PHOENIX, Saturday, may, 31,1941 PAGE SIX THE PHOENIX INDEX, ARIZONA SPORTS KNOCKED TO CANVAS BY LEFT HOOK SLANTS ‘ones CHIN IN FIRST, TKO'S BUDDY BAER IN 7TH Joe Louis Most Deadly When Hurt; World TO Champ** Phenomenal Powers Os Recovery Buddy Baer Down Third Time Against Louis Challenger How Baer, Louis Compared Save Day; Buddy Baer Game As They Come J..." h&HT “LOUIS CENTERS his heart on nothing but destruc- pACTS ‘FACTS" ABoUtj killer and ‘pitches’ with ev- BUDDY BAER: MffiTf tion, once hurt. Then he turns Floors Joe JO£ LOUIS; | erything he has on the ball. Typical cases: Jorge Brescia, Jimmy Braddock, . The latter had him on the deck twice, but the champion got up and ‘shot the works antil the bulbous beer barrel In First ,vas riveted to'the canvas.” That is what. the column Bv RIC ROBERTS ATote in its front-page pre- GRIFFITH STADIUM, fight story Friday morning Joe Louis made it 17 in a 3efore the Joe Louis-Buddy row Friday night before a Baer title go in Griffith Sta- record crowd of over 25,000 queer * dium up in Washington, .D C. fans by gaining a ref- Hr ' lllMbt'aHl That is just about the eree’s decision over 237 1-2 HU HHi night’s stir- pound Buddy Baer. The mi- story of Friday mmSHm ring, blood-spilled contest. champion weighed 201 3-4 Fighting with the courage rounds. of few challengers ever to In a battle chock full of action *’** • took the first round by ' against itesi where Baer a risk life and limb lUc hooking through the second Tan Embalmer, Buddy left Joe the 11*' '» . r" 'O%M and third ropes for no count many .iff Baer a brisk early episodes transpired. r v®f .4£syxß& weathered daffy attack by Louis in the open- Baer won the first and Louis ing seconds of the first swept the second. Baer came back round, and just before the to hotly contest the third. Louis ended, became aroused in the fourth and stanza knocked the landed 44 punches to Baer’s 11. head first to the resin with In the fifth, Louis suffered a cut world heavyweight champion let eye coming out of a clinch, a death-dealing left hook to the 27th blow in the round, 16 ox the chin. which Louis threw. With Louis » \ t bleeding from a cut for the first Louis was hurt. The cham- brought the house pion uncertainly time ever, Baer scrambled forward with a wildrally but Louis back to his feet, mayhem in - 4S3HP ASK 2 answered it with 12 terrific lefts heart. :I|B .SKm and rights that had Baer in bad No sooner was the second shape at bell time. Both fight- round underway than Louis, ers were furiously worked over by hurt and, cjoubtless, sensing seconds during the interim. ipipending danger, went out In the 6th Louis, roused as never to get his man. Baer threw before since the second Schmeling rally with •* the first two punches, a fight, stopped Baer’s an eye which threatened to give him right and left to the cham- the pion’s ¦Bp|iL .' w/m . ¦’: a bloody session. Louis blasted head. But from there, California giant 27 straight times it was Louis. Rights to the before Baer put in a single blow. chin. I.€fts to the face. A right uppercut to the jaw, Left Baer rallied with five scoring jab to the head. A left uppercut to the chin. Hard rights punches but Louis, with incraas- to the3 body. ing viciousness, dished out six bru- tal two-handed blasts that felled Baer courageously tried to fight back, dumping a right Baer for the first time in his career and left to the champion’s chin, then moving in close. of 54 fights. At the count of six It was Louis again then. He caught Baer flush witn a Baer arose but 11 more hooks and right * him for a cross that spun him halfway around, his knees almost * short rights dropped buckling. Baer looked unsteady. * nine count. Scar of Battle Louis came back in the third to finish the job. The He struggled to his feet and Louis The stiff left jabs tilted to .... ending the Baer’s head back. Lefts and rights i • • ¦ •/¦:• not hearing the round ihe body were pumped by Baer in a counter attack. A left bell, rushed in and felled the chal- hook by Baer grazed Louis’ neck. Baer moved forward and lenger with a mighty right hand- promptly WASHINGTON, D. C.