In New York's Yankee Stadium last week, Germany's Max Schmeling knocked out Detroit's Negro Joe Louis in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round prizefight.
The bout was watched by a crowd of 40,000, some of whom paid $40 apiece for tickets, highest box-office price since 1929. Unlike many major prizefights of the last five years, it failed to end in a foul or a disputed decision. It launched what promises to be a successful season for a new promoting organization, 20th Century Sporting Club Inc., run by Tex Rickard's onetime right-hand man, Mike...
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