The Washington times., 1935-12-13
Louis Seen
Butchering
Pauline
By PAT ROBINSON

Friday the thirteenth-a day on
which anybody with an ounce Of
superstition in his makeup will
avoid walking under ladders,
breaking mirrors or running afoul
of brown bombers.
And yet, Pauline Uzcudun, the
bounding Basque with the iron
head, the concrete jaw and the
heart of pit bulldog, is going out
Of his way to tangle with Joe
Louis, who should be poison No.
on anybody's list of things to
avoid on Friday the thirteenth or
any other day, for that matter.
There are very few persons in
this world who give Pauline any
chance to be still on his feet at
the end of the fifteenth and final
round. There is only one person
in the universe who actually be-
lleves Pauline will beat Louis, and
that one person is Pauline, him
self. That only goes to show how
ta- hard-headed gent can go in
convincing himself.
In a way this fight-slaughter
would be more descriptive word
is one of the most amazing on
record.
On the one hand we have Louis
one of the most perfect fighting
machines the ring has ever
known-and one of the most cold
blooded engines of destruction the
fight fans have ever seen.
Beyond Fighting Peak
On the other hand, we have
Uzcudun-a fighter many years
past his physical and fighting
peak-a man who never had a
punch and who never had more
than fighting heart and amazing
stamina to recommend him.
Fight promoters all insist if one
man is really as good an a 2-to-1
bet over his opponent, it's no con.
test.
Yet we have one man 10 to 1 or
hundred to one and no takers
get that, no takerS-and yet they
call it fight. Some of the boys
are laying 5 to Pauline will be
stopped.
More amazing still is the fact
some $4,000 to 10000 will pay at
least $4,000, perhaps 100000 to
see the two men in Madison
Square Garden tonight.
There is absolutely no betting
on the outcome of the fight at
any price. Even Lou BriX, who is
handling Pauline, refused to take
the short end of 20 to / against
his man. 1t was suggested to Lou
that he should risk few bucks
on his man at that price just on
the chance that Louis might break
his hands on Paulino's iron skull.
Could Outpoint Him
Nix" said Lou, even if Louis
did break his hands he could still
outpoint Pauline" That should
give you an idea of what the fight
mob thinks Of the Basque's
chances.
Why. then, are the fans going
to turn out to see this fight?
For two reasons: The first is to
see the rythmic Louis in action
and to see the knockout they ex-
pect to explode from his dynamic
fists.
The second is, to see how much
punishment a human frame can
absorb without succumbing. There
must be some SadiSm in all of us.
Pauline never has been stopped.
He has never even been knocked
off his feet, and some of the best
punchers of recent years have
bounced rights and lefts off his /
jaw ad nauSeum.
1t should be merely a question
Of how soon it takes Louis to
open him up. Pauline moves in
with his head sunk deep between
his shoulders and his huge arms
wrapped around his jaw. This
style will force Louis to pound
Paulino's arms, shoot uppercuts
under them and wallop his kid
neys to force the Basque to come +
out of his shell.
Slaughter House
The result should be highly
reminiscent of a COW being pole
axed in slaughter house.
OF course, no heavyweight af-
fair can be staged without its at
tendant sour rumorS and this one
is. no exception. The rumor is
that Louis will carry Pauline the
full distance to make his fight
with Max Schmeling next sum.
mer look more like a $3.50 propo-
Sition.
This might happen except for
three things, to wit: Louis has
too much pride even to consider
it; CD his natural instinct is to
finish a man as quickly as pos
Sible, and go he wouldn't know
how to pull a punch any moro
than Jack Dempsey and Jack
wouldn't pull them even in train