“Every punch in the eye”: New York Times, March 14,1935.
“reported to have become a Jew by press agent”: New York Post, June 13,1935.
“Baer was only a 50 per cent Hebrew”: New York Mirror, April 14,1933.
“Hitler is more of a Jew than is Baer”: Ring, May 1934.
“racial and cultural disgrace”: Der Stürmer, June 1933.
“Abroad, one can have no concept”: New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, May 4,1933.
“Schmeling is a friend of Hitler”: New York Evening Post, June 5,1933.
“a genuine half-Jewish boy”: New York World-Telegram, June 5,1933.
“the growing antipathy against everything German”: New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, June 7,1933.
“Leck’ mich am Arsch”: Interview, Irwin Rosee; Washington Post, October 4,1942.
“A punch all the boxing instructors”: Chicago Tribune, June 9,1933.
“That wasn’t a defeat, that was a disaster”: Schmeling, Erinnerungun, p. 267.
“They thought I was a Hebe”: Variety, January 13,1933.
“gas bags”: B’nai B’rith Messenger, June 23,1933.
“who would have been interested if [Schmeling] is a German or a Tatar”: Der Tog, June 10,1933.
“Schmeling’s dream of regaining”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, June 9,1933.
“A man who travels only first-class”: Völkischer Beobachter, February 13–14,1934.
“He encouraged me, and told me that he, too, had suffered setbacks”: New York Times, February 23, 1938.
“the female Chaplin”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, February 11,1933.
“Yussel Jacobs will be ostracized”: New York Mirror, October 30,1933.
“I got to Berlin and when I entered the Bristol”: New York Times, November 9,1933.
“All any Nazi ever had to do”: New York World-Telegram, November 9,1933.
“The chancellor took a lively interest”: Hamburger Fremdenblatt, December 22,1933.
“deeply stirred by Hitler’s personality”: Chicago Tribune, January 4,1934.
“perhaps couldn’t understand why thousands of German national comrades”: Angriff, January 5,1934.
“Say, wasn’t there a lot”: Chicago Tribune, January 2,1934.
“Hitler may not want Schmeling”: Washington Post, January 3,1934.
“Herr Hitler does not care who Max fights”: New York American, January 3,1934.
“absurd”: Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, January 4,1934.
“the better Hitler will like it”: Chicago Tribune, January 4,1934.
“He is a football player”: Völkischer Beobachter, February 13–14,1934.
“The Schmeling we saw last night”: New York Evening Post, February 14,1934.
“Yesterday Max Schmeling was crossed off the list”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, February 15,1934.
“international Jewish swamp”: Der Deutsche, February 17,1934.
end of all state-financed medical support and aid for the “inferior”: Box-Sport, April 17, 1934.
“Mad Monkey of Germany”: Ring, May 1934.
calling the dirt track “American”: Völkischer Beobachter, July 6,1934.
“Sensationalism and star worship are not befitting the National Socialist Man!”: Angriff, August 15,1934.
“who through their honorable striving and struggle”: Völkischer Beobachter, August 16,1934.
MADISON SQ. GARDEN; HAMBURGER PUNCHING: Hamburger General-Anzeiger, August 25/26, 1934.
“German-blooded pub owner”: Völker Kluge, Max Schmeling: Eine Biographie in 15 Runden (Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 2004), p. 194.
“eloquent testimony to the success”: Völkischer Beobachter, August 23,1934.
“A man capable of arousing so much true Jewish hate”: Ibid.
“a model of professionalism, sporting decency, and fairness”: Ibid., August 26/27,1934.
“a frenzy of boxing enthusiasm”: Angriff, August 27,1934.
“I expected Max to win decisively”: New York Post, September 7,1934.
“very decent indeed”: Letter, Kurt Tucholsky to Hedwig Muller, in Briefe aus dem Schweigen 1932–1935 (Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1977), p. 145.
“Every member of the Goldfarb, Epstein”: New York Mirror, August 18,1934.
“God’s own country”: Box-Sport, February 25,1935.
“The Götterdämmerung has started”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, February 25,1935.
“wants to have good fights and great champions in Germany”: New York Post, February 2, 1935.
“We want to see Max Schmeling!”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, March 1,1935.
“We would hardly know our youth”: Angriff, March 9,1935.
