Evening star., 1940-02-09
1-to.7
|Favorite Over
Big Chilean
Arturo's Crowdinq
Style Is Expected
To ProIong Fight
BY SID FEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Along about
10:30 tonight, unless all signs are
screwy, Joe Louis will be ready to
sit down to his first fried chicken in
six weeks, still heavyweight cham.
pion of the world.
That gives him half an hour, or
approximately seven rounds of his
scheduled 15-round title go with
Arturo Godoy, the Chilean chal-
lenger. which is slated to get under
way at 10 pm. in Madison Square
Garden before a crowd of more than
$4,000. And not even Arturo's rela-
tives down there in Iquique think
the Brown Bomber will need any
more time than that to dispose Of
this ninth aspirant to his heavy
weight throne.
OF course. Arturo of the Andes
could make flstic history by taking
the crown away from the dusky
one-man wrecking crew, but so
could the statue of Billie Penn dive
off the top of Philadelphia's city
hall into the Delaware River. That's
about as much chance as the boys
and girls are giving the rough,
tough Godoy and his South Ameri-
can way.
Louis 1-to-7 Choice.
The odds-layers still were holding
Louis a 1-to-7 favorite today, but
If you had any folding money to
put on 27-year-old Arturos nose,
you could get almost any price you
named.
Godoy's best chance appeared to
be in staying in a crouch and
crowding in clase as long as possible
Because, just as sure as it happened
to Tony Galento and Pauline Uzcu-
dun before him, as soon as Arturo
comes out of the shell to take q
peek at what's happening, there's
going to be Slight explosion-right
on the end Of his chin.
Remembering from Godoy's preH-
GUS United States invasion a couple
of years back that he is a better
than-average body puncher and
considerably more adept in the
crouching. bobbing, crowding style
than is Two-ton Toney, this cor
ner figures the Chilean fisherman
can stick around for a while. He's
going to get curious along about the
sixth round. He'll come to the sur
face and any time after the fifth
ends, so will Arturo's challenge, this
corner believes.
As usual, Louis isn't doing his
work for nothing,
The greatest box Office attraction
since Dempsey will lure some
$4,000 to 10000 into paying about
$4,000 to see him roll out his ar
tillery.
OF this, Louis is to receive 40
per cent, less taxes, or about
$4,000, thereby boosting his ring
/ earnings in the five years since he
started to punch for pay to more
than $1,700.000 Godoy, who was no
ball of fire on his previous ap-
pearances in United States rings
though losing only of 12-figures
to pick up about $17,500, along
with sore chin and, probably,
assorted aches and pains.
Deadpan Joe long since has
passed the all-time high for the
number Of successful defenses of q
heavyweight crown. His last-in
which he rocked Bob Pastor to sleep
in II rounds-was the eighth time
he had gone to the post as king
and come home winging. Only one
of these eight-rock- -chinned Tom
my Farr - managed to stay the
route.
More Fights Planned.
Neither the boss-belter nor his
managers even are thinking faint
ly of stopping with this one.
He'll take vacation of less than
two months before he meets his
second victim" of the year, john
ny Paychek of Des Moines, early
in April.
After that they're already look
ing ahead to the larger supply Of
"cocoanuts" that can be added to
the bank account from two outdoor
shots, in June and September,
with Galento. Pastor, Farr, Valentin
Campolo, another recent South
American importation, or Lee Sa-
void of Des Moines as possible
lambs" to be led to the chopping
block.