The Archive · 1936

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a ae a cee aap a Ahn itt Sat Sad te sing pee Ese ea aa EAE SOT a, coa of, Maat et tet ow Sal oun tha Soe ola piece abt tasses Gel ces tS Mie n't rear Sai ies IPS fah wid bunt ast aes out, hia it aaa HOR. EGO, Seite ala' wma "St tates de" AO fat Qivng Sumer on Os 1, Jude: aeon or lit bought te" atin ets Sool Borecater at's Bat sed ath Si eet Smet Snr ne nding deer Bat Ta a COE arm nie hake Wrong." Damages are claimed by Nee eet a at ned ts Sonne weal dang ener soree an ad Sea Wicted" att th ne amd Bit. ad" ne pain Fac ant contributed his prophecy to the in Sei ili sto remo nent ate er te on wi be Auer isan state Sine Sidteeh sin Sue a epi ks ae went Keticaa® Sourtan" a "lat Sis" ale AA, Geet om chy EYE ce Rhee la a sy a a sies il aerate Bocas armed cee sch a net Grumich 'Interviewed Schmeling ana! his manager, Jacobs, on the arrival the German' boxer in' America, and his reception to Schmeling was any Me ication of how the "German" was Fecelved by the rest of the United States, than one can imagine "that Schmeling would be anxious to beat aot only Lows but also any other citizen of the United States, which American wrllers. worship the American aerie Mar irate, ie exe The news of the German's victory Unged with a certain malicious delight, nat at the fact that fighter as he was four days ago, Sut T would dearly love to see. some of those' Writers repeat what they" were writing about firn a week ago, The defendant retaliated in. his column with the composition which is the basis of this action. The article, which was written with the well Known restrained delicacy of sport. Ing page style and in disregard of the press tradition that newspaper battles should be impersonal, is too Jong to reproduce here.

Tt suggested that plainti? was just as surprised as anyone else at the outcome of the Schmeling-Louis bout Dut persisted in taking an attitude of "T-told-you-so;"" that plainti was satirical about al! Americans in gen-feral and American sports writers in particular; that the American sports Writers he belittles are paid more in tone month than plainti is paid in a year; that plaintiff has very little Requaintance with the reading public; that plainti@ habitually backs the: wrong fighter, as evidenced by his! enthusiastic support of Battling Yson and his disparagement of Little rin; that plaintiff isnot known ut aspires to sports scribe in Shanghai: that he panned a Aight card for which he had. a free ticket and said what he' Thought about it, which couldn't have been very much that he ook a ridiculous altitude concerning the question of title claims of "Little Thunderstorm; that he conned Ast0- ciated Press clippings for some of the material used in his column, ete, The article refers to, plaintiff as "Charley" my. boy." "dowdy little ty" and "the lad in the glass Granting, as the plaintiff sagely remarked on the witness stand, that taste is not a consideration in sports writhfg, It seems to the Court on the whole that one blow below the belt was countered with another so that honours, if any, are even.

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