Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1935, Page 27

Willing to Fight Once a Month, Louis May B SCRAP WITH BAER PLANNED IN FALL Crowd of 60,000 Indicates Joe Is Greatest Card Since Dempsey. BY ALAN GOULD, Associated Press Sports Editor. EW YORK, June 26.—The ring- ing echoes of the fistic dyna- mite set off by Joe Louis in the midst of the greatest fight crowd in five years reverberated to- day with the conviction that the | “Brown Bomber” is well on the road to becoming one of the greatest heavy= weight punchers his race has pro- duced. The 21-year-old Detroit Negro, who | signalized his metropolitan debut by | scoring a spectacular six-round knock- | out victory over Giant Primo Carnera | last night in the Yankee Stadium, | unquestionably stamped himself the biggest drawing card pugilism has de- ‘veloped since the boom days of Jack Dempsey’s prime. | With a crowd of 60,000 yelling with | old-time lustiness for the “kill,” Louis | slugged the 260-pound Italian into a | helpless, tottering mass and justified | the gaudiest predictions of his| backers. Carnera was knocked down three times for short counts—four, four and three seconds—before Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight with only | 28 seconds of the sixth round left. | The defenseless giant was bleeding | from the mouth and was thoroughly | shell-shocked at the end of a one- | sided match. Undoubtedly it marked | the end of Primo's career as a factor | in the heavyweight picture. | Promoter Mike Jacobs, one-time associate of Tex Rickard, promptly announced Louis will be matched for | 15 rounds with Max Baer, former | heavyweight champion, in New York this Fall. Louis May Meet Doyle. OUIS told Jacobs he would be will- ing to fight once a month. The | promoter said he would seek a match | in late July or early August. | “We may try to match Louis with Jack Doyle, the Irish heavyweight who made his New York debut with a knockout this week,” said Jacobs. The fight world acclaimed the sen- sational Negro youth as the latest successor to such dusky greats as Peter Jackson, Sam Langford and Jack Johnson, only Negro to hoid the world heavyweight title and a witness to the triumph of the *“chocolate clouter” last night. James J. Braddock, newly crowned | king of the heavies, also was a spec- tator. It remains to be seen whether the “brown bomber” fights his way to the position of -logical contender by time Braddock is willing to consider a title defense, some time next year. “Braddock will not draw the color line,” said Joe Gould, the champion’s manager, “but it's too early to talk about a championship match with Louis or any other contender. Jimmy will be ready to tackle the best man they can produce.” Pight critics were unanimous in ranking Louis as the hardest hitter since Dempsey. They compared him to Gene Tunney from the standpoint of his boxing skill, footwork and abil- ity to seize openings. Carnera cleared up one obvious point by remarking with emphasis that Louis hits “much, much harder” than Baer. Baer floored Carnera 10 times egainst 3 knockdowns for Louis, but the Italian giant rallied sufficiently a year ago to last 11 rounds with the Californian. There never was any doubt about the outcome, in either fight, but Louis performed a much more workmanlike and effective job. Referee Stops It. OUIS established mastery in the first round with a few short but staggering blows, one of which opened # gash in Primo’s mouth. The Negro did not land & knock- down punch in this or the succeeding four rounds. He stalked the Italian, boxing warily for openings, shifting his attack from head to body, but always had command. The climax came swiftly in the eixth. Louis floored Carnera with a terrific left hook for the first time. Primo, thoroughly dazed, pulled him- self erect at the count of four, only to be met by another two-fisted blast. He tumbled weirdly, started to get up but lost his balance and fell to one side. Again he was up after four seconds, too far gone to realize the advantage of taking a longer count. Helpless and glassy-eyed, the giant wobbled to one side of the ring, where o terrific right-hand smash sent him spinning to the canvas again. This time he regained his feet after only three seconds. Blood dripped from his mouth, his eyes were glassy, his hands dangling. Referee Donovan unhesitatingly stepped in to prevent the Negro from launching another attack. At the finish Louis showed no more emotion than while sitting calmly in