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The Washington times., 1935-06-26

Joe know was fighting. He was
in the dressing room TAPPING his
hands.
Jimmy Ryan," was my nerv-
GUS reply.
The next thing I knew I was
in ring toys. And who do you
suppose was my second? None
other than Harry BuesSer who
was to enter me on the relief
the way, is now attached to the
police force in Fort Lee and
they tell me he's a good copO
I raised my hand.
whats your name?"
I thought fast. I mustn't let
rolls, years later.
Bell Sounds
The first bell sounded. We
went to it hammer and tongs.
First he'd knock me down, then
I'd get up and floor him. It was
a regular Donnybrook. At the
end of the second of four rounds
Joe walked by my corner. He
looked up and almost collapsed
when he saw me. He hadn't the
slightest idea I was fighting. He
ranted and raved.
"WhatTI mother say?
WhatIl pop Say?" he kept ask
ing.
But I paid no attention. I had
a big job ahead of me and was
anxious to get through with it.
The fight went the limit. For
my efforts the promoter forked
over three bucks which was a
world of money.
Joe was proud of my victory.
He decided to become my man
ager. He thought I needed plenty
Of competition so he stuck me in
the amateur light-heavy and heavy
various tournaments. Lady Luck
Continued on Page "a, Col. y
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TWO PAIRS TIE
IN FATHER SON
GOLF TOURNEY

S. c. Watkins and his son, S.
R. Watkins, and Capt. C. c. Van
Leer and his son, A. w. Van
Leer, tied for first in the father
son golf tournament at the Co.
lumbia Country Club. Each pair
carded net Cos. Thirty-five father
and son combinations partici-
pated.
A. S. Gardiner, sr., and A. S.
Gardiner. jr., took first low gross
honors with II, seven over par.
They were also third in low net
with SO.
Tied for fourth in low net were
Martin R. West, ST., and Martin
R. West, jr., and P. j. Harmon,
ST., and P. j. Harmon, jr.
The tourney was voted a sue.
cess and probably will become a
permanent fixture at Columbia.
The all-star WASHINGTON
women'S golf team today was con-
Guiding it's intercity match with
the Richmond women at the
Chevy Chase Club. The local
women can hardly lose the match
after piling up 81 points by
sweeping yesterdays duels at the
Kenwood Golf and Country Club
Berrien Moore today is the ma
tional intercollegiate golf driving
champion, banging out three
drives for total of 800 yards, one
foot and II inches in yesterdays
competition at the Congressional
Country Club. Tom Draper,
Washington University, st. Louis,
was outdriven less than a yard by
Moore, who halls from Georgia
Tech. Joe Lynch, Georgetown, de-
Tending champion, failed to figure
in the competition.
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Max Baer and James j. Brad.
dock, recent principals in heavy
weight championship match, were
awed witnesses of the spectacle.
They must have left the place
with the feeling that only a wit
ness belongs at a prize fight like
that.
In relation to past champions,
the belief was that Louis is the
greatest thing that has happened
along since Tunney and Dempsey
and, even there, they hardly do
him justice. AS far as I am con-
cerned, it seems possible that he's
the greatest fighter that ever
lived. He takes a punch, he hits
like a paving block, he boxes like
the masters of old.
His speed, in fact, is that of a
lightweight and, watching him in
action, one realizes that Jack
Blackburn, his trainer, has made
this 21-year-old a throw back to
an age of boxing that was ad-
mittedly great. For years, we've
had to stand for tall tales of old
timers who insisted that nobody
knew what the grand, old game
used to be. But, with Joe Louis,
the hands of the clock have
turned backward and tradition is
only Jest.
= Jeffries, Jack Johnson, Corbett,
Dempsey and Tunney-who knows
how they would have Jared with
a man like that? AS far as the
eye can see, he's perfect. No
flaws, no imperfections, never so
much as an idle, aimless move.
They said, for instance, that
he might have trouble in the
clinches with a man who out
weighed him by 6412 pounds.
Actually, there were only three
clinches and, in one Of them,
Louis flung the giant so violently
into a corner that the latter was
moved to protest. That expert.
ence. indeed, may have convinced
Camera that clinching with
Louis was something to be
avoided.
But the chances were that
Camera never got so far as to
figure this out. After all, you
don't grab what you can't find.
In my book, anyhow, it is a
tremendous tribute to Louis
genius that he is the first fighter
Camera has been unable to in
veigle into clinch, where he
can cuff and cut and manhandle
at will.
No, Joe Louis was just not that
sort of q harmonica. He won
from the start. He didn't lose a
round Of the six. He was always
CONTINUED on Page 20, Col. 81
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Pickups and Putouts
By GEORGE A. SIMPSON

