Beyond Glory
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“there are none so blind as those who will not see”: New York Age, March 5,1938.
“quiet, inoffensive personality”: Birmingham News, June 24,1937.
“Powder Town”: Associated Press, June 23,1937.
“an old, sad-eyed, gray-pated Negro”: Chicago Sunday Times, June 27,1937.
“dementia praecox of the recurring type”: Montgomery Advertiser, July 18,1937.
“If he rests too long, he gets fat and lazy”: New York Daily News, July 16,1937.
“If white champions can loaf”: Pittsburgh Courier, July 3,1937.
“as natural as young love”: International News Service, June 24,1937.
“merely wanted Rockefeller Center”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, August 7,1937.
“One leaves the theater a little ashamed”: Box-Sport, July 19,1937.
“I see no improvement in Louis”: New York Journal-American, August 18,1937.
“That’s What America’s Boxing World Champion Looks Like”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, June 23, 1937.
“Europe steps in”; a “historic event”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, June 23,1937.
“We will box in September”: Angriff, June 24,1937.
“The Schmeling fight against the Englishman”: Bohrmann (ed.), NS-Presseanweisungen der Vorkriegszeit, Bd.5/I:1937: June 24,1937.
“The sour-grapes edition”: Daily Worker, June 25,1937.
“The Reich is the first state in the world”: New York World-Telegram, June 23,1937.
“Nothing should be carried about the reports in the English press”: NS-Presse-anweisungen der Vorkriegszeit, Bd.5/I:1937: July 1,1937.
“would amount to a lack of self-respect”: NS-Presseanweisungen der Vorkriegszeit, Bd.5/I:1937: August 26,1937.
“One beaten by Schmeling”: Berliner illustrierte Nachtausgabe, July 28,1937.
“Promoter Jacobs’ plans call for stalling Max”: New York Mirror, July 10,1937.
“The longer they postpone the fight”: International News Service, July 6,1937.
“with mouths wide open”: Baltimore Afro-American.:, September 18,1937.
“the back and forth record”: Deutsches Volksecho, August 28,1937.
“In Germany they call me the champion”: New York World-Telegram, August 19,1937.
“if poor old Chim can knock down Louis”; “laughed with all the cheery good humor”: New York Mirror, August 19,1937.
“a clear dislike”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, August 28,1937.
“Everybody has a chance”: New York Post, August 23,1937.
“would tolerate no further gypping of the German”: New York Mirror, January 15,1938.
“If that spontaneous demonstration for Maxie”: Ibid., September 2,1937.
“He is not more”: Clearfield (Pennsylvania) Progress, August 31,1937.
“Joe Louis lost everything”: New York Herald Tribune, August 31,1937.
“His footwork is atrocious; his headwork, nil”: New York Daily News, September 1, 1937.
“would hardly knock over”: New York Mirror, September 1, 1937.
“The Alabama-born darky”: New York World-Telegram, August 31,1937.
“We note that you at no time”: Letter, Walter White to Harry Grayson, September 9, 1937, NAACP Papers.
“Bomber Without Bombs”: Reichssportblatt, September 6,1937.
AND THEY CALL THAT A WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP! Hamburger Anzeiger, August 31,1937.
“Instead of the milling, man-eating panther of old”: Chicago Defender, September 4, 1937.
“If he knocks his man out in a jiffy”: Ring, November 1937.
“It would be better for the fight game”: Amsterdam News, September 11,1937.
“You done me half a million dollars’”: New York Journal-American, September 2,1937.
“Too much teaching”: New York Age, September 11,1937.
“had taken the glamour away”: Chicago Tribune, September 20,1937.
“Champions often come up with broken bones”: New York World-Telegram, September 1,1937.
“bad stage management”; “disgraceful theater”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, September 2,1937.
“They’ll be in a line, from here”: New York World-Telegram, April 25,1938.
“You could see them breaking”: Barney Nagler, “Joe Louis’s Finest Hour,” Saga, September 1955.
“That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard you say yet!”: Pittsburgh Courier, September 11, 1937.
“I do not think I will get what you call the run-around”: Cleveland Plain Dealer, September 5,1937.
“placed the sport above the money”: Box-Sport, September 6,1937.
“any other opponent for the glorious ‘world champion’”: Völkischer Beobachter, September 8,1937.
