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Show vmxm. wnaro oki m . . a. asaaaaeaaaaaaaea Baaaaa.BenaaaBaaBBBiBBaaiBBBaBBBBaaaiBBBW.a,yBaMei mmmmmmm Hefty.Right Hand Wallop StillThere By LESLIE AVERY. I'nltrd Pre Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec 14 Methodical Method-ical Max Schmelinf, as deliberate as a farmer blasting stumps from a field, detonated one charge of right hand dynamite after another on Harry Thomas' chin last night to clear ths atout Minnesota boy from th road to th heavyweight title. A rrowd of 1S.1M If nored th cxhortaUono of an U nasi pickets parading- In front of the Oardea to pay ST4.ies.SS to r Maxie 4I up hi rusty ring weapon en a practice target, and roared Its approval ap-proval whea Referee) Artie Dona-vaa Dona-vaa humanely a topped th fight near th end of the eighth round. Thomas had beea floored ail times. Reassured of th potency of his right hand after 18 months of inaction. in-action. Maxie will leave on th Europe Eu-rope tomorrow to ipend Christmas at horns In Germany. He will fight Ben Foord of South Africa in Hamburg Ham-burg January SO In a second "prep" match. Desiring a third tun up before meeting Jo Louis for th title in June, Schmeling conferred with Promoter Mike Jacobs today regarding an opponent for a Miami match in March. "Needed This Fight "Thomas waa a hard boy to hit and gave me some trouble until I hit my stride," Maxie said today. "I needed a fight like that, because I wanted to make sure my flats till carried ths sling that knocked out Joe Louis in 13. My timing waa off at firat and I'm glad it lasted as long as it did, because I needed th work." Thomas, a former college football foot-ball player and professional baseball base-ball catcher, took three of th first four rounds on th United Press scor sheet. He belted the German's head and body with wild rights and lefts from the opening bell, but Max managed to get in an uppercut In the firat tenia that, Thomas said later, hurt plenty. Th German threw his first hard right In th second round and It landed flush on the Minnesota farm boy's chin, stunning him momentarily. momen-tarily. Donovan warned Thomas for low punching In this session. Thomas cam back strong for th third, rushing Maxi almost off his feet with a two-fisted attack. A jolting left hook was Harry' margin mar-gin in the fourth. In the fifth Schmeling got hie sight trained, and three Umea he staggered Harry with right hooks to the Jaw. A cut Thomas got en the chin In th second began to gush blood, but he fought back gamely and mad a lata flurry to hold the German even. It waa Harry's last stand. In the sixth Max landed at least a dosen short. Jolting rights that turned Thomas' legs to rubber. With his awkward defense gone. Harry was an open target and Schmeling continued to dress him down for the kill In th seventh. A hard right to the Jaw had th Mln-nesotan Mln-nesotan on ons knee as th bell ended th round. It was th firat time he had been off his feet in 72 professions! fights over th last five years. As they came out for the eighth I Schmeling exploded another right to the chin that sent Thomas swaying sway-ing to both knees, but he waa up chasing Maxie before the count reached two. Another chopping right dropped him a second time and again he waa up fast. He got up from the canvaa twice mora, but after th fifth straight knockdown knock-down he only managed to stagger to his feet. His gameness might have carried him through th round ; there was only six seconds left ; but the crowd was screaming and Referee Donovan mercifully stopped the slaughter. In hia dressing room the Minnesota Minne-sota fighter was naked why ha did not take a nine count and allow his head to clear before be got off the canvas each time. Better Next Time -Hell!" he said. "I didn't even know I was down until I was getting get-ting back on my feet and aaw Schmeling start for a neutral corner. cor-ner. I'll know better next time, and I'll fight him a lot different if I ever get him again. I'll concentrate con-centrate on his body, where he is easy to hit, and he doesn't like 'em downstairs." Besides the cut on his lower lip, the only marks on Thomas were his kinned knees that he scraped on the canvas and resin. Schmeling was unmarked except for, a alight swelling around the right eye. apparently ap-parently where that hard left hook landed in the fourth round. Schmeling weighed ISA pounda. a quarter-pound less than Thomas. |