—(ACME)—Buddy Baer’s right cross blasted him to the canvas. ed shot. Baer was dragged inert to was stung with left hooks to the body and right business-like crosses iong legs are folded grotesquely after the young giant Fact two: Donovan had his usual his corner. to the jaw. Baer countered with a hard right to the answer sev- had been battered to the canvas for the third time in stance between the two gladiators, obviously watch, Baer failed to the heart, then shot in a right to the chin and left to the body enth round call. Louis thu gained by Joe Louis. ing vigilantly every movement of the men. at the bell. the sixth round a referee decision. Baer gained confidence wisely The above scene is one taken from a camera In the picture above, selected expressly for the and Louis worked with action more caution. The Brown Bomber found the range again, newsreel sequence of nine shots giving all the purpose of showing that Baer could not have been though, and showered the game challenger—weighing immediately before, during, and after the much dis. deposited to the canvas face.forwa r d bad he been Dempsey Picks 237 1-2 to his 201 3-4—with left to jaw chin, cudsed third knockdown. The said reel, part of the hit going away as claimed, note that Donovan is hooks the and Colum- a right to the chin and left to the body, right uppercuts, evidence used in a probe by the District of still very much ON THE JOB. Nation’s Capital Mon. . to the chin and lefts to the jaw and body. Baer stabbed a bia Commission In the Official verdict was disqualification of Baer for Conn To Slop establishes two facts that indicate the bell end. right, to the ribs, but took lefts to the chin and a jolting day, failing to answer the Seventh round bell, which is right ing the sixth round apparently went unheard by the to the body. tli equivalent of a technical knockout for Louis. three principals in the ring. e Then with his guard (See analysis of D. C. probe in yarn by SNS Sports Louis in the fifth round, started a and Baer was Joe Louis with rush one: facing Fact Louis Thomp- tagged Baer a flurry rights when Editor “Melancholy” Jones.) HOUSTON—(By John H. with of and-lefts. Baer got in up (not walking to his corner as claimed) a for- short rights and lefts to the jaw. Toe to toe, they slugged son for ANP)—Jack Dempsey, it mer heavyweight title holder who out, Baer whistling a right off Louis’ left ear, punching a is touring the country refereeing left uppercut to the chin, a right to the jaw, and a right to fights and wrestling matches, told the face. A high straight right to Louis’ head started his Knox; Buddy white reporters here this week that TKO’s ‘‘Joe Louis can’t take a real punch left eye bleeding. Louis blinked, the orb swelling. that Always centering and the chances are fair he his heart on nothing but destruction, will lose his title this year.” once hurt, Louis went absolutely berserk. His left eye drip- The once mighty Manassa Maul- ping blood and apparently bothering him, the Brown Bom- Eighth er, grown fat and heavy footed, laHBL- • * * Bell he i Answer that while on his tour k#*' To also said ber wade in and rained right and left uppercuts Fails under v. as on the lookout for a “white drove champion to the ropes. light could be made, as such action would be l Baer’s chin that the futile By ‘‘MELANCHOLY’* JONES or heavyweights who hope” there was none on the against even with the policy of the but Louis shot a short right that spun Baer around and rocked not hold their own at variance horizon. He hopefully wished tho (SNS Sports Editor) third fourth rate heavy- District of Columbia Boxing him almost to the deck. The bell saved him. and that the “army might, in a year, weights. Commission. The BILLY CONN, the Pittsburgh develop some one who could lick sixth round only hurried the inevitable. The mad- These victories, also, were ex- Photographs taken in sequence champion Cutie, may have clinched the everything Louis.” dened drilled lefts and rights to Baer’s jaw, jolt- has with clusively decisions. Victims were and presenting that TALKS GOOD FIGHT scheduled title shot he happened Louis scored the fight ing uppercuts to the chin, steaming rights and lefts to the Heavyweight Champion Gus Lesnevich and Melio Bettina as Joe Dempsey still talks a good World rounds; first, second knock- he body. Baer fought back, finding Louis’ jaw with a left and night, June twice each in 15 Fred and third for in an unguarded moment Joe Louis Wednesday downs in the sixth round also eye during his light with Buddy Baer in Washington, D. C., and then left his the Monday Apostoli once in 15 and once in told newshawks that he “would Cut over the right, getting in a uppercut. 