The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-15
BY HARRY CRIMSON Sports Editor, NEA Service

Sports Editor, NEA Servlce
 Kenosha, Wis, June IS Joe Louis Barrow snuhles lazily along on the platform pitched in the Municipal Stadium on Kenosha's windswept lake front. You'd never suspect that Louiss is the very fortunate young Negro who at Comiskey Park, Chicago, June 22 is to be the first of his race to get whack at the heavyweight title since Jack Johnson.
 Louis apparently is unconcerncd about everything except an appetite that never seems to be appeased and a desire to emulate Rip Van Win- kle. The Brown Bomber does every thing he likes to excess, and if there is anything he loves more than food, 1t is sound, undisturbed slum- Der.
 Perhaps 1t is the worlds worst sparring partners who make Louis lok so bad. They wouldn't be on their pins very long if he attacked them in earnest. He might just as well be shadow boxing.
 The style of George Nicholson, a 185-pounder, is somewhat similar to that of the cagy Braddock, but Nicholson has been in the stands with lecerated lips.
 Salvatore Ruggeriello has been stiffened by practically every ham, donny in the land. George Higgs, 180-pounder. couldn't get curtain raiser in Yuma.
 Tall and skinny Leonard Dixon is the very antithesis of the champion and worthless to the challenger in workout.
 In French, Cell Harris first name means roof, but Harris, very fat and 40, acts like it means floor. | Anyway, that is where he can be located most of the time.
 Harris doubles up and grunts every time Smokey Joe makes feint at his corporation and hits the deck whenever hit about the head.
 He is nothing more than comic re- lief, if indeed, any is needed at the Louis conditioning rendezvous.
 Louis Appears to Have Lost Nerve
 Louis performs with the demeanor of sulky schoolboy going about a task that is highly distasteful. He just shuffles forward, shooting feeble lefts at his human punching bags and occasionally tossing right
 Something seems to have come over Louis Perhaps Max Schmeling knocked some of the fight out of him that stormy night last June That wouldn't be surprising, and Louis folks were suggesting that he retire some time before he met the German and disaster.
 Louis style in somewhat different than it was before the Schmcling catastrophe, but rarely is there the slightest variation in his current one. The Dark Angel is hooking more than he did.
 Louis still appears to be one track fighter. and I'm afraid that he'll be a sucker for a right until he calls it quits.
 Jo-Jo still is of balance when he misses with crooked left jab and otherwise is easily dcrailed
 His left has to land if he is to remain in stride, and, quite natur- ally, this weapon is the forerunner of his best shot. When it is success fully parked, the colored clouter fol- lows with a right, and then fires his payoff left. The latter is the one he is looking for.
 Louis. who is only g, still IS a dandy at concerted fire, and 1t is that introductory left from which Braddock must get awy 7.
 Brown Bomber's True Worth | Debatable Louis will slaughter anybody who comes to him or backs away on Q straight line.
 It is the sidestepping business that bothers Smoky Joe.
 Ha hes to deliberately shuttle in- to a new stance every time the ather fellow elects to change the course of battle.
 He complained that Schmeling fought sideways.
 The Black Uhlan, whose legs were none too good, broke up the colorcd clouter,s attack by keeping on the move, bending to his right. and slip ping punches.
 Louis saw Braddock win the title in his slovenly engagement with Max Baer, and has utter contempt for the Irishman as warrior.
 That is bad.
 He felt the same way about Schmeling.
 Although Louis is eight years younger than Braddock, nat a few trained observers suspect that Jer- sey Jim,s chances will increase as the l5-round battle progresses. This hardly IS complimentary to the Detroit lads durability and courage.
 Louis now weighs l98 1-2. He ex- poets to scale an even 200 against Braddock. He came in at l98 against Schmeling, at POI against Bob Pas tor last winter and weighed as much as 2O8 against Matte Brown in his last start in Kansas City when head cold made it greater effort for him to work.
 Just how god is Joe Louis2
 Well, Jim 3raddock is tackling Q devastating dealer, but the true worth of the Dark Destroyer re- mains as debat.ble aS was that of the charneleonic Jack ShGrEey. Raa4- .A-a.