Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1935, Page 10

Louis Likely to Be CONONPRIMOSHY: K.0.BY JOE S SEEN Racial Trouble Possibility | Minimized—50,000 Fans May Pay $400,000. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, June 25.—No mat- | ter what happens tonight when Joe Louis, “Brown Bomber” from Detroit, trains his short-range punching fire on Primo Carrera at the Yankee Sta- | dium_ their box-office appeal assures | one of the biggest financial successes since pugilism took the country from ©Old Man Depression. Favorable weather reports, coupled | with extraordinary interest aroused throughout the country by the most | important mixed match in more than a decade of heavyweight activity, ‘boomed the ticket sales, There was little chance of a sellout for a park that can accommodate close to 80,000, but it appeared certain more than 50,000 cash customers would contribute nearly $400,000 to see just how long it will take the youthful | Negro, Louis, to bring down the 265- pound Italian giant. Such a turnout would dwarf the relatively small crowd, less than 30.000 paid, which saw James J. Braddock | take the heavyweight title from Max | Baer two weeks ago. It would set a new “high” for a non-championship | match since Jack Dempsey flattened Jack Sharkey in the same arena in 1927. ‘THE odds appeared likely to be at least 2 to 1 in favor of Louis when the clans gather at the ringside. There was little Carnera money in | sight. Broadway shared the general belief of fistic experts ana followers at large that the huge Italian is made to order for the deadly-punching Negro. Reports that Carnera would scale close to 265. considerably over his best fighting weight, did not lend any en- couragement to his followers. Despite his advantages in size, reach and ex- perience, Primo’s chances of avoiding Louis’ knockout punch were not con- sidered bright The belief well-informed fistic circles was that Carnera, still shell- shocked from the terrific beating he took from Max Baer last Summer, would be lucky to last a half dozen rounds. His one big chance seemed to be ! that he might share the current luck.{ of the long shots. He did if once before when he knocked out Jack Sharkey and won the heavyweight title. He proved his courage under fire against Baer. He lacks only two things in a physical make-up that otherwise make | him the most formidable fighting | specimen of his time. Those two| things happen to be a punch and a durable chin. No Racial Trouble Expected. RACIAL rivalry and the fact that the | fight occurs at a time when the governments of Italy and Abyssiia are in & dispute has prompted pro- moters and police to co-operate in | taking unusual precautions ugamsti the possibility of an outbreak among | spectators. | Authorities minimized the prospect of any disturbance, but more than 1,000 uniformed men were due for | assignment to the stadium. Both principals were kept under continual guard as a result of un- substantiated rumors that attempts would be made to “approach” one camp or the other. The eommotion | was reminiscent of the old days when | no big heavyweight fight was complete | without alleged underworld activity, threatened arrests or attempts to put somethitig in somebody’s tea. The fighters were expected to report | to the commission to weigh in not | later than noon eastern standard time. ‘The preliminaries start at 7 p.m. and the main bout is slated for not later than 9 pm. There will be no broad- cast. | Louis May Be 2-1 Shot. | SEEKS SATURDAY TILT. North Washington base ball team wants action for Saturday. Call Georgia 1359. RAIFORD HURLS VICTORY. Lee Raiford, former Roosevelt High ace, hurled the E. W. A. diamonders to | @ 7-4 victory over Federal Housing yesterday on East Ellipse. ON THE SIDE LINES With the Sports Editor By DENMAN EW YORK, June 25— Joe Louis! We've never laid an eye on him, but he’s our unqualified choice to win that boxfight here 3omght. Then, how come? ‘We HAVE seen Primo Car- nera. And, as an ether-ace used to put it—“even if he wuz good I wouldn’t like him.” But he isn’t really good in any respect, save good and big. YEAH, we know he is fast for a large man—light on his own feet and heavy on the other fellow’s. Also rough, game, hds a pretty fair left and RA | believe the promoters. The Foening “ Facts, Forecasts On Heavy Battle By the Associated Press. INEW YORK, June 25.