SPORT

Fireworks

It looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically tried to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket.

It was all over in 124 seconds. Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting--three, four, five--over the dazed challenger. The referee threw it out of the ring, stopped the fight--a victory on a technical knockout for Champion Louis. This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.