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Jack Dempsey “Changes Spots” Regarding Joe Louis SATURDAY- MARCH 22. 1241 PAGE SIX THE PHOtiNIX INDi'.X. FHOHNIX, ARIZONA JACK DEMPSEY “CHANGES SPOTS” REGARDING JOE LOUIS — [tflanff Georgia State Basketball Champions |Only Brown Bomber Himself Can o/i Champion.— Says 3jpCMrstomd Lick H 7 + Mauler BqZuous | ORLANDO, Fra.—fANP)—At- world, knocked into ai cocked hat to have revealed himself quickly as g|||Mfly ending a boxing bout here, where anything which may have been at- the number one Joe Louis fan. He le officiated as the third man in tributed to him in the past as- sees no chance for Conn to mc.l:e he ring. Jack Dempsey, idol of sailing Joe Louis, even a mildly good showing against nillions because of his former Asked about the current heavy- Louis. Joe Louis WillKnock Out Billy Conn, ¦eign as champion of the pugilistic weight situation, Dempsey is said WILL KAYO CONN “Louis will knock him out, sure as shootin’,” said Dempsey. “Some- Sure As Shootin’, Says Jack Dempsey, time before the 15 rounds are over 1 he’ll catch up with Conn and tag Ric him with either a left or right and Now Professing To “Like”Bomber ROBERTS'l they’ll be carrying an over-maoth- ed boy out of the ring. How they “Joe Louis is a g-ood fighter and a good puncher, but his ever figure thsil Conn will give name is very bad for the fight game.” Louis a battle for it, I don’t know. Thai was the viewpoint of Former Heavyweight C'ham- Events Recalled In Conn is supposed to be a pretty good boxer, but, they ought to Jack Dempsey, as chroni know by this time that Louis can Exciting Career Os box, himself. Nobody but Max Schmeling was super smart. ‘‘There isn’t anybody around who ¦niJK. SIAC Bloodhound is going to beat Louis. When he is licked, he’ll beat himself like a FOR excilemenl, for romantic., thrill- couple of ether champions I know. 11-' YOU LIVE u You can’t keep that sharpe edge means, get newspaper beat. As Sir ing existence —by all on a forever, but Louis doesn’t figure to Harry Lauder said in his sang: “You’llnever have much get licked until lie’s at least 30. money, but boy, or boy, you’ll have fun!” He is a right living boy and that’s The sports desk is the most thrilling. You get ringside a big lieln to him.” fights: trips college campuses, CHIN ATTACk FOR LOUIS seats at championship to Somebody Dempsey from ergettas ping pong tourna- asked what passes to everything to kind of a fight a man would have ments. *o make to beat Louis and he was The mass hysteria of a classic football clash the ouick to answer that cne. “I know Fresh from triumphs in both the North Mid- Calvin Jones, also in the front wearing the No. 4 socially, polite, sophisticated contact of tennis the gore *»ow Jack Dempsey would try to ’?'-k him. I’d try beat dle Georgia Athletic Conference Basketball Tour- jersey. The other players, left to right, are A. D- of a prize ring the squall of an exciting basketball tc him by fighting the only kind of a fight lament in the fifth annua! Georgia Chatman, Paul Simpson, Robert (Pete) Turner, squall an exciting bsketbal Griffin and tournament or game the of T knew how. I’d just try to get in r ... Finch-; and .. hand- i State High School Basketball Tournament in Sa- George (Red) Othello Renfroe, Cap- one else’s expense records, records and records ’'here close and keep punching at . - . - ~ vannah, Booker T. Washington High School of tain Claude (Red) George. shakes with coaches and famous people of the day . thou- his chin. r 1941 by “Now this Louis 1941 ®*he only local . hunting. be licked Atlanta has eliminated all rival claims to the defeat suffered sands of acquintnces . the lure of headline can’t in living the body punches. He’s in too fc state BTWHS, coached by Leslie C. Baker, was by the The only “draymer”—the one impediment—lurks with title. •rood shape. Braddock hit him in Members of the championship Blue and White Adelphi Junior club, also of Atlanta, in the Clark- | life of a successful, retired sportsman on not so l-obust remuneration. s he chin and knocked him down. (Lit at Progressive to at Yankee costs you and :- Bulldogs in the above picture are Jerome Renaissance preliminary the Jewish A trip see Joe Louis in action S-tadium Galento floored him with a shot, to Ceasar) Hubert, forward, with the basketball, and club in the Gate City.