Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1940 — Page 24

Cut and Blinded, Godoy Never - Knew When It Chilean Goes Back for More— |B i i. y

But 20 Police Stopped It; Louis Wins in the 8th Round

Joe Opens Up in the Seventh as Arturo Weakens: ‘Godoy Gave Chappie His Toughest Fight’

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Louis’ next. title defense will be late in September. Jacobs said that if Galento wins, the championship bout will be held in New York, presumably to take advantage of Galento’s large New Hrsey following. If Baer wins, the fight will be held in Chicago.

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK, June 21.—It took 20 policemen to stop it. They might have gone on fighting all night by the golden glow of a fat moon that swam the skies over Yankee Stadium, for Arturo Godoy never knows when he’s licked. He was blinded by his own blood, both eyes were swollen almost shut and his ribs were raw from a cruel thumping.| But when they stopped the fight in the eighth round last night, the Chilean Charger raced across the blood-soaked - canvas to try to throw one more punch at Joe Louis.

Police Swarm in That punch never landed for police swarmed into the

ring and, anway, it was too

typewriters were flecked with Godoy’s gore already were “Joe ‘Louis retained his world heavyweight championship tonight by . ..” Referee Billy Cavanagh was justified in stopping it and awarding the fight to Louis on a technical knockout. Godoy not- only was a bloody mess, but his brain must have been cloudy from rights that knocked his head one way and lefts

tapping out these words—

that jolted it back.

It was a strange mixture of wheat

and chaff that the customers bought whe nthey paid $27.50 ringside. Five rounds of the fight were a dull wrestling match with Godoy ‘bulling Louis into the ropes, going into endless clinches and hardly ever throwing a punch that traveled more than a foot. Louis seemed baffled by Godoy’s rushing style and it appeared that this ohe was going to be another inconclusive fight like the'one they staged in February.

Mother Turns Radio Off

The cables from Iquique, Chile, brought the news today that Godoy’s mother listened to ‘the fight for five rounds and then tuned it out because she was too nervous. She picked the right time to quit listening. For in the sixth round it began to be a fight and Mrs. Godoy wouldn't have enjoyed hearing what was happening. Arturo came out of his crouch-and that was what Louis had been patiently waiting for. © Punches -began+te fly. Louis had opened a cut over Godoy's left eye in the first round and by the sixth enough blood had flowed out of it to make crimson splotches over both fighters. But out of Louis’ brown, bloody face peered two cold eyes—waiting, waiting, clinching, clinching, wrestling, wrestling until the opening appeared for a split-second punch. That opening appeared in the seventh rouhd. They came off the ropes. Broken out of a clinch, and Louis took one step backward. He hooked a hard left to Godoy’s Cos and the Chilean swayed. Then Lou cocked his right and it flashe through to the chin almost before the “crunch” of the left hook had died in the bedlam at the ringside. Godoy. went down, sort of on his hands and knees, and the timer keeper's hammer thumped on the bloody canvas, “One, two, three, four, five . . .

Joe Nodded, Shuffled Out

Godoy got up, but the clang of the bell ended the round. Old Jack Blackburn, the champion’s trainer, his razor-scarred face wearing: a smile for the first time in the evening, wiped Godoy’s blood off of Louis! shoulders between rounds and whispered: earnest, urgent advice into his right ear. Louis nodded slow ly and scuffed his feet in the ii

Bong! They went out for the eighth. A right and a left bounced off Godoy’s head, but the Chilea Charger came on. He bulled Louls into a neutral corner and threw a wild punch at him. Louis, as If measuring a yard of gingham 'in a gencral store, stepped off the ro and flashed a right to the hea Godoy went down in a crazy sp shook his head twice and came back to consciousness at the count of eight. Charges in ‘Again

| He got up on wobbly legs and charged again into battle. By this time Godoy probably didn't know what he was doifig. But his oaken heart commanded him to fight, so he threw a punch. Louis side-stepped it, took his measurement again and thumped a left hook to the head, followed by a pile driver right. This time Godoy hit the canvas hard, but by some miracle of bone, muscle and brain he got ip and was wading in when Referee Cavanagh stopped the fight. That happened at one minute and 24 seconds of the eighth round, but time and space meant nothing to Godoy. He rushed across the ring, shoved Louis’ seconds aside and got ready to throw a right. But police poured into the ring and hustled him back to his own corner. A few moments later Godoy was himself and, his wrecked face swathed in a big towel, he went across and shook hands with Louis. Tet Old Jack Blackburn tell the story in seven words spoken in the dressing room: “That Godoy gave Chappie his toughest fight.”

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NEW YCRK, June 21 (U. P.).—Promoter Mike Jacobs announced today that Joe Leuis’ next opponent would be the winner of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight

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After the Fight—

Joe Louis—“He’s the kind of man you can’t knock out with one punch. So I just had to take my time and hit him till I had him going. I felt him "going first in the seventh round. He’s the toughest, gamest man I ever fought.”

Arturo Godoy—“I would like to fight him again. I think I earned another chance. As my eye got worse Louis found the range and let me have it. He is a great fighter, but he can be beaten.”

Attendance—27,786. Receipts—$149,505. Louis’ Share—40 per cent of the net .gate.

Godoy’s Share—171% per cent of the net gate.

Beaten, bleeding and senseless, Arturo Godoy pshes toward Louis’ corner for more after the fight is over.

on to his arm to restrain him and anager a Weill (sweater) joins in the chase.

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‘He's Getting Soft, Now'-Louis ‘Then Start In’-Blackburn

By HENRY M’'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 21.—“Boys, no pictures.” These were Bill Brown’s words to the photographers after his first look at Arturo Godoy in the South American’s dressing room after his knockout by Joe Louis. This three-word order by the ablest of New York’s Boxing Commissioners tells almost the whole story of last night's fight for the world’s heavyweight championship.