Chapter Eleven: The Rematch Becomes Reality
“bevy of the comeliest stars”: New York Times, September 26,1937.
“Schmeling has suffered extraordinary financial losses”: letter, Metzner to Tschammer, November 4,1937, in Bundesarchiv, BA R 1501/5101.
“as big as Central Park”: New York Sun, May 30,1941.
“To find an opponent for Schmeling”: Angriff, October 21,1937.
“with open arms and with joy”: Box-Sport, November 29,1937.
“The League is not willing to feed”: New York Post, December 1,1937.
“They do not want me to have easy fights”: New York Journal-American, December 9, 1937.
“wrangling endlessly”: Ibid.
“the willing whetstone”: Associated Press, December 12,1937.
“I haven’t the slightest doubt”: New York Mirror, December 12,1937.
“The passersby smile, if they look at all”: Angriff, December 10, 1937.
“particular racial character”: Box-Sport, December 14,1937.
“We’re all fighting”: Ibid.
SCHMELING IS A GERMAN COMMODITY: New York Daily News, December 14,1937.
“Don’t send money”: New York Sun, December 14,1937.
“Jacobs would sell out”: New York Daily News, December 14,1937.
“Jacobs would sell out his own mother!”: New York Sun, December 14,1937.
“Well, I hope them boycotters don’t feel hurt”: Associated Press, December 14,1937.
“the champion who fears no man”: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 14,1937.
“the crowd almost tore his ear off”; “one of those old Dempsey ovations”: New York World-Telegram, December 14,1937.
“Max’s rooters rattled the windows”: New York Daily News, December 14,1937.
“Schmeling desoives all the credit”: New York Mirror, December 15,1937.
“My nerves are shot”: New York World-Telegram, December 14,1937.
“Max, you were wonderful!”: New York Mirror, December 15,1937.
“Emotionally, Louis probably took”: New York World-Telegram, December 14,1937.
Schmeling “looked terrible”; “he ought to go back”: Washington Post, December 15, 1937.
“contained in a prodigious yawn”: Amsterdam News, December 18,1937.
“to see another pair of gloves”: Brooklyn Eagle, December 14,1937.
“go messin’ roun’ in no fog”: New York Journal-American, December 14,1937.
“Some of my friends”: New York Times, December 15,1937.
“Max Schmeling’s popularity, particularly with the Brown Shirts”: New York Times, December 15,1937.
“he would have knocked out any other heavyweight”: Angriff, December 15,1937.
“Schmeling Also KO’d the USA Jews”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, December 14,1937.
“Samuel Untermyer & Co.”: Ibid., December 15,1937.
“the circle of Jewish boycott agitators”: Völkischer Beobachter, December 15,1937.
“an audience of appreciative storm troopers”: Anti-Nazi Bulletin, December 1937.
“I’ll get rid of all those headaches”: New York Journal-American, December 15,1937.
“not only over a strong opponent”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, December 22,1937.
“a small clique of sleazy Jewis
h agitators”; “never learned to kiss up to the newspaper Jews”: H.J.: Das Kampfblatt der Hitler-Jugend, December 4,1937; February 5,1938.
“To Our German World Champion”: Ibid., February 26,1938.
“Joe Louis hadn’t hung up his ‘sock’ ”: Pittsburgh Courier, December 25,1937.
“I’ll show him the next time”: Ibid., July 2,1938.
Louises were “definitely apart”: Pittsburgh Courier, January 8,1937.
“a Harlem night club chorine”: New York Daily News, January 10,1938.
“sepia songstress”: Baltimore Afro-American, January 15,1938.
“Wherever she goes, she is the object of all eyes”: Chicago Defender, January 22,1938.
“Despite all of the upsetting rumors”: Pittsburgh Courier, January 22,1938.
“the sweetest little wife”: Pittsburgh Courier, January 22,1938.
“meddled and meddled and meddled”; “will defend my title”: Chicago Defender, February 12,1938.
“a dud, with a capital D”: Baltimore Afro-American.:, January 8,1938.
“His awkwardness will remind them”: Ibid.
“One had expected more”: Elke Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.5: Dezember 1937–Juli 1938 (Munich: K.G. Saur, 2000), January 31, 1938, p. 126.
