The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-13
BASQUE INSISTS. HE WILL LAST FOR 15 ROUNDS
Bout Will Attract 10000 Fans and $I5O,OOO;
 Bets on K. 0. Round
BY GEoRGE KTRKsEY

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 Limited Press Stan Correspondent)
 New York, Dec. 13--(UP.)-One of the most fantastic ring battles ever arranged will take place in Madison Square Garden tonight when Joe Louis, Detroit's unbeaten negro heavyweight, meets Pauline Uzcudun, 36-year-old Spaniard, in a scheduled 15-round bout.
 The result is 8 foregon conclusion Louis will win in a walk. Yet the Garden will be packed with a, crowd of 18,600 spectators, the first sell-out for the house that Tex Rickard built since the Primo Camera Ernie Schaaf bout nearly three years ago.
 It is glowing tribute to the 2l- year-old negro's ring skill that he can attract a $140,000 gate-largest indor receipts in seven years and the 18th indor bout in boxing his- tory to draw more than $100,000 = with an opponent who is conceded absolutely no chance of winning.
 Betting Angle
 Louis, seeking his 26th straight professional triumph, is one of the long priced favorites of heavy weight history. The intriguing ques- tions are: Can Louis know out Paul lino? How quick can he do it?
 The following odds reflect just how one-sided the bout shapes up:
 Louis, 15-l favorite to win.
 Louis, 1895 favorite to win by a K. O.
 Even money that the deferee doesn't count out Pauline.
 Even money Pauline doesn't come up for the 11th round.
 Almost no betting has been re- ported on the outcome, but many wagers have been laid on what round the bout will end. The price is 15-1 Louis doesn't K. O. Pauline in the first round, and gradually thin out up to the seventh and eighth rounds, with the odds 3-1 the young negro doesn't get his man in either of those sessions.
 Most boxing critics believe Pauline will preserve his record of never having been counted out in 69 bouts and 12 years of ring warfare. The majority of the ring observers be- lieve that Louis lethal punches, which have stopped 9 of the 25 men he has faced in the professional ring, will batter the basque into helplessness and the referee will stop the bout in the name of hu- manity.
 Before previous bouts with Car nera, Levinsky and Baer, the Brown Bomber has named the round in which he intended to get his man. This time he refrains from select ing the round in which he will score his K. o. He says he hopes to get "Upsidedown," as he calls the Basque, as quickly as possible, but realizes he will have to pick his spots because of Paulino's peculiar arms-and-elbowS defense.
 Basque Courageous
 Pauline has questioned the cour- age of several of Louis recent k. O.. victims, especially Baer, who took 8 count on one knee. The Basque has some justification in criticizing Baer's courage because he almost made him quit at Reno in 1881. If it hadn't been forsJack Dempsey, who refereed the bout, Baer would have walked out of the ring. Dempsey made Baer stay in there and fight until the bell for the 20th and final round. Louis comment on Uzcudun's criticism of Baer is typical of the unemotional negro boy.
 If upsidedown gets up, he'll make an awful mistake"
 Louis appears to be as good as when he slashed Baer down in 4 rounds September A.
 Another strange angle of this strange match is the fact that it is staged by the Twentieth Century Club and Madison Square Garden, arch rivals, who have linked forces to give New Workers their only win ter glimpse of the glamorous young negro fighter. Louis won't fight here again until next June when he faces Max Schmeling, the third ex-cham- pion to succumb to the lure of gold to face the deadly fire of the Sepia Slasher.