Show Max Defeats Vocally Joe Vocally Whistles Confidently Past Graveyard But Louis Calls Shots Too By HEN HENRY Y McLEMORE I United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK April 22 22 Max Max the Black Uhlan of the Rhine is in town and has the situation well wen in hand Vocally that is 5 Time may have up his jowls a R. bit and taken takena a bit bt of ot the spring from his walk but it has left rm vocal cor cords d un- un VI un-VI- scarred S.- S. 1 From the mm- mm min j r 4 I ute he pop popped p e V v c i j jt t from rom his stateroom state state- t t dl roo room m on the i I I S Bremen to greet th the e hundred or I Imore more 1 intrepid n t r e p i d who sailed d down 0 w V n fl to I 5 f S i quarantine qua ran tin e to meet him until he hel was tucked safely awa away in his hotel suite he talked a great fight I. I Veteran f fig I g h t Max lax critics who have been going down the bay to meet Max for the past seven or eight years and also to enjoy enjoy enjoy en en- joy the rich and creamy pilsner the theline theline theline line dispenses to the press In the ships ship's nursery as the boat loafs into the harbor agreed ho he had never been in better voice In fact tact as they swaggered down I Ithe the gangplank trying to look as if they had come all aU the way from Germany and not just a few miles i past the statue of Liberty they endorsed endorsed en en- I en-I his talk taUe as the most finished bit of ot whistling past the graveyard since Max Ma Baer speaking from under his bed in his speculator re retreat retreat retreat re- re treat promised to chill Joe Joo Louis with one mighty punch said he positively would knock out Louis on the night of ot June 18 Moreover he called the winning shot shot shot-a a short right hand to the countenance He said it wouldn't travel far just far just the same sort of jolting punch that harassed poor Willie Stribling at Cleveland and made a sickening sight of Mickey Walkers Walker's classic features The boys were Inclined to discount dishis dis ds- dis- dis count his calling the shot how how- ever for tor as they pointed out he had to call a right hand shot or no shot at all being as that is strictly all he has Max said he had made mado up his own mind about Louis after seeing the moving pictures of ot Joes Joe's fight with C Camera and watching with his own eyes Joes Joe's execution of ot Paulino He said J Joe oc not only didn't know the proper technique of oC throwing a aright aright aright right hand punch but was also a sucker for one One reporter was tactless enough to ask Max how It was that Louis if it he was vas a n clumsy oaf oat at right right- hand pitching managed to stiffen Paulino with that sort of ot curve when ho he failed to do dothe dothe dothe the same thing in more than 40 0 rounds of oC target practice with the theold theold theold old Basque Fortunate Fortunately for the more sensitive tivo tive souls of the boxing set host Joe Jacobs passed a drink at this point and didn't have to answer Listening to on his soap box I couldn't help contrastIng contrasting contrasting contrast contrast- ing his loquacity with the taciturnity taciturnity taciturnity taci taci- of ot Louis Ask Joe in a crowd what he ho expects to do to an opponent opponent opponent ent and he never knows Ask him alone and if it youre you're in his confidence hell he'll tell you in the sign language ot ofia ofAl a man who doesn't caro care much for lor talking Hell He'll use his fingers One for the first round two for the second three for tor the I third And its it's amazing how close he has come to calling his shots Not quite as accurately as did the big man Ruth on that sunny afternoon in Chicago when the taunts of the Cubs got under his thick skin but nearly And you'd be surprised to know the number of fingers lingers Joe held up when ho he was asked about about no no not but but Jim Braddock Ill I'll give you a hint Take a number from one to ten then subtract subtract subtract- |