JOE LOUIS vs


	SCHMELING STOPS LOUIS IN TWELFTH AS 45,000 LOOK ON ___________________ Hammers Foe to Canvas With Barrage of Rights to Jaw and Scores Major Upset. ___________________ BOMBER DOWN IN FOURTH ___________________ By JAMES P. DAWSON
	In one of the greatest heavyweight battles of modern ring history Max Schmeling, sturdy, stolid German who formerly held the world's heavyweight title, last night provided one of the ring's biggest upsets when he knocked out Joe Louis, Detroit's famed Brown Bomber, in the Yankee Stadium. Under the murderous fire of desperate rights to an unprotected jaw, Louis went down to be counted out by referee Arthur Donovan and Knockdown Time-keeper Johnny McAvoy in the twelfth round of what was to have been a fifteen round battle. Exactly 2 minutes 29 seconds of the fatal twelfth had gone into history when Louis, hailed as the king of fighters entering the ring, was counted out, his invincibility as a fighter a shattered myth, his vulnerability convincingly established and his claims to the heavyweight title distinction knocked into the discard.
	Louis Staggers Out of Ring
	Louis had to be carried to his corner while the shouts of a crowd of 45,000 delirious fight fans rang in the ears of his battered, bruised and bleeding conqueror. And, when his handlers got him to his corner, Louis required several minutes of resuscitating before he was able to stagger on shaky legs out of the ring-unnoticed. The crowd-estimated early in the evening by Promoter Mike Jacobs to number 60,000-witnessed a form reversal that was greater even than that in which James J. Braddock lifted the heavyweight title from Max Baer last year. And it saw Schmeling, with the might of his right fist, his chief weapon of attack, hammer his way into another chance at the title he lost to Jack Sharkey. Schmeling was the underdog in betting odds of 8 to 1 as the fight started. Bettors were offering even money he wouldn't come up for the fifth round. Without naming the round, they were offering 3 and 4 to 1 Louis would score a knockout. But Schmeling, ignoring the contempt in which he was held as a foe for the Bomber with the latter's unbroken string of twenty-seven victories that held twenty-three knockouts, fulfilled the promise he made that he would fight his way into another crack at the title.
	The New York Times-June 20, 1936