Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1937 — Page 27
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FRIDAY, JAN. 29, 1937
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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~ IT LOOKS LIKE LOUIS TO JOE BUT THERE ARE MANY ‘IFS’
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He Recalls | The Bomber’s Big Weakness
Williams Would Pick Joe on Same Grounds He Should Have Used on Max.
By JOE WILLIAMS Times Special Writer i NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Joe Louis | fights Bob Pastor in a ten-rounder | at Madison Square Garden tonight. | The Detroit Negro is a heavy favorite to beat the New York white] man. But there is much delicate | if-ing and but-ing among the ex- | perts. They still recall with a cer- | tain poignancy that the Negro was | a heavy favorite to beat Max] Schmeling —and | that he wound | up sniffing the | acrid resin. ! We were wrong on Schmeling, | as the wide, | wide world] knows by now. | What hurts is] that we might | easily have been | right All that! was needed was | Williams a little more] careful consid- | eration of the main factors in-! volved. Schmeling had two Very | important assets—a right hand and | experience, We all knew Louis could | be hit by a right hand and that his experience was limited. Figured | on a purely elemental basis, then | Schmeling, instead of being the | underdog, should have been the favorite. Looking back on =a fight these | things are always easy to see—except that in this case they should | have been just as easy to see before the fight. Possibly the reason they weren't seen was that most of us were blinded by Louis’ tre-| mendous hitting ability, his long | run of successive knockouts. On| Schmeling’s side were two large, vital forces, but we blithely ignored them. We had decided Louis was | invincible and that was that.
Looking Back a Little
The photographic mind is a stub- | born thing. It refuses to take the time to debate with logic and facts. | The picture of a fighter in a spee- | tacular triumph is hard to erase. That's why the public is so sur-| prised when old champions topple. | They remember the old champions as they last saw them. The fail to take into account that the challenger might be coming up, while | the old champion is going back. The whole history of the prize ring stresses this point. John L. Sullivan’s greatness was still es- | teemed by the multitudes at New| Orleans when it must have been | clear to impartial eyes that the | Boston strong boy had deterior-| ated into a beer-bloated plodder. | The same was true of Jefiries at] Reno, Willard at Toledo, Johnson at Havana and Dempsey at Philadelphia. Yes, Dempsey at Philadelphia. There never was a turn that should have been easier to call than this | one, yet 93 per cent of the fight world called it wrong. Dempsey had begun to slip even before he retired, as his mediocre showing against Gibbons at Shelby proved. Coming back after three years of idleness, he was just an ordinary heavyweight; he couldn't possibly figure to be anything else. Joe Has Experience
This should have been as plain as a waltzing mouse on Big Jim Farley's bald skull but practically nobody bothered to see it, or even try to see it. All we remembered was that Dempsey had climbed back into the ring and massacred Firpo; that he had stopped Fulton with a punch; that he had stiffened Brennan and cut Willard's four pan to tatters. Those were he lively pictures that filled the photographic mind. The Louis debacle wasnt altogether analagous because there was no reason to think at any time that the Negro, being a young lighter, had slipped in the slight- | est, but the mind pictures of his! explosive hitting in earlier bouts betrayed the critics into a belief that ne matter what Schmeling might have in the way of effective gifts he still wouldn't be good enough to stand up before the Negro's fierce | punching. i And now we come to the Pastor | proposition—and, I grant you, it is! high time. I think it is entirely! logical to pick Louis in this one | and for the very same reasons that | we failed to pick Schmeling, or ra- | ther for the very same reasons that | we should have picked Schmeling. The most important of these is experience. In this respect Louis carries the big edge
Pastor's First Big Fight
When I say experience I don't mean age, years in the ring or number of bouts. As a .matter of fact in these things there isn't much to choose between Louis and Pastor. What I am referring to is experience in the clutches, experience when the chips are down, experience in big fights. | This is the first big fight Pastor has had. Louis has had five or six, including the all-important Schmeling fight, out of which he must have gained a lot of savvy. If he
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didn’t he never will. It was known in advance that Schmeling had a right hand which if it landed would scalp an apponent. This isn't known of Pastor. True, his best punch is a right hand, but he has yet to demonstrdate that it comes close to matching Schnreling’s in violence, Schmeling literally spun John Risko clear around with a right hand to the! jaw and he beat Louis into a state
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By JOHN W. THOMPSON
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Indiana Loses a Center and Right on His Heels Comes a Swell Whispering Campaign About The Center Jump.