“He tirades a lot against America”: Ibid., T.I, Bd.5, February 2,1938, p. 131.
“Thrilling and dramatic”: Ibid., T.I, Bd.5, February 4,1938, p. 135.
“real American” fashion: 8 Uhr-Blatt, February 5,1938.
“I’m kinda sorry today’s fight happened”: New York Herald Tribune, January 31,1938.
“Tab this—Louis over Schmeling”: Ring, April 1938.
“I only hope that Hitler”: Boston Globe, February 4,1938.
“Under his leadership, German boxing”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, March 30,1938.
“sports-world gangsterism”: Box-Sport, January 31, 1938; “World Jewry”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, April 16,1938.
“It won’t be long tonight”: New York Herald Tribune, February 25,1938.
“a snarling, fighting man of the jungle”: Philadelphia Tribune, March 3,1938.
“Sitting there on his dinky little stool”: New York Mirror, February 25,1938.
“I guess it was too cold”: Chicago Tribune, April 2,1938.
“Although it takes long residence”: New York Mirror, April 16,1938.
“He really is a brave lad”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.5, April 17, 1938, p. 263.
“Schmeling is expecting you”: Reichssportblatt, May 17,1938.
All the talk of war was “crazy”: Reichssportblatt, April 26,1938.
“as homeless as Orphan Annie”: New York Mirror, April 7,1938.
“His main and valid”: Ken, June 18,1938.
“Boxing’s oldest gate gag”: New York World-Telegram, April 4,1938.
“For every customer who stays away”: Amsterdam News, April 23,1938.
“a Nazi tool”: Brooklyn Eagle, April 27,1938.
“Unless Schmeling shows himself”: New York World-Telegram, April 28,1938.
“It’s too bad”: New York Mirror, May 11,1938.
“Most of the trouble with the Jews”: Lincoln Evening Journal, April 29,1938.
“Jacobs said he did not see any”: Nation, June 18,1938.
“It is unfortunate that such as he”: Jewish Veteran, May 1938.
a set of brochures: The brochure is in the papers of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Columbia University.
“six attractive women”: Memo, May 4, 1938, Papers of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
“Those folks are crazy”: New York Times, May 9,1938.
“Every time these boycotts get under way”: Brooklyn Eagle, May 16,1938.
boycott “silly”: New York Herald Tribune, May 10,1938.
“Herr Schmeling may be a Nazi”: New York Times, May 9,1938.
“A representative of a government?”: Ibid., May 13,1938.
“I didn’t make this trip for fun”: Brooklyn Eagle, May 9,1938.
“How is it already, the gate?”: New York Mirror, May 10,1938.
“like a blue mountain”; “Tell ’em about the Boy Scouts”: Ibid.
“This is—how you say”: International News Service, May 11,1938.
the “most photographed head”: Box-Sport, May 23,1938.
“Here’s your stamp, my good young man”: Ibid.
“You won’t need six weeks”: Brooklyn Eagle, May 10,1938.
“You see, he’s a Negro”: Associated Press, May 10, 1938.
“Louis may not even know it himself”: New York Times, May 10, 1938.
“That is the psychological aftermath”: New York Journal-American.:, May 10, 1938.
“an Aryan Show Horse”; “In small groups I would try to explain”: Schmeling, Erinnerungen, p. 423.
“completely heartfelt and friendly”: Box-Sport, May 16,1938.
“The contents of the flyers are too stupid”: Ibid., May 23,1938.
“All I have to do will be to cut down on my ice cream”: New York Times, May 11,1938.
“When I get in the ring”: New York Sun, May 12,1938.
“You can bet all de money you got”: Indianapolis Recorder, May 14,1938.
“Hah’ya, Max”: New York Journal-American, May 12,1938.
“Joe, we want two words from you”; “Louis handed him what must have felt like”: New York Mirror, May 12,1938.
“as you would if a friendly”: Ibid.
“His eyes shine in proud delight”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, May 20,1938.
“A master stroke of diplomatic strategy”: New York World-Telegram, May 13,1938.
“Jews are once again trying to sabotage”: Fröhlich (ed.), Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels, T.I, Bd.5, May 18,1938., p. 306.
Chapter Twelve: Pompton Lakes and Speculator
“The world heavyweight championship is making”: Box-Sport, June 13,1938.