his corner before the first bell. From start to finish “Dead Pan Joe” never ehanged his boyish, serious expression. Nearly 70,000 See Bout. the Negro was a picture of mns ease and confidence throughout, Carnera was wild and obviously apprehensive from the out- set. Except for a few weak jabs, he did not show anything resembling a punch. The victory marked the ninteenth kmockout for Louis in only 23 pro- fessional fights. Scarceiy less sensational than Louis’ victory was the size of the crowd, biggest attracted to the helvywelghc] wars since Jack Sharkey lost on = foul to- Max Schmeling in a title match here in 1930. Promoter Jacobs set the paid at- tendance at 57,000, but there were actually close to 70,000 spéctators in the big American League ball park, inch the holders of thousands of complimentary tickets and about 1,500 police, who quickly discovered that falk of possible racial disturbances was & false alarm. The gross receipts, $328,000, fell ‘below expectations but marked a new high for a non-title match in ‘the ¢ last five years. 4 Down for the third and last time. Carnera on canvas in sixth round of his hattle with the Detroit Negro at Yankee Stadium last night. CANT HELP BEING KING, SAYS LOUIS Wins First Real Skirmish| Between Men of Itdly and Ethiopia. BY JOHN LARDNER. EW YORK, June 26.—The first | real skirmish in the war be- tween the men of Italy and| men of Ethiopia was settled quickly end decisively here when Joe | Louis, the beige bonbon, scored a| technical knockout over Primo Car-| nera after 2 minutes and 32 seconds of the sixth round at the Yankee Sta- dium last night. The result was not very encouraging to New York's Italian citizenry, but probably it will not affect Signcr Mus- | solini’s campaign in Africa. After all, | this fight was fought on the home| grounds on Louis’ people. Thousands | of them came across the river from | Harlem and shouted themselves hoarse (Continued on Page 3, Column 4. 57,000 Fans Pay $328,000 at Bout By the Associated Press. JEW YORK, June 26.—Official figures on the Louis-Carnera fight were given today by the Twen- tieth Century Sporting Club as: Attendance—57,000, Gross receipts—$328.000. Net_receipts—$276.000. Carnera’s purse—s96,600. Louis’ purse—$49,680. ¢ Fie WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ning Sfaf WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1935. Copyright, A. The referee- ends it. Primo, gory-lipped, and Joe, poised to Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's milk fund—$27,700 plus 50 per cent of the profits. strike again, are parted by Arthur Donovan, who declares Louis the .winner by a technical kayo. Colored Race Relieved of Boxing Famine as Louis Climbs. BY FRANCIS E. STAN. EW YORK, June 26.—Joseph Louis Barrow aits atop the | nstic' world today and once again the colored race- has come into its own in boxing. There had been a great ring famine for the Negro race, a famine which had existed since the days when Jack Johnson, Sam Langford and Joe Gans hung up their gloves. There was Harry Wills, of course, and George Godfrey but they were not to be men- tioned in the same breath with the more illustrious of the chocolate clouters. Having a pugilist in ‘high standing is a perfectly natural condition for the Negro, Amer- ica’s first fighter of any repute was Bill Richmond and Rich- mond was colored. He was sent to England in 1805 with purposes of winning the championship. At the time Tom Cribb also aspired to the crown. They met and Crib knocked out Richmond in 1 hour and 30 minutes. Molyneaux Is Failure. A FEW years later another Negro, ‘Tom Molyneaux, began to achieve & measure of fistic fame. He was lib- erated from slavery on & Virginia plantation to cash in on his fistic prowess and also was sent to England. Inasmuch as Crib then held the title, Molyneaux became the first challenger for the heavyweight championship. After eight minor fights, all of which Molyneaux won by knockouts, Cribb consented to meet the freed slave. Twenty thousand people saw the battle, which for 30 rounds was all Molyneaux. Then in the thirty-first round Cribb landed a smash in the Negro’s face and Molyneaux ‘ym down. He got up, but was out on his feet and stumbled headlong into a ring post. and was knocked uncon- scious. Cribb won by a knockout in the third-third. found, 'and later it was discovered that Molyneaux had frac- tured his skull against the ring post. That was the end of Molyneaux, although they fought again the follow- ing