Evening star., 1939-01-06


Schmeling already has cooked and
marked for delivery.
Holds Chomp Cont Hit You
II You Move Around
1t is pretty obvious from the pic
ture that Joe is about to be clipped,
and clipped good. Whenever fight
argument comes up in Jack john
sons dressing-room, and fight argu-
ments come up all the time, the
brown wizard Of Galveston reaches
out for the photograph and shows
you why Joe Louis never will be a
Jack johnson.
johnson likes to hammer this
point home, and it's hard to blame
him. All through his reign as
heavyweight champion, he was
booed by crowds and kicked around
In print. Naturally, the old mas
ter's happy-go-lucky attitude toward
life had something to do with that.
He didn't get rich, and he never
tasted the sweet flavor of acclaim
Every day he reads of Louis beauti-
full private life and Louis income tax
rating, and Louis devastating
punch, and it's not surprising that
it gets under his saddle -colored
skin.
mo wonder Schmeling got killed
IN that second fight" says johnson.
"Schmeling had no business in there.
He wasn't fit to fight What he did
to Louis in the first fight, any good
fighter can still do the same thing.
The boy can be tagged with right
any minute.
And he can't hit you if you move
around. Everybody which moved
around, like Bob Pastor and Tommy
Farr, went the distance with Louis.
What was the name of that Eyetal-
ian? Yes, Perroni. Perroni give
him a real going over.
People claim I'm jealous, but that
picture tells different. That picture
shows what I mean about Louis. I
amt jealous, I just state facts. I
called the turn on that first Schme-
ling fight. I could see what was
coming to the boy, and I called it,"
We'll, you got credit for that,
JACK" says a visitor I'VE said in
the papers that you called the turn"
Louis, With Clumsy stonce,
Deemed Sap for Right
Il didn't see much credit going
around" says Lii Artha, curtly.
They all jump on Jack johnson.
When he calls it right, they don't
mention it much, but all his life
they talk about what bum he is
and what bad actor. What did I
ever do? Was I a boozer? Did I
get drunk in bars and blow off?
Nossir, handled myself with dig
nifty. But all my life they been
riding me-"
How about Louis fight with John
Henry Lewis?"
Louis will win that one" SAYS
johnson, cooling off and looking
sidelong at the picture on the card
table. Il say he'll win that one, all
right, because John Henry Lewis is
got weakness. He's smart, but he
can't hit straight with his left. He
hooks 1t. You can't beat Joe Louis
with no left hook. He'll beat you
to that punch. A good straight
left, from boy that moves around,
Will whip Louis, but John Henry
amt got it. He hooks his left.
You got to keep Louis off balance.
Let him get set, and he punches
fast and hard. Move around, stab
him with a good straight left,
keep him off balance and nail him
with right when he tries to lead
from that clumsy stance. That's the
whole secret, stance. He can't hit
you off the wrong leg. Nobody
can do that. And you got him on
the wrong leg when you stab him
and pull him out of his set posi-
ton.
II wish I was fighting today.
don't boast when I say that. You
young men, you don't know, but
II you ask around you'll find out
that nobody ever hit me with sucker
punches, and when I was going
good nobody ever hit me with no
kind of punches. I fought great
fighters. There was great white
fighters and great black fighters,
IN my day. But I hit them, and
and they didn't hit me-"
Jack johnson shakes his head
little and rifles the dead rummy
hand in front of him. He isn't
boasting. He believes what he says,
with passionate conviction. He
thinks about it all the time. And
the people surprising few of them,
because he did not fight for big
audiences in this country-the peo-
pie who saw him, for the most part,
agree with him. .
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