The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1937, Page 5

-BY GOLLY- g NOUGH THE OF KEEP ME SON BUSY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1937. By GEORGE McMANUS g MAGGIE-I'M HAPPY TOTELL YOU THAT SONNY REALLY TAKING | IN HIS WORK-H BE HOME FOR DINNER-IN FACT, HE WILL BE AT THE | LEFT WORK AT FICE TO UNTIL ABOUT TEN o'Cl NOW | K LOCK. TONIGHT- IN HAVE A NICE, QUIET EVENMN'"- opr. 1937, King Featurey Syndicate, LOUIS KNOCKS BRAD WHITE CHAMP SMASHED DOWN IN 6TH ROUND Negro Becomes Heavy- weight Titlist of World, Second Time, History 65,000 SEE GOOD FIGHT IN CHICAGO Jim Puts Up Good Resist- ance for 5 Rounds then Crumbles Before Joe CHICAGO, Ill, June 23 Louis last night worr the lLeavy- weight championship of the world by knocking out Jamees Braddo in the eighth of a scheduled 1 round title match before 65000 spectators, Braddock, cut and bleeding, was counted out after 1 minute and 10| seconds of fighting in the eighth round, being floored for the first time by a terrific right smash tc the hLead. Louis floored count, as he half slipped, after ing a sharp right to.the chin in tie first round, ‘but ralliéd to win & crown with an attack (hat Braddock in a bad way from Lthe| sixth round. | Braddock's left eye, mouth and went down in a heap after Louis wenet down in a heap after Lo landed the final shot crowni the second negro heavyw champion in fistic history. Braddock put up a great cxhx‘l bition for five rounds, but was no| match for the negro in punch.ml power, once Louis found his range. The gate is estimated at $650,000.! Braddock weighed 197 pounds and! Louis weighed 197% pounds. | The fight by rounds: ROUND ONE Braddock was out fast from his| corner. He swung a right but missed. Louis and Braddock ex- changed light blows to the body. Louis glanced a right off Brad- dock’s head. The champion stuck a left to Louis’s face as they sparred - Joe I Bt him, ht | d rights reserved! NEW CHAMPION Joe Louis, World Heavyweigit titleholder, by reason of his knockout last night of James J. Braddock. scored a straight right to the head at the bell. Louis’s round. ROUND FOUR Braddock’s left hit J ear anc Joe gave ground. The negro took a left to the body and countered with a left to the head. The challenger worked both hands to the face but Braddock kept crowding forward. " Jim kept his chin well guarded and toek & hard right to the head. Louis trizd for an opening but Braddock boxed beautifully and circled the midrinz witheut much action. Brad- suddenly found the range and landed bo'h hands to Joe’s jaw. Jim tied Joe up in a brief clinch *‘and took a left jab to the nose. Louis landed three light lefts before the bell. Braddock’s round. ROUND FIVE Joe bounced to the ropes as he tock a left and Jim shot a right to he head and a left o the negro's uovse fro; which biood trickled. They exchanzed punches at close nve. Braddork's head bouncrd back from the challenger’s left. The champian's left eye started to bleed again. Louis worked both hands to the body. Braddock scor- ed a right smash to the face. The pace was getting faster. They were firing both hands and both were well smeared with blood. They ex- changed hard lefts before the gong. v Braddock’s round. in midring. Jce shifted to the body.| They exchanged light lefts. The| ROUND SIX egro pounded Braddock’s mid- They circled the ring for a few section after landing a choppy seconds. Braddock threw a right right to the head. Louis landedito the shoulder and Louis shot a th both hands to the head. They left to the face. Braddock clinch- ched zlong the ropes. Louisied before the negro was able to ashed Braddock with both hands. swing his right Braddock forced Braddock was wild and took a ter-'Louis to the ropes with a left and rific smash to the head. Louis|let fly with both hands. went down after a short right to the| in an uproar. Both punched head but got up without the count.