year. Cribb won easilv, breaking the Negro's -jaw-in the tenth round and finishing him in the eleventh. Molyneaux was but a hollow shell, and little was heard from him thereafter until his death in 1819. Has Illustrious Handler. THE first colored pugilists did not fare well but they were only fore- runners of a long line that has pro- duced fighters the sports world still holds up as measuring standards of ring finesse, punch, courage and shrewdness. y There was .Peter Jackson, whom many censider the greatest of all heavyweights. Jackson never won the title because John L. Sullivan “drew the color line.” There was Jack Johnson, who held the title, and Sam Lang- ford, a middleweight, whom Johnson, for one, refused to meet, Joe Walcott was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, weltereweight who ever drew on a glove. - Present- day lightweights still are compared with Joe Gans and the comparison is not flattering to them: George Dixon goes down in fistic history as one of the immortals of the feather- weight and bantamweight divisions. ,Joe Loujs—he dropped the family u when he began his professional career & year sgo—has a e P. Wirephotos. The start of the finish. Floored by the cool, cruel* of Louis fists Carnera grqpes in the resin trying to get his e L bombardment bearings. He arose to carry on, but not for long. handler today who holds a high place in ring annals. He is Jack Black- burn; -who -fought. 385 fights and never was beaten by the same man twice. Blackburn broke even in two fights with Gans and never was given a title shot by the dusky lightweight champion. So he went titleless, but not -unsung. . Now there is young Louis to carry the banner. - Perhaps he never will win the ‘championship; .perhaps” he never will get & crack at it. It is the consensus that Jimmy Braddock would be crazy to tackle the hard- punching Westerner. ¥ But Joe has grabbed the banner ‘of colored boXking, P | 1935-1936. POWER AND SPEED as He Makes Pulp of NEW YORK, June 26.—A black ing wake the slashed and They led the Sequals steer to the the brown butcher of Michigan, with Expression Never Changes | Man Mountain. BY GRANTLAND RICE. blizzard blew out of Mich- igan, leaving in its devastat- battered remains of Primo Carnera, the man mountain of Italy. vast slaughtering pen of the Yankee | Stadium last night, where Joe Louls, | a pair of cleavers known as the right and the left, was waiting for the big | Job. | In the sixth round Louis hammered | Carnera to the dust of the floor with three terrific punches. came with the lightning flash of a cobra’s strike. Carnera Is Game. (QUTWEIGHED by more than 64 pounds, 196 to 260%, Louis was colder than the north winds that blow on from the barren lands. Through the entire progress of the fight his expression never changed. He was the bushmaster of the North American Each one |’ Classified By DENMAN EW YORK, June 26—Joe Louis has the goods. He's there! This was demonstrated. in the ring at Yankee Stadium here last night to the complete satisfaction of some 57,000 specta- tors who saw him outbox, outrough and outhit Primo Carnera in the process of winning every heat of a one-sided battle that ended with the gigantic Italian out on his feet in the sixth round, the victim of a technical kayo mercifully decreed by Referee Arthur Donovan. Carnera was out-everythinged except in courage, and the reason was that his conqueror’s gameness never was put to the test. At no time was the ponderous, slow-moving behemoth able to land a punishing blow on his dark- skinned opponent, who moved about with the agility of a panther, struck with the same rapier-like rapidity, ducked some leads with the grace of a balancing seal and picked others off in midair with his gloves. 'HERE is no reason to doubt the size of Louis’ heart, however. Against a foeman who towered half a foot above him and out- weighed him 60 pounds the lad who came of age only last month and continent, stalking his prey. He crowded and whipped and slashed. From the opening salute he came through with the two/ great con- querors—power and speed. | It was Carnera who charged in| gamely, a steer attacking the cleaver, but it was Louis who met him with a bewildering offensive of rights and lefts that drove Carnera back, split | his lips and proved the mastery of Louis before the first round was two minutes old. It was only a question | then as to how long Carnera could | last—how long he could face this| fusillade of leather. (Copyright. 