Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1937 — Page 6

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LOUIS BATTERS JIM BRADDOCK TO WIN TITLE wr r Detroit Negro Is New, Heavyweight Champ- ! ion Os World Chicago, June 23. — (U.R) — J° p ' Louis, a black man. today had completed his march down the [ glory road. The march started 23 years ago. 1 ill a tiny cabin in the cotton, way/ down In Alabain'. It ended last night in a brilliant patch of light at Comiskey park when, with (15.000 persons looking on, he was proclaimed heavy- ], weight champion of all the world lie heard the proclamation with upraised hands — hands that still , gripped with the blood of the big Irishman. Jimmy Braddock, who. j after 22 minutes and ten seconds of battling, had crumpled to the,' flood unconscious. Only one other man of Louis' i race burly, gold-toothed Jack i Johnson- -ever stood where Louis ■ stands today. But Jack lifted the title hi Australia, which leaves Louis with the distinction of being the first colored man to win the championship on American soil. When Louis blasted the defending champion Braddock to the floor in the eighth round he capped one of the most sensational climbs to to heights in the history of boxing. Three years ago Joe labored in an automobile factory. A pair of overalls was his dress, and pork chops and homing grits his fare. Today he is the best fighting man in the world, with $700,000 in the bank, and faced with the cheery prospect of making twice that amount in the next twelve months. Already Mike Jacobs, the shrewd New Yorker who brought last night's fight to Chicago despite a flock of lawsuits, has laid plans for Joe to defend his championship

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twice before winter Jacobs announced today that he had arranged tentatively to take tire Brown Bomber to Ixmdon in July and pit him against Tommy Karr, the gangling Welshman who holds the British empire heavy ' weight title. If successful against Farr Louis will return for a Sep ; tember go against the best avail-j able opponent probably Max Schmeling of Germany, only man to conquer Joe since he began living by his fists. 1 “Mister Jacobs says I'm going to be the busiest champion ever was" Joe grinne dtoday. “And that sure suits me. I'll fight one a month if he can dig them up." Joe was challenger last night and got only a paltry 17*4 per cent of the net receipts. The gross was announced at $715,400.74 but the net hasn't been calculated. When it is Braddock will be given 50 per cent for the terrific punish ment he took at the hands of the coffee-colored challenger. But from now on Joe's will be the champion's share and with his tremendous drawing power event ually he should build up a fortune j to compare with that amassed by Jack Dempsey and Gene Tuuney. There were many today who praised Braddock for his courage in carrying the tight to Louis but they felt, for the most part, that the champion had used poor judgment in his first title defense. He fought for the crowd instead of the crown. Bob Pastor, one of the fighters who hopes to challenge Louis, asserted: “Jim was too game for his own good. If he had fought a waiting I fight he would have lasted 15 rounds and might have saved his champ ionship." One jolting right uppercut in the first round almost retained the title for the Jersey "Cinderella man." It whistled upward a scant ■ eight inches, whipped the challenger under the chin and dropped him to the canvas. But Louis took it and was on his feet without a count. Its only effect was that the brown man's placid features adopted an expression of mingled respect and worry. Thereafter his ordinarily half-closed eyes were . wide open. He boxed with new | caution. When Braddock's upper- 1 cut was unleashed again Louis I caught it with his glove. Braddock took a terrific beating | from then on and seemed to care little for the stunning blows that ripped his Irish face into a mess of streaming cuts. He lashed out with hearty rights and while they steamed with viciousness Louis I caught or rolled with most of them. Braddock took punishment that seemed beyond human endurance. Even as the crowd gasped in pity he shook his crimson head and advanced on the jabbing challenger. ! Occasionally a left or right would crash through the negro’s guard, but almost invariably Louis would counter, set him back on his heels and follow through with a ripping blow. What Braddock saw through the red mist was a weaving brown, figure, full of fury, whose fist jolted with power to dull the heart of