william J. "Squinty" McGar.
ragh is now paStiming in golf
=. Tony Suess, though retired
from SandlOt baseball, keeps his
eye peeled on the dOingS of his
former buddieS. Tommy DOer.
er, ST., former sports cartOOnist,
is now q member Of the Wash.
ington Herald art department
Paul Dem0net, who believes
George Washington will have a
great football team this fall,
will be in his heyday during the
national convention of the
Rainbow Division here, July IL,
Is, IA. .DemOnet was q mem.
Der Of this brilliant overseas di.
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Louis was always the master
Camera made a great fight, per
haps his best of all the years he
has been around, even to the
night when he won the heavy
weight championship from Jack
Sharkey.
He weighed 26O1a pounds and
lowered almost 6 feet Z inches
into the night. He was trained
to the SpIit-second. He was con
fident, poised and as fast as
featherweight. But he never had
a chance.
Upon thinking that over, one
wonders whether anybody has
This brown man, so grave, so un'
emotional but so deadly swift, is
something that the prize ring and
even the human race never has
seen before. Those round, staring
eyes are, the pale, marble eyes OF
an animal. His movements are
instinctively the same. His
strike" is something not far from
death. Certainly, the 196-pound
colored man might have utterly
destroyed this giant of an op'
ponent if Referee Arthur Dono.
van had failed to be conscious OF
the tragedy that impended.
At the end. Camera was weav-
ing on drooling legs, a helpless
and hapleSS victim.
One of Best
When it was all over and that
historical cry of the African at
bay had died. down at last, a man
polled the ringside in an effort to
obtain opinion as to Louis status
in relation to present day and for
mer heavyweights. In relation to
present day heavyweights, the an
Swer was invariable. They wouldn't
and couldn't stand long before
this cordovan flash Of destruction.
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MLIFESTOPN
BY cZamQS IL BI8ddOCk
WORLDS HEAVVwEIGt4r CHAMPION

II was as a light heavyweight and
am now as heavy.
"He had snap in his
punches" he revealed.
It was in the winter of 1924
that I made my first appearance
in the roped arena. Joe Borrell,
the Philly slugger, was matched
with Jack Smith and brother Joe
was to be in one Of the prelims
The show was staged in the
Cliffside Moose Hall at Grant
wood, N. j. I went to see Joe
fight. I was a pretty hefty lad,
weighing about 1853 pounds,
There was O break on the card
and the promoter sought an op'
ponent for Tommy Hunmell. He
asked the audience if there was
someone who would like to pick
up a few bucks. (Hummel, by
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Syndicate. Inc.)
CHAPTER SIX