—(Staff photo by McKibfaen) you or you ss7—a sports hound gets all of this free, plus his salary s he chin and Schemeling knocked bothering to in wrangle at bell time. him out with right, hands to the e for drop on the A trip to the Orange Blossom Classic costs you at least sls chin. You’ve got to hit him on the button to beat him. But plus absence from work. It seems at least S3O profit to the sports you’ve got to hit him hard, he won’t fold ; Big John Borican Breaks World hound. up. I like Louis.” The profession is fused with charming episodes—but gosh, it’s LIKES JOE LOUIS? like ‘swing music’; what will a guy do when the years pile up, when Quoting from the interviewer, the fires of youth ebb? Shirley Povich of the Washington Post: 600-Yard Run “Dempsey was making very plain 5 Indoor Mark In MEMORABLE HIGHLIGHTS the fact that he liked Louis*. With- By ERNEST JOHNSON the first of his two bids for victory establishing a new world record of Writing or playing the sports have carried me over 150,000 miles in the past month, the mauler has process, six-tenths of been roundly new' YORK,— (ANP) —Big in one night by trying to upset 1:10.2 in the through 31 states; o Mexico and Cuba. Here are a few memorable attacked by the Ne- Shore A. C. world record of 1:10.3 a second under Herbert’s record gro press of the country following jqe louis This column started a bitter John Borican of the Herbert’s moments: Mascoting for the New York Giants in 1920 at Gainesville registered victory, estab- Last year, he made a similar at- set in 1940. O'Donnell ran third an interview in New Orleans when a double . in the nude for a gigantic across of Dempsey’s opinion of Joe Louis a . sketching Babe Ruth (save towel it was reported that Dempsey had denunciation not as lishing a new world record in one tempt and succeeded in winning his and Herbert a bad fourth. The . , cast doubt on fighter. objected to undemocratic a Negro can- Herb Thompson of Jer- specialty, the 1000 yard run, taking Shore A. C. runner revealed beau- his lap) in the University of Florida'gym in 1920 quarterbacking the Negro fighter's It his view ¦ event, and gameness. not be an exemplary heavyweight champion, an example for sey City came within one-tenth of over Glen Cunningham in the bar- tiful and effortless striding through- for Lincoln’s undefeated 1923-24 prep grid champs of Florida at 1 “I’ve caught it from over cf equalling a world’s rec- gain, but lost the 600 to Beetham. out. Gainesville . caddying for Gene Sarazan at Winter Haven in 1925 all the both white and colored youth. a second country for that story”, . order. One hour later the 1000 yard Dempsey renewal of the The in that . first were run . Louis, the suoject of Dempsey’s attack, was up as ord at the 22nd races . failure to get a football letter at Clark in 1925 my admitted. ‘T was misquoted; set Knights of Columbus games when This time, however, it was the re- run saw Borican hang up his sec- that’s SIAC triumph, a 11-2 piching victory over Tuskegee for Clark’s 1926 what and it got me in a lot o* the thing the Manassas Mauler said no Negro could ever be 15,000 enthusiastic fans crowded verse. -1 ond victory of the evening by fin- . And ¦ baseball champs, and a baseball letter . “making grade’’ another thing.” added —a one and up white Square Garden Satur- The race off to a fast pace ishing yards ahead of Jim Kehce of SIAC the trouble. great champion, admired looked to by : f into Madison got the former “I’m . All SIAC champion, not ( stellar Borican leading the Herbert the Washington A. A., his übiquit- against Morris Brown that same fall at half for Clark . and colored boys everywhere. day night to witness such with sure I could lick Louis”. attractions as the Casey 600 and second. Intermittent shuffling in ous rival. Consistently, then, the honors at half . ten dollai’s a week for my column “Under South- The Negro press, as a unit, joined in the concerted ob- Kehoe Columbian Mile, and to bring the back at no time threatened the completely a Borican and in the Chicago Defender . pitching for Nat Trammell’s jection to Jack Dempsey’s re- the ern Skies” undemocracv. The wholesale the current indoor season to a vanguard until Beetham, ever affair. Daytona Royals at Miami, at Tampa, at St. Peersburg, at Daytona, at action of the colored press was voiced, in some instances, by triumphant close. Herbert’s rival, started making a. ANOTHER GREAT . Key West in 1927 .
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