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,an ordinary tighter. The chumpI ion fought against It in flashes of spirit that brought the crowd up cheering again and again. Ills eagerness to carry the tight ito the younger opponent stirred the crowd Into frenzies but most [ of the sympathetic spectators yell- ' cd for him to settle back to a defensive game. Instead — even in the fatal eighth Braddock walked i into the challenger's fists, taking two or three blows to land one. Braddock said afterward that he began to tire under the torrent In I the fifth round, but it wus not until the sixth that his most ardent supporters gave up hope. In that round a short left hook crashed uguinst the champion's jaw. It was in the middle of the round, and before the blow the Jersey man had landed several stout rights. His knees sagged but he recovered and Louis taileu to follow the advantage. Then the Bomber surged in with lefts, and rights until Braddock was Overwhelmed. The bell saved him and he went to his corner in a daze. On his features was a clear record of the storm he had weathered. The seventh was another tor-. tore for the champion. Louis | lunged from his corner. He show- I ered man-killing hooks upon the bewildered Braddock. Jim landed two hard rights but Louis hung on. How Braddock weathered that round and came out for the eighth still eager to carry the fight to Louis is ring history. The champion was a fighting machine with a heart. The hasty swabs Os his handlers had failed to stem the flow from his numerous gashes. His attack did not falter. He 1 tore across the ring against the ! barrier of jabs but the blows he landed were weak in everything but spirit. Their sting was gone. Louis shook them off and came back with the precision of an automaton. He advanced in a half-crouch, his fists thumping against the Braddock head in slowtempo tattoo.. Every punch deadened Braddock s arms, added a weight that reduced his effectiveness. Finally, Braddock could not get out of the way. The brown man measured the distance to the title with a left. He followed with a tremendous right which batted Braddock to the canvas. Jim did not move as the referee tolled the end of his championship. Joe knew that blow had won before ever the count was complete. o MALONE WINS | FOR YANKEES Veteran Relief Hurler Wins First Start Os Season New York, June 23 — (U.R) — Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy's pitching problem vanished into thin air today with Pat (Blubber) Malone the apparent solution. Malone, in his first start of the year yesterday, turned in a fivehit game against the St. Louis Browns which the Yankees won 8-5. It was his second victory, the six-foot, 200-pounder having , won a relief role game May 25. Pitchers in both major leagues had a good day yesterday. Monte Stratton of the Chicago White Sox turned in the best twirling effort' by limiting the Philadelphia Ath- . . letics to three hits. The Whit I I Sox won 2-0. It was Stratton’ eighth victory of the year | I Two four hit games were pitc’ ed in the National league Rook! Luke Hamlin of the Brooklyn l Dodgers stopped the St. Lo’.ti Cardinals 2-1. and Cy Blanton of the Pittsburgh Pirates shackled the Boston Bees 4-1. Lee Grissom who came up to the Cincinnati Reds from Nashvill i last year, held the Phflad I’*- I Phillies to six safeties in wi 6-0, and Bill Lee t v sago Cubs to a 50 . the New York Giants bz T the National league champions to seven hits. The Washington Senators had r field day against Cleveland, wiling 11-2, with a 17-hit barrag including four off young Bo' Feller in two innings that wegood for four runs. It was the American league strikeout king’s 'irst appearance in tii iud neup since May IS. Detroit at Boston was rained i mt. o | ♦ ♦ Today’s Sport Parade (By Henry McLemore) | I • • . Chicago, June 23— (U.R) —In Ger-1 many executioners wear silk toppers and knock off the victim’s 'lead with an axe of burnished teel. In France they go in for white ‘ies. tails, and a guillotine. But over here we are simple ’oik, without frills. Our bead executioner, one Joe Louis, just slips on a pair of purple tights, shuffles his feet a few times and lashes out with nut-brown fists, bundled j into cement hardness. Louis gave a public demonstra-

