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WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT Champion joo Aonie usually

up the kill~ in all his title fights with a blazing left
The column, however, is somewhat satisfied a right
i will be his major weapon in the forthcoming Billy Conn
cl eon saay. night, June 18, at the Polo Grounds, ~; A right hand kept constantly on
Conn~s left temple, in his face, on -his
jleft jaw, and over his heart will be the
If the corner is wrong in, i \this contention, it will be easily seen.
3 But mark it down.
a Louis whips ali opponents boast--

ng a good left hand with a bis econ)
right hand attack.

Now, the champion fis no onehanded fighter. Don~t get the column
wrong. But when he goes out to ~set
up~ an ultimate knockout, he follows a
pattern usually designed in advance
by the canny Jack Blackburn.

ine thing the column has always kept an eye for when |
watching Louis in action~has been the religious manner in

gets i in trouble.
Then, Blackburn or no Blackburn, Louis wades out on

Louis was using a left jab, right cross tneckaway}
~~ style on Tony Galento until the globular gent from Orange

Tull in. his
round-trip hike

Brown Bomber Hits tude As

Hard, Lot Smarter-Blackburn

|GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y~

(SNS)~~It~s them fellows that get |

down on the floor that~ bothey me.
Gniys like Artuto Fodoy and Little~
Fat Boy Musto whe fight out of a
crouch. They don~t give you nothing but head it hit. You are likely
to bust your hands.~

It was world heavyweight champion Joe Louis talking during a
roadwork, a six mile
about the sur
~| rounding hills with sweat togs

draped about. his body.
ONLY GRUDGE AGAINST
SCHMELING

~T haven~t rightly been excited

since the last Max Schmeling fight.
Of course, I tried a little harder
against Godoy and Bob Pastor.
They made me look bad the first
time, but the kick wasn~t
Guess maybe I fight too much.~

there.
While it is quite evident Louis

Novel Louis-Conn ~Mike~

GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y~~
the Mighty. ian of Marea

e ty. of Mayhi
~ning to show the wear et tae oF
a strenuous ring career? Is he tis
to be outspeeded by Billy Conn in
their heavyweight championship
sette at the Polo Grounds the night
of June 18?

Tut, tish and a couple of phoofs;
says Training Jack. Blackburn, in
words to that general effect.

~Maybe Chappie ain~t gettin~ no
younger,~ remarks the shrewd old
veteran, ~but he~s only 27 now, and
should: be good for at Jeast~ three.
or four more years. ~Cause Buddy
Bear knocks him out of the ring,
then cuts his eye, they~re sayin~
Chappie ain~t what he was, and is
ready to be taken by some young

pping? _ Is $0

charap will get him somewhere along
the way. ~Leastways, that~s how I
feel about it.

~~The public~s built Chappie up as
Sn giao py el haat ecitien dl
pens to get. hit on the~chin,: like
he did with Tony Galento and ~Buady Baer, it~s supposed to be a sign
that he~s

~Any. fighter~s apt to.be hit. There
hever has been. one who didn~t get
nailed sometime or other. Specially
when he~s to takea
chances like Chappie does.

~But don~t forget that any time

Chappie~s beer hit and hurt, he~s

Wve | Max the-gecond. time..
got to do is rifflé~

~Some.night Chappie 1 hit
BB Go er gage
After all, he~s only human, But
don~t think~ Billy Conn~s the

SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1941

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do it. Billy is fast and a great box- ~

er. But

ain't so slow him= ~

to keep~ away front Ohappie for 15~

neat

rourids.
~Maybe Pm. wrong, but it~ll take

& powerful lot of convincin~ by Mr.

come back fightin~ mad. Only time

Conn to make me admit it.~

hasn't put the most in his punching in every fight, it is still his
opinion that he can really load a|
~departed from the script ~and popped Joe smack upon the
_ kisser with a jolting left uppercut. Louis dangled in mid
and was surprised by being charged in return by Pastor. *

BUDDY MOORE, BROWN BOMBER

-. of a halfback in football when he takes the ball, runs off and
-leaves his teammates, and yells:

-~ Louis saw his own blood for the first time since winning the
title, virtually everybody present knew it was curtains for

a POLO GROUNDS JUNE 18

air like a pendulum, landing prostrate on the canvas, his
purple trunks conspicuously evident to everyone in the park.

_ That was when Louis forgot all about Blackburn.and
his instructions. Joe then did what amounts to the action

~Interference foller me!~

Louis left his interference, so to speak. He sank his left
and right fists into the bulging beer barrel and _ literally
blasted him off~ his tree-like pins. Galento, punch drunk
and bleeding with the profusion of a freshly slaughtered
hog, desperately tackled Referee Arthur Donovan in an ef- |:
fort to keep his feet. But down he went.

