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(Continu ed from Page 82) the law was trying to make him some
till the day I retired, I'd hand Billy trouble. Anyhow, after I knocked
Delaney what looked like a fair cut of Choynski down, along about the third
.AlaHU MAX BAER'S DOG ment about money or a line of writing. the ring. Delaney tipped me to ease
the purse, and we never had any argu-
or fourth, a dozen cops crowded up to
My next start was in the old Me- off. And from then on, Joe ducked,
chanics Pavilion, against a rough, side-stepped, clinched, and sometimes
tough boy from Chicago; he called him- just plain turned his back and ran. He
$ I I I I I his back to me-and I ran after him.
self Slaughterhouse Hank Baker, and was running in the tenth round-had
he claimed he got his nickname knock-
ing down beeves with his bare fist in He ran straight into the ropes, bounced
the Chicago stockyards. Maybe so. I back and spun in the air. With him
coming off in a spin, and me rushing in,
stopped him in nine rounds.
The newspapers were calling me the he caught me with his right hand in
coming champion, but my head didn't the mouth. I never took the likes of
swell as easy as it had after the Danny that wallop before or since. It
IN CAIH against Van Buskirk-he was a good nose and wedged my lips into my
Long :fight. Even in the two rounds wrenched my head back, broke my
boxer, and fast for a big man-I'd got teeth. It stopped me in my tracks-
my feet tangled up a couple of times. it stopped Joe, too; he hit me so hard.
By then, I knew quite well what boys I don't know why it didn't break his
like Fitzsimmons or Corbett would hand. Between rounds, from then on,
ALSO THOUSANDS OF have done to a guy that couldn't un- Billy Delaney had to saw my upper lip
DOLLARS WORTH OF 1935 RCA track himself any better than that. I off my teeth, and as soon as.Billy got it
had plenty to learn, and I went to work loose, Joe would jab it back again.
at it. I trained at the old Reliance The referee-it was Eddie Graney
Club in Oakland-De Witt Van Court that night-called it a draw, and the
had come up to take charge there. His · crowd agreed with him. I didn't de-
brother Gene gave me a lot of help. serve any better-running in like a
Gene was a little fellow, but he held all sucker against as wicked a :fighter as
the Coast wrestling titles horn feather Joe Choynski. I'd learned something.
to middleweight, and he knew plenty
about conditioning. And Billy De- Battling an Iron Man
laney began giving me more of his
time-teaching me how to train, talk- I licked Joe Goddard in February,
ing to me about right living, trying to the next year, down in Los Angeles-
ALL you have to do is suggest a tell me what it was all about. showing the home folks what Mrs.
Il.. winning name for the wiry lit- He threw me in with a couple tough Jeffries' big boy could do. I licked
tle he-dog that Max Baer adopted ones in my next two starts-Gus Goddard quite easy, because when I
fought him I · had a couple of bad
Ruhlin, then Joe Choynski.
while training for his re<rent fight. Gus Ruhlin was a championship hands. That sounds funny, but that's
For the best names received each contender, and a better man than the the way it was. I'd trained hard, want-
week until July 20th, as explained record book gives him credit for. He ing to make a good showing, but both
never quite reached the top, but he was hands were sore when I went in the
below, Gillette awards ten of these rugged -they called him the Akron ring. I knocked Goddard down four
magnificent $125.50 radios and forty Giant-and he was fast and rough. It times in the first-the first time with a
Gillette Aristocrat One Piece Ra- was Ruhl that taught me to keep my straight left between the eyes-but he
zors, retail value $4.00 each! In all, 60 hands up as long as I was inside the came back :fighting every time. It was
other boy's range.
a wow of a round for the customers,
radios and 240 razors will be awarded. but my hands were badly hurt when I
The grand prize of $1000 goes to The Hardest Punch I Ever Took got back to the corner.