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tion in Comiskey Park last night, and the 65,000 sadists who watch ed will swear to his effectiveness. They will tell you that his fists fall with the deadliness of the axe and the big blade and they will be right—for they do. The right hand that he smashed 'against the face of James Braddock in the eighth round was as devastating a blow as any man ever threw. It caught the Irishman flush on the bulla-eye of his chin and all but knocked the life out of him. He fell us does a man when struck by a .44 slug. Under the impact Braddock pitched on his face, arms and legs folded beneath him. The timekeeper's count was but a gesture. Left alone Braddock might well have lain in the ring until it rotted and rusted and fell away. He never twitched a muscle, but just lay there, 197 pounds of complete paralysis It required four men — two at his feet, two at his head — ; to carry him back to his corner where, placed on a stool, he sagged forward until the blood from his mouth and eyes dripped on the tips of bis shoes. Every ounce of power in Joe Louis’ body rode behind that punch It wasn’t a quick punch—he set himself for it methodically, ■ drew a bead on his target, before he unloosed it It happened directly in front of me and no more I than five steps away, and I saw ' him gather himself for the blow that brought him the heavyweight championship of the world. He came down off his toes and , settled himself squarely on the i flat of his feet—the perfect stance ! for the everything-goes-now blow. I He gathered the muscles in his I smooth, sloping shoulders, drew j back and. with magnificent timing, let his right fist fly. It gained added power from the fact that it traveled downward. Braddock, near collapse, was in a groggy crouch, and his jaw was perhaps a foot lower than Louis’ shoulder. When fist met jaw there wasn’t a crash—just a sharp “click!” of the sort a golfer hears when he hits a perfect drive. With the impact Louis — knowing he had ' made a perfect hit —stepped bqck I to give his victim room in which 'to fall. He was so positive of the blow's effect he did not stand I ready to charge in. He moved away, and when Braddock poured to the floor, stood there and ad-

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mired his handiwork. it wasn’t pretty handiwork. It , was sickening. When they rolled' Braddock over a deep purple gash , on ills lip wus the first thing you noticed. It was a vicious cut the same kind that Louis gave , weary old Paulino Uxcuduit when he forgot and poked his head from behind the sheltering protection lof his arms. Braddock was bleeding from a sliced left eyebrow, a I torn right ear, and a swollen nose His chest was smeared with blood, and his arms were daubed red. The Jersey veteran was a game guy all done in. For nearly seven ami a half rounds he had fought (he only way he knew how—walking in swinging, walking in swinging He must have taken a thousand punches—short jabs to the face, nastily curved little hooks to the body, uppercuts that all but seared the flesh over his heart and . looping rights that snapped back his head. But he went down looking his tormentor in the eye. He took few backward steps. And when the finish came — and he must have known it was coming as early as the third round — he . was trying to advance toward the foe. But before he could get there the damnedest right hand any man ever fired dropped on i his face The timekeeper’s toll of "one-uh, two-uh. three-uh, four-uh ...” was drowned in the roar of 65.000 persons hailing a new world's champion. (Copyright 1937 by United Press) I ' ° LEADING BATTERS Player Club GAB R H Pct. I Medwick, Cards . 53 206 51 86 .417 | i Gehrig. Yankks 54 202 44 79 .391 Walker. Tigers .... 55 232 43 86 .371 Hassett, Dodger 35 137 20 50 .365 Vaughan, Pirate . 54 216 34 78 .361 HOME RUNS Di Maggio, Yankees 15 Greenberg, Tigers 15 Medwick. Cardinals 15 Selkirk. Yankees — 13 Foxx, Red Sox 13 o “Safety Week” Upset Battle Creek. Mich. (U.P.) — A “Safety Week" exhibit of a wrecked automobile in front of the City Hail boomeranged when an unattentive motorist crashed into it.

