The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-12-17
CHAMP SCORES KNOCKOUT WHEN TRAINER ACTS
Veteran Goes 5 Rounds ]; Second Feared Fur.
 ther Injury
BY JACK CUDDY

Boston, Dec. IT. = (UP) - Billy Conn's stock as a heavyweight challenger was up 100 points today by virtue of Champion Joe Louis somewhat futile showing last night against that animated punching bag of challenger, Al Mccoy.
 Come Friday, Conn will give up his light heavyweight title and sign to fight Louis in June, if Louis still wears the crown then. This abdi- cation and signing will be done in 7 New York City and at the head quarters of the State Boxing Com mission-just to make it official.
 Louis registered a technical knockout over Mccoy in the sixth round fo a scheduled 15-round bout last night before 1884 cash cus- toners who contributed to gate of about 1y67800.
 Louis achieved his triumph" when McCoy's trainer, Ray Arcel, forbade Mccoy to answer the bell for the sixth round because his left eye was closed completely and Arcel thought more punishment to the eye might blind him permanently. Mccoy had lasted five full rounds with the champion and wanted to continue.
 Little Mccoy, who scaled 211a pounds less than Champion Louis, left the ring in far better condi- tion than on the night of October 18, when he received the worst beating of his career at the hands of Coma beating that lasted 10 rounds merely because Conn lacked the punch to put him away in the last four rounds when he had him reeling about the ring, helpless.
 Lost No Time.
 Louis started after Mccoy last night in more murderous fashion than at any time since he estab- lished an all-time speed record for heavyweight title knockouts by slowing away Max Schmeling in two minutes and four seconds of the first round.
 Louis wanted to better that record last night, but two factors prevent ed 1t: CD Jolting Joe's own crude ness after a lay-off of six months, and (2) McCoy's zig-Zagging man. euvers which made him bit too elusive.
 Big Talk.
 Handsome Billy Conn, who was at the ringside, said, "I'd like to have been in there with Louis. He was so anxious that he lost his head. If I had been in there, you would have had new heavyweight cham pion."
 Louis was so desirous of belting out Mccoy in a hurry, that the first right-hand he threw would have knocked McCoy's head into the mezzanine-if it had landed. But it missed Mccoy by two feet, and most of Louis later punches missed too.
 Mccoy might have lasted 10, or even IS rounds had he not made the mistake of blowing his nose efter being hit in the left eye. Blowing the nose puffs out an in- jured eye.
 Mccoy, patently frightened at be- ing in the ring with Louis, had given a much better performance than expected after being driven down to one knee in the first round by an overland right smash to the kidney. That was the lone knock down, and the challenger barely took the count of one, although he had been staggered few seconds before by one of Louis Sunday" right hooks to the chin.
 Joe Rusty.
 Louis won the four remaining rounds, of course, but he added lit- tie to his prestige. He missed more power punches than he landed and when he had the little, brown haired challenger in cornerS-and apparently ready for the kill-he let Mccoy jab his way out of dan- ger.
 With Conn's title vacated, Promo ter Mike Jacobs will ask the New York Boxing Commission to recog- nize as ITS pound king the winner of a IS round match at Madison Square Garden on February 28 be- tween Jimmy Webb of St. Louis and Tommy Tucker of New York.
 Because Promoter Jacobs has given Conn this chance at a big outdoor fight with Louis in June. Conn has agreed not to fight any, one before then-in any division. This agreement will benefit Conn for two reasons CD he fights better when he fights seldom, because he burns up so much energy in each bout, and (2) he may be able to put on sufficient poundage on his light heavyweight bones to resemble a heavyweight-on the scales es-when Ina fo ocIr1es T.na1ig