Show Killer Must Be Built Up As Baers Baer's Battery Mate To Draw Sizable Crowd By FRANCIS J J. POWERS Special to The Teler Telegram m LOS ANGELES Cal Cat Jan 28 28 Conditions in the heavyweight boxing ranks are arc much the same as during the first few years cars of Jack Dempsey's reign The champion so far outclasses his f field that there are no logical contenders It is true that Luis Angel Firpo knocked Dempsey out of the ring and that Jack left Tommy Gibbons his on feet feel at Shelby but it was not until Gene Tunney came along llone that h l the Mana Manassa Manasa sa mauler really met an opponent his equal Max Baer Bacr Is In the same fix hence the early up smoke-up for lor the heavyweight ht championship next I June Like door knobs we must haye have a heavyweight championship fight and to stage the event two men are necessary In the opinion of several smart fight men with wilh whom I have bave talked none of the can candidates to take a a. lathering front from Bacr Baer can offer a 8 good sales talk but one of them will be selected and built up as 88 a a. killer There is considerable talk about that Arthur Arlhur L Lasky ky may be nominated as Baers Baer's battery mate Lasky is a good husky boy with al a a. l fast t left hand but the fact that he could not take King Levinsky is no great recommendation for Cor his fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing Baer Bacr Lasky fought Levinsky twice during 1934 and the Kingfish Kingfish Kingfish King- King fish still was able to skip nimbly at the end of each cach bout Baer in two rounds put the Kingfish Kingfish King King- fish in the cooler Boxing cannot be measured mathematically but some sort of an equation should be possible from the Levin Lasky-Levin- sl sky y Levinsky Levinsky-Bacr bouts Lasky y is not a knocker outer and it is useless for any other sort to fight Baer for I do not think a boxer can beat him Lasky fights James JamesJ J J. J Braddock in New York next month and if he wins likely will vill willbe be he steamed up as the logical contender con con- tender lender It seems that Mr Nate Nato Lewis the night mayor maor of oC Chicago's loop is threatening to bring Luis Angel Angel Firpo back to the ring as a pos possible ible r f challenger of Baer That borders on the ridiculous If IC Lewis is serious but it shows the tho of heavyweight contenders Firpo is now 36 years of oC age and has been cen out of oC competition for lor several seasons It has been 12 years ears since Dempsey knocked him out in New York he wa wasn't mt a great fighter lighter then and he will be s rt of oC a fighter now no matter how excellent care he has taken of him him- self sell Firpo might get into sufficiently sufficiently good condition to knock over some stumble blocks but to consider consid- consid er cr him as an opponent for Cor Baer is going Baron Munchausen one bet bet- ter |