1935, by the North American | Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) NAVY PICKS FLEMING. ANNAPOLIS, June 26 (#).—Mid- shipman A. F. Fleming of Las Cruces, | N. Mex., has been elected captain of the Naval Academy varsity crew for Midshipman J. A. Cod- | dington, Springfield, Ill, is the new | Happy Harlem On Colore@ Boxer’s Victory BY MARK BARRON, Assotiated Press Staff Writer, EW YORK, June 26 —Harlem, crooning hallelujahs for Joe Louis, at dawn teday was a happy picnic ground of fried chicken and two-bit gin. Louis’ victory over Primo Carnera started a celebration that danced past sun-up under the watchful eyes of a blue-coated policeman at every corner of Lenox avenue. “They sho’ goin’ to town, all right,” Newt said as he greeted Harlemites and Louis’ Detroit friends at his breakfast dance emporium—one of many such places. The Detroit friends flaunted re- splendent gold badges modestly ai tached to wide blue ribbons bearing the legend, “Joe Louis’ Boosters’ Club of Detroit.” The Negro maids, chauffeurs, laun- dresses, chorus girls, bellhops and other inhabitants of the 125th street neighborhood must have felt confident from the start of the fight at Yankee Stadium. Jack Johnson was there, dazzling in his chocolate-hued sport jacket and wide-brimmed Panama hat. He was who has been jousting profession- ally for less than a year flashed a far more impressive performance against him than did Max Baer in acquiring Primo’s heavyweight title 12 months back—and in about half the time. Where Baer upset Carnera 11 times in as many rounds before the titld changed hands a year ago Louis had Primo on the floor only thrice, but strictly on the basis of points registered the ambling Alp made a show of Maxie whereas the dusky Detroiter last night con- temptuously shoved aside the ex- champion’s long left and blocked or sidestepped a great majority of his awkward rights whilst piling up an ever-growing lead in drilling on to a climax about which there never was any doubt. Methodical in his tactics, Louis proved he is an instinctive fighter with remarkable co-ordination be- tween mind and muscle, but, best of all, he is a precision hitter “Goes to Town”| greeted with a clack-clack of palms | that sounded like the rhythmic stac-| cato of bones at a Saturday night social. | Coming all the way from Holly- | wood movie stucios, Bill Rohinson, | | unofficial mayor of Harlem, keeper | of Lenox avenue's gond luck tree and king of dancers, was the first man to leao into the ring after the fight and | shak: Louis’ hand. | | Scarcely was the hand “Brown Bomver” lited in tory lwhen the Harlem cilizens, laighing | and shouting, began flowing toward | | the breakfast dazces, night clubs, and | | other rendezvous where gather neigh- | | oors for barbecue, music and a go| |at the Lindy non. | | Tiue, there was a tolerant police- man at every corner and many in the middle of tre block, but Harlem was too gay for trouble. “Sho' is a town,” Newt observed | as he looked down Ler.ox avenue, not | unmindful of ihe cash customers | flooding into his own breakfast dance palace. | “That dead-pan boy from De=-troit got something. Anyways, it's chicken now on out for Harlem. No more | feathers and iatback here.” Ads C—1 ‘Matched in July or August ON THE SIDE LINES With the S ports Editor THOMPSON with destructive force to his wal- lops. A good boxer, he is not Jack Johnson, the cleverest of all the heavyweight kings, and, while a wicked walloper, he is not a “sec- ond Dempsey”—not yet, at least— in ability to register one-punch knockouts. But he is the best-looking heavy- weight fighting machine efor his tender age that has flashed over the fistic horizon in many a moon and there is the prospect that be- fore he amasses his pile he will have established himself as the most outstanding exemplar of science and sock combined that the game ever saw. AKING due allowance for the fact that Carnera is not and never has been a front-rank fight- er he still was good enough to reach the throne and to put up a sturdy scrap in its defense, and his conqueror of last night looks to this bureau to be capable of handily disposing of any one now in the championship picture—and he is bound to improve. Against such as Baer and Brad- dock, the brown bomber, for all his lack of experience, would be better than an even money bet right now. If Louis isn't the next heavy- weight champion of the world it will be because some one takes the title holder before Joe gets a chance to meet him, whether it is this Fall, next Summer or two years hence. In our humble sepia slugger, now boasting 23 straight pro triumps, 19 of ’‘em by knockouts, can't be stopped by any one now in sight. CELEBRATE IN DETROIT opinion the | Quietest Place in Noisy Section Is Louis’ Home. DETROIT, June 26 (#).