ES, sir, we knew it would come. It was a sure thing. One of those long shots in the dark that always fol-
lows through by itself. You see, it all started about Indiana losing Fred
Fechtman, their skyscraper center. He is to drop out between semesters. It leaves Indiana without a tall center. In fact it leaves Indiana without anyone who looks or acts like a center. The other boys are all too
valuable as fast dribblers, good guards, etc. : The hole left by Indianapolis’ own Mr. Fechtman is no small one. It gives Coach Dean a tough problem to solve. ‘ And right out of the nowhere into the here comes a whispering campaign about doing away with the center jump. . Now. far be it from me to lay such a thing at the feet of Indiana University. I really don’t think they would instigate such propaganda. But still it does seem funny. Purdue hasn't lost any centers to speak of. Indiana has. And the whispering campaign just started. It’s more than a whisper ‘though. For in yesterday's mail came a long letter from an Indiana freshman and guess what the subject of the letter was—elimination of the center jump.
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HE letter said, in part: “This proposed alteration in the laws of the net sport will undoubtedly receive the biggest share of the attention of the basketball rules committee when it gathers for its annual session It is said that a considerable number of Eastern coaches are viewing the proposal with much more favor than they had for it last year. “When Stanford's crew cut its impressive swath of victories through the Middle West and East during the holiday season, its attack offered a great argument for the elimination of the tip-off. One plank in the platform which was especially impressive was the snapping of Long Island U.'s winning streak, which had spread out over so many tilts that Easterners generally believed it would never end. “Even as the South and the West were the first to apply razzledazzle tactics to football, the West seems to be leading the field in shifting the net game to a more open style of play. The Western type of basketball is conceded to be even more ‘fire-horse’ than the pell-mell playing of the game in Indiana.
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w ILT WQ DARD. sports editor of the Minnesota Daily, recently nominat. 4 the Gopher school for a place on the tip-off abolishment bandwagon, saying, ‘The prime need at Minnesota for so many years has been big centers, so why shouldn't Minnesota hop aboard and back a proposal which will put the game back into the hands of the fast medium-sized players?’ taking it away from the physical monstrosities who have controlled the ball and the game for so long. “With Fechtman gone, Indiana, too, might well enter the drive for the tip-off removal. Several Big Ten centers, Paul Amundsen of Chicago, Johnny Gee of Michigan, and Earl Thomas of Ohio State, to name a few, will consistently outjump Babe Hosler when he takes Fechtman’s duties. And, as soon as the other schools lose their towermen, they will fall in line on the question. “You'd better look now because next season's center may be just another man on the floor instead of the focal point on whom the whole game depends.” If 1. U. publicity men are looking for a good propagandist I have this boy's address and I'll almost guarantee results. He's beaten the official staff to the gun.
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Now don’t go telling folks that I blame this on Indiana. just be a coincidence. But it certainly is peculiar. . . .
It may
Inundated During Flood
CINCINNATI, Jan. 26 —(NEA)—A boat could be rowed over the left and centerfield fences of Crosley Field, home of the Cincinnati Reds.
which gives you a rough idea of the immensity of the devastating flood
| that has been sweeping the Ohio Valley. of the lower deck of the grandstand.
estimated at 20 feet. When the water recedes, a coating | of mud, slime, and debris will re-| main on the field, but Groundkeeper | Matty Schwab is confident that this | will not prevent a crew of workmen | from retaining the smooth playing surface that old Redland Field alwavs has had. The stadium's damage, in the main, is of such nature that it can be repaired essily and without | taking too much time, but the con- | cessionaires face a different situa-
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goods, were stored on the second floor of a newly constructed commissionary, which was thoroughly inundated.
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LONDON. Jan. 29 —Peggy Hop-
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Crosley Field. in the path of the Killed in a sleighing accident at St.
water, has been attacked bv flood before, but, of course, never by one of such proportions. Only last spring, shortly before the start of the campaign, the field and most of the box seals were covered, yet Schwab was able to work the lay- | out into shape for the curtainraiser, That is why the club holds no!
