Evening star., 1940-07-16
Best Ring Crowd Here
In 7 Years Sees Fur
0utboxed by Cocoa
s., 900 Cote Hes Turner
After Louis as Referee
To Lure Greuter House
By LEWIS r. ATCHIsON.

Joe Louis Is next on the list Of
puginstic attractions Promoter Joe
Turner Is lining up, but with the
heavyweight champion doing no
fighting, merely confning himself
to the comparatively safe business
Of refereeing.
Matchmaker Gabe Menendez re-
vealed the plan this morning after
purchasing q new cigar out of his
share Of the $1,000 gate attracted by
the Cocoa Kid-Phil Fur joust last
night. Turner has okayed any
thing Ell Gabriel cares to do In
the matter.
Joe come in here sev'ral year
ago take q bow and they draw
eight thousan' dollar. We gone to
have heem come in, take two bow,
and draw Is thousan' dollar. Eet's
good business, you think?"
Getting down to cases, Louis will
omciate in . proposed Homan VIII
nams- -Izzy Jannazo bout August 1
at the stadium. He will If Turner
and Menendez can persuade the
District Boxing Commission to let
down the bars on visiting arhiters
once more, which promises to be
no easy matter after Benny Leon
ards last visit.
Couldn't Make Cocoa Fight.
Turner, elated by last nights
turnout Of 6,180 cash customers
the largest gate in two years
has q feeling Louis would attract
passel of sugar and Menendez Is
downright certain the match would
show . profit. Louis has been Of
fered guarantee-an attractive
figure-and the chances are he will
accept. Now all they have to do Is
get the fighters.
Phil Furr was downcast after
blowing the duke to Cocoa Kid last
night. but In the eyes of his fol-
lowers he fought the good fight and
should have gotten no worse than
a draw.
He wouldn't fight" Phil said in
the dressing room after 1t was all
over. He wouldn't come in at all
Il had to chase him 10 rounds. All
he did was flick that left in my face
1T wasn't punch-just q flick of
the open glove, and those judges
must have thought he was beatin'
my brains out. I caught most of
'em with my glove and those that
did land didn't hurt.
Neither Scrapper Marked.
where 7 made my mistake" he
continued. taking another swig of
beer while pearls Of perspiration
trickled down his nude frame, was
in hitting him with that right in the
first round. I think it scared him
of. Remember, he came into me
early in the round and I let him
have thigh on the forehead. !
didn't see him any more after that
He stayed back and flicked the left
I asked him to come on and fight
and told him to stop flicking the
glove and all he said was I'm
sorry"
From this corner Cocoa had the
edge, but he wasn't keen for mixing.
The ninth was his best round. He
shook up Furr with q volley of body
punches and short uppercuts to the
head and threatened to put him on
the deck, but Furr withstood the at
tack in good style. Both were un-
marked. which gives you an idea.
Harry Hurst, Canadian light
weight managed by AL Foreman.
stole the show with his 1-miAute-
and-43-second knockout of Irish
Bob Riley. Riley. trying to trade
punches with the visitor. was
dumped with a straight right to the
head. He tried to rise. but fell for
ward on his face and was counted
out.
Ray Lands scored technical
Knockout over Pedro Cisco in las
of the second round Of a CORY battle
and Willie Tapp made an in
auspicious professional debut in
winning from George Blahouse OF
Baltimore.
Art Lind, Ken Overlin's protege
outpointed Mike Di Stephanis IN a
comic bit of swinging and Tony
Ferrara outpointed Frankie Wills.