—Detroit’s own Harlem, a populous Negro sec- tion of the East Side, spent the night celebrating in wild glee the knockout | victory scored by Joe Louis over Primo Carnera in New York. The quietest spot in the noisiesr celebration the district ever stagea | was at Joe Louis’ home, where Pat Brooks, the fighter’s stepiather, read » newspaper and refused to listen to radio bulletins. He said he hoped Joe would win, and when he retirea he mourned the fact he did not go to New York with the rest of the family Si)drts Program For D. C. Fans TODAY. Golf. Match play. intercollegiate cham- pionships, Congressional Country Club, TOMORROW. Base Ball. Washington at New York. ‘Wrestling. Jack Donovan vs. Reuben Wright, main bout, Grifith Stadium, 8:30. Golf. Match play, intercollegiate cham- pionships, Congressional Country Club. FRIDAY. Golf. Mateh play, intercollegiate cham- pionships, Congressional Country Club. SATURDAY. Base Ball. Washington at New York, 3. Golf. Final intercollegiate champion- pionships, Congressional Country Dempsey Pronounces Louis a Great Fighter Jack Impressed by Workmanlike Manner in Which Colored Youth Finishes Primo. BY JACK DEMPSEY, EW YORK. June 26—Joe Louis of Detroit last night the sports writers gave him by dropping Primo Carnera three with terrific right-hand swings to the jaw and the last time with a the Brown Bomber just 2 minutes and 32 seconds to complete his job the sixth round. The result was not sudden or un- it was apparent that Louis was the winner. Carnera began bleeding the first round. The blood trickled down his chin and continued to In the sixth Primo tried to hold Louis off with a left jab, but the be held off. He simply went about his task in & workmanlike manner and coolly battered Carnera to the floor. There was nothing spectacular about the fight. It was too me- thodical. It was an exhibition simply of one battler beating down another in a manner that made the ultimate result a foregore conclu- sion. After the first round, every- body knew that Louis finally would cut his man down and finish him. Louis had no difficulty in reach- ing Primo’s chin. He threw him punches fast and hard, and every one of them counted. This eliminates Carner~ * the heavyweight race. It Louis in the position of i logical contender for the tiile. There are those who will say he must eliminate Max Schmeling first. Others will ask him to beat s, | Former World Heavyweight Champion. lived up to the reputation times in the sixth round, twice cotple of lefts to the chin. It took when he set himself to his task in expected. From the very beginning from a nasty right to the mouth in stream all through the fight. poker-faced colored boy was not to Louis Beaten in Debut Fight Shellacked in Amateur Start, Comes Back With Fourteen Straight Knockouts. By the Associated Press. EW YORK, June 26 —Twen- N ty-one years ago an ebony mite came tc join four other pickaninnies at the Alsbama cabin of Cotton Picker Munn Barrow. Barrow looked at the baby with- fistic prominence and wealth. . Two years later, the father, de and then Lily Barrow packed up her brood and moved to Detroff. At 12 Joe worked after school carrying ice, and at 14 he quit grammar school to enter a voca~ tional institution and iearn cabinet e A Baer. On his showing against Car- One day & classmate, a fair am= ateur boxer, invited Jo¢ to don the gloves with him, and although Joe knew. nothing of the art, he con- sented. He proved to be a poor opponent, but that experience awakened in him a desire for ring action. In 1932 he entered the amateur prize ring, opposed Johnny Miller, and received a thorough lacing. He went on, however, to run up a string of 14 consecutive knockout victories. Less than a year ago he made his professional debut in Chicago, knocking out Jack Kracken in & round. He then won 22 straight Victories, 18 of them by knock- outs, before getting the bout with Primero Carnera, massive Italian and former world heavyweight champion. 5 nera he will be a formidable op- ponent for either. I think he is a great fighter. (Copyright, 1935, by North American N er Alliance.) % SWIM-SWIH-SWI | GENTLEMEN 11:00 TO 11:30AM. ~ 7% R SWIM-SWIM - SWIM -