. Before he fell for the third

and final time in the eighth round Godoy took a beating that few animals could have|pie,” Blackburn said. jendured..

For 22 minutes and 21 seconds—

Frick Clears" Bowman

NEW YORK, June 21 (U. P.).— President Ford Frick of the National League today absolved Pitcher

until“he pitche | #6" 1and on the back of his neck, ‘bloody, almost blind and out of his senses— he was persecuted as mercilessly as a bull in an arena. So closely did the fight parallel a bull fight, with the big, helpless, clumsy but terribly brave Chilean serving as the bull, and the fast, sure confident, and quick-striking Louis playing the role of matador, one would not have been surprised had Louis, at the kill, taken an ear of his foe ‘and

‘missed a wild righthand swing and

2 To Return

Bob Bowman of the St. Louis Cardinals of intenpionally “beaning” Joe Medwick, his former teammate now playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers, in a game byiween those two clubs Tuesday. In bringing the case before Frick, Larry MacPhail, president of the Dodgers, had charged Bowman deliberately hit Medwick in the head after threatening him before the

game. After studying 32 pages of testimony from the involved parties, Frick today wired MacPhail, ‘Bowman, Billy Southworth, Cardinal manager, and Sam Breadon, Cardinal president: “After careful investigation, the National League office finds no proof of the charge brought by the Brooklyn club that Pitcher Bob Bowman of St. Louis ‘deliberately’ and ‘with premeditation’ beaned Joe Medwick in the game played at Ebbets Field June 13. The charges, therefore, are dismissed.”

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thrown it to the crowd.

Reason Was Gone Had Louis done this Godoy would

not have known the difference, be‘cause the South American had been punched beyond reason at this point. All he had left at the finish was an inner spark of courage that somehow enabled him to wrest himself loose from the referee’s arms and, on legs of rubber, totter toward the champion’s corner: to carry on the fight. pinned his arms to his side and strong-armed- him back to his corner.

Policemen

As for Louis, last night's fight,

Joe Gets His Orders Sitting there at the ringside, close

by the canvas, one could see the gradual disintegration of the powerful Godoy. A cut here. there. During the first two or three rounds he was strong enough to wrestle and tug Louis abou! the ring. * Then, as Joe kept hammer ing, he grew weaker, and the champion began to be the stronger of the two.

A cut

"When Louis came back to his

corner after the sixth round he told his trainer, Jack Blackburn:

“He's getting soft, now. I can

feel him giving.”

So Blackburn told the Brown Boy

to quit boxing when he went out for

deaf mute, will be an added attraction on the outdoor wrestling card next Tuesday night at Sports Arena.

Rattan, a light heavyweight, is listed as one of the best in his division. He has scored against just Bronk all light heavies In the counry. Matchmaker Lloyd : Carter also announced that Dorve Roche, 222, of Decatur, Ill, will be in one of the main even#s. Carter hopes to engage Goon Henry, 229, of Nebraska to go against Roche. Henry, a “meanie” type of performer, de~ feated Mike Mazurki here 'a week ago. Roche downed Chris Zaharis last Monday night at the Coliseum in the State Fair Grounds.

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Referee Bill Cavanagh hangs

the seventh and start moving around and hitting.

“Take a few shots at him, Chap-

Joe got his first shot just before the end of the round. * Godoy

Louis unloosed a right uppercut that blasted the Chilean out of his crouch and straightened him as completely as a soldier at attention. There he stood, a bewildered target. Bang. Bang. Bang. Louis pounded him with rights and lefts and Godoy slumped to his knees. The timekeeper had just started the count of six when Godoy staggered to his feet. Before Louis could hit him again the bell rang, ending the round. Everybody knew the finish would come in the eighth and it did.

Five former holders of the title saw the fight—Tunney, Dempsey, Sharkey, Baer, and Braddock. I doubt very much if anyone of them, cn the best day he ever saw, could have handled the Louis of the night of June 20, 1940.

which marked his 11th defense of} his title, showed him at his very best as a fighter.

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BULLETIN

NEW LONDON, Conn., June 21 (U. P.).—Harvard captured the freshman and junior varsity races in the 78th renewal of the YaleHarvard regatta today.

NEW LONDON, Conn, June 21 (U. P.).—An aroused Harvard crew, credited with two record- - smashing trials, seeks to whip Yale for the fifth straight year tonight in the 79th renewal of the Yale-Harvard crew race, the sports event. The Crimson eight, virtually unchanged in two seasons, was a slender choice to continue its win streak at the expense of a newlyformed Yale crew and deadlockthe record at 39 victories each.

Wabash Signs [lini Star

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, June 21 (U. P.).—The appointment of Melvin Brewer of Carbondale, Ili, University of Illinois football star, as assistant football and baseball coach today marked the completion of the Wabash College athletic staff. Herman Berns of Indianapolis was named basketball coach a few weeks ago.

Van Horn and

Riggs Meet

. RIVER FOREST, Ill, June 21 (U. P.).—National Champion Bobay Riggs and Welby ‘Van Horn, Los Angeles, the man he defeated for the singles crown last year, mees today in the semi-final round of the National Clay Courts Tennis Tournament. The winner will face the victor in the other semi-final match between Donald McNeill, Oklahoma City, and Frankie Parker, Pasadena, Cal.,, present holder of the clay courts title. The Parker-McNeill match will be played Saturday and the finals Sunday. Alice Marble, national women's champion, qualified for.the finals by defeating Virginia Wolfenden, Berkeley, Cal., in a three-set match. She will face the winner of a semifinal match between Helen Bernhard, New York, and Gracyn Wheeler, Santa Monica, Cal.

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