Joe Louis was a boxer when he started out against
Buddy Baer in Washington~s Griffith Stadium. But Baer
tagged him with a left hook that lifted him clean out of the
ring. That was when things went absolutely contrary to
~copy~. Louis took complete offensive charge and battered
the California giant with what has been estimated as 44
telling rights and lefts. Baer kept his feet, but, when he -
cut the champion~s left eye with a punch in the fifth and: Baer~s. little. boy, Buddy.

es |...Jack..Dempsey, the old Manassa
~ Mauler, was even more destructive than
Louis when aroused, the column is told
by oldsters. He would take sometimes
10 of the other men~s punches to get
in one. And with that dynamite he
threw, Dempsey was always a good bet
to fell his adversary. He dropped big
26)-pound Jess Willard seven times in

the first moments of their memorable

- 1919. bout.

Another example of Dempsey~s
- clouting power was exhibited in the Louis
~ Angel Firpo fight when, after being
kn ocked | out ~the. ring, he came back and battered the Argentine Alp.to pulp.

Dempsey thinks Louis will beat Conn, because he doesn~t
think Billy~s science will survive Joe~s inevitable dynamite.
He thinks gradual pummeling of Conn by Louis will slow up
and eventually work the undaing of Conn.

That was the way it happened in the second Bob Pastor
bout. Louis went after the New York grid immortal of NYU

Bicycle Bob had told his manager Louis was overrated and | most continuous exile of 35 years /ing an error based upon popular | ITY for the use of the term ~tech- erco

that he could have whipped Joe the first time out had not he | @ France and continental Europe, misconception. nical knockout~ can be found any- eas kad prety ate oe at the Polo Grounds June 18, will| it in writing, and for three years.~: 3: e was warm in his thanks this week | A knockout may be scored in | where. One is left to wonder how | ~~& stars. e ~| give Jacobs exclusive call on Conn~s| ~Three years?~ There was an-~

(Bob~s manager) held him in check, for the invaluable help Negro |~any ways: its use came about anyway. bagged no less than 12 of the 15 | services for the next five years. guish in Ray's tones. ~Why ~ not
first places, Fort Valley, Ga., aN | This accomplishment was not as/nidke it five?~

But it didn~t take long to convince Pastor he was wrong.
Louis cut him down four times in the very first round and
the bell saved him.

Louis tagged Pastor again as the second canto got un
der. way. That was when Bicycle Bob got on his ~bike~~as
of old. But the constant drilling he took at various intervals
sapped the young man~s energy. His legs became lumpy
and heavy, his knees buckled, and, in the eleventh round,
when he was so tired he could hardly hold up his guard, Louis
cut him down with a jolting right, an elevating left uppercut, arid a power-laden right cross. He was down and all the
~way out on the full count.

_ Conn is a champion as well asa challenger against Louis.
Holding the lightweight crown by cashing in on born cour
~the fighting Irishman, like any champion at heart, will

try to fight Louis. That will be wrong~so the column must

+ me Louis by a kayo. 3

). 2, ON LOUIS-CONN CARD.

tle,~

with
and stay as long as possible.

ly ~send home~
punches. Perhpas Billy Conn can
arouse him.

~| Grand Prix de la Tourquet,

punch when he. cares.
~HONEY~

OF PUNCH
~That left to the belly against

Red Burman was about as good
@ punch as
champion smiled.

J ever threw~, the

Trainer Jack Blackburn, chimed

in at that point:

~He hits just as hard and knows

& lot more about boxing. Differences in Joe~s fights are not in
Louis but his opposifion.

~They used to fight Joe a litpointed out the trainer.~
~They'd come to him, and hed belt
~em out. Now they get in the ring
only one idea~to hang on

~A pretty bad fighter can make

a good one lock mighty bad when
he just, tries
MUST BE MAD

to go the distance~.

Louis has to ne mad now to realthose Sunday

~Then, maybe, we'll see a flash.

of the old Joe Louts.

Jack Dempsey saw the Louis
| Burman fight and is inclined to

agree that left to the midriff Red
took from Joe was a devastating.
a wallop as the Brown Bomber
ever hurled. Dempsey. says it
caught Burman with so much
force that Red simply didn~t feel
it; it was a case of painless surgery.

If the newshounds kéep ~lowrating~ Louis in order to build-up
Conn, they're going to make it
mighty hrd for Billy. Joe might
get mad.

