Since prizefighting has been enjoying a private and acute depression of its own, strenuous means of ballyhoo were required for the meeting of World's Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, German printer, and William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling of Georgia. Stribling, an able if eccentric aviator, borrowed a plane from Cleveland airport and flew it 90 miles from his training camp at Geauga Lake Park, Ohio to Schmeling's training camp at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Here he flew low, shouted: "Yeah, Maxie!" and flew away again. Other exciting training camp incidents were few. Reporters...
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