The Omaha guide., 1937-12-18
By F. NJ. DAVIS
HARD ON LOU

HARD ON LOU
My heart goes out to Light
weight Champion Lou Ambers, who
viii probably fight Featherweight
King Henry Armstrong next year.
Last Monday night in Cleveland,
Ambers battled frankie Wallace
whae Armstrong took on Tony
Chevez. The bouts followed n an
other in the same ring.
It took Lou the full 10 rounds
to decision Wallace. Armstrong
knocked out his man in two min
utes and four seconds, after Cha
vez had probably set a worlds re-
cord by going to the canvas seven
times in that short period. Tony
look like a man taking setting up
exercises. Ambers hardly reached
the rubbing table before it was an
rounced that the Hurricane had
struck again, leaving the still car
cass of Chavez in its wake.
For some time now. Ambers has
been hearing the experts say that
oisce they get in the same ring,
Armstrong will be the new light
weight champion. Maybe he pooh
pcohed their prophecies. for he had
never been close enough TO the dan
ger IN Hen1y's failing fists to view
them with the proper terror.
Bot Monday night it was differ
ent- He had a chance to see their
effect from closeup. Only minutes
separated their ring appearances
Anshers could watch fom his dress
ing Yosm the battered form of Cha
vez as 1t was carried past and
whispers, "But for the grace of
Allah. there goes Lou"
This, as l see it, makes it hard
on AnGberB. He may laugh and
boast. burt If and when he faces
Armstrong, bis mind is bound to
return to last Monday night in
Cleveland. The fear of Henry has
been planted within. I say again
my heart goes out to Lightweight
Champion Lou Ambers. for / hate
to see airy man walk through life
suffering agonizing fortunes of the
krewfngly damned.
0pDS AND ENDS
Although Kenny Washing on.
University of California at Los
Angeles football sensation. does not
get credit for the longest forward
pass on record, many football ex-
perts say his So yard heave in the
Southern California game is the
longest authentic completed touch
down aerial ever executed in col
lege football. Brick Muller's fam
Gus toss for California against
Ohio State in the 1921 Rose Bowl
game has grown with the years to
n total Of 70 yards, but Muller him
self says it was actually between
so and 55 yards. The record books
give the title to Brad Robinson of
st. Louis who allegedlv threw one
81 yards against Kansas in 1906,
but there were no movie cameras
to cheek the heave which may have
been actually much shorter. Had it
not beea for the ameras, Washing
tors toss might have been record
ed for pcsterity as a 76 yard com
pletion, SO unreliable is the human
eye.
3D. Burke, national indoor high
jump champion for the past two
years, is conducting a sports col
umn for the Marquette University
Tribune......Oze Simmons former
Iowa sensation, was credited by
white experts with being the out
sanding player on the Paterson
IN. j. Panthers who claim the ma
tional independent pro football
channpionship-.-...Joe Lillard, last
Negro gridster to play in the Ma
tional professional league and NOR
recently a halfback on Fritz Pol
lard's Brown Bombers, is now play
ing basketball with the touring
Harlem Globe Trotters.
Joe Louis, who worked out down
town on the Southside last week,
bad Chicago istics experts elevat
ing their eyebrows with his master
FIJI boxing and seemingly tight de-
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