Famed Sepia
~Jockey Back
From Europe

NEW YORK~Samuel Jay Bush,
fomouus rider and trainer of horses
who returned to his native America several weeks ago after an al
newspapers have given him in reestablishing himself as a working
gine at
A story on Bush carried in the
Negro press two weeks ago has!
he told newsmen at the Ho
Theresa, to several offers to take
over the keeping and training of
horses~notably
movie people.
While in Europe, Bush rode for
the Aga Khan, wealthy Indian Potentate and sportsman, and for J
E. Widener who raced his stable
in France. Twice he won the
and
important French jumping event.

He still holds his authorization to

ride and train horses from the

Secretaire General de la Societe

d~Encouragement pour Amelicra--
tion~ des races de chavauz en
France.

In the United States, Bush will
be remembered by oldtimers for
his victories in the International

Steeplechase twice on the same.

mare, Belle of Bryn Mawr; and
for such triumphs as the Green

Spring. Valley Steeplechase at Pim-| _
lico, the Gold Cup at Piping Rock
and the Chevy Chase Steeplechase |
at. Laurel. His last winning mount

~in the United States was Flying

Scout when he rode for the late
James Temple Gwathmey.

from Hollywood

Mutual~s Sports Coordinator,
the workings of the MBS boxing mike to a lovely model, and is having a difficult time keeping his mind on the microphone, Encased
in an actual heavyweight boxing mitt, it will be used for the first
time on Wednesday, June 18, at 9 P. M, (Eastern Standard Time)
when Mutual exclusively broadcasts the Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavy
Harold Stein)

weight championship from New York~s

Tom Slater, is shown explaining

Polo.Grounds.~ (Photo by

AS "TECHNICAL

By ~MELANCHOLY~ JONES
~(SNS Sports Editor)

John 'L. Sulfivan was ever*a ~world~

~heavyweight. champion was explod
ed~and Atlanta~s arch sportsman,
John Wesley Dobbs, was on the dynamiting end of the fuse. It was
proved conclusively that there have
been ~but 14 world heavyweight
titleholders ~ that Sullivan was
nothing more than an American
champion.

Now, the writer is ready to explode the idea that there is any
such. animal as a ~technical knockout.~ When a contest is stopped by
the referee because one of the principals can~t continue action, whether it is due to poor physical condition, a cut over. the eye, loss of
blood, hurling in the towel by his
seconds,.or any other means than
by a horizontal kayo, it should be
correctly recorded as a KNOCKOUT~and not a TECHNICAL

KNOCKOUT, ig
Starting today, you will never
find the writer using the term
~technical knockout~ or listing John
L. Sullivan as a world heavyweight
champion. He has learned better~
and there is no point in perpetuat
(1) When a fighter is poelipiiptedy
knocked OUT OF TIME~cannot
get to his feet within the prescribed

ef ten seconds after being

(2) When he fails to come out of
his corner,to.answer the bell for the
succeeding round, in which case t
referee counts over him while ~t
fighter is SEATED.

(3) When he is hanging ye armed
eyer the ropes and cannot defen

(4) If he is unable to carry on
during a round because of poor physical condition.

(5) If he is in such distress during a rotind that he cannot defend
himesif and the referee is forced to

roe 8 to save him from further

t.

peThe ae conditions above are the
boxing rules on a KNOCKOUT as

iey are to be found TODAY. Prior

1936, when ~they were revised by
e

A FEW DAYS ago, the idea that |.

New York State Boxing Com-.

THERE 1S NO SUCH THING.

KNOCKOUT, ~

SNS SPORTS DESK FINDS

mission, the boxing rules governing

& knockout were simply*: (1). When. a fighter.is unable, after being knocked. down, to rise unaided inside of ten seconds. <

(2) When a boxer is in, distress,
but still on his feet, and the referee
is forced to intercede to save him
from further punishment.

In 1936, for the reason that. managers comiplained against having
their men listed as being ~knocked
out~ in contests where they had to
give up because of cuts, distress, and
so forth, the~New York commission
changed thie rules as follows:

(1) Referees and judges shall, in
rendering decisions, consider and
declare a contestant to be knocked
eut when he is unable, after being
floored, to rise unaided inside of
ten seconds,

(2) If a referee intercedes to save
a boxer from further punishment,
then he and the judges shall render the verdict, ~contest stopped,
unable to continue, and name _ the
winner.~

NOTE THAT in none of-the ryles
cited above has any mention been
made of a TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT. And, interestingly enough, no
WRITTEN or VERBAL AUTHOR
~RING~ EDITOR ALERT

Nat Fleischer, editor of RING

ie, foremost boxing publica
tion in the world, has departed from
convention and NO LONGER lists
~TKO~ or writes ~technical knockout~ opposite any fighter~s record.