|furiously for a few seconds. Louis They were fighting furiously, with!landed a right and started the blood Braddock taking several hard rights over Braddock’s right eye. Louis to the jaw, when the gong ended,rocked Braddock with ‘two rights. the round. Round is Louis .The champion’s mouth was badly cut. Braddock was reeling from ROUND N0 lthe heavy punishment but fighting Broddock missed a high left gamely. Blood poured from Brad- hock. Joe shot a short right to the'gock’s mouth, but he was swinging nose. Braddock showed a small cut with both fists at the bell. The over the right eye. Braddock land- champion’s upper lip was badly ed a smashing right to the head'gplit. Louis’s round. and picked off the negro’s counter he crowd | punches. Braddock sparred cau- | tiously for an opening and then!' delivered two sharp left upper-, cuts to the chin. Louis was wild with his right and was speared by Jim’s left twice without a return. Braddock moved in fast and hooked a left accurately to the chin. Louis appeared puzzled and covered his head. Louis spurted and bounded Braddock hard wih both hands to the chin before the bell. Brad- dock’s round. 'ropes. ROUND THREE Louis bloeked the champion’s left. Louis's right connected with the champion’s damaged left eye. Braddock sent both hands to the head but took a terrific cuffing. Both began boxing more cautiously, with Braddock doing most of the ROUND SEVEN Braddock drove Lo around the ring. The champion’s face was in bad shape. Braddock's legs were wobbly. Louis landed both hands hard to the head. Braddock re- fused to give ground. Joe crossed a hard right to the face. Brad- dock clinched. The negro, follow- ing the break-away, punched sys- tematically. Braddock kept forc- ing the fight. Jim stuck a light left to Joe's chin and forced Louis to the Braddock was tiring fast but fighting gamely. The left side of his face was bioody and bruised. Louis gave ground under Braddock’s gallant attempts to rally. Joe land- ed two hard punches to the head before the bell. Louis's round. ROUND EIGHT [ NTEREST WON'T OFFICE UNTIL TEN - AND | TOLD HIM THIS MORNING THAT | WANT= ED HIM TO 60 TO_THE OPERA WITH ME THIS EVENING- WELL-~ NMOW YEP-HE SAID HE WAS GLAD OF TH' OPPORTUNITY- HE IS A FiN BOY ™ AND YOU SAY HE REALLY WAS ANXIOUS TO STAY AT THE OFFICE ? | | 0 =i [to the face. They exchanged lefts |to the body and Braddock ran inco a sharp left hook as he atempted to sidestep and Braadock went down lin a heap as Louis rammed home a terrific right % the side of the head. Braddock was counted out as he collapsed in the center of the ring. The referee the victor. raised Joe's hand as Sport Siani 8y PAP Big ¢ Lombardi, the 6-fool- two-inch Californiain who dos the backstopping for ihe 0\ Reds, has his heart sct cn wi No. 1 rating one National I catckers this year. Lombardi “Schnezzi ~fin the senior circuit’s 3 with a .343 average. As a result of a late outburst last season he wound up with .333 to take seventh place. His 1936 mark included 28 two- baggers and a dozen homers. The big catcher earns every hit he gets. Slow footed, he must of necessity hit the ball on the nose to beat it out. His slow start gives wuiziders confidence and they play back on the grass for him. Speedier "Rads beat out blows that far result in put-outs when Ernie hits them. DOCK OUT ily Sports Cartoon Da SLOW "AFOOT, HE EARNS EVERY HIT HE GETS - ORPINARY DOUBLES ARE ONLY SINGLES TO HIM ERNIE loMBARD! - CINCINNAT IS BI& BACKSTORP “' N . =7 o) e HE BALL - HIS LIFETIME AVERAGE \, N HE BIG LEAGUES : 1S 3 Despite his slowneses, Lombardi gathers momentum and, on extra base clouts, rounds second gallop- inr lka usually lox rides. As a ¢ he is not the best in the league, despite his ambitions. Frequently he leads the learve n passed balls. But the fans forget his lapses behind the plate when he steps up to the rubber with his big war club on his shoulder. He wastes no energy swinging the bat before the pitcher winds up, but, once he sees a pitch to his liking, he takes a healthy cut. And when he connects fairly the ball goes places in a hurry. His main fault seeme to be that his batting average wilts in hot weatker. In the ing he usually piles up a neat figure which suffers when Old Sol turns on the hest With the cool weather of early |fall Lombardi’s average takes on a healthier hue. Sports Writers Give Opinions Of New Chiamp !Some Do Not Class Him as i First Rater, Although | Showed His Head CHICAGO, II, June 23.