PHOENIX, Saturday, may, 31,1941 PAGE SIX THE PHOENIX INDEX, ARIZONA SPORTS JOE LOUIS 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, Tony Galento. 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 Boxing 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 Billy Conn 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.