New Britain herald., 1927-10-15
(BY JIMMY pOWERS)

New York. Oct. 15.-Ficturo a man. huge bulk Of man with skin like cocoa that has had an extra dash of cream added, chest as round as a keg Of beer, and a head. head like an cgg-a choco late Easter egg.
 That man is George Godfrey.
 He is a quiet voiced. merry gen. tleman with a rollicking disposition. a wide ivory smile. utterly unlik" anything resembling a ''black men ace"
 Today he is a potential box office attraction. He is the self-stylcd colored heavyweight champion of the world He is q successor to that gallant lineage. Peter Jackson, Sam Langford. Joe Walcott, Joe Jeanette, Jack Johnson and Harry Wills.
 Few know that George Godfrey is not George Godfrey. Neither is he three Hawaiians
 "My req, name is Teab, sir Feab Sylvester Williams
 Somehow you can judge man easier listening 10 him talk. Feab Sylvester Williams. you gather after conversation, is no mug. He is well hammered and dangerously in telligcnt.
 Now, in this TunneyesQue era. this writer has always contended that brains and boxing are dull combinations. This writer likes his fighters in the raw. He likes men who can catch and throw punches with equal alacrity and who bleed nice and easily. This writer is. therefore, against intelligence in all and any form, and wishes George Godfrey would not be so painstaking in his choice of words. selection Of | proper utensils at dinner and GUS | toner Of the conservative tailor he all SO evidently patronizcs T was born in Mobile. Ala. sir. \ fine country. sir. A great city.
 was born on January 25, 1901 and my nanny says I was the biggest | baby she ever did sec. so l guess il l was just natural that 1 turned to , boxing for q living.
 l 'I began my career in 1919 when | I knocked out Eddie Jamison ir ! one round. I had four contests ir { 1922 and won all of them. four by
 knockouts. In 1928 l knocked out 1 Bill Tate in eight Battling Jones ir 1 six and K. Q. Godan in two.
 Then I led with my chin against
 Jack Renault.' he grinned widely i and was clipped in the 11tl i ronnd"
 1 Tn the next three years he flat,
 tened Fred Fulton, Tut Jackson
 avenged a defeat by Rnnault ir
 eight rounds. outpojnted Mart. Burke twice and tool, Snlly Mont
 Eomery Tiny Herman and Bof : Lawson.
 My favoritc punch. sir. is q Jeff /! hook. stands like this. shift one | step and wham--lets 'cm have it 1T
 the belly"
 Jack SharlIey earned a close de. l cision over the fayoritc punch one
 night lip in Boston. but said after. l wards that "nohody ever nailed mt as hard as this gny Godfrey" which
 is no faint praise if you know youl
 Sharl5cy.
 { Godfrey is inclined 'to fattcn likt ! a hog" as Manager Jimmy Dough. , "rty. GuaiN,ly termed the Baron ol
 LeiperVillc, comn'ainS. His bes
 sealing is 2G0 and h" is six feet one
 inch. That makes him look like [
 mountainous chocolate sundae.
 Every lime Godfrey gets in a rne
 "omcon" asks to know when the
 balloon is going up. The last two
 times the only thing to go up were
 inc pautaloons of the opposition They described q complete para bola
 and p!oprcd on the canvas with
 great eclHt still enclosing the GUS | tomary nor'ion Of the anatomy thai i ordinarily h"longcd on the corner stool
 He knocked Monte Murn. former Nehraska football star. for q field goal in the fourth. and pasted Jim , Nalonev's chin while the opening gong echoes were still ringing. This writer hears conflicting re-