A fighter either goes the route
without being kayoed or else gets
KNOCKED OUT. There is no, technical knockout. A disqualification or
foul may be declared~but no technical knockout.
MATTER OF- INTERPRETATION

For authority on the writer~s contention, he recommends you to Nav
Fleischer. If you. want an even
greater authority~the writer refers
you to the boxing rule book itself.
The rules are presented above; interpret them yourself or get a constitutional lawyerm to perform the
job. Still, when you get through, it~s
dollars to doughnuts you'll find
there~s no such animal as a TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT,,

LEO TARRANT WINS 100, 220.
Mea regan

By RIC. ROBERTS

WASHINGTON, D. C._~(SNS)~
A few. days ago at Hampton InStitute, it was suggested that a
yational intercollegiate track meet
involving the four major college
groups be held~a ~Big Four~ fivestar final,

iMost of the college coaches may
not share this view. A few of them
feel that track is futile unless a
colored star is entered at one of
the big white meets, and ~with
success. Men like Cleve Abbott and
Tom Verdell and Sam Tayior envision track primarily a sport in
which to successfully carry.
out challenges against Princeton,

Mozel Ellerbe, Tom East or a Joshi
Williamson is to be_ preferred to
an All- American halfback. q

The s suggestion did have ime
writer roll up ~is Sleeves, howpver
and sct forth the finest track
marks of the year by athletes in
our own colleges. To do this, I
have searched the finals of the
Hampton and Tuskegee - Relays,
May 10, and the CIAA, SIAC,
MWAC and SWAC intercollegiate
meets held at Baltimore, Atlanta,
Jefferson ~City and Baton Rouge,
La., respectively, on May 17.

STARDUSTED XAVIER

Of the fifteen events, common
to all these mets, Xavier University of New Orleans~ already
beasting student Jimmy McDanjel as finest of the nation~s tennis
stars~ran away with eight track
and field championships for 1941.

A. breakdown on facts ard figures also reveals consistent~ su--

independent, had the best quartermiler; Davis of West Virginia
State is discus king (131 feet 9 1-4
inches), and Nelson of Wiley had
21:8 for the 220-yard dash, tied
with Leo Tarrant of Alabama at
9.6 for the 100~yard dash.

CIAA WAS WEAK

The CIAA was notably wreak in
track and field endeavor this
spring. the best effort being made
by Embra Bowie of Morgan~2:13
for the 880-yard run. However,
this waS only a third place effort
for the SIAC had _ 1:57.66, the
SWAG 2:04. Aside from the
mercury heeled Nelson of Wiley,
Xavier~s Culp was the only two
title winner. He ran the fastest
mile ever recorded in race competition, 4 minutes 189 seconds)
and bettered 2 miretes by 2 min
| utes 4 seconds.

Berry af Southern did wondertful things in the high jump with
6 feet 6 1-2 inches at Baton Rouge,
and 6 feet 53-4 inches at Tuske-gee. It just so happens that King
of Xavier, with 6 feet 6 3-4 inches
at Atlanta, Fates first place.

COACHES LAUDED

~The national ~best, efforts~ are
impressive. One of the finest

Michigan, Hervard, etc. To them, @ |

~could keep track of the

National Intercollegiate
Championships - 1941

TRACK

Time
96

9.6
21.08
48.6
1:57.6
4:18.9
10:24.2
14.6
23.5
3:19.8

Event
100-Yard Dash

| 220-Yard: Dash

-Yard Run
880-Yard Run
One-Mile Run
Two-Mile Run
12-Yard High Hurdles
220-Yard Low Hurdles
One- Mile Relay

Performer~School
Tarrant, Alabama~SIAC
Nelson, Wiley~SWAC
' Nelson, Paes ce
* Marshall, Ft. Valley, Ga

Culp, Xavier~SIAC

Culp, Xavier~SIAC

Baugh, Alabama~SIAC

Paxton, Xavier~SIAC

Amos, Morehouse~SIAC
_ Tuskegee~SIAC

4

FIELD

Distance

48 ft.2 in.
195 ft. 8 in.
131 ft. 8% in.
Za tt. Ti in.

Height

6 ft. 6%. in.
13 ft. 6~ in.

Shot Put. Javelin
Discuss ~
Broad Jump

High Jimp
Pole Vault

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Robart, Xavier~SIAC
Williamson, Xavier~SIAC -
Davis, West Va~-MWAC

~Douglass, Xavier~SIAC

King, Xavier~SIAC
Farmer,Xavier~SIAC.