—Sport- .ing writers, those at the ringside )01‘ the championship fight last night are at variance over the worthiness of the new title holder. | several writers declare outright the new champion is not so much. He however worked a “command- ing” game, but matching age and |it.” youth, should have stowed Braddock | away earlier, if he is to be a world champion. Others, while not lauding Louis to the skies, said he used his |head, waited for an opening and got his man. ’ All writers give praise to Brad- dock. He showed stuff they did not fuspect him having. He showed |flashes like the old time Dempsey and gave the new champion a splen- ldid fight. Writers however aj new_champion will receive recog- ni support in coming battles. i b The Italian government has as- sumed control over all of the prin- | | i | { truck horse with un-| { Minnesota Game For lowa H Homecoming ~ SMALLTOWN TEAMS BEST AFTER-TALK 0 FIGHTERS ; BOT EXPRESS VIEWS IOWA CITY, la, June 23.—Iowa football teams like to play their] hardest gamy on homecoming day. Next November 6 the Iowans will SAYS WAGNER take on Minnesota. The game will d be the 11th in 26 years played with| prrrepURGH, June 23—Smal New Champlon Say5 For- tne Gophers on Homecoming day.| towns produce the best sandlot Michigan, to be met October 23, , . . mer One Gamest Man He /Y555 A baseball clubs. will be the Dad’s day opponent. | “mpatss the opinion of J. Honus HflS EVCT Mfil in Ring 1Wm;m:r. high commissioner of t -~ |SAN FRANCISCO CHICAGO, IlI,, June 23. — Box'ng world's Cinderella man Braddock has lost the golden slipper but he <till has a heart as big as a pumpkin coach. “Sure I lost my championshin, but T came out fighting and went down fighting. Another couple of tough fights under the belt, and I can lick him yet. Don’t worry, T'll i { ) i | gree that ‘he'games on successive days, beating more in prominence. As the fightiplaced aboard a train for Seattle. be around in a couple of years, id the former champion. “From the middle of the second round, after I managed to slip under Jim’s lefts, I knew I only had to be careful to realize my greatest an bition since the Schmeling fight” caid the new champion. “T always wanted to get knocked down to see if I could come back. I did. T am satisfied I will be a worthy champ- ion. I'll fight any man any time they tell me. Braddock is the gamest fel- low I ever met. He punches hard burgh Pirates. Honus backs his assertion by pointing to the 1936 national sand- H I G H B “T c A SH lot champions—the Duncan, Ok, SCARGE 'N FIG“T championship team from Howard, it population 1,100, “The boys in the small towns Wagers Range Up to $24 naye the aavantage” Wagner ex- in Louis-Braddock Much interest, but little clash, was than are teams from the cities. exchanged in Juneau Tuesday mgnt; More than 10,000 clubs, Wagner following the Joe Louis - James says, will be represetned this year Braddock title go in Chicago, a in the program of the National tbut I guess the years just crept up IVORY HUNTERS, on him. It is nice to be young, ain't —o Cedaredge, 13-0, and Delta, 8-4 e e, — ‘LUGAL INTEREST semi-pros and coach of the Piit team, from a town of- 9,300 persons. 3,300. And the South Dakota state plains. “They take their baseball Battle o to have support from home folks checkup by the Empire revealed. Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, The in Chicago and New. York prior fo eligible for the regional games to Most of the bets reported were, ON TOUR, S.E. ALASKA $50 on Louis, made shortly before! | Interest in the fight, steady be- Operating on a train between Min-' blow results. |Southeast Alaska tour aboard the MONTROSE, Colo., June 23. — downtown radio sets to hear the ac- dles the Empire's Saturday comic, CARD OF APPRECIATION followers of the Detroit “brown}Juneau. Discouraging reparts Then there is the runner-up Bu- ford, Ga., nine, from a town of more seriously. They are more apt to hold daily practice sessions and Juneanites spurned the wise teams will compete in state tour- money odds of 5 to 2 which prévailed nament programs, with winners harder than any man I ever mcl o fight for the more acceptable determine national finalists. even money wagers. — e - { small. Bets ranging from a mug or: w“‘I"ARD SMITHS ARE beer to $25 were made. An offer of 1 the championship battle, went beg-| Willard Smith, ior 31 years with | ging for Braddock money. the Burlington Route, and now | I fore the contestants entered the neapolis and Savannah, accom- H ring, skyrocketed with the blow-by- |panied by his wife, are making the' Many fight fans crowded around Princess Louise, Mr.’ Smith han- | Jack Leicester, Montrose high school count. Sentiment was evenly divid-|section aboard his train from St. junior, pitched two one-hit baseball ed, but Louis supporters, appeared Louis to Minneapolis where they are | entered the latter stages, with Louis| Mr. Smith came north during the | apparently gaining the upper hand, gold rush days, but only as far as bomber” rested easier. crhanged his mind and back he No freak or unusual wagers were went to the States and to railroad-| We wish to thank every one for Gastineau Channel League Won Lost 8 3 5 9 Pet. 625 583 222 | Moose | Douglas Elks ELKS-DUliGLA ~T0 OPEN JULY 4TH B.B. SERIES First Game to Be Played on Island Diamond-— Moose Draw Bye Lifting the bye out eof thé hat in the drawings for spots in the ane nual Fourth of July money series, to be played off this year on Monday, July the Moose will be on the sidelines in spectator roles wheh the Douglas and Elk squads open the serfes on the Island City dia= ' mond. | The winner of the morning game in Douglas, will then face oif against | the Moose in Juneau in the aftgr- necon finale to the series, it was afi= | nounced by League President Wil- |liam A. Holzheimer, under whose |cagle eye the drawing was held | Monday evenit [ The | teing p men’s Park may be clear for the |running off of the Fourth race pro- gram CREEPS UPWARD COAST LEAGUE sions Finally Beat Sol- ons—Angels Pound 4 Oak Hurlers (By Associated Press) San Francisco crept up on S: mento’s lead in the Pacific Co League yesterday by the hitting hurling of Gene Lillard and led the Seals to a victory over the Seattle Indians The Missions hit everything beat the Solons yesterday for first time this season Los Ang pounded four land hur to win yesterday. A timely homer by San Diego bea to the Oak- Portland 2; Los Ange mento San Francisco Seattle 4. National Learue Brookiyn 2; St. Louis 1 Boston 1; Pittsburgh 4. New York 0; Chicago 5. Philadelphia 0; Cincinnati 6 American League 8t. Louis 5; New York 3. Cleveland 2; Washington 11 Chicago 2; Philadelphia 0. G ecau Channel Lecgue Moose Elks 3. 5 yme of the series is £ Wednesday s Hall, Good at- Meeing 8 ! night | tendane at Odd ¥ desire MILDRED CA HEN 5 cretary. STANDING OF CLV Pasific Coast weague Won 51 50 ramento an Francisco San Diego Los Angeles Portlard Seattle Oakland Missions THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK Seagrams | Chicago €t. Louls v York Cincinnati Boston Philadelphia Amenean League Won Lost 33 20 33 22 26 22 30 25 26 25 24 30, 19 32 18 33 377 370 Lrown - e Frite: Uhihoy ! BLENDED FOR FINER TASTE Pet. 623 800 542 545 510 444 373 358 New York Detroit Boston Chicago Cleveland Washington St. Louis Philadelphia @ Truck buyers everywhere are inspect- ing, comparing and . then selecting GMC trucks. And for very convincing reasons! Consider the extra value in the GMC 1'2-2 ton models. 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