“television enthusiasts”; “non-political hero”: San Francisco Examiner, March 10,1935.
“a bodyguard of four very husky-appearing fellows”: International Herald Tribune, March 11,1935.
“some of the people whom we as National Socialists easily could have done without”: Westdeutscher Beobachter, March 11,1935.
the “gay” armlets of the storm troopers: Daily Mail (London), March 11,1935.
“Any barked order”: Daily Express (London), March 19,1935.
“Nearest the ring are gaunt-faced”: Ibid., March 11,1935. 51 “What happens now is not a mere welcome”: Ibid.
Schmeling “like a tiger,” “merciless,” “controlled,” “imperturbably calm”: Arno Hellmis broadcast for German Radio Corporation, Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, DRA 2743222
“into a hurricane”: Angriff, June 15,1938.
“silence that could almost be felt”: Trevor C. Wignall, Ringside (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1941), p. 53.
“the most beautiful tenor voice”; “Hitler’s favorite”: Ibid.
“in all crudeness”: LAuto, March 11,1935.
“German men with their eyes tight”: Daily Express (London), March 18,1935.
“They knew that Hamas, for all his poor showing”: New York Times, March 11,1935.
“locals with sausages covered”: LAuto, March 12,1935.
“Germany has outstripped the seemingly undefeatable America”: Box-Sport, March 11, 1935.
“That’s a real fine thing for a politician to do”: New York Mirror, March 11,1935.
“The superiority of the ex–world champion”: Angriff, March 11,1935.
“Now we get Baer”: Chicago Tribune, March 11,1935.
“Among the amusing sidelights of Germany today”: Daily Express (London), March 16, 1935.
“altars to manliness”: Angriff, March 11, 1935.
“When Schmeling Won … And Yussel ‘Heiled’”: New York Daily News, March 21, 1935.
“just to carry out the Nazi motif”: New York World-Telegram, March 22,1935.
“In the Broadway delicatessens and nighteries”: New York Daily News, March 22,1935.
“In the sports world, it is being considered a big joke”: Morgn-zhurnal, March 22,1935.
“What the ’ell would you do?”: New York Post, March 22,1935.
“When in Rome, eat pasta fazoole”: New York Mirror, March 22,1935.
“500 percent Jewish”: Forverts, April 27,1940.
“What did these birds expect Yussel to do”: New York Daily News, March 28,1935.
“well and courteously treated”: Ibid., February 12,1935.
“punch his way right off the printed page”: New York Sun, April 14,1937.
“A hard-hitting ‘Nordic’ meets Max Baer”: New York American, March 12,1935.
“As always occurs when religion is used”: New York Daily News, March 28,1935.
“Schmeling Gives Yussel the Ozone”: New York Mirror, March 28,1935.
“Managers are only the means to the end”: Ibid., April 10,1935.
“I really need Joe Jacobs”: Schmeling, Erinnerungen, p. 298.
“the Swastika vs. the Star of David”: Fränkische Tageszeitung, March 28,1935.
“Who iss Chim Braddock?”: New York Journal-American, July 2, 1938; Washington Post, December 8,1935.
“The Negro mixed-breed
[Negermischling] from Alabama”: Box-Sport, June 24, 1935; “Halbneger”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, July 24,1935; “Joe Clay Face”: Box-Sport, April 22,1935.
“Within a short period of time”: Box-Sport, February 4,1935.
Chapter Three: A Star Rises in the Midwest
“This boy should be able to do something”: Edward Van Every, Joe Louis, Man and Super-Fighter (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1936), p. 48.
“All my life my hands felt important to me”: “In This Corner … Joe Louis,” produced and written by Mel Baily, directed by Arthur Forrest. WNEW-TV, July 21,1963, in Museum of Television and Radio, New York.
“the white boys make it too tough”: Los Angeles Examiner, February 14,1935.
“Lewis”: Detroit Free Press, February 23,1933.
“clever Negro lawyer”: New York Sun, June 27,1935.
“Neither Roxborough nor Black”: Life, June 17,1940.
“I figured this way”: New York Times, November 8,1948.
“the Detroit colored lad with the frozen face”: Chicago Daily News, March 10,1933.
“The coloreds are on average better”: Box-Sport, October 28,1935.
