Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1946 — Page 22

Gives Different From Memorable With Champion i in 1941

By JON P. CARMICHAEL, Chicago Daily News Sports Editor #' NEW YORK, Juhe 20—Oné minute there was Billy Conn under the ot ie ha pping Joe Louis and trying to grin throtigh his mouth 8 & small boy'saying: “Yah, Yah, can't catch me.” ‘beiore the throng in Yankee stadium could fathom the chali s endeavors, there was Conn on the canvas, holding both : gloved hands to his head, the blood running down his left cheek, the

truding from cripi lips . ih the cry of “ten|but there was a roaring in his neal

‘4 + « and out” echoing around the|and he knew he couldn't make it.

They had to help him to his cornet ' The last time Billy fought Louis,

land even then he was trying to was something to watch, He | smile, but it was a pitiful = effort, got in there and pitched, back in|Little Johnny Ray, his happy-go-941, and when he was finally |lucky manager, had no exc uses, He ched down to the resin in the|got beat by a betler man,” sald 98th round, he had done so well| Johnny. “That guy is a terrific

Pittsburgh Adonis Captures Donen ne in Mr. Wi liam Book

By JOE WILLIAMS Soripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW YORK, June 20.—-Well, I must, still stand up for my Irish pal, Conn, and the last time I looked at him he surely needed some one. to stand up for him. You see the Pittsburgh Adonis was under the misapprehension that this was a dancing contest and the Arthur Murray championship was at stake, No one told ‘my pal it was to be a boxing contest against’ a vague character whom we'll. identify only as the very best in all the world including that part which Comrade Gromyko has put aside for himself. What happened was that my pal was victimized by the evil forces which stalk the shady streets of boxing. At that the young man got a Mexican stand off; he won the

* that on the official cards he was | puncher + + «i Just terrific.” - mhead on points through 12 unpre- | So that's about all there is to it, | i § rend © rounds, {as is usually the.case when Louis) gi But not this time! This was a| [takes charge. After five years away | + pathetic Conn. . . . A guy who! from the ring, the champ came might have left off the extra N’ | back as sharp as a razory as un- | {rh far as his followers were con | ruffled as a robot, He de liberately| . because he looked the | we nt out to outbox Conn, to beat Jemed a CORMAN. On our score-| the will 'o' the wisp challenger at i he was given an even break his own game, and he did it, There | <3n only one round .

the third, Was no comparison of left hands | It was Louid all the way, includ-|last night. It

was Louis’ left, as | J f a snake's! tanza whe n | deadly fast as the dart o { Ine ihe faial sighih & dq | tongue, which kept Billy at bay for { doe firs paitled Billy's face re round after round until the fans in r him, with y ! 3 land hen pushed J ry THAT shed | [the fartherest seats roared aloud g © around a left hook.

lin amazement. Holding Him Up? % W asn’'t Careful : Conn still was standing, if bleed-| ‘1 Wasnt : ing from a right to the face, when afterwards. “I went out to box him * the Brown Bomber caught him just and maybe show him up. He isn't oft center-ring. One right landed fast any more, When I got back to & flush and those spindling legs of [the corner at the end of the seventh : Billy's buckled. A smashing left|round, I told Mannie (Trainer Mani Hook took the last bit of resistance |nje Seamon) that I was gonna fight © out of the black-haired THSHIman | him ‘two-fisted now’ , and I did. | and then the champion seemed to|I was trained for a 15-round fight, ¢ actually hold the boy up and push if it had to go that long, and I knew him away before delivering the|Conn never would make me 100 | ! toup de grace, one last paralyzi ing | bad again.’ { right. The first round probably was as ". The’ man who once trod the bad a championship heat as ever ~ Rhreshold of fistic fame knew he|was fought. Conn looked worse than 3 | Was all through, His eyes were opel Lou Nova, backing away and making ony two vague motions with any

» full three minutes. Moosier AllSiars [20 oo = rv. mame Play Kentuckians {counter-attempts. When Billy did

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{From there on Joe's 1ft stung Billy's | swing his left, he was landing inches ; {above the titleholder’s purple trunks. The Kentucky. all-star basketbdll| He didn't touch Joe with six blows

23 a to the head all night. By the fourth : Jeam was 15 strive here ioday for! yound, Louis was. moving steadily

= game tomorrow night at the! along, forcing the fight and staring * Coliseum against a similar team of hjs adversary out of countenance. Indiana high school graduates. The | He started the Pittsburgh hopehe fifth pon will be at 8:30 p. m. {ful on the down-grade in the

¥ | with two smashes to the face, Billy Coached by Glenn Ourtis of 1n-| {wavered but swung back straight

