Show FRANK K BAKER BAKER- One can scarcely blame Max for being willing villing to lea leave e eh h his s tr tranquil home in Germany take a boat trip across cross the Atlantic and step into the ring with Joe JoeLouis JoeLouis JoeLouis Louis in J June because he expects to make something like lik a qu quarter million dollars on this trip and the Detroit Bomber omber are to split 50 per cent centon centon on the net of the gate which is expected to gross over a million I has already earned approximately one and a quarter million dollars with his fists lists which certainly certainly isn't isn't bad I I If he should collect a n quarter million on this trip his American Amer Arner- ican earnings would total in fn eight years Only Jack Dempsey y Gene Tunney Tunner and Jack Sharkey harkey earned more than that at in the ring S arrived on the scene in New York City In p 1928 at about t tie the c time Gene Geno Tunney polished of off Tom Toni Beene and retired leaving the heavyweight division without without without with with- out a R champion At that time Max 18 was an obscure heavy weight wight with a band He lie landed in New V York in midsummer but was unable to io fight until late in the year when he was paid 1000 I OO for knocking o out t Joe Mante lante at nt Madison Square Garden luck kept on the right rig t track thereafter the eaf er He Ie got for Joe and really stepped into the headline class when he banked for stopping Johnny He gathered still 2000 more for whipping Pietro Petro Corn Corci in New Newark rk before returning tto to the t. The next year was still more profitable collected approximately for or an exhibition tour prior to drawing for beating Paulino Uzcudun A year later Max became world champion champi n while s sitting in inthe the resin and 1 richer because Jack Sharkey fouled hi him Pictures and other commercial enterprises enriched him 3 more ore got more for stopping stopping- the late Young j in 1931 at Cleveland nd in his i first ti title le defense T The e next year found losing his crown back to Sharkey n i on n a debatable decision but profiting with another and accessory revenue to o the extent of f I. I s But even without the championship was m not t through as ns a money maker He collected for beating Mickey lickey Walker Valker in the fall of 1932 and got more for being stopped b by Max la Bacr Buer in 1933 I t. t His defeat at the hands of Steve H Hamas mas early in 1934 t 4 his latest appearance on this side of the pond was worth 14 VJ i Some people have called lucky Indeed he Ji sn much c f. f cause for t c t H He nev never e. e r was a colorful He ight r He h had g. g a fair fak right hulda hand a i slight resemblance 1 in n appe appearance rance ta 19 I Dempsey and a ll limited amo amount nt of reserve which has as been interpreted by some critics as its sullen pride He e won the championship while sitting down The fight fraternity was inclined to forgive him that break inasmuch as he couldn't be held accountable for Sharkey's Sharkey s 's slow low punch Fight fans waited expectantly for his Cleveand Cleveand Cleve- Cleve and appe appearance r nce when th they y tho thought he might uncork a f kayo punch t Max did hold the crown with a technical knockout over the courageous co ag ous southerner but the he fight world wa was not overly im fin- press pressed Win though he did the Uhlan h had d not delivered the devastating attack the game missed so sadly with Dempsey's retirement And so it has been all along Both as a dis disappointing champion champion cham cham- pion lion and a former title titleholder older has found America a profitable place in which to box Now Nov three e years after he lost the crown he stands ih the prospect of making a quarter million dollars for meet meeting n a negro in a fight is not necessarily the drawing card Louis is the attraction and will get richer simply because the Detroit Bomber Bombers is s popular en enough ugh to draw a full house even if he were fighting Methuselah |