The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1935-02-13
Phantom Five Scores IS 19 Triumph Over Mott Independents
Joe Louis, Sensational Negro Heavy,
Can Dish 1t Out, But Can He Take It?
Meteoric Ascent Of Black Men.
ace Adds Color to Boxing
Game This Year

| Louis take It?
His record Of 10 knockouts in the
little more than seven months since
he turned pro-over q list Of foes
growing steadily more formidable
proves pretty conclusively that this
20-year-old negro heavyweight SEN
sation can dish 1t out"
But some Of the experts are eager
to see the boy go against somebody
likely to test his absorptive powers.
This is one Of the things his man
ager-sponsor, John w. Roxborough,
has in mind in trying to line up bouts
for the coming outdoor season with
Art Lasky and Steve Hamas, two
established leading contenders for
Max Baer,s title.
Louis has been subjected to Z few
brief flurries of pretty vigorous shell
lacking during his meteoric ascent
to rating as the current BLACK
menace"
Alex and Pasty Tried It
Alex Borschuck. for instance,
brought up wallop from the floor
to catch Joe flush on the Jaw. Rox.
borough admits he practically tainted,
himself, out Of sympathetic reaction,
but Joe wasn't faxed, and shortly
kayoed Borschuck, In the fourth
round.
Then In the battle with Patsy Per-
roni in Chicago-to date the high
point Of Joe's professional career from
an artistic and financial standpoint
the rugged Clevelander thrice nail
ed Louis with vicious, solid left hooks,
but smiling Joe didn't seem to mind.
and finished his l0-round stint, CIV
ing Perroni thorough trimming, al
most as fresh as when he started.
I've been hit hard" Louis admits,
but I honestly don't know for sure
whether could stand steady punch
in and come back strong. I think
I could"
After winning ight-heavy and
heavyweight Golden Gloves cham
pionships in 1888 and 1894 In Detroit
and adding the 1894 national A. A. U.
light-heavy crown in st. Louis, Louis
started his professional climb last
July in Chicago.
Drew $4,000 With Perroni
He knocked out his first foe in the
first minute, and disposed OF his Sec
ond and third opponents in three and
two rounds, respectively. Jack Kranz
took beating but avoided knock
out for the limit, eight rounds.
He bowled over Buck Everett and
B0rschuck in the second and fourth,
won l0-round nod from Adolph VIA
ter. then in quick succession scored
kayo wins over Art Sykes 60, Stan
ley Poreda ~, Charley Massera CD
and Lee Ramage 60.
BY this time he was a sensation
around Chicago and his battle with
Perroni drew $1,000 customers. He
followed 1t with technical knockout
of the veteran Hans Birke in
Pittsburgh, and now faces q return
match with Ramage in Los Angeles
February q, Ito show the coast it
wasn't an accident"
Birke Toughest
"Birke gave me the hardest beat
ing" confesses this modest, innocu-
disappearing lad. "Y'know, he's
fought such fellows as Lasky, Hamas,
Risko and Camera. He was strong
and rugged, but even so think if he
hadn't reached out and leaned on
the referees shoulder in that 10th
round I'd have got credit for q regu-
lar Knockout instead Of q technical
kayo."
Jack Blackburn, well-known negro
fighter early in the century. has been
Louis trainer all through his career,
and has taught him some neat tricks
of blocking and punching technique.
One Of the most effective IS that Of
appearing to be thoroughly in retreat
and then to come swirling forward
with a singing barrage Of rights
and lefts that catches his foe com.
pletely Oft guard.
Standing six feet. one inch and
weighing-in the ring-l95 pounds,
Louis IS so smoothly nodded that his
appearance bellies his power. And
his peaceful countenance has no hint
Of a killer snarl."
But once that gong sounds-we!i.
look at the record!