Outside Madison Square Garden one night this week, pickets paraded up and down, beseeching Manhattanites not to spend money that might go to Nazi Germany. Inside, 17,000 boxing fans were clamorously awaiting another chance to see in action the famed right fist that had once felled Heavyweight Champion Joe
Louis. The possessor of that fist, Germany's beetle-browed Max Schmeling, presumably was warming up for an opportunity to win the title next summer from Champion Louis. After he had knocked out Louis, Schmeling thought he was to meet Jim Braddock for the championship, but...
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