The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-13
Today's Sport
Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent


New York, Oct. 10. (UP)-To look
at them you'd never guess it, but
Mike Jacobs and the British Empire
have something in common.
The sun never sets on their enter
! prises.
Mike hasn't been around quite as
long as the British Empire (again
you'd never guess it by looking at
them), but he is just about as far
flung. The fact that he has duk up
Arturo Godoy and signed him for
fight with Joe Louis is proof OF
that.
I doubt If any organization in the
world, other than Mike Jacobs,
could have located Godoy. He left
here some two years ago with $4,000
in his pockets and with only a
vague reference to Chile as a for
warding address.
To intimates (members of some
of Hell's Kitchens finest families,
by the way) ne confided that once
reaching Chile he planned to
plunge into the interior, select a
tree that cast enough shade to cover
his bulk, slip off his shoes, and live
until his stake was exhausted. AS a
man can't spend a great deal OF
money stretched out under a tree
with his shoes off, Godoy figured
his $4,000 would last him for life.
Surprised
But he didn't reckon with the
vast Jacobs boxing organization,
which, apparently, keeps a card in
dex on every owner of caulihower
ear in the world. 1t must have come
as a rude shock to him when that
messenger boy reached him (prob-
ably by mule pack with an offer to
fight Louis. I can visualize him,
there under the tree, debating the
wisdom of making the long trip
north for the purpose OF getting his
profile battered into an even worse
state of disrepair. imagine he did
not yield until he figured out that
the II IL per cent Of the gate
guaranteed him would run into
enough money to allow him to buy
his own tree, under which he could
sit until his beard twined with the
branches and afforded him even bet
ter shade for the 24-hour siestas
he loves so well.
Godoy won't last long with Louis,
,, but he is likely to draw full house
into Madison Square Garden for his
bout with the championf This be-
cause he will provide good copy for
the publicity machine that Jacobs
keeps running night and day. Godoy
can be sold to the public, no doubt
about that. He holds two clear cut
decisions over Tony Galento, the
man who lasted four rounds with
Louis and who knocked out Lou
Nova.
Tough Guy
The Chilean is the toughest fight
er to show around New oYrk in the
past 10 years. Galento is stickler
for the rules compared to the South
American, who considers ring ETH
quette something for sesSies. He
slaps, cuffs, backhands, knees, butts,
elbows, and would gladly add Bit
ing to his repertoire if it were sug-
gested to him. And you must say
this for Arturo-he never complains
about what the other fellow does
to him. He can take it just as un-
gracefully as he hand it out.
But he is easy to hit. Even If they
camouf1aged him with vari-colored
stripes of paint or with underbrush,
Louis couldn't help landing on him.
And what Louis can hit, Louis can
beat. Godoy is too slow, too big, too
awkward to elude the champion for
more than round or two. After
that-well, he'll get stretched out.
But as that is a position hel likes,
I don't suppose there is any need
to sympathize with him.