National League season, April 20. | MURPHY TRIUMPHS | OVER TOM BROOKS
In a billiard match which went |
| to 112 innings, Joe Murphy beat |
in one of the state] three-cushion contests last night at the Harry Cooler parlors. { Murphy has the high run of four. | Cleve Kepner is to play Al Green- . berger this afternoon at 3 p. m. and Clayton McGregor will play Walt | Ramsey tonight at 8 p. m. |
‘As far as it is possible to perceive
in advance Louis ton’t be spotting Pastor anything. He has been through the tough wars and Pashasnt. He is a murderous puncher with either hand and up| to now Pastor has shown he is Just a fair puncher with his right. These things being so, or seem- |
| ingly so, it is impossible to pick anybody but Louis,
If the Negro gets the range he may end the fight in a round or two, even admitting the New Yorker's full store of courage. Much will depend, naturally, on the strategy the men bring into play, particularly Pastor. If he elects to fight a cagey, step-around jigging fight the issue will be prolonged; if he comes rushing in, his | normal style, he is liable to get! smacked with great firmness and ' finality, thus insuring an early bed
hour for all and sundry.
of collapse with the same punch. |: Pastor has yet to prove he is cap- | :
able of anything like this. Louis not only spotted Schmeling experience—and I am again talking about experience in big fights— but he was against a man who | could hit hard enough to drop him.
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Merrill had been a tourney favorite, |
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Joe Louis Is ~ Favorite for | ~ Bout Tonight
Pastor Depending Entirely on What a Fast Right | Can Do.
| BY LESLIE AVERY United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Collegiate | Bob Pastor staked fistic fame and | fortune today on a stout heart and |a roundhouse right, but the bettors | were offering 5-1 those factors were
not sufficient to overcome Joe Louis | tonight in Madison Square Garden. | The fight is important only in { case of a Pastor victory. If Louis | wins, the N. Y. U. graduate will | merely be another of his victims. | But, should Pastor triumph it would { clarify the heavyweight situation | beyond belief. It would give the | Garden control of both the cham- | pion and the outstanding American | challenger which, in view of the | anti-Nazi boycot of Max Schmeling, would make a perfect setup for | James Joy Johnston. Pastor is { managed by Johnson's son, Jimmy Jr., which explains the Garden | promoter’s interest in the collegian’s | success. Pastor forces base all hope on | Louis’ one weakness—the one un{covered by Schmeling—that Louis | can be reached and hurt by a right. | That is the only basis of a predic- | tion that Pastor has a chance. Pas!tor’s record does not indicate pos-
| session of as lethal a weapon as | schmeling’s overhand right, nor the [ring craft to stand Louis off until { he gets a chance to use it.
Joe Louis . . . again he will shuffle
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Bob Pastor . . . hopes he has a good hand
| His most impressive victory in 22 | pzsgements was the knockout over | the awkward giant Ray Impelletierre lin his last bout, and that operation { required seven rounds. He is of un- | questioned gameness, however. He
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from the I. A. C.; and Jean Seager, |
Japanese Matman ~ Given Main Bout
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Schinichi (Killer) Shikuma, 202, the tricky and fast Japanese grappling ace, will move into the main | ! go spot on the all-heavyweight mat card at the Armory next Tuesday night. Shikuma has engaged in a | pair of one-fall tussles in previous local appearances, winning in speedy tashion. Facing the Japanese jujutsa exponent will be Nich Elitch, 210, rugged Lithuanian matman from New York. Elitch made a big hit
|inches taller. Louis’ call, biceps and | Dietz, Bob Boaz and Gustave wrist measurements top Pastor's by | Greene Jr. all of H. A. C. and Strother Martin, Mr. Petrovitch | Tickets from $250 to $16.50 are and Mr. Swallow of the I. A. C. | Scaled to bring in $12000 if the] Women's Event to Be Run
here last summer. Shikuma has { won both of his local bouts with his heralded ‘Japanese sleeper” hold. |
Competing in the open event for girls 12 years old and under will be Louise Swaim, Lillian Sears, Myra Jean Ross, Martha Kibler, | Patty Aspinall, June Fogle and Jean Thompson.
Garden is sold out. Competitors in the women’s In- | diana-Kentucky A. A. U. breast ; stroke are Betty Betz, unattached, | NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—How Joe of Hammond; Margaret Wilcox and | Louis and Bob Pastor compare Aljce Lang of H. A. C. and Julia physically for tonight's fight: | Horner and Betty Clemons of I.| Louis | » C roa : : """'"'g04! The entry list for the middle ‘In. i states A. A. U. 50-yard free style in. | for women includes Vinton Taylor, g in | Martha Raub, Julia Horner, Mary
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