—Salient facts regarding tonight's heavyweight fight between Primo Carnera of Italy and Joe Louls of Detroit: Place—Yankee Stadium. Probable time of main bout, 9 pm. Eastern standard time. Probable attendance—50,000. Probable receipts—=$400,000. ‘Promoters — Twentieth Century Sporting Club. Length of bout—15 rounds to & decision. Probable betting odds at ring- side—2 to 1, Louis the favorite. Referee and judges—To be an- nounced from ringside just before fight. Time of first bout—7 p.m., East- ern standard time. (The fight will not be broadcast.) NHALTS BOUTS UNTL NEXT WEEK Furr-Rock Battle Will Be| Carried Over as Feature, Say Boxing Bosses. EATHER suitable to cruising taxi drivers instead of fistic | performers prevailed last | night at Grifith Stadium, | so Washington ringworms are wait- | ing until next Monday for exhibitions | of their favotite sport. | Phil Furr, District welter champ, | and Tony Rock, Scranton (Pa.) hard- boiled egg, still will provide the fea- ture bout, say the promoters. So threatening was the overcast sky that only a few hundred of the braver fight followers had filed through the | ball yard gates by the time the boxing | bill was to begin. When the shower | came at the scheduled starting hour, | Promoters Turner and Ahearn decided | to wait for a better Monday night and the rush for the cabs—and the ticket windows—was on. | There were plenty of cabs available, but those fans who stormed the win- dows were told tickets purchased for last night's affair would be good for the show carried over to next week. Whether the entire bill, so far as personnel is concerned. that was booked for last night will be offered next Monday, is questionable. After | the_milling was postponed some of the boys insisted they had previous book- | ing that would prevent them showing | here. JHowever, Messrs. Turner and Ahearn announced that a card of four eight- rounders and a four-rounder would be presented with “about the same bunch of fighters here.” THURSDAY MAT BILL FULL OF ‘HARD GUYS’ Pinto Added to Lot of Grapple- and-Grunt Men Promoters Call Meanest Ever. OUGH, tough stuff will fill the reg- | ular weekly rassle show at Griffith Stadium Thursday night, if one is to After informing Washington's mat maddies that John Katan, who grap- ples with CHff Olsen in one of the twin features, is just about the | meanest man to work on a mat—and an opponent—and that Jack Donovan and Reuben Wright will carry grudges into their tussle, Promoters Turner and Ahearn reveal that Stanley Pinto, | | another on the bill, is “one of the | roughest, toughest villains of wrestling trade.” It appears that Pinto, who in meet- | ing Mike Mazurki in a 30-minute | limit match will be making his first appearance locally since losing to Gus | Sonnenberg through disqualification | three years ago, resorts to all the dirty tricks in the business to finish his foe. | They're bringing on a newcomer to | Washington to tackle the massive ‘Walter Podolak. A New York favorite, | Sid Westrich, is getting the job. the | LONE HIT OFF POHL. Austin Pohl, star hurler of the Patsy Inn A. C, granted but one hit in turning back the Indian Head nine, 2-0, on the Maryland Park diamond. THOMPSON as it invariably is when the milling gets heavy, his huge head and massive torso pre- sent a target that just can't be missed. These are minor matters, however, col red with the fact that, in the jargon of the ring, he ain't got no sock. Carnera can lean better than the Tower of Pisa in his native land; he can push, shove, wrestle and butt, but he can’t punch his way through one of those bukbles now used by the ex-fan dancers. DON'T know about that merciless killer-instinct attributed to Louis, nor his masterly feinting, instinctive reflexes and shuffle-footed possesses a huge edge in height, weight, reach and experience. That left—plus the exge- rience—is his greatest asset. Combined, the{ may have him still erect at the end of 15 rounds, even—conceivably —the winner on points. But we won’t believe it till we see it. Balanced against these fa- varable attributes is the fact ‘thathe isa Jm.er giant, eas- ily flustered, with sensitive rs and & clout-con- sefous midriff. With that guard dropped, ) boring-in aggressiveness, but he can CLOUT, and with either hand. Those 18 kayoes in 22 bouts since he turned pro last July 4 prove it, for that is hard hitting in any league, as the base ball boys would say. Just 21, Joe may be too young for some, short of sea- soning and untested in his ability to take it from others, busto he can dish it out. NEW YORK, June 25.—Workmen today were busy putting on the finishing touches for the heavyweight scrap at Yankee Stadium that was expected to lure a throng of about 50,000 cash customers for a total “gate” of nearly $400,000. Joe Louis, the dusky Detroiter (left) and Primo Carnera, his giant opponent, present smiles of confidence on the eve of the fray. FROM THE PRESS BOX With Louis the Choice of Experts, Carnera Must Be Given Fine Chance. BY JOHN EW YORK, June 25.