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He had Conn all set Jor the last! F3ored by Conch i Diddle of Webi | roundup which came at 2:19 of No. | f fern Kentucky college, probably wi 8 . .. while 45266 cash Snsmers

start a combination including Gene | * Rhodes (Louisville Male)” and i Bobby Moore EsaLiton) Ay Jore ter Mike Jacobs’ coffers. Jacobs | : ward, Tommy Lyens { mt Ster- |, d anticipated a 70,000 turndut | £ fing) at center, and John (Sonny) | with a possible gate of more than § Wllen (Morehead Breckenridge) and |g, 00, 000 put it took television, I ftenny Reeves {Mayseilie) a at guard. | | radio And movie rights to bring this |

| about. He should get about $300,000 | | Snead, Nelson Win

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ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 20 (U,| It was the kid's last fight; he | P.).—Sammy Snead and Byron Nel- | said so himself. At no stage did| son teamed yesterday to win $2000) he look as if he belonged in the : in a 2-and-1 triumph over Ben same ring with Louis; a Louis who Hogan and Jimmy Demaret in an had brought himself to a 207-pound 18-hole match over the Oak Hil] peak with solemn efficiency; a Louis | Country club layout, Snead clinched | who was ready to fight it out along the victory when he canned a 15-| any line Conn chose . . . only Conn foot putt for an eagle three on the! didn't choose to fight

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On the way down . . threw a hard left to his head. At the right, the challenger rested wearily on his gloves as Referee slipping in closer, shortening the| Eddie Joseph tolled the 10-count at 2:19 in the ei ghth round. Pittsburgh Billy said it was his “last

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. Billy Conn (left) started fo drop in the eighth after Champion Joe Louis

likely a job on the maestro’s stafl where his genius will be appreciated, but he lost the boxing contest. I believe any right thinker + and decent sportsman will agree that Conn proved to be the most gifted dancer since the Castles, though perhaps lacking comparable stamina, especially that of the glass-fragile Irene, And while I have always been an admirer of the character who seems to be known variously as the Brown Bomber, the Dark Dynamiter and J. Louis I must charge him with taking cruel advantage of his handsome partner.

the proper appreciation or be willing to co-operate. On the contrary, he seemed stuffily indifferent to the fluttery ankles and graceful swoops of my pal, 0» ~ ACTUALLY IT was jealousy because about. midway in the s x =

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contest, or in the eighth round, as the saying goes, he battered my pal to the ball room floor with his fists, his fists, mind you, and left the place. It must have béen evident to one and all that he was angry and piqued because by this time he realized he could not dance as beautifully as my pal and he quit snd that is what I must call a poor sport, indeed.

I noticed, too, that at this moment a great many people stood up and cheered. These appeared to have been people who prefer rudeness to rippling foot rhythm and since they gnhabit a rowdy world ‘which is foreign to my pal and myself, who are unusually sensitive, I decided to listen in on their strange remarks. Immediately I could tell they knew nothe ing about the fine art of dancing.

One terribly offensive person said: “Why all the little bum did was

Indians Purchase Outfielder Roy Weatherly

From Yankees and Release Parks, Flowers

By EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor Indianapolis Indians, still

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today took on some fresh war paint by purchasing Roy Weatherly, 31, seasoned outfielder, from New York Yankees, He bats lefthanded. The veteran fly chaser is expected fo add some punch to the Tribe attack although he failed to break into the Yankee lineup as a regular

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double, and Shupe smacked out two doubles and batted jn four of the Indians’ seven markers. In the first tilt, the Millers hammered Bob Logan out of the box in the first stanza before he could retire a man. The visitors tallied all seven runs in that initial session on six hits, a walk and one error. Five consecutive hits were made off Logan before he was relieved by George Woods.

Woods Effective

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THE LEADING WwW. LL. Pet. OB St. Paul 38 25 603 — | Louisville ..... 35 27 565 2% Kansas City .. 33 29 .532 4's | Indianapolis .. 32 29 525 5 Minneapolis ... 32 30 516 5% this season after spending two years lin military service. But the Tribe management took a chance in the emergency and bought | the player on his past performance.

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Woods pitched great ball, once he settled down, but his “rescue” work came too late. Jack Brewer, righthander, held the Indians runless until the seventh and last round. In the second contest, the Indians scored. in the first, second, fifth and eighth and the Millers registered their lone marker in the third when Buster Maynard hit 4 : i : | |the ball out of the park with none 1 y : Z 1 lon, Gil English, the Indians’ veteran | third baseman who was hustled to It. Vincent's hospital late last night |for an emergency appendectomy, was reported doing “very well” this

Roy Weatherly . , . comes to Tribe.

