Who takes what giants leave? USSR, United States will dominate Olympics The confident assertion that the 1956 Olympic Games will be ‘‘the greatest fes- tival in the history of Sport’ is made by one of the world’s most eminent athletic authorities in World Sport International Athletics Annual. R. L. Quercetani, of Italy analysis the completeworld lists of best performances, again an important feature of the annual. From this he deduces that the United States and the Soviet Union beween them contribute slightly less than 50 percent of the world track potential. And he points out that the U.S. still provides two men of international class for every- one from the USSR. From this it can be seen that these two countries will probably take a big share of the 34 athletic gold medals to be awarded individually at Melbourne. : After these two giants rank track powers like Great Britain, the all-German team, the Scan- a * Hector Hogan, who dis- appointed at the British Empire Games here two years ago, is Australia’s best hope in the sprints at the coming - Olympics, dinavian and mid-European strong. points of athletics, Czechoslovakia, Poland and above all, Hungary. Australia, the host nation, also plays a strong hand in the sprints and the mid dis- tanee. Quercetani’s article predicts that the 100 meters will almost certainly go to a U.S. sprint- er, possibly Jim Golliday. . But it could be one of the sensa- tional newcomers, Dave Sime, Bokby Morrow or Leamon King. The challenge to American superiority will come from Trinidad’s Mike Agostini, Ger- many’s Heinz Futterer and Australia’s Hector Hogan. , In the 400 meters. sprint again the U.S. is undoubtedly the strongest nation. “But now Europe seems to have a serious candidate in the Soviet Union’s Ardalion Igna- teyev,” writes Quercetani, adding: “Stocky Voitto Hellsten (Fin- land) ‘by far the greates# quarter-miler in Scandinavian history will bear watching.” In the 800 metres this Italian expert has a word for Derek Johnson of Britain and in the same picture come Audun Boy- sen and Lajoz Szentgali as challengers to the world record holder Roger Moens. He also mentions the “half” ability of Brian Hewson, Brit- ain’s national mile champion, Gunnar Neilsen (Denmark) ano Istvan Rozsavolgyi of Hun- gary. The U.S. has Lon Spur- rier, Arnie ‘Sowell and Tom Courtenay. There is a tremendous wealth of world talent over the mile —Australia’s John Landy will get plenty of competition from Hungary’s famous Iharos- Tabori - Rozsavolgi trio. And there is Neilsen, Hewson, Jung- wirth, Hermann and Halberg. Britain really reveals her hand in the 5,000 and 10,000, having “taken over Finland’s one time role as the world’s Number One distance power.” And in the 3,000 meters steeplechase, which versatile Jerzey Chromik (Poland) the world’s record holder, may elect to go for, the British trio “Disley - Shirley - Basher” should prove a match for any- one. , When it comes to the girls, the USSR will shine in both track and field events, with some stiff competition from Britain and Australia. Wallace now wants old Archie Moore Gordon Wallace of Brantford, Ontario, newly-crowned British Empire lightheavyweight champion, hopes to meet ancient Archie Moore, world champion, in a title fight in Tor- onto late in July. Promoter Frank Tunney has offered Moore. $45,000 to lay his championship belt on the line against the Canadian slugger. Wallace, who knocked, out Randy Turpin some months ago, won the vacant Empire crown when he easily out- pointed British champion Ron Barton at Clapham Stadium last week. A rough and tough puncher, Wallace completely out-hit the. disappointing Barton, who put up one of the worst fights of his career. From the very first bell Wallace threw punches. In the second his right caught Barton on the side of the head and spun.him round. But for the ropes he would have gone down. In the third the Canadian threw a.windmill-like left, connected and followed -with a right which sent the British boxer floundering into the ropes like a drunken man. Barton touched the canvas, but did not take a count. Wallace was shaken by a short right hook in the seven- th but came back strongly and had his opponent staggering at the bell. In the 13th Wallace took a damaging. series of punches. Instead of going down he came wading in, glassy-eyed, and dumped Barton for an eight- count. The Britisher got. up, only to be hammered around the ring and toppled again for nine. For the rest of the fight he: was a mere punching bag for Wallace. * Jim Bailey, who has become known as Mr. Upset since he defeated John Landy (above) in a 3:58.6 mile at Los Angeles recently, will run at Brockton Oval on July 2 in a special mile race which will be one of the highlights of the annual Police Sports. FAMOUS FIGHTS | On. June 19, 1936 one of Hitler’s pet fighters, Max Schmeling, knocked out up- and-coming Joe Louis, a Negro lad who had worked on a Ford assembly line before turning to the ring for a liv- ing, in 12 rounds. One year later Louis kayoed James J. Braddock for the world’s heavyweight title, and a return bout with Schmeling became a “natural.” Over in Germany the Nazis filled the sports pages with sneers at the “mongrel black champion” and boasted that their Max would slaughter him, but good. It would prove they said, the superiority of the white race. The fight Yankee Stadium, on June 22, 1938. “The black dynasty of box- ing must be ended,” Schmeling tola reporters. “Louis has no right to the championship and he knows it.” Ten Nazi correspondents were at ringside to watch Aryan supremacy assert it- self. Then came a telegram from Hitler himself, hail- ing Schmeling in adyance for winning the title for Ger- many. The fighters came out of their corners, and before any- one knew what was happening, Schmeling was down. He got up and threw his vaunted right (which had kayoed Louis be- fore) but the champ rode with the punch, drove the German to the ropes, dropped him again. Max got up, but Louis was all over him, throwing those short, power-packed rights and lefts. The challenger screamed in agony from a series of body was held in New York, June 29, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 15 blows, collapsed for the full count. A group of 1,000 German tourists, who had marched into the arena in semi-military for- mation, binoculars slung over shoulders, hadn’t had time to get their glasses focused before it was all over. They stood open-mouthed for a few moments, then began to slink away. The roar of the crowd came down in waves from the stands and bleachers. Total JOE LOUIS strangers hugged each other with joy. After the fight Louis said, “It’s the only time I was ever angry in the ring.” This Schmeling kayo marked 38 wins for Louis in 39. pro- fessional bouts, 32 by knock- out, with the lone defeat avenged in one round. Joe Louis was the greatest of all that night.