FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1940
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVII
Sports Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE
New York, Sept. 27-(UP)-Hell hath no fury like a Max Baer unafraid.
Give the California butcher boy a chunk of undressed beef and he'll cut you a mess of tenderloins, T-bones, and porterhouses inside of a minute.
Max had a little more than a minute last night, so he did even better. He took the 207 pounds of Pat Comiskey and pounded them into an irish stew. The official time of the knockout in New Jersey's fragrant meadows was 2:39 of the first round, and the
finish found the Harp all played out.
Baer's last punch knocked Comiskey completely senseless and into the ropes. He would have fallen onto the apron, but as he sagged his lantern jaw caught the top strand and there he hung, neither up nor down and a bulls-eye for Baer's next blow.
Baer got set as if to punch, but then, as if remembering that he had killed an opponent under similar circumstances in California years ago, looked inquiringly at referee Jack Dempsey. Jack was a man
without mercy when he was fighting but this was too much even for him. He ordered Max to cease firing and together they hoisted the New Jersey boy off the ropes.
Last night's fight demonstrated once more that Baer is a really great heavyweight when facing a foe he does not fear. From the time I left the ringside until I was out of the stadium I heard no fewer than 20 persons say: "If Baer would just fight Joe Louis that way, he could regain the heavyweight championship."
And they may have been speaking the truth.
Baer answered the bell against Comiskey with his cobble-stone fists drawn back, and when the men met he started throwing them. There was none of the ridiculous effort at boxing that he employs against fighters he fears. No jabs, no feints, no fancy footwork. Just plain, unadulterated slugging. He piled onto Comiskey and belabored him with roundhouse rights, looping lefts, chops, hacks, and butts.
Never let anyone tell you Maxie can't hit. He's been around a long time, but there still isn't a more fearful punch in boxing than the California's full, 14-karat, up-from-the-floor, right. It descends with all the delicacy of a safe from a tenth floor window, and the human jaw never was meant to withstand such a shock. Comiskey was supposed to be a youngster who could take a punch and keep coming, but once Maxie's right landed on him Pat was beyond the help of Mother Machree, the blarney stone, Brian Boru, the river Shannon, and even mayor Frank Hague. His feet began to do a jig and his head kept step.
Baer took his victory modestly. He stayed in the ring only 30 minutes after the fight, took only 365 bows, and posed for only 125 pictures. In addition to $30,000, Baer was given a belt emblematic of the "World's White Heavyweight Championship of New Jersey" by promoter Jack Kearns. It was of solid imitation aluminum, stippled with genuine imitation Rhinestones. Under the ring lights it looked like nothing so much as one of those roadside signs that caution—"slow—illness when wet."
My suggestion to Max is that he put the belt to some real practical use such as strapping it around his chin if and when he fights Joe Louis.
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