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Tribe officlals also announced the (Continued _on Page 24—Column n 4) outright release of Artie Parks, out-

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Jump around and make silly faces.” . Little did he know that was a new eccentric number we are readying up for the precious Rose~ land group.

” u u ANOTHER HORRIBLE thing ‘who apparently is in trade commented: “If he's a fighter I'm a watch maker.”

That's the way it went among .

these vulgarians. about the dance; all about the boxing contest. Such as: “THe worst heavyweight fight of all time "and imagine the promoter charging $100 a seat.” , , . “They said this Conn was dead game! Why, you could see he was scared to death’ the moment he came into the ring. If he was dead game, why didn't he throw a couple of punches? All he did was shadow box and he was even

Here's Fight In Nutshell

NEW YORK, June 20 (U..P.). ~Here is the round that told the story of the Joe Louis-Billy Conn fight: They came out of their corners slowly to start the eighth round. Louis laid a light left on Conn’'s right ear. Conn was short with a left, and Louis shook him with a left hook to the head. Louis landed another left hook to Billy's chin. Conn countered with a right that Louis partially blocked with his gloves. Joe drove a straight right to the face that sagged the challenger’s knees and opened a gash beneath his left eye. They sparred. Conn started a left hook, but Louis beat him to the punch with a straight right to the left temple, staggering him. Conn fell into a clinch. Louis stepped back and landed a straight right to the jaw. Louis landed a short right uppercut to the chin. Louis landed a terrific left hook to the jaw, flooring Conn for the full count at 2:19,

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Jousy at that. I gan name you 10 guys who can take him.” Two other ill bred boors were discussing some. obscure phase of the spectacle. " u un “WELL, TLL give the bum credit for one thing: He didn’t lose his head this time,” “Didn't lose his head. Why when Louis put the finisher on in the eighth I see the bum’s head going all the way out to center fleld and a fellow in the bleachers catches it and Larry Maes phail says ‘keep it." That's the stadium's policy on foul balls,” Another frightful looking person who spoke out of the side of his mouth in sinister sibilents said:

“Louis chills him in the first

heat if he wails to. With one

punch, no less. You know why

he don’t, don't you? “The pictures,

the pictures. Louis gets 20 per cent of the pictures, so he carries the bum just long enough to make ‘em sell good. Personally, I'd rather see Ferdinand the bull.” Oh, well, .let them say what they will. My friend Mr. Wil liams" of the Scripps-Howard picked dear little Billy to win and I'm sure he, too, had in mind the Arthur Murray championship because there is practically nothing Mr, Williams does not know about the terpsicHorean art. And there is absolutely nothing he knows about the brutal practice of prize fighting. Bless his beautiful aesthetic soul!

Milton Bess Is Top ‘Expert’

Milton Bess, former international Golden Gloves lightweight chame pion, has proved that his pick is as good as his punch. Now a professional boxer, Bess was the only Times reader Jparticipating in the fight symposium who hit the outcome directly on the

nose. Without hestitation, Bess ‘said, “Louis to flatten Conn in the

eighth,” and that's the way it was.

Of course, there were plenty who picked Joe Louis to win, and quite a few who predicted the end would come “within 10 rounds,” “in the seventh or eighth” or “within eight rounds.” ess was well qualified to make his prediction. He's the son of Lee (One Round) Bess, former professional fighter and Golden Gloves coach, At various times he held both the lightweight and welterweight

championships in the local

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Facts-and Figures on the Fight

NEW YORK, June 20 (U. P.).—Pertinent facts on last night's fights Principals—Champion Joe Louis of Detroit vs. Challenger Billy

Conn of Pittsburgh. Scheduled Distance—15 rounds.

Title at Stake—Louis’ world heavyweight championship, Winner—Louis, by knockout at 2:19 of the eighth round

Site—Yankee stadium. Crowd—45,266 paid. Gross Gate—$1,925,564. Estimated Net Gate—$1,444,173.

Estimated Louis Purse—$477,649. Estimated Conn Purse—$238,824.

Weights—Louis 207; Conn 182.

Betting—Leouis favored at 3% to 1.

Referee—Eddie Joseph.

Here is what they had to say in their dressing rooms after the fight: “Ah was taking it easy until that eighth round. He was fighting just the way ah thought he would so at the end of the seventh ah told Mannie Seamon (Louis’ trainer) that ah was gonna go out and fight and see how he could take it. He couldn’t.”—Joe Louis. “It’s the kid's last fight, I'm putting the cue stick back on the rack,

I heard the count, but I just couldn't et up.”—Billy Conn.

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