18, bv feat past once in 12, discovered to reveal Ref- to fought Louis heavyweight champion Joe Louis explains to reporters how it happened. scoring a technical 10: Henry Cooper were have liked have The The aroused Louis tagged Baer with a bristling right night of and Young eree Donovan himself apparently I have stopped This is the first time Joe’s face has been cut in a professional fight. Buddy Knox in Teddy Yarosz in 15, for I believe could to first the fight, big knocked out over did not hear the bell ending that the man who champ was knocked kicking in the first round but came back win tha to the chin. For the time in the Califor- round The battle took Corbett in 10. him.” This from was disqualified. ihe Bth stanza. sidestepped bout bout with fight in the seventh, when Baer nia red oak from Sacramento went down, flat on his face, in Pittsburgh. Knox failed after place LOST TO PHOTOS ‘EXONERATE* Harry Wills. and went to a neutral the for the eighth. Nova has a much better hands knees about the canvas. Louis tc answer bell LOUIS In making his appraisal of the Ihat Lou Conn’s defeats ever the past whip Joe Louis than has corner. Gamely, Baer struggled to his feet. A left hook sent a The said pictures reveal clear- of 1941, had the chance to Conn, fearful of losing also include losses by Louis Dempsey hit but he is a the tottering giant back several feet and a right uppercut few years ly that, as Louis caught Buddy following to say: “I believe that Conn. “Conn can’t Harris Ii Archie chance at the heavyweight crown decisions to and groat boxer,” said Dempsey. the chin for of Baer on the chin a straight has gone back some. Judging to dropped Baer a count nine. he fizzled the works, carried Teddy Yarosz in 12 and with Joe he on his bicycle for 15 if rounds jolting right cress two from fights Abe Simon keeps produced by 30,000 chalked up 10. conditions his with may have a chance to '* In the din and turmoil more than the fight to Knox and one to Young Corbett in would it evi- Red Burman, rounds he with rapier- has existed which make and that Musto and have to knock him howling, shrieking maniacs, Louis, failing to hear the bell, three knockdowns Knox, a Dayton, Ohio, boy, any person nis win. Louis will Big to fair-minded he can’t hit hard as in Ten dent as Sets like left hooks in the seventh. no real claim to fame, because (who out to win. Conn, however, is a rushed from a neutral corner and let Baer have it with a though Louis did not hit his game chal- earlier fights. Burman might Knox was beaten badly, he boasts not a single major stanza a Irishman who death-dealing hand grenade that dropped him prostrate to lenger unfairly or deliberately. was KOed in the fifth by wild-headed any many experts are of the opinion knockout in his entire five year Louis, says start slugging with Louis at dragged These facts ai’e as follows: blow to the body by with,’ the resin. The inert challenger was to his corner. may continued fighting. and men he (Ed much to slug he have pi’ofessional career (1. Baer was facing Lou's, with Joe hurt him.” note. time without Discus Mark was and deliberation of more than been largely never There tenseness excited in the at- Among some the decisioned have his up, at the time the Dempsey’s Fighter.) he disparaged. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.— ‘stepping guard Burman was CHANCE TOO mosphere. Arthur Donovan, the famous referee, was in the '‘doormat’ and stones’ blow landed; and NOVA GIVEN Archie Harris, New Jerseyite who battlers. RATES TWO OVER LOUIS Dempsey rates Louis FLASH! for ether aspiring One (2) Referee Donovan in least two How badly college at Indiana univer- proverbial middle. George was Jack believes that at by bis statement that attends answers. Heavyweight Champion J°e of these victims was his usual tense stance between champions could have is indicated he is the greatest dis- But Donovan, apparently knew the No Nicholson, present sparring part- former good chance of sity, proved Promoter Mike the two men, going through the Willard and Tunney. Neva would have a cus ever developed in sooner had the bell clanged for the seventh round, answer- Louis and ner Louis, along with Al beaten Louis, against if he mixed thrower spectators of Joe conventional vigilance he would he believes the Wil- winning Louis America when he hurled the iron, the cobs were interested in 