Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-03-12 | Page 15 | Both Maxies under Thumb of Johnston

a Both Maxies 1 Under Thumb J Of Johnston I D By HERBERT W. W BARKER Associated Press Tress Sports Writer NEW NEW YORK March 12 The 12 The question ques I Ion tion before the hc house Tuesday is j going to fl fight ht Max Bacr forthe for tor forthe the heavyweight championship this also where and under wh who whose e auspices The enc decisiveness c ot of Max lings ling's victory over Steve Hamas Mamas in rn Hamburg J Sunday has made the Teu i ton a standout in an otherwise doubtful doubt doubt- 1 i ful rul field of or challengers The chips already al at- ready may be down for a return match between the Black Uhlan and the he champion Joe Jacobs man man- cr m may y have let Id the cat out of oC the bar baC when he be said in Hamburg that and Bacr Baer were I. I bo booked ked for the title fight fig In June with Uh Madison Square Garden as h the promoter The announcement brought instant reply ply from dapper little Jimmy John John- iton ston the thc Gardens Garden's boxing impresario Timmy Jimmy admitted and Bacr Baer both bolh were under contract to the Garden Garden Gar Gar- den but added really he-really couldn't say ay ay ayat at t this this' time just who would receive the assignment against Baer Bacr Jimmy pointed out the Garden was In the midst of an 10 elimination tournaI tournament I I ment designed to find a standout challenger Primo challenger Primo Camera Carnera and Ray Friday night Art Lasky and nd Jimmy Braddock March 29 Jimmy Jim my would like to match the winner of these two bouts and then send against the ultimate sur sur- sur- sur It would lake take a considerable stretch ef f the imagination however to see Jacobs agreeing to such a program He scarcely would permit to take the risk of ot losing all the ground he has retrieved by his successive suc sue technical knockouts of ot Walter Jacobs wants a title match and thinks has earned it To suggestions that an Independent Inde Inde- pendent promoter possibly Mike Uke Jacobs for the milk fund here bere or orthe orthe orthe the German Cov government in Berlin might ht st stage e a fight ht between Baer Bur find and Johnston quickly r retorted that he lie would go 0 to the courts to protect the contracts beUS beU'S he be says US he hold bold on the services of both He said the same thin thing about Harnas Ha Ha- when the former Penn State football star first announced he was going abroad to f fight Nothing came of it except that Steve made a mile trip to take the worst beating of ol his career and suffer cut suf fer definite elimination from the theran ran ranks of the contenders