The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-30
Today's Sport
 Parade
By HENRY McLEMORE Limited Press Staff Correspondent

sUnitcd Press Staff Correspondent
 New York, Aug. 30-(UP)-One of the warmest friendships in all of sport Is that which exists between Fill Brown, the big Irisher who sits on the New York boxing commits sion, and James Joy Johnston, man. -ager and minister of propaganda for heavyweight fighter Bob Pastor. /
 There is a bond between them as solid as the ones between Tom Dewey and Butch Lepke, or the Democratic mule and the Republi- can elephant, or Marshal Smigly- Rydz and Adolf Hitler. Brown and Jhnston are forever exchanging lit- tie gifts, such as dirks in the back, epithets studded with rare and pre- cious profanity, and time bombs of such delicate precision that they must be opened under water.
 Even when they are separated, as they are now, with Brown here in New York and Johnston in Detroit arranging for Pastors fight with Joe Louis, their thoughts are of one an- other. Only today received tele- gram from Johnston i'll which he speaks of Brown in terms so warm they are positively hot
 At the risk of incurring Johnston $ displeasure-he marked the, tele- gram confidential and for morning paper release"-I will print 1t. Here it is with all of its endearments couched in the tender language of deep and abiding friendship:
 Lesson in Courtesy
 Boxing Commissioner Hettche of Michigan has bought and paid for $50,000 worth of tickets for the Louis-Pastor fight here. He told me he probably would buy that much more. Can you imagine Bill Brown doing that? Maybe he'd take that many in complimentaries. Brown could take a lesson from Hettche in courtesy. George Blake, not Bill Browns pet referees-Arthur Don- ovan, Frank Fullam or Billy Cava- nanugh will referee this contest. Why doesn't Brown send Donovan, Fullam and Cavanaugh out to pas tllre on his health farm, They have all worked faithfully for good, old honest Bill, and 1t wouldn't be a bad idea if Bill took to the pasture himself.
 "Signed: James Joy Johnston"
 There is lot of thoughtfulness in that message. When he says that Bill Brown never would buy $50,000 worth of tickets to the Louis-Pastor fight Johnston is paying tribute to Browns smartness. A man would be hard put to find a more bitter criti- cism of another's judgment than by saying he was the type who would spend 50,000 to see Louis and Pastor do anything. In making 1t clear that none of Browns friends among the referees will work tho fight, Johnston is doing Brown another favor. He knows it probably would hurt Brown 10 have any of his friends be in such intimate contact with the Louis and Pastor bicycling act for 20 rounds. or one full hour.
 Blake Good Referee
 JoIlnSLOnS SCdLemeut IIlaL CeOrBe Blake would referee the fight in De- troit comes under the heading of good news. Of course my judgment doesn't mean anything-as so many of my devoted readers have told me since my comments on the recent Ambers-Armstrong fight-but in my opinion Blake is far and away the best referee in the country. If there is any referee in the country cap- able of making real fight out of the Louis and Pastor business, Blake is the man. He may not be as showy as some of the other referees we have. but Blake works on the theory that a referee should neither be ssen nor hear1---that the fight belongs to the fighters. He Is perfectly willing 10 let them have It as long as they keep iigh6ing. When they stop he will to it that they start again or act out of the place and let tpe cleaning and scrubwomen get Co sork on the ring and seats.