“A colored fighter”: Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening Journal, August 18,1937.
“When the colored brother is capable in sports”: Gallico, Farewell to Sports (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938), p. 299.
“is generally a magnificent physical specimen”: Ibid., p. 306.
“The Negro is regarded as pure cattle”: Ibid., p. 306.
“The reason they fight so well”: Los Angeles Times, February 1,1935.
“Negro fighters are used merely”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 9,1934.
“We’ve got to wait until somebody can produce a half-clown and half-gorilla”: Chicago Defender, June 30,1934.
“Take him away”: Life, June 17,1940.
“You were born with two strikes on you”: Liberty, November 23,1935.
“just a funny-looking boy”: New York Sun, June 19,1937.
“very good outside the ring”; “You’ve got to be a killer, otherwise I’m getting too old”; “I ain’t goner waste any of your time”: Ring, September 1937.
“Let your fists be your referee”: New York Sun, June 11, 1936.
“too easygoing—too nice a fella”; “didn’t have any blood in his eye”: United Press International, June 18,1936.
“You can’t show no pity in this game”; “When you get a man in distress”: Chicago American, July 5,1938.
“You just gotta throw away your heart”; “Joe Louis ain’t no natural killer”: Ronald K. Fried, Corner Men: The Great Boxing Trainers (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991), p. 121–23.
“fool nigger dolls”: Joe Louis, with Edna and Art Rust, Jr. Joe Louis: My Life (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), p. 39.
“If he isn’t the hardest punching heavyweight”: New York World-Telegram, June 10, 1937.
“hung like a sack of wheat”: Chicago Tribune, December 1,1934.
“The Ring welcomes Louis”: Ring, February 1935.
“If Louis stops the clever Californian”: Chicago American, December 12,1934.
“already has most of the contenders for the championship”: Chicago Tribune, December 14,1934.
“the jaw-crashing, sleep-producing blow”: Ibid., December 15,1934.
“wrap it up” or “go to town”: Interview, Eddie Couzins.
“Who’s going to stop this new ‘black peril’”: Chicago Tribune, December 15,1934.
“seeping out of the ‘black belt’”: Collyer’s Eye, July 27,1935.
“It wasn’t arranged in the European sense”: Interview, Truman Gibson.
“a little girl back in Detroit”: Chicago Tribune, June 23,1935.
“A pretty good-looking young heavy”: Van Every, Joe Louis, pp. 11–12. 69 “Colored people usually reason”: Philadelphia Tribune, June 27,1935.
“I noticed he couldn’t flick that arm with the same alacrity”: Philadelphia Tribune, August 29,1935.
HEAVYWEIGHTS DUCKING JOE LOUIS: New York Post, December 4,1934.
“a voodoo to hoodoo”: Philadelphia Tribune, December 27,1934.
“he will find the color line facing”: Chicago Defender, January 26,1935.
“Hard rights and lefts, coupled with real economic need”: Pittsburgh Courier, January 5, 1935.
“The ease with which such an abstract idea”: Philadelphia Tribune, January 24,1935.
“Jack Johnson put the kibosh”: Boxing, March 20,1935.
“When the color line is used as a subterfuge”: Ring, May 1935.
“He’s a bomber”: Barney Nagler, Brown Bomber: The Pilgrimage of Joe Louis (New York: World Pub., 1972), p. 42.
“One of these days several thousand”: Los Angeles Examiner, February 22,1935.
“California women from domestic service”: Baltimore Afro-American, March 9, 1935.
“It should please the fearful modern Vardamans and Tillmans”: Chicago Defender, July 6,1935.
“The Colored Comet”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, May 18,1935.
“Well, you understand he’s a nigger”: Nagler, Brown Bomber, p. 42.
“He’s ready for New York, but New York ain’t ready for him”: Louis, Joe Louis, p. 47.
“Overnight, Jacobs will become the most powerful”: Ring, May 1935.
“the pugilist-infested stretch”: Los Angeles Times, May 28,1936.
“It seems that their duties”: Bang, October 3,1936.
“New York is eager to see him go”: Detroit Times, March 29,1935.
“I don’t want him to have anything on his mind”: Detroit Times, March 29,1935.
“The greatest young heavyweight”: New York American.:, March 31,1935.