10, Bob OHn in He said that Nova can ered by Buddy Baer, than he rushed forward, pulled fight Mon- McCoy twice expected to manifest at the vitli him. He thinks feet 1 inch for a new at the Conn-Knox 10, Max Marek in 10, and Char- be lard in his prime who knocked out better and hit much platter 174 champion to the center of the ring, and raised his hand in beginning or in the middle of any have take a punch Friday in day night. ley Massera in 10. Louis "kayoed Jack Johnson also would American record th# victory by technical round. (It has never harder than Conn. trials of i .ie 41st an- a knockout. all of the last named quartet knocked out Louis. Dempsey might have qualifying Prevailing impression, anyway, Jack did Os course, by Indiana. Os Baer, after the stirring spectacle, Louis said: cash consider- pro been proven that Johnson for his Southern nua] Big 10 meet won 20,000 customers, early in his career tc the effect that Buddy Willard). been spouting set by was fight. Buddy’s a fine boxer and a good hissing greeted is not lay down to for it is well Tlie new Giscus mark "It a tough able booing and managei', Ancil Hoffman, an outside Texas audience, to continue KNOCKED OUT TWICE Baer's Giving Billy Conn North he has the 6 feet 3 inch, 210 pound senior hitter. the failure of Knox merely forcing the issue to they known in the that according to an SNS in- is chance to whip Louis when highly in the is only one and a half Inches short Asked Baer hurt him with that left hook to the action, Knox was kayoed in early his Dempsey believes lated Louis pretty years if scene. Buddy effect an rematch of meet in June, of the world mark set six formant on the by Leroy Haynes, fighter against the champion... past, in fact has won considerable Germany. chin that floored him in the very first round, Joe replied: three rounds according ago by Willi Schroeder of 5 For Conn, it was his fifth TKO by of money betting on him, "That was a one. Yes, that was a good punch! who was beaten several times under which condition he visua- fact that the decision Dono- good sir, of respected heavyweights. Other own Bearcat Obie was and sensible. They to Jacob’s Beach denizens. Atlanta’s lizes a possible half million dol- van just OPENS DEFENSE SCHOOLS Baer was all praise of Louis, too, saying: victims ahead of Knox were Gun- Walker, and Clarence (Red) lar gate. remind one and all that Buddy TELLS OF NOVEL OrFER his talk SAN! DIEGO, Cal.—(ANP)—'“Th e “He’s a great guy; I’d like to get him in a return bout.” nar Barlund and Ai Me Coy in Burman in four Louis ONLY USING HIS HEAD Baer, quicker than anyone, ac- As a firals in with rounds. let training, schools manager, seven cantos, Gus Dorazio in kayoed Burman in jig-time It is considered knowing cepted it, rushed to Louis after i ewspapermen here, Dempsey defense industrial It was Baer’s Ancil Hoffman, who also pilots by San Diego are open for the eight and Boy Pastor in 13 LOUIS’ CROWN SAFE ring experts that Hoffman is regaining his equilibrium, put it be known that he has received of , who took the fight hard. He kept yelling: he training of Negroes as they are for probe Joe merely ‘‘playing his cards” a one arm around him and goed- offers from Washington that “Hit ’im after the bell; hit ’im after the bell!” OUTRIGHT KAYOS At Monday’s of the like representativs of all other racial NO Louis-Buddy Baer fight, accord- master. These observers, to a naturedly shook his hand with may be a “good will ambassador” Buddy waved manager, grabbed Louis’ in broadly for the America groups”. This was the announce- off his hand wen by Conn against ing to information from SNS man, admit Hoffman is doing no the other, smiling to South Victories He received approximately ment made last Sunday by Dr. Will a gesture of true sportsmanship, and smiled broadly as “name” opposition are not attaches, it was definitely estab- more than any other smart man- clicking cameras of frenzied other $1,500 for Houston effort in the C. Crawford superintendent of frenziedlv. That the graphic narrative especially impressive because the lished that reversal of Referee ager would do. newspaper photographers and his cameras clicked is no wrestling ring, San Diego’s public schools. of one of the most exciting of all Louis’ 17 title defenses. rivals were either middleweights Arthur Donovan’s decision could They point significantly to the 1 newsreel specialists.