CASTINGS BEATS MERCHANT TEAM ■ I Castings Company Scores 8-3 Victory In City League Game The Decatur Castings company remained undefeated In City league play Monday night, banding the Merchants an h-3 defeat. Two walks, a hit and an error | gave Castings one run in the first inning, four tallied in the third on two hits, one walk and a pair of errors. Three more counted in the fight on three hits, and an error. The Merchants obtained only two hits off Agler, Castings hurler. A base on balls, two errors and one hit gave the Merchants two runs in the second and three walks and an error accounted for the final Merchants’ ruu In the ( fourth. Scoring in every inning except i the third, the Hosiery workers team from Fort Wayne swamped the General Electric team under I an 18-1 score in the nightcap. Tievisitors obtained only eight hits but nine G. E. errors aided the winners to score freely. Rogers held the G. E. to four hits. RHE Merchants 020 100 —3 2 4 Castings 1040030 x —B 8 2 Reed and Brokaw; Agler and Snedeker. R H E Hosiery 130 254 3—lß 8 0 G. E. .... 000 100 0- 1 4 9 Rogers and Pumphrey; Andrews, Schultz and C. Omlor, STANDINGS | NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L, Pct. i Chicago 34 20 .630 St. Louis 32 22 .593 New York . 33 23 .589 Pittsburgh . 30 24 .556 Brooklyn 24 27 .471 ; Cincinnati 21 32 .396 I Philadelphia .... 21 24 .382 j Boston 20 33 .377 I AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. New York 24 19 .642 Detroit 33 22 .600 I Chicago .30 25 .545, Boston 26 23 .531 Cleveland 27 25 .519 Washington .24 30 .444 Philadelphia 18 33 .353 St. Louis . 18 33 .353 : YESTERDAY’S RESULTS National League Cincinnati 6. Philadelphia 0. Pittsburgh 4. Boston 1. Chicago 5, New York 0. Brooklyn 2, St. Louis 1. American League Chicago 2. Philadelphia 0. New Y’ork 8, St. Louis 5. - ; Washington 11, Cleveland 2. Detroit at Boston, rain. —■ - — -o Indiana University Stars To Nashville Bloomington, Ind., June 23 —(UP) —Willis (Babe) Hosier, star Indiana University pitcher, and RusDECATUR THURSDAY, June 24 ONE DAY ONLY H. P. Schmitt Farm near East Bridge FREE STREET PARADE at Noon MW mm THI» CIKCM TMM- / PORTED EXTIZELVOIt/ * / STREAMLINED RED Z—W \ / SPEEOWAGOR K L. TRDCRS /A oori'Fill TO SEE: THE Bit) FOEE ACT OH CIRCUS GDOUXDS >T HOOP

cell Grieger, varsity catcher, will entrain for Naahvilie, Tenn., today for a trial with Na*hvllle of the 1 Southern Association Baseball league. The two players, Indiana’s No 1 baseball battery, worked nut beI fore scouts on the University dia- ! mund yesterday. Alleged Communist’s Conviction Reversed Indianapolis. June 2.3 (U.R) i The supreme eourt today reversed ; the conviction of Paul Bullish, ' magazine salesman accused of being a communist, in the first test of Indiana's criminal syndiealism law passed in 1918 The court ordered a new trial for Bullish ami described the entire incident in May 1936. leading to his Imprisonment for one ><> ] five years as "so trivial us to be ' beneath notice of the law." This verdict is expected to result In re- ; peal of lhe criminal syndicalism i law at the next session of the , i legislature. — ——' O*'”* — Carney Bribery Trial Goes To Jury Today Columbus. O„ June 23. (U.R) The bribery case against Edward T. Carney, assistant head of the Ohio securities division, was given to the jury of six men and six women this afternoon. The jury was to begin deliberations after lunch. Annual K. P. Picnic At New Castle Sunday Several members of the Decatur 1 lodge are expected to attend the annual eastern Indiana Knights of I Pythias and Pythian Sisters picnic 'at Memorial Park in New Castle, ! Sunday. The program will open with a pitch in dinner at noon and close , with a softball game between New i Castle and Richmond. Most of the state officets will attend. o* Jury Deliberates On Parkers’ Fate Newark, N. J., June 23.—(U.R) — The fate of the Ellis H. Parker. I senior and junior, charged with , conspiracy in the kidnaping of ! Paul H. Wendal. was placed in the hands of a jury in federal court today nine weeks after their trial began. The jury of eight men and four women left the court-room to , consider a verdict at 10:44 a. m„ CST. The jury was given the case as-

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