to an actor who turned e C fighter suddenly and md put up as asa asa asa a light fight in the ring as Maxie does low V on the stage hy rhy is it mat fat every guy thinks bead be he act ad or write a play with no more ibm than spitting on his hands I 1 think I will go back to that amount theater pretty soon and that that strong man Rubin again it lt was wonderful to see him lug luge e c two big guys around |