“Every time he sweeps an opponent”: Washington Post, March 31,1935.
“we don’t want any great big house”: Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, August 23,1935.
SOLID SOUTH DECIDES JOE LOUIS MUST BE SOMEBODY: Chicago Defender, April 13, 1935.
“I’d get up”: Dayton Daily News, April 22,1935.
“All the while you’re in training”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 15,1935.
Chapter Four: New York Falls in Love
“Big Brown Bomber Hits Town”: New York Post, May 16,1935.
“Travelers threading their way”: New York Herald Tribune, May 16,1935.
“like the Empire State Building”: Pittsburgh Courier, April 20,1935.
“New Knockout Sensation”: Amsterdam News, May 18,1935.
“I’ve seen punches thrown this afternoon”: New York Mirror, May 26,1935.
“We’re gonna have a lot of fun with that third strike”: In This Corner, Museum of Television and Radio.
“I ain’t ever had to yet”: New York Evening Journal, June 6,1935. 77 “a throwback”: Ibid., May 16,1935.
“There never was such a dead pan”: New York Sun, May 17,1935.
“gaudy extravagances”: New York Herald Tribune, June 23,1935.
“This unfortunate pituitary case”: Gallico, Farewell to Sports, p. 56.
“the stupidest move in the history”: New York World-Telegram, May 17,1935.
“the race angle intruding”: Variety, July 3,1935.
“strong race people”: Letter, Charles Roxborough to Walter White, May 11, 1935, in NAACP I, C-335, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“One wonders where Pegler”: Walter White to New York World-Telegram, May 21, 1935, in NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“I’d be a mean sucker”: Pompton Lakes (New Jersey) Bulletin, May 30,1935.
“nothing of the show-off, comedy coon here”: Van Every, Joe Louis, p. 126.
“Mistah, I’se leavin’”: Detroit News, June 25,1935.
“What a spectacle”; “a healthy dark beige youth”: New York Age, June 21,1935.
“Louis may not be as perfect”: Baltimore Afro-American, May 25,1935.
The “Cinderella Man”: Jeremy Schaap, Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and th
e Greatest Upset in Boxing History (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), p. xiii.
“Did you ever see?”: New York Herald Tribune, June 17,1937.
“Do you mean those are the two best fighters”: Ibid., June 16,1938.
“Next Tuesday night the most historic event”: Philadelphia Tribune, June 20,1935.
“he will have definitely qualified as the foremost American”: New York World-Telegram, May 16,1935.
“See the Next World’s Heavyweight Champion”: Detroit Tribune, June 22,1935.
“skyrocketing grosses”: Chicago Defender, July 13,1935.
“every ham-hock, fish-fry, and liquor joint”: New York Herald Tribune, June 23,1935.
“Your race … has been misrepresented”: Pittsburgh Courier, June 29,1935.
“you come across a lot of guys named Elmer”: New York World-Telegram, June 25,1935.
“I don’t want him to beat him”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 8,1935.
“and a great deal of the skimmed milk”: New York Evening Journal, June 26,1935.
“as if he were waiting for a street car”: Cleveland Press, June 28,1935.
“Ladies and gentlemen, before proceeding”: Boxing World Record, 1938; Ring, February 1946.
“did more good than the army”: Pittsburgh Courier, July 6,1935.
“Oh, my goodness, Louis looks like a little boy beside him”: Interview, Jim Clark.
“transformed into a sleek and tawny animal”: New York Sun, June 26,1935.
“a red smile that didn’t make sense”: Knockout, January-February 1937, p. 69.
“ready that guy for the big splash”: New York Sun, June 26,1935.
“You have this boy right where you want him”; “You just drop old Betsy on that fellow’s chin, and we will start the parade for home”: Ibid.
“heavy, menacing, brutish, dumb”: New York Daily News, June 26,1935.
“You’re the greatest fighter”: Ibid., June 26,1935.
“a second Jack Dempsey”: International News Service, June 26,1935.
“impromptu insanity” of “gargantuan proportions”: Detroit News, June 26,1935.
“Bootblacks blacked brown shoes”: Detroit Times, June 26,1935.
“They’re happier over Louis”: Detroit News, June 26,1935.
“The ring has a new marvel”: New York Mirror, June 27,1935.
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