copyright, 1895, by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
CHAPTER SIX
So many versions have been
printed about the start Of my
fistic career, most of them err
roneous, that I figure it is about
time to print the real facts.
First, must tell about my bare
fist fights when going to school.
I was only 10 years of age when
the fighting instinct in me (and
I believe I inherited most of It
from Uncle Mike O'Toole) got
the better of me. was going to
st. Joseph's Parochial School in
West New York. And I wasn't a
Studious chap, I am sorry to note.
I hated arithmetic like you hate
poison. I wasn't any shakes as
a speller. I liked history but de-
tested geography.
In one Of those "push-off-the-
wall" games, I became embroiled
in an argument with Elmer Fur
long who now is a gas station
attendant in West New York.
Elmer and I were good pals and
I used to go to his house and he
to mine. Our parents were also
friendly. He got my goat that
afternoon. I lost my head. I
wound up the right hand and let
it fly. It landed flush on Elmer's
chin and floored him as if shot.
thought I had killed him. His
head hit the concrete walk. My
heart stopped. The other kids
came running and the moment
the news got around a great
crowd gathered.
ELMER is dead!" screamed
one of the boys.
A doctor was called. It took
him half an hour to bring Elmer
to. I was in a state Of collapse.
I kept saying:
81 wish 1 hadn't done it.
What made me do it,"
Mother learned about the fight
at dinner time. She sure hauled
me over the Goals. But pop didn't
find out about it until months
later.
Morris Great Rival
Another schoolmate, Johnny
Morris, who is now a prosperous
tinSmith, was a great rival of
mine. Every time I'd see Johnny,
a fight was imminent. Just as
soon as his eyes would fall on
me he would beg for a scrap. We
had 80 battles, real settoS every
one of them. He was no sucker.
Johnny knew how to fight and he
could take it. So could I, for that
matter. Off nights were spent
by us fighting on the street cor.
ners. I'd beat him one day and
the next he would turn the tables
on me. Had Johnny taken up
boxing for a living I am sure he
would have gotten somewhere.
But he turned to business and I
am glad he has made good. Nor
ris and I are the best of friends
today.
The man who really started me
in the beak-buSting business was
Barney Doyle, who used to pro-
mote amateur bouts and run a
sort of gym in a cellar on Hoff-
man Place in North Bergen. To-
day Barney works as an cleo
trician on the ferries. This was
back in 1924 when I was 10 years
Of age. Doyle also handled my
brother, Joe. In those days
Freddy Huber, now manager of
Steve DudaS, used to be a sort of
an Instructor. He was my first
teacher. He would take me on
for eight rounds every otner day.
He liked me. He thought I was
a great puncher. Only the other
day he was telling some friends
that, when he handled me, he
thought I was 2 better hitter than
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vision of the A. E. F.. and
went over the top often.
It's "Skeet, Skeet, Skeet" with
Larry Williams. DIR. William
SeideI, former WashingtOnian.
defeated Clarence Charest in
the Norfolk Washington HOtch-
kiss Cup tennis duelS DIR. T.
]. w. Brown has unearthed an
old 1910 ledger book of the
BannOckburn Club 1T shows
salaries paid employees, etc..
Mark KOenig, now starring for
the Giants, has touched all cor.
nerS of the baseball globe. Joe
Louis proved we were wrong. E.
by bombing Primo CarnerO out
Of the boxing picture.
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Hecht Nine Lists
G.. 40. Contest

In keeping with his aim to keep
his Hecht Company tossers busy
during the week as well as on Sun
days, Manager Paul Messink has
scheduled the General Accounting
Office nine for a game tomorrow
on Monument lot diamond No. 2,
at 5 p. m.
These weekday contests are
helping the Hechtmen a great
deal, Messink believes, since their
play in the Department Store
League has been more powerful
of recent date.
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Kenwood Post
Is Offered to
Witty Cox

The professional golf post at
the Kenwood Golf and Country
Club will be offered Witty Cox,
of New York, it was learned to-
day following a meeting of the
Kenwood golf committee last
night. No information was
given as to what terms would
be offered Cox.
AL Jamison will serve as tenn
porary professional until a sue
ceSsor to AL Houghton is
named.
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Boys Club Mines
Would Play Games

Pewee, Insect and Midget mines
Of the Washington Boys Club are
on the lookout for Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday games with
teams in these classes.
Charlie Reynolds, athletic d.
rector at the club, is handling the
schedule at National 1886. Reyn-
olds, incidentally, is planning a
pewee league and any teams inter
ested. can get in touch with him
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Not End Jack,
But 1st LOUIS
Jack Says

