Schmeling Says Fighters Of His Time More Skilled
By CAY BROCKDORFF
H United Press International
1- Hamburg. Germany - UPP -The
big man gestured a well
Hnanicured hand and said:
You just can't compare to
ay's fighters with the cham
ftions of my time. There was
fcorc skill, better know-how
h the old days. We were bet-
Ber trained.'
That was
He talked with a United
Press International reporter
in his office about the death
of Davey Moore and other
ring fatalities. His theory is
that it's the present day state
of boxing and the calibre of
the men in it that explain
such tragic accidents.
Slips in 30
"Boxing has made no ad
Max Schmeling ' vances since the '30's," he
Biking, the man who fought said. "In fact it has been
Kis way to the world's heavy- j slipping ever since then. Too
Speight championship in the , many of the fighters don't
93.0's but is best remembered i really know how to box. to
for the terrible pasting he j defend themselves and to car
fcok from Joe Louis. ry out a proper offense. To-
f Schmeling. at 57. still looks j day's matches often turn into
like a fighter despite his man- j free-for-all style fighting,
kicured nails and tailor-made "I:i my day we put the
iuits. As half owner of a soft i emphasis on self-defense, ex-
drnik (Coca Cola) bottling
plant he is a financially suc-
essful business man with 200
Hnployecs.
cellent technique. s k i 1
brains, a quick eye. How
many boxers can you really
say that about today?
And then there's a change
in the whole attitude. Nowa
days too many boxers have
families, need to make money,
need to accept fights even
when they should avoid them
j because of their health. That
helps explain Moore's case.
"They should have stopped
i Moore's fight much earlier,
: thrown in the towel after he
showed signs he was not his
usual self."
Schmeling doesn't think
I boxing should be banned as
I a professional sport.
"They shouldn't stop box-
ing just because fighters have
j died," he said. "People get
I killed in other sports. They
don't stop motor racing be
! cause people get killed by
I the dozens."
But, in the opinion of Dor
j Maxie, the fighters them
I selves and the people w h o
train and manage t h e ni
, should do a better job.
Many boxers ' nowadays
I wait until five or six weeks
before a fight to get into
shape. This doesn't leave
' them time to prepare for their
; opponent. You've got to be
i in good condition all the
I time if you want to be a top
! boxer not just condition
yourself for one fight and
. then taper off. Staying in con
dition is a full time necessity."
Schmeling grinned. "1
; know." he said. "When tin
! a 12th round knockout on
i June 19. 1936) 1 defeated
i Louis I was clearly the best
boxer in the world. But I
didn't stay that way. When
Louis kayoed me in the first
round of our second fight
(June 11, 1938) he was clear
ly the better man and deserv
ed the victory."
Schmeling has said it be
fore but he said again in this
interview that he regretted
"the Nazi propaganda at the
time saying Joe beat me un
fairly by punching my kid
neys." "Nonsense," he said. "Joe
fought correctly. One reason
was my own fault I turned
right into his fist for a punch
he already had fired off. Joe
was just the better man."
He and Louis "today are
IN SECOND FIGHT Max Schmeling hangs on the ropes at the Hotel Astor during a dinner celebration on the
as Joe Louis keeps banging away during their second fight I fourth celebration of the fourth anniversary of the U S
in New York. The two ring foes, now friends, met again People-to-People' program. (UPI)
Patricia Lawford Forfeits Judgment
Santa Monica, Calif. -(UPD-Mrs.
Patricia Lawford for
feited SI 00 in a default judg
ment Wednesday when she
failed to appear in Small
Claims Court.
The award favored Mrs.
Lenorc A. Foote, Glendale,
Calif., whose car was involved
in a collision with a car driven
by the sister of President Ken
nedy Sept. 15.
Mus. Foote, whose car was
being driven at the time by
Mrs. Nancy Jane, Foster, Sun
Valley, Calif., asked $100 in
the civil suit to reirnburse her
for renting a car while her
auto was being repaired.
Damage claims arising from
the accident were settled
earlier.
Salem Man Held In Beatty Slaying
Klamath Falls - (UPI - Arclu
bald Foster, 26, Salem, was
arrested by state police and
sheriff's deputies Wednesday
a few hours after being eharg
cd with first degree murder
in the Monday night slaying
of Mrs. Richard Biss, 37.
State police also charged
Wilma Williams, Klamath
Falls, with assault with a dan
gerous weapon. They said she
held a gun on them briefly
when they arrested Foster at
her home.
Mrs. Biss was found shot
to death in the back seat of
her car in front of the family
home at Beatty Tuesday morn
ing. She had a bullet wound
in the head.
Sheriff Murray Britton said
the slaying apparently oc
curred after a long drinking
party.
Weather stripping doors
and windows can shave the
fuel bill as much as 15 per
cent on an older house.
CUBS ABANDONED -Life looked pretty
dismal for these little tiger cubs after they
were born earlier this month at Highland
Park Zoo in Dorleyville, Pa., where they
were abandoned by their mother. Betty
Stadler. vetcrinarian'.s assistant at the zoo.
took it from there and has been feeding
the waifs by bottle at her home where they
will stay until they are moved to the
Children's Zoo next month. (UPI)
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friends," Schmeling said. "He
was one of the world s truly
great boxers."
How does he rate the pres
ent heavyweight? "Men like
Sonny Liston. Floyd Patter
son and Ingcmar Johans
son arc the best of their class
now," he said. "I wouldn't
compare them to the boxers
of my time."
On an all-time basis Schmel
ing rates Jack Dempsey the
greatest boxer of all time.
Joe Louis is next but some 1 In the war he was drafted
think joe was better." anri w,umri ud in a Darachute
unit. He broke both knees
Schmeling returned to the
ritio hrieflv fter thn ivar tii
get himself a little stake but i"'Ping n' Crete and was
then quit and went into busi-! discharged in 1943. "Some
ness. people have wondered," he
j said, "whether I became
Nazi because I was a Ger
' man soldier. Rubbish. I was
' drafted like anybody else.
iThat happens in war and I
! see nothing wrong in it."
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