"Yeh," Delaney said, "and if you
the person sending in the best name We had a mob that packed Wood- keep on hitting him on the head, your
submitted during the entire contest. ward's Pavilion; the Reliance Club hands are going to hurt a lot worse
Hurry! This contest offers you a won- turned out in a body, and Ruhl had before you're through!"
derful opportunity to win big money. plenty of backers. He gave me a fight. From then on, I punched to the
Also a chance each week to win an I had him down three or four times body, but I think Joe Goddard went
up-to-the-minute, all-wave radio in the first ten rounds, but he wouldn't down at least six times before he called
stay down. I hit him one welt that it a day. They called Goddard the ·
that will bring world-wide entertain- raised a lump the size of an egg along- Australian Iron Man. He was big and
ment into your home. Read these side his jaw-if anybody tells you Gus tough, and I want to say right here
easy contest rules and enter NOW! wasn't game, remember that he got up that he was plenty game. When a
from that one. I still hadn't learned :fighter can knock a man his size down
much about training, and I began to with a punch to the body, he's hitting,
CONTE.ST RULES tire. At the end of the twelfth, I and the man that takes it there and
1. Suggest a name for Max Baer's dog. Each name their families, or employees of Gillette's advertis- dropped my hands when the gong gets up for more, is game. Goddard
must be accompanied by an empty Gillette "Blue ing agency and their families. rang and turned to my corner. Gus didn't quit in that fourth round at
Blade" package. To qualify you must mention the 5. Send in as many names as you wish provided
name and address of the dealer from whom you each is accoi;npanied by an empty Gillette "Blue hauled his right hand all the way up L. A. He was badly hurt.
purchased the blades. from the canvas and belted me on the A month after that, I scored my
Blade" package and the name and address of the
2. Each week from June 17th until July 22nd the dealer from whom you purchased the blades. If ear with everything he had. I thought three-round knockout of Peter Jack-
10 persons who submit the best names received up you use Probak blades (another Gillette product), a rafter had lit on me. son, supposed to be the greatest Negro
to noon Saturday of the preceding week will re- you may accompany your name suggestion with
ceive a $125.50 RCA Victor All-Wave 1935 "Magic an empty Probak package. All other rules apply. Delaney yelled: ''Foul!'' He hopped :fighter there ever was. I want to tell
Brain" Radio including RCA Antenna System. into the ring, but while the referee was about that.
6. Winners will be announced every Monday night
3. In addition, 40 people submitting the next best on Gillette's Max Baer "Lucky Smith" broadcast hesitating, I got my wits back. "Let it Sometimes you hear arguments
names each week will receive a Gillette $4.00 over WEAF and associated N .B.C. stations coast- go, Bill," I said. "He didn't hurt me ! " about whose championship career was
Aristocrat One Piece Razor. At the conclusion of to-coast.
the contest a grand prize of $1,000.00 in cash will 7. Hurry! Mail your entry now. Submit as many That was propaganda; Ruhlin spent the greatest-well, the great Peter
be awarded for the name judged to be the most names as you please but be sure to enclose an the rest of the fight keeping a way from Jackson's name doesn't rightly belong
appropriate submitted during the entire contest.
empty Gillette "Blue Blade" this guy that couldn't be hurt. They in my record. I only licked the shell of
4. Names will be judged for originality, unique- (or Probak) package with each called it a draw, and the crowd booed Peter Jackson. I didn't know it when
ness and aptness. Judges' decisions are final. No name. Mail your entry to
entries returned. Duplicate prizes awarded in case Gillette Safety Razor Com- for twenty minutes. But I kept my I signed-I thought I was up against
of• tie. Everyone is eligible to enter except em- pany, Dept. S.E.P., Box 20, mouth shut-I :figured it served me the big test of my career-but he was
ployees of the Gillette Safety Razor Company and Boston, Mass. right for not having got into better washed up. I knew it from the first
shape. punch I landed. From then on, I
Joe Choynski-I fought him in hated to hit the old boy. I ended it in
·GII.I.ETTE November, 1897-hit me the hardest the third; it would have been no kind-
punch I ever took square. He was light ness to let him stay and take a beating.
for a heavyweight-spidery, almost This was the way Peter Jackson
B~UE BtllDES frail. He was lightning fast, and a ended; maybe you'll want to remem-
smart boxer, and he had a right hand ber it when you read about Reno,
that would crack your skull. He hit me later on: In the third round I clipped
with it square in the mouth. him with a short left and put him to
f Max Ba.er, heavyweight.fighter, st,arsevery Monday night in Gillette
LISTEN IN • radio drama "Lucky Smith". W:EAF and associated N. B. C. stations. It was a funny fight. Sunny Jim sleep; but he fell into the ropes and
Coffroth was promoting it, and I think hung there with his feet touching the