The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-28
CHAMP IS 6 TO 1
 RING FAvORITE; TONY UNAFRAID
Fans Hope for ''FirpO- Dempsey Fight; Money
 on Five Rounds
BY HARRY FERGUSON Limited Press Sports EditOr)

New York, June 28-(UP)-This is the day when Tony Galento must put up or shut up.
 Sticks and stones will break Joe Louis bones but names will never hurt him, and time, in its slow, steady way, has brought the fat little bartender from Orange, N. J., up to the hour when he must quit calling the Brown Bomber 8 bum and start trying to prove it.
 He must try it tonight, come 10 o'clock, under the stars at Yankee Stadium where a bell will bong out the news that he and Louis are in- side a square of ropes-alone. Alone except for referee in gray whose only interest in the proceedings is that the brawling and bleeding shall stop somewhere this side of murder.
 The odds:
 Six to one that Louis wins.
 Even money that Ga1ento fails to come up for the fifth round.
 Two and half to one that Gal- ento doesn't come up for the tenth.
 There probably will be 40,000 per- sons in the stadium tonight and they will pay $350,00O on the chance that they will see six or nine minutes of Firpo-Dempsey stuff-one of those dream fights where each man can punch hard enought to clout the other guy over the ropes and both can take it well enough to get up and wade in for more.
 What chance has Galento got in that kind of fight? The same chance that the betting odds give him-one chance in six. Louis hits like trip hammer with either hand; Galento's right is sluggish and his left is slow, but when he lands with that left hook he rocks the foundations. Louis is fast, sure and rolls intuitively with punches; Galento waddles and soaks up punishment without the ability or the inclination to avoid it. Louis is young; Galento is 29 and that is almost middle age for boxers.
 Louis is polished craftsman in the ring with one of the great left jabs of all time; Galento scorns boxing and will take three on the chin for a chance to land one. Louis is unmarked; Galento has a crust of scar tissues around his forehead and lancing blow will send blood gush- ing into his eyes.
 Louis has had A professional fights and lost only one, the knock out he suffered at the hand of Max Schmeling; Galento has had 96 bouts and lost g of them. Louis is in superb condition; Galento's past is crammed with hours of beer drinking, over-eating and cigar smoking and those hours rise up to haunt a man along about the fifth round of a hard fight.
 Give Louis all the physical ad- vantages, but say this for the little barrel of a man they call Two-Ton he won't be scared. He will come out swinging and If he goes down he will go down swinging. That will be something novel. For too many of the men who have fought Louis have felt the chill of fear creep up their spine as they sit on stool before the fight and look at his dead-pan face. Nobody is going to have to shove Tough Tony off the stool when the bell clangs the sum- mons to battle. He will be calling Louis bum right up to the moment when the first left jab lands like lightning against his teeth and sends his own words rattling back down his throat.
 Both men go into the ring with a warning from the New York Boxing Commission that excessive fouling will result in disqualification. Ru- mors persisted that Galento would go out to make 1ongshoreman's Saturday night out of it and would gouge, butt, backhand and use his