—Joe Louis and Primo Carnera are set to go, and the story about the plan to kidnap the party of the first part is phoney. The cops deny it. So does Louis. Yet there were so many similar rumors around Joe's training camp that it might be well to consider what would happen if the beige bonbon, or any fighter of equal fame, were snatched on the eve of battle. ~ Louis’ managers, Julian Black and Johnny Roxborough, must have given it some thought. They smothered their boy with detectives of every hue. A couple of gumshoes walked with Joe whenever he crossed the lawn. One rode horseback with him in the early stages of training, though this dick complained that it was trouble enough to keep track of his nag without watching Joe. ‘There's a difference, he pointed out, between a Royal Northwest Mountie and a respectable flatfoot. Then they posted a detective in Joe's corner during the workouts, to see that no happy-go-lucky soul poured prussic acid into the water bucket. This operative had a deeply suspi- cious nature. Unaware that most sports writers look like gunmen and are frequently picked up and frisked on street corners, he kept a chill and fishlike eye on your correspondent, moving the bucket away whenever I reached in my pocket for a stick of gum or a harmless bolt of morphine, Ransom Terms Hotly Debated. ALSO, the boys around the camp used to have conferences about what to do in case of a snatch. Would the kidnapers hold out for a flat guarantee? Would they be satisfied with a percentage of the gate? Could they be squared with, say, 50 choice ringside seats and a small piece of the Bomber? The boys were confused. There has been no important case of athlete- kidnaping since Flint Rhem was snatched from his ball club and forced at the point of a loaded cream puff to drink alcoholic lquor. Luis Firpo trained in jail for his fight with Wills, but that was a little different. You get better treatment in the pen. sometimes, than you do at the hands of a gang of des- peradoes. The boys decided that, in the event of a snatch, they might frame their note to the kidnapers something like “Joe should get 14 or 15 hours’ sleep per day while he is staying with you folks. He is very fond of fried chicken, but would not advise - heavy 2 LARDNER oo | | doses of same as chitlings are better ‘rm' him and can be got at nearest | store, 10 pounds for 50 cents. Please give him plenty of work on light bag and five miles on road per morning. Advise one of you go to Carnera camp | and scout developments there. Can let you have guarantee of $15,000, plus 10 per cent of net and | | 15 per cent of motion picture rights, | though smaller guarantee and bigger | percentage would be better, as the sale | | s colossal. We can let you have | $5,000 cash and 20 per cent of net, | though we would be cutting our | throats to do so. Please consider terms and advise.” Gangsters Deny Wanting Louis. THERE was plenty of this sort of talk. There were so many detec- tives on hand that they couldn't very well help turning up a nest of gang- | sters now and then, though their cap- tives usually insisted that kidnaping minds. Thus, the mob captured last | Sunday never heard of Joe, though Joe's detectives thought otherwise. This mob was wanted in connection | with the half-million-dollar stick-up | in Brooklyn last year. Through all the gumshoeing and | prowling, Louis himself remained ex- tremely calm. He regarded the detectives as a necessary evil, nice guys at heart though a trifie flat in the arches. He lost no weight nor sleep over the snatch menace. In fact, he slept so long and strong- Iy that his sparring partners began to think that sleep was going to be declared illegal in July. Between naps,. Joe flashed enough form to convince this department that he will beat Carnera. Perhaps there won't be a knockout, but Louis can certainly give the ambling Alp more than he'll get in return. He figures to land a great many blows.. Primo will jab him constantly, and with some success, but the jabs won’t hurt and I think Joe is strong and agile encugh to break clinches quickly and avoid the punishment inside. The experis are nearly all vot- ing with Louis. In the last month this has come to be re: garded as a mighty sinister de _ velopment, It counts for Primo, no doubt of that. But until the experts are permitted by law to reach a decision and then vote the other Way, there’s nothing to, do about it. 8o here goes a ballot for the brown shadow—and a further guess that Joe was the farthest thing from their | Braddock Thinks Primo Will Win By the Associated Press. 'CRANTON, Pa., June 25 —Heavy- weight Champion James J. Braddock thinks Primo Carnera will outpoint Joe Louis in their 15-round match in Yankee Sta- dium, New York, tonight. Attending the finals of amateur bouts sponsored by Scranton police yesterday, Braddock expresesed the opinion Carnera is “too experi- enced” for Louis. The champion said he does not expect to defend his title until next year. [ BETHESDA CHALLANGES. Games for Sunday and July 4 are wanted by the Bethesda A. C. Call Bradley 80. League Statistics TUESDAY. JUNE 25, 1935. American RESULTS YESTERDAY. Detroit. 