Early Return Match If

NEW YORK~(SNS)~ Though
not the man you'll accuse of chang-.horses in mid-stream, ~Uncle
Mike~ Jacobs also is not the kind
of man to be caught on the wrong
horse just when it~s getting tired. +
Therefore promoter Jacobs has
drawn up the necessary papers
which, should Billy Conn dethrone
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis at

easy as it sounds. ~Uncle Mike~
first had to persuade Johnny Ray,
Conn~s manager, to his way. of
thinking, and Ray took considerable
persuading.

In fact the Jacobs office help

>

four-hour negotiations
Jacobs~ periodic exits from
conference~ room~one minute to

tear down all Louis-Conn advertising posters and bellow | ~the

Billy Conn Beats Louis

Xavier Produces Eight Of 1941:
Track And Field Champions

fight~s off,~ a few. moments later.

to have the posters.all put up again

and. declare that crmines fine.~

Jacobs called him in Wednesday,
said he wanted sole rights to Conn
if ~Billy should win Ray said why

~should Jacobs worry, he was the

only guy they~d probably fight for
any way.
~No,~ said Mike,

~Say, that~s a fine idea,~
plied Jacobs. ~We'll make it five.~
Conn~s switch from Long Branch,

re
~I got to have -

N. J. to Pompton was made at the..
suggestion

of his doctor, who helieves Billy will be better able to
build himself up if he stays away
from the seashore. Louis already
is in camp.
The terms for the fight remain
the same, with Louis to get forty
the per cent and Conn twenty per cent.

LOU GEHRIG PRAISED BY HIS

COLORED PREP TEAMMATE, PAL,
HENRY C. PARKER, JR.

WASHINGTON~(ANP)~
Henry Louis Gehrig, noted ig
baseman of one of the greatest
teams of all times. died: last~ week,
Henry C. Parker, Jr.,
secretary of the. colored branch
YMCA in Pittsburgh, lost one of |

High school, another native born
New Yorker was also on the team
And while Lou was of German ex
executive |

|

ve

se the ensuing years, when
\Gehrig vint te Columbia where
~he started on the football team as
a guard (Louw weighed 212 pounds)

~lot ag

~each other, and at no
Gehrig, then on his way
heights in baseball, ever |
fcrmer teammate, Henry Parker.
The latter has censtantly said he
considered Gehrig one cf his herd

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BERNICE CALVIN ring June 18.~ | |Irish) have pitched camp a stone~s
ait seen: > 9 oxdoe~s rag is still swollen. The | throw from Louis. Conn~s at Pomp- | ~<- the 13-foot 9-ich pole vault mark | traction, this other New Yorker
~YORK~(C)~The _Louis-| memento of. the disturbing fifth |ton Lake while Joe~s at Greenwood | MILWAUKEE, Wis~ (SNS) |= {cinderfest,. a.: Se a a
bout is now in black and white, | heat whaieai Buddy Baer was the | Lake. aus cuit jaittiiees Le Se Fe had ae Ska a, Parker.
Uncle Mike Jacob's raitt- |socker has caused the champ to lose Life, the picture magazine that had little trouble here Sat-:| Archie Hartis, feeurd-holder. Parker was @ pitcher on the team
Conn will not be replaced | a lot of time to tune up for Cénn. | reaches over 1,500,000 persons week- the 100 and 220-yard | te discus~ throw, won: the discus which ~through the entire
Baer who madea | Joe couldn~t do a thing in the way |ly has a nice set of pictures on/|dashes at the Central Collegiate | 8d shot put throw to aid ~| Publie School Athletic league seae world last /of athletics, but played golf while |~Satchel~ Paige, ~one of the great- erence meet. | in piling up the 42 points son with a most remarkable record,
and Joe met under the | waiting for the wound to heal. But jest pitchers in baseball.~ Comments t product of Birrhingtiana West: the sixteenth annual meet. and not only was Parker a pitcher,
t circumstances at N. 08 tagger ange oes sig pulviy sod oe AE oN we hig al cele ce 4 hay ange ed display - ee eee oe he was THE pitcher, for someamission, affixed t an arduous campaign to bes superb control.~ three pages of |ed' form forecasting a bitter fight saucer feet, 7; where along the fire that season,
to the contract, then os qusekay oon be telly ~an poeatthe, | prone: tagasine tet ote |i the sme honors athe Nationa | Hi mask nthe she DUE he hurled a no ~hit shut out
ngly for can Meanwhile, his opponent, along with | 33-ye theet in: Phil June | feet, 48-4 inches... against one of his opponents, a
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