Schmeling Over Hamas

To find a suitable opponent for heavyweight Champion Max Baer is the problem that has vexed Madison Square Garden's Matchmaker Jimmy Johnston ever since Baer won the title from Primo Camera last June. Camera is still the right size, but the U. S. public refuses to believe that he can fight. First step toward clearing up the matter was made last week in Hamburg, Germany, where Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, who held the heavyweight championship in 1930-32, started an attempt to get it back with a bout against Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer who thrashed him in Philadelphia a year ago.

German boxing addicts who had criticized Hamas for not copying Schmeling's assiduous training routine, saw their judgment quickly and completely vindicated. Schmeling steadily battered Hamas to a bloody pulp, dropped him for three counts of nine in the sixth round. In the ninth, Belgian Referee Valoni allowed Hamas to be battered about for one minute more, then mercifully sent Schmeling to his corner. With the Nazi crowd of 25,000, Joe Jacobs, Schmeling's Jewish manager, expressed his joy with a right-arm salute.

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