The Washington times., 1935-07-01
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WoRLpS HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION

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Continued from lst Sport P0se)
sports pages because of his great
workouts with Baer at Asbury
Park.
Johnston had so many things
on his mind he didn't give Gould
much of a rumble. With "Take
Griffin or leave it," he finally
squelched Gould. And that's how
I got Corn.
Crowd Cheers
Very few in the great throng
gave the fight as much as pass
ing notice. It soon got hot in
the Garden Bowl, however, and
the spectators we're cheering us
madly. Corn outfought me in
the first round. In the second
he hit me a pip of a punch on
the lug, and down I went. Gould
thought I was through. I took a
count and got up. The most dra'
matte part follows. I nailed Corn
with a right on the jaw and he
crashed to the canvas. taking q
count of nine. He was dazed
when he got up. I went to work
on him Immediately and Socked
him some more. When the bell
sounded he was still in fog
First he walked on rubber legs
to my corner, then to a neutral
spot, and finally reached his cor
ner. Two rights with plenty be-
hind them floored him again in
the third and last of the sched'
uled six rounds. He got up so
defenseleSs that Referee Kid NC
Partland stopped the fight after
2 minutes and 81 seconds of the
round.
Had 7 not beaten Corn, who
knows but that I might still be on
relief? We often thought of Grit
fin when training for Baer. sent
him a wire down in Georgia invit-
ing him to come and see the Baer
fight, but he couldn't make it and
listened to the radio reports. He
said he was going to root for me.
What do you think he did after
the fight? He sent me a wire con-
graduating and also challenging
me to a return match! That is one
for Joe Gould'S book!
In less time than it takes to tell
it, was broke again. You know
$3.50 won't last long. That purse
did help the family and enjoyed
my first big steak in months.
Well, I didn't think the Griffin
victory meant much since I didn't
hear from Gould again for some
time. went about trying to make
a match for myself. Little Jackie
Farrell was promoting fights at
Columbia Park in New Jersey. He
was trying to steam up a match
between Steve Dudas and me. 1t
looked like $500 for my end.
Freddy and John Huber. who
knew me when I was a kid and
who nursed me when I began
fighting, were dead set against
the fight. They manage Dudas.
They thought I'd get annihilated
and didn't want to look on at the
slaughter.
Il can't fight, I'm all
through; all I want is to grab
a few bucks" I told the Huber
brothers.
It seemed to take them long
time to digest my logic. Cali
through" I really feared that
less than a year ago this writing!
Just as 1 was about to go in
training, Gould got hold Of me
and said he had just signed me
to fight John Henry Lewis. I had
fought and lost to a Negro star
on the coast in 1882. Loyalty
comes first so I chucked the
Dudas match with the approval
of the Huber brothers and okayed
the Lewis engagement.
Plenty Of Touches
Gould and I made plenty Of
touches before the Lewis fight on
November 16, 1884. In the garden
they give you a blue slip with the
amount of the loan which is i'm
mediately deducted after the
fight. Joe would send me to the
comptroller's office on the fifth
floor to cash Them. 1t got so I
was such a steady customer that
Ed Lee and Tommy Costello
began to feel I was on the pay
roll.
IF you don't stop coming up
here with these blue slips, we'll
have to hire another bOokkeeper
to keep track of your debts and
those Of Albertanti" Costello
would warn me.
There was very little coming to
us from the $3.50 Lewis purse. But
there was satisfaction galore be-
cause I upset the dope by trounc.
ing the up-and-coming colored lad.
It was a slaShing 15-rounder, the
customers got a good run for their
money. was on the short end of
S to ! betting, Lewis was a hard