9; Washington, 8 (14 innings). New York. 4: Cle 1. Chicago. 6; Boston. 4 St. Louis, 2; Philadelphia. 1 (10 innings). * XH0X MIN puwrD aoisuuse M 'a|wiudiepeiiug L..132125124/3751 331331801—k—1 | _ GAMES TODAY. GAMES TOMORROW. Wash. at Detroit. 3. Detroit at Chi. New York at Cleve, Others not scheduled. Boston at _Chicago. Phila. at St. Louis. National RESULTS YESTERDAY. gth.,cml‘ l“l‘.’"'!' Yorl‘. 9 lllfl innings). Cincinpati, 6: Philadeiphia. 4. Others not scheduled. STANDING OF THE CLUBS. * “x10% My o 13 —_nvaupuo erqataperud Bos 231 11_21 4 3| 2/—I17140].2! L..116125156/25/30/24136140/—\—1 GAMES TODAY. ouls m&ig‘fm;.'h"" y / GAMES ToMORROW. | V8T Sfar Sporls WASHINGTON,AD. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1935. 2to I Favorite Quer Carnera When They * Enter Ring T onig_fi—i Louis’ Emotion Approaching Crisis Only Can Be Guessed 'As Joe Remains Inscrutable please a large crowd, he had BY LAWRENCE PERRY. OMPTON LAKES, N. J., June 25.—Joe Louls sat on a wooden bench, leaning slightly forward, facing the sunset. Just to boxed against three sparring partners, one round each. He then had gene to the showers. P | parted. Now he sat alone and his mood was the sort of mood where every one who knows him—and even those who don’t—knows he. wants to be alone. Resembles Classic Statue. YOU thought of Rodin’s “thinker” as Louis sat there leaning slightly forward—except that the great French sculptor’s figure has a sodden brutish- ness which is entirely lacking in Louis. He 1s lithe, pantherish and, although his face, strongly of Oriental cast, is vacantly immobile, you do not believe it signifies lack of intelligence. If he knows you well he will convinee you speedlly of his intelligence. If he doesn't you just have to guess | about him. But does emotion lie behind that inscrutable face? Has he the imag- ingtion to picture what the next few days hold for him—all the possibili- ties they present of fortune and eminence, or, on the otner hand, of defeat and comparative obccurity If s0, no one knows it; not even THE SPORTLIGHT Louis Is Logical Choice, No Matter If He Isn’t a Langford or Johnson. BY GRANTLAND RICE. OE LOUIS, Detroit's dark star.| will have to carry on his Gusky shoulders something more than Primo Carnera's 260 pounds st the Yankee Stadium tonight. | Also he will have to carry more ad- | | Jectives, appellations and advance ac- | claim than any young fighter ever knew. ‘With only a year’s professional ring expesjence he has been labeled “an- |other Sam Langford” the “Black | | Dempsey” and “the Brown Bomber,” to mention only & few of his startling titles on the man-killing side. The eulogistic wraps have been removed, with all reservations cast aside by most of those who have seen him work. In the mejority of his fights and in his training eamp work-outs Louis has shown all the qualifications | needed to stop Carnera inside of 10 rounds if the burden of the big spot | doesn’t tie him up. Louis can outbox Carnera, with i | something to spare. He can outpunch | the human mammoth by a dozen kilo- meters, using either hand. He looks to be cooler in a crisis—better armed | in every way except in the matter of strength, reach and experience. | It is this matter of experience, plus the pressure of a terrific baliyhoo. which may count against Louis, if | anything does. Louis will be sur- | rounded by one of the biggest fight | crowds of many years and he will be up against a roughhouse giant who | at least can tug and maul, even if ne can't hit. He will be up against a fellow mak- | ing his last stand close to important | money if he doesn't come through. But the big balance still is all on the side of Joe Louis. If you can out- box and gutpunch an opponent, if you are a better offensive and defensive fighter, the outside details can't pe important in any summing up. Dark Shadows. IT WAS just 25 years ago when Jack Johnson knocked out Jim Jeffries to take over the undisputed title of world heavyweight champion — the | first and only Negro fighter in mod- ern times to sit on top of the game. Jack Johnson was the greatest de- fensive fighter boxing ever knew, but | an entirely different type from Louis. Louis belongs to the killer class that Jack Dempsey made famous. ‘When the bell rings his entire con- | centration is centered upon knocking | his man out at the first chance. He | doesn't step in with any wild tiger- | like rush. Cold and methodical, his | crafty eyes always are looking for the | first opening, for the first shot, and | when this time comes he has either a | right or a left that can carry out the | main idea. If he beats Carnera by any decisive margin, as he figures to