The Beginning of the End!

Round Four...

"When they answered the bell for the fourth round, the crowd was saying, This is the one." It was-but not for Maxie"

"Midway in the round, Schmeling's right exploded on Joe's jaw and he went down for the first time in his professional

career for a count of two."

-George Kirksey. Ventura County Star. June 30, 1936

"Until his handlers told him about it, the Brown Bomber said he hadn't the faintest idea what transpired between the time

the surprizing Dutchman floored him in the fourth..." "I was in a fog out there", Joe Louis.

-Associated Press. The Philadelphia Enquirer. June 20, 1936

The End is at Hand!

Round 12

"Schmeling came out for the twelfth with his left eye entirely closed. He should have been a mark for the great

purncher and boxer Louis was thought to be."

"But Louis had long since ceased to be even remotely that."

-Francis Wallace (author of Kid Galahad) writing in the New York World Telegram. June 20, 1936

The End!

"The impossible had happened, the day of miracles has not passed and the Detroit Devastator, the Brown Bomber,

the Dark Destroyer had ceased to exist."

-The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 20, 1936

The Aftermath.

"Execution Turned Around.

Thus it was the mightly Joe Louis, 10 to 1 favortie to "execute" the battle-scarred bull dog of the Rhine, who changed places

and went down to doom instead."

-Jack Cuddy. United Press. Stockton Independent. June 20, 1936

"Fifty thousand hero worshipping citzens leaped to their feet to acclaim the new hero of fistiana, while the young Negro from Detroit

sat dejectedly in his corner, his bright blue dressing gown covering his head bowed in shame, forgotten by all save the faithful retainers.

-Associated Press. Berlin. Philadelphia Inquirer. June 20, 1936

"Hitler Wires Congratulations...Der Fuherer also ordered flowers send to Mrs. Schmeling in Berlin"

-United Press. Munich. The Ventura County Star. June 20, 1936

Max Schmeling was to write in the September 1936 issue of The Ring, " I read The Ring...I said to Max (Mahon) Johnson has an important message...

I will not find it diffiuclt to hit him (Louis) with right crossing the punch over the negro's left as he shoots it from the sideways stance."

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