NEW YORK, June 26.-AfteP
the fight, somebody remarked to
Jack Dempsey:
"Say, Jack, that Joe Louis
is second Jack Dempsey
isn't he?"
Dempsey grinned.
"A second Jack Dempsey?
he repeated. "Why not .
first Joe Louis? He hits hard
enough to stand on his own
feet under his own name"
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AAAo w CSy VIA SSASoAA ''r-.S4
an a d m i r ng SS$S&a$ 58$3aS8
throng of blacks Primo Camera
and whites and there he sits in
his snappy red and blue silk
dressing gown, not even drawing
a deep breath.
He essays a smile for the pho
tographerS but smiling comes hard
for this ebony angel of destruc-
ton. Seeking is easier and more
natural.
Not a mark on him to show
he's been in a fight. He explains
how he did it just as calmly as
if he were ordering another round
of pork chops.
EASY TO LICK
"He was tough to bring down,
but easy to lick" says Joe.
"He's awful strong, but I didn't
let him get in close but twice.
Maybe you noticed how I tied
him up in there? I showed his
left arm up by grabbing him
under the elbow and heaving.
Jack Blackburn showed me that
trick and it worked.
"Carnera sure can take
punch. I knew had him licked
right from the start, but he
was a little bit hard to open up
on account of those big arms
he's got. That's why I sOcked
him so much in the belly. After
a while he began to sag in the
middle, his arms came down
and then let him have it!
ono, he never hurt me. He
sure can take a punch, but he
Can't give one. 1 never paid no
mind to his punches"
"Yeh, / knew when I was go.
ing to finish him. Remember,
said I'd knock him out in five
rounds. He said he'd knock me
out in six? Well, when / came
in after the fifth I said to Black
burn: "Well, didn't finish him
in my round so I'll have to fin
ish him in his"
For the first time, Joe's coffee.
colored pan broke into the SEM
blance of a smile at his own little
joke.
Like a shot at the titIe?" Joe
echoed the question. "Sure /
would. That's the thing want
most. And think l can lick
Max Baer, if they want me to
fight him first, or Jim Brad"
dock, about as easy as I did
Camera"
CHAMP NOW
Bald-headed old Jack Blackburn,
who has taught Joe all the finer
points of the game, chuckled
audibly. e,'ery gold tooth in his
head cleaning.
"Shucks," said Jack, "thiS
here boys a champion right
now. The only reason he can't
put champ in front of his name
this minute is because he didn't
have BraddOck in there with
him instead of Camera"
Now let's hop into the almost
deserted dressing room of the
visiting ball clubs where Primo
Cameras huge, battered hulk is
caught stepping from under a
shower.
The big fellows down hearted
and his handlers can't cheer him.
He catches my questions with
difficulty and, usually so amiable.
he is now ugly and gruff. But he
still seems somewhat dazed.
"Sure, I want to fight him
again." he grOwIs. But even his
belligerent "Why nOt?" doesn't
carry conviction.
SAYS LOUIS HITS HARD
"Yeh, Louis hits hard. Harder
than Baer, harder than Sharkey,
harder than anybody" His
voice is almost sob as he re-
calls the dynamite in JOe'S fists.
His battered mouth, swollen
twice it's normal size, again starts
bleeding as he talks. His face is
a mass of bruises. He's taken one
awful beating.
"Sure he hurts. He's the only
one hurts me down here" Primo
caresseS his sore ribs and the
region under his heart. "The
punches on the jaw I do not
feel. I am already out I guess
when he hits"
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that has har.
bored the broad
backs of Babe
Ruth, Lou Geh-
rig and other
e X p o n ents of
swat, sits the
Swatingest man
of them all
young Joe Louis
Of Detroit.
He has just
k n o c k e d out
Primo Camera;
he has battled
his way through
an a d m iri ng
thrOng of blacks
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Baseball
Standings

SGames behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
WASHINGTON, .; Detroit, 4.
Cleveland, 8; New York. 4.
(ODly games played).
TOday's Games
Detroit at Chicago.
(Only game sCheduled),
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BOYD'S TRIUMPH

Boyd'S triumphed over st. An
thongs, 4 to 3, in the feature
game Of the Columbian League.
Other results found Cubs defeat
ing Sunbeam Market, 10 to 2, and
Columbians winning from Otis
A. c., 81.
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Louis Always Master
OF Situation Over
.Gangli11g Primo
BY DAVIS J. WALSH

haps quite human of the African jungle last night
strike down and utterly demolish huge hulk that had been
Primo Carnera the Giant And high above the amor the
knockout Joe Louis the strange waeyed unbning Negro
administered in the sixth round there cry that smoe
upon the drums and left them shivering.
The Washington times., 1935-06-26

