The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23
|ETTORE PROVED EASY FOR LOUIS AT PHILADELPHIA
Fearless Fighter Dropped Three Times Before
 Knockout in 5th
By STUART CAMERON (IInitad Press Snnrfs Editnrl

United Press Sports EditOr)
 Philadelphia, Sept. 2S.-CUP)-Joe Louis once again is Americas rank ing challenger for the heavyweight title, safely past Al Ettore, Phila- delphia's highly touted blond tiger man. Louis is back where he was before he met Max 6chmeling.
 The Detroit negro regained his former status before 6 crowd of 40,- 4O7 which paid $2lO,117 to see him knock out the squat Italian in the fifth round of their scheduled 15- rounder.
 The crowd and gate were the largest in Philadelphia's boxing his- tory except for those of the Tun- ey-Dempsey fight in the same Sta- dium 10 years ago.
 Nothing To It
 Last nights crowd turned out to see how Louis would stack ur against a rugged fighter of his own age, & youngster who simply exuded confi- dence and whose boasting had made many believe he really had a chance to upset the Brown Bomber. They saw Joe take the test in his stride.
 Louis made the fight look easy. He won the first two rounds with miles to spare. In the opening heat he seemed on the verge of laying away his opponent. It was in this round that Louis scored the first of three knockdowns. A left to the head and right to the jaw dropped Et- tore for a count of five. In the sec ond round Ettore stayed erect but Louis had him groggy from three straight smasheS to the head. Et- tore's only creditable showing was in the third round when he swarmed over Joe, forcing Louis to cover up half dozen times. Most of the ex- perts credited Ettore with winning that round. M
 The beginning of the end came in the fourth, when Q stunning straight right caught Al squarely on the jaw, spun him half way around and felled him on his face near Louis corner. Ettore barely managed to arise at the count of nine. Louis tore sav- agely after him. Ettore simply backed up against the ropes, con- tenting himself with trying to duck under Joe's fire. Despite these wholly defensive tactics he took a terrific punishment. Blows rained on his head and body. Blood trickled from nasty cut on his left cheek bone. But he weathered the round.
 Louis came out for the kill in the fifth.
 Wide Open
 For the first tirns it was Louis who landed the first punch. Ettore clutched frantically but Louis pushed him of, hammering away with the left that was finally to win the bout. In one moment of despera- tion Ettore came in swinging. He left himself wide open. Louis shot out his left. It was Q hook which caught Ettore squarely on the button. As Ettore reeled, Louis shot oyer an- other. Ettore flopped downward into the ropes, sagging over the middle strand. He made a valiant attempt to get to his feet as the timekeeper yelled mine" but before he was erect he fell backward through the ropes onto the apron of the ring. The time was 1:28.
 After his shower, unmarked ex- cept for a slight pufing on his left cheek, Louis credited Ettore with having been "a game fellow who did the best he could"
 Asked if Ettore took as much pun. ishment as Max Baer, Louis said, 'No. Nobody ever took as much as Baer." Louis was flying home to Detroit today. He will referee some amateur bouts in Lansing Monday. He plans to return to New York for the World Series and as soon as it Is over will start training for his bout at the Hippodrome in October with Jorge Brescia of Argentina.
 Louis weighed 203 1-4 and Ettore 109 3-4.