Evening star., 1938-05-25
WILL USE SNEEN
AGAINST FLY KING
Fiuures Submarine Tactics
and Chatter Will Bring
Down Joe Louis.
By JOHN LARDNER.

NEW YORK, May 25.-It may not
surprise you to learn, from a highly
~tmpeachable source. that Henry Arm
strong's fight with Barney Ross tomor-
row for the welterweight champion
ship is just a small part of sweep
: ing program by which Henry plans
= to absorb the whole prize fight in
e dustry.
Challenges are in the mail to Lou
Ambers, lightweight champion; Fred
die Steele, middleweight champion;
John Henry Lewis, light-heavyweight
champion, and Joe Louis heavyweight
: champion. Henry will liquidate these
fellows one at time, unless the pres
sure and speed-up of modern business
make it necessary to take them all
at once.
Having cleared out the upper brack-
cts. Mr.. Armstrong will go back and
consolidate his holdings by acquiring
the flyweight and bantamweight titles.
He can make the weight for Sixto
Escobar by cutting off one leg above
the knee, and the loss of couple
of arms should qualify him to purge
Mr. Benny Lynch, the widely respected
f1yweight king.
Henry Would Give His All.
This will entail some slight sac
rifice, no doubt, but Henry is ready
to give his all for united front.
Think of the money I will save
those gentlemen in income tax" the
thoughtful young consolidator is said
to have said to close friend, "if I
take their titles over"
He also will save them the trouble
of eating three meals day. This is
the biggest thing since Calico in
vented the patent cigar clip.
Henry wants it known that he is
playing no favorites. Contract COM
mitments force him to wipe out Ross
first and Ambers next, but from there
on he will take them in order of
weight, up to and including Joe
Louis. Naturally, the boys will be
expected to meet him part of the way
in the matter of poundage. Ross.
for instance, has undertaken to make
142 pounds Steele probably will have
to come down to l55, Lewis to ITO
and Louis to 1875.
After nullifying Ross and Ambers,
Henry estimates that he will hold
three titles-the welterweight, light
weight and his own featherweight
championship. Bob Fitzsimmons held
three titles at one time, but Bob was
a Cornishman of limited vision. He
went no further. These are the days
Of expansion.
At 155 pounds to 1856, Armstrong;
advisors figure that Fred Steele will
fall an easy victim in the middle
weight title fight.
IT'S a matter of contrasting ring
styles" they explain. Henry can
fight and Steele can't"
Lewis Offers Difficulties.
John Henry Lewis may prove lit
tie tougher. BY holding Henry at a
distance of s feet with one hand.
while punching his nose with the
other, he may cause Mr. Armstrong
certain amount of inconvenience.
But no man can hold out his arm all
night. When he tires, Henry will step
in and finish the business.
The Armstrong board of strategy
has prepared a mastery plan of at
tack against Joe Louis, the final target
in the upward swing. Joe's anti-air-
craft defense is perfect, but he is
vulnerable to submarine warfare
Armstrong will strike from below
probably ascending by way of the left
knee and pausing to torpedo the CEN
trail sections.
"Once he gets up there within hear
ing distance says the board Of STRAIT
egy, Henry may be able to talk
Louis out of going on with it. We
are banking pretty strongly on that.
Joe Is a reasonable fellow, and he
probably will see the folly of it all.
II not we will be glad to help his
managers pick up the pieces of their
fighter and reassemble them"
Sneeze Might Do 1t.
Against Benny Lynch, the f1yweight
ruler, Armtrong counts on two i'm
portant scoring weapons. One is a