1919, when
Jack Demp-
sey's tar
rose on the
banks Of the
Maumee at
Toledo, is
destined to
become the
next heavy
W e i G h t
C h a m pion
of &haunr1d
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to take his place beside Jack
johnson, the only other man
of Joe's color to climb to the
pugilistic heights.
The Detroit engine of de-
struction, his left and his right
arms working with piston-like
precision, hewed the biggest
fighter of them all down to his
size for five rounds at the
Yankee Stadium last night be-
fore $4,000 people and then, in
2 minutes and 80 seconds OF
the sixth, landed odd three quick
lefts and eventually three long
rights that had Camera down
three times and flying a flag
of truce as he got up from his
last fall.
Curtains for Camera
It was curtains for Camera,
the misled youth from Sequalo'
There is still the circus that he
may 60 back to, but his ring
days are over in so far as the
American public is concerned.
His spirit was willing, but the
flesh was weak.
He fought a typical Camera
fight in his last stand. His arms
raised high most of the time,
more in protection than in
threat, he failed to take a single
round in his fight with Louis.
The best you can say for Carne-
"a is that the fourth round was
even, and then you would have
to be very charitable indeed.
Breathing most lightly at the
finish and barely perspiring at
all, Joe Louis lived up to every
thing that was claimed for him
when he was brought East for
the first time a month ago and
ensconsed in a training camp
to prepare for this, his first
step, up the ladder of what has
already commenced to be fame.
Louis Starts Smartly
He fought a smart fight from
the opening bell. Taking no
chances of the immense Italian
getting a lead on him, Louis
went right to work in the first
round, whistling rights and let's
around Primo's chin, finally
crossing a right to Cameras
mouth that brought the first
trickle of blood that was not
to be stemmed throughout the
Reconsideration rounds.
From then on Louis paced
himself admirably increasing
the ferocity of his attack as the
rounds wore on.
BY the fifth, Louis had beat
Primo's upper HIP to pulp so
that it was swollen, protruding
and distorted. Sensing that he
was in for a night of it, Primo
tried to stay in close to Louis
to prevent him from getting set
for a finish blow, but now and
again the befuddled hulk OF a
derelict forgot these tactics and
SO soon as he did, Louis was
pumping left hooks and long,
looping rights into him, mostly
to the face.
Often Louis blows were so
well placed and perfectly ex-
ecuted that the thud of leather
and flesh could be heard back
in the ringside seats as the beat"
ing Of tom-toms.
Path Is Clear
Louis fought the perfect fight.
There isn't a man in his path
to the heavyweight throne who
can stand up with him. Baer
wouldn't hold candle to him.
The instant Make started
Glowing, Juggling at his tights.
or smoothing out his hair, Louis
would be in on him with
smashing bolts coming with
lightning.nke speed that would
wipe Baer'S grin off his face for
good.
And Braddock, well Braddock,
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JUNIORS
To CARRY Is
PLAYERS

ALEXANDRIA, Va, June 26.
Alexandria American Legion Jun
iors will carry IS players this
season.
The lads will play in the State
title series in Richmond, Va, the
latter part of July. Armstrong
and Wood will toe the hill for the
locals in the exhibition games
prior to the Richmond trip.
A meeting of teams interested in
the formation of a local CONNER.
cial league will be held next Tues
day at BIT King st. at 8 o'clock.
The first water polo for the
Alexandria De Maloy team will be
held tomorrow.
The Alexandria HAS Been" and
the Fort Hunt CCC tossers are
billed for a big game here tomor-
row.
Oarsmen of the Old Dominion
Boat Club will hold an important
workout Sunday. The new float
is expected to be repaired so the
shells can be launched.
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Louis Says
AWBeat
Baer Jim
By PAT ROBINSON

NEW YORK, June 26.-Well,
we're in the dressing room Of the
Yankees. On the, dressing table
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"GameS behind leader.
Yesterdays Results
New York, S.5: Chicago. 2-1O. (First
game 10 innings).
st. Louis. 6; Brooklyn. 4.
Boston. Z; Pittsburgh, 2.
Philadelphia, 10; Cincinnati. I.
TOday's Games
Chicago at New York.
st. Louis at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at Boston (2)s
Cincinnati at Philadelphia
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LOuis'Path
To Title
Clear
By KIRK MILLER

Times Sports Editor
NEW YORK, June 26.
Joe Louis, the best fighting
man to come along since
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-08
SOVIET OFFICIAL
BLAMES MILITARISTS
Russia's Vice Premier Says Coun-
ty Not to Surrender Terri
tory to Japan

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, July ga charge that
japanese r1ilitariStS are provoking
collision" in the Far East was made
yesterday by Was Chubar, vice prem
Ter and member of the Polit Bureau,
in an address to huge crowd in the
Central Park of Culture and Rest.
Chubar's accusation followed less
than a week the delivery of the So
viet's sharp note of protest to Toxic
against the alleged invasion of Soviet
territory by Japanese in Manchoukuo.
The note remains unanswered, and
the whole situation has meanwhile
grown more serious by the issuance of
an ultimatum by Manchoukuo and
Japanese Army forces Saturday de-
manding the right to establish corps
Of observers in Monaghan territory.
The protest note gave warning, he
said, that I'VE have an invincible
army amply equipped with airplanes
and tanks, and backed by powerful
industry"
In his address the vice premier
said:
I'VE can tell the incendiaries Of a
new world war that we will never give
an inch of our territory to anybody"