do, again there will be the Na- tion-wide argument that Jack Johnson, and Iater Harry Wills, stirred up. Madison Square Garden. Joe Gould and Jim Braddock are looking in the general direction of Max Baer or Max | Schmeling for the next title fight. And Braddock happens to be cham- | plon. They are not looking along the | Louis-Carnera line of march. But if Louis proves to be 70 per cent of the fighter he has been touted to be—if he knocks out Carnera in a few rounds—it will take a lot of fast-footed maneuvering to keep him on the side- lines in a runner-up role. He has a great chance in view of the recent Braddock-Baer show, which included less actual fighting than any heavyweight contest has known in a long, long time. So Louis hasn't much of a target to shoot &t.- If Carnera wins, he still is the giant who couldn't stop Tommy Loughran, Jim Maloney, King Levin- sky, Paulino and a number of others. A Carnera victory might keep him in the heavyweight running, 'but the public verdict would be that Louis was overrated badly and not so much after all. The Big Chance. big chance rests with Louis under the blazing arclights of the Yankee Stadium with more than 60,000 witnesses on the lot. So far he has made good urnhr: early promise in every way. 18 knock- ore than ’s record, which includes outs from 322 starts, is far m any one could expect from & profes- sional novics, the man whom Baer knocked out— |’ His training camp work has added to his reputation as a boxer, a punch- er and a ecool, crafty operator who knows what it is all abut. He has all the guns needed for a killing—and he has shown he knows how to use them. But a little more than a week ago Max Baer was even more of a favorite than Louis is today—and Max Baer now is ex-heavyweight champion of the world. “Don't forget,” Gene Tunney told me, “that a boy of 20 or 21, with only a year'’s professional experience, is fighting a man who a year ago was the heavyweight champion. He may not have been a great champion, or even a good champion, but you don't get that far on nothing. “Caera still is a good boxer with a good left hand—if he only uses it in the right way. He still is strong and rough and game enough. I wouldn't call him a set-up for anybody. “Louis may be everything every one says he is—one of the great fighters of the game—but don't forget he hasn’t proved it yet in the champion- ship division. I am not saying any- thing against Joe Louis. I am just remembering how long it took most of us to get anywhere near the top. “Louis isn’t a looping puncher and I have an idea he might find Carnera harder to hit than he imagines.” (Copyright. 1935. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) The_crowd had de- | apprehension, or of hope, is locked within him and none may know. Out- wardly he is the same young man who came here four weeks ago & He betrays no sense of imminence. You feel for him all the things you | look to see in him as he stands upon | the threshold of fate. Watching him, you have an Iimpression that the | assurance that destiny s s fiils him | with a confidence in hims2if s0 eom- | plete that it would be impossible, | even were he imaginative, for lLim to picture himself as defeated. Not Likely to Show Feeling. OON we shall see. Buf, whether victory or defeat be his portior | chances seem to be that no one wifl read in him the mental effects. Watching him, you are inclined | strongly to read into him all sorts of | potent things relating to one of the | great ringmasters this world has pro- duced. If., in the crucial test, he turns out to be a bust, you can put your error down merely to the false impressions a fellow gzets wher he watches a beautiful bronze being staring unblinkingly into a fadeout mountain sunset. PARKS ENTERSWTOURNET Open Champion Seeks Honors in State Tournament. HERSHEY, | | | Pa., June 25 (#).—San | those closes; to him. Any secret of | PATks. ir.. Pittsburgh professional wh won the national open at Oakmon' recently, heads the list of 41 golfer: entered in the Pennsylvania open tr be played on the Hershey Countr Club course Thursday, Friday anc | Saturday. | Last vear, Parks and Perry Del Vec chio of Greensburg finished in seconc | place, behind William MacFarlare | who won with 294, | OMAHA, Nebr., June 25 (#).—The Omaha Western League franchise was back in the hands of the loop today after Tony Ostronic. newspaper em- ploye, and his associates dropped their option. BRAKES RELINED Guaranteed 10,000 Miles Prices include labor and mate- rial for 4 complete wheels. Ford '28 to '35 3 95 Chevrolet "30 to "32 . Plymouth 29 to '35 Chrysler sixes 32 to '35 De Soto sixes 29 @M Dodge sixes '31 t | BRAKES ADJUSTED Ford, Chevrolet and Lock- [ heed Hydraulic aoc CLIFT’S BRAKE SERVICE 2002 K St. NW. 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