The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-06-22

~ hAh AAtE NhiEE oNtl tNdQlA
when he's licked.
He was blinded by his own
blood, both eyes were swollen
almost shut and his ribs were raw
from a cruel humping, but when
they stopped the fight in the
eighth round last night, the
Chilean charger raced across the /
blood-soaked canvas to try to /
throw one more punch at Joe
Louis.
That punch never landed,
for police swarmed into the
ring and, anyway, 1t was too
late because the men whose
typewriters were flecked with
Godoy's gore already were
tapping out these words
Joe Louis retained his world
heavyweight championship to-
night by
II was strange mixture of
wheat and chaff that the customers
bought when they paid $3.50
ringside. Five rounds of the fight
were dull wrestling match with
Godoy bulling Louis into the ropes,
going into endless clinches and
hardly ever throwing a punch that
Travelled more than a foot.
BEGAN TO BE FIGHT
But in the sixth round 1t began
to be a fight. Arturo came out
of his crouch and that was what
Louis had been waiting for.
Punches began to fly. Louis had
opened cut over Godoy's left eye
in the first round and by the sixth
enough blood had flowed out of
it to make crimson splotches over
both fighters.
In the seventh round, they
came off the ropes, broken out
OF q clinch, and Louis took one
step backward. He hooked a
hard left to Godoy's head and
the Chilean swayed. Then
Louis cooked his right and II
flashed through 20 the chin al
most before the Crunch" Of
the left hook had died In the
bedlam NJ the ripgslde. Godoy
went down. sort Of on his
hands and knees. and the
timekeeper's hammer thumped
on the bloody canvas "One,
two, three, four, five :"
Godoy got up, but the clang
of the bell ended the round. Old
Jack Blackburn. the champions
trainer, his razor-scarred face
wearing a smile for the first time
in the evening. wiped Godoys
blood off of Louis shoulders be-
tween rounds and whispered
earnest, urgent advice into his
right ear.
EIGHTH AND END
Bong! They went out for the
eighth. A right and left bounced
off Godoys head. but the Chilean
charger came on. He bulled Louis
into a neutral corner and threw a
wild punch at him. Louis as
If measuring a yard Of Bingham
in general store, stepped off the
ropes and flashed a right to the
head. Godoy went down in a crazy
spin. shook his head twice and
came back into consciousness at
the count OF eight.
He got up on wobbly legs and
charged again into battle.
BY this time Godoy probably
didn't know what he WAS do
Ing. but his oaken heart COM
manded him to fight, so he
threw a punch. Louis side
stepped IL. took his measure
ment again and thumped q
left hook to the head. followed
by q pile driver right.
This time Godoy hit the canvas
hard but by some miracle OF bone, 4
muscle and brain he got up and
was wading in when Referee
Cavansugh stopped the fight
That happened at one minute and
"a seconds Of the eighth round,
but time and space meant nothing
TO Godoy.
He rushed across the ring,
showed Louis seconds aside and
got him back to his own corner.
A few moments later Godoy was
himself and. his wrecked face
swathed in big towel. he went
across and shook hands with Louis.
Let old Jack Blackburn tep the
story in seven words spoken in the
dressing room: THAT Godoy gave
Chsppie his toughest fight" !