“tornadic” start: New York Journal-American, June 3,1938.
“Last time Chappie fot jus’”: Boston Post, June 14,1938.
Louises together “only about sixty-six” days: Baltimore Afro-American, June 25,1938.
“men in sports clothes”: Richmond Afro-American Planet, June 18,1938.
“jeweled octoroons from the Cotton Club”: Chicago Daily News, June 2,1938.
“There’s wire netting”: London Sunday Pictorial, June 19,1938.
“just another fighter he was going to stop”: Fried, Corner Men, p. 148.
“with all the savage vigor”: Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 16,1938.
“that started in Albany”: New York World-Telegram, June 8,1938.
“hit hard enough to dent a cake frosting”: New York World-Telegram, June 10,1938.
BROWN BOMBER LOOKS LIKE TAN TARGET: New York Post, June 10,1938.
“Louis has never been accused of being erudite”: New York Herald Tribune, June 16, 1938.
“Schmeling will make no mistake”: New York World-Telegram, June 16,1938.
“They tried Shufflin’ Joe”: New York Times, June 17,1938.
“Experimentation to him”: New York Mirror, June 3,1938.
“There can be no question”: Los Angeles Times, June 21,1938.
“I don’t know that Cy what-you-calls-him”: New York Journal-American, June 20,1938.
“They are saying Joe Louis”: Atlanta Journal, June 21,1938.
“I don’t think he has changed a lick”: New York Sun, June 20,1938.
“feeding time at the zoo”: Boston Sunday Advertiser, June 5,1938.
“vastly improved mentally”: New York Post, June 8,1938.
“In Joe’s trade a well-delivered clout”: New York Mirror, June 21,1938.
“Keep Joe from thinking”: New York Journal-American, April 16,1938.
“that remarkable sense of rhythm”: Ibid., June 7,1938.
“chauvinism and backwardness”: Daily Worker, June 18,1938.
“inflicted an infer
iority complex”: New York Sun, June 8,1938.
“Joe Louis never will admit it”: Charleston (South Carolina) News & Courier, June 22, 1938.
“The psychology is true”: Daily Texan, June 19,1938.
“Joe Louis is as much an American”: Richmond News-Leader, June 22,1938.
“For the first time in the history”: New York Daily News, June 22,1938.
“The public, even in the deep South”: Walter White to Lowell Thomas, June 20,1938, in NAACP papers.
“You fight him the way”: New York World-Telegram and Sun, May 1, 1957.
“the greatest right”: Port Arthur (Texas) News, December 8,1937.
“One of the most liberal and genuine”: Pittsburgh Courier, June 11, 1938.
“ridiculous”: Atlanta Daily World, June 15,1938.
“Gene, he not only never fought”: New York Sun, June 11,1938.
Schmeling’s “spiritual fortification”: Connecticut Nutmeg, May 26,1938.
“did not have to dance”: Angriff, June 10,1938.
“he would be awkward”: Chicago American, June 15,1938.
“His burning desire for revenge”: Pittsburgh Courier, June 25,1938.
“I don’t like Schmeling”: New York Journal-American, May 18,1954.
“The old drowsiness is gone”: New York Journal-American, June 17,1938.
“I know how to fight Max, now”: New York Daily News, June 14,1938.
“Sheer youthful exuberance”: New York World-Telegram, June 22,1938.
“a fit subject for the psychiatric ward”: Atlanta Daily World, June 15,1938.
“My rheumatics will give me”: New York Mirror, June 15,1938.
“They’ve finally got that boy mad”: Associated Press, June 16,1938.
“All of his work leaves the impression”: Box-Sport, June 13,1938.
“the dollar assets of Herr Mike Jacobs”: Box-Sport, May 30,1938.
“as close to perfection”: New York Sun, June 17,1938.
“He is planning to right-cross you”: Chicago Defender, June 18,1938.
“the merest shadow of embonpoint”: Amsterdam News, June 18,1938.
“We were the center of attraction”: Ibid.
“The black dynasty of pugilism”: Chicago American, June 2,1938.
the white press hid Schmeling’s racism: Gary American, June 17,1938.
“Make no mistake, Max Schmeling”: Chicago Times, June 7,1938.
“Ve haff no strikes”: Ibid., June 17,1938.