The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-30
CHAMPION uses
BUT five BLOWS
Paychek's Efforts Termed
Poorest Of Any Challenger
Against Brown Bomber
BY SID FEEDER

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN.
NEW YORK. March 29.-R-Joe
Louis sang Johnny Paychek sound
to sleep with five punches tonight
without even mussing his hair.
Before a slim crowd, as heavy.
weight championship audiences go.
the Brown Bomber floored the Des
Moines challenger three times in
the first round Of their 15.round
bout, then knocked him sitter than
a frozen frankfurter in A seconds
of the second heat to dance u
Of the ring with his title as safe as
money in the bank.
There wasn't even a resemblance
to a fight in this, Louis tenth de.
tense of fistiana's richest prize. To
be brutally frank, the corn-country
fiddler was as woeful a title chal'
lenger as ever tried to grab off the
brass ring. He back-pedalled as fast
as he could from the opening bell.
paving frantically with his left
hand, and he threw just n punch
throughout the fight. That was a
looping right which just grazed the
champs jaw after Johnny was down
for the second time in the first
round.
For all the competition in the
brief waltz-or for all the proof it
Furnished as to whether Louis is
slipping" as many shouted after
his poor 15-round showing against
Arturo Godoy last month-this
might have been a May-pole dance.
1t just meant nothing.
Louis, in fine condition at 200 IL
pounds compared to Paychek's
1877 "a, didn't wen work up a
sweat.
I'm fact" he drawled In his dress.
ing room afterward, "ah dunno il
ah even have to take a shower.
Ahll get dressed, grab a quick bite
and make the Has train to Chi.
cago.
"Mah easiest fight? Well, ah'm
not sure. All had a couple Of one
round knockouts, y'know."
Those one-rounders-in which he
disposed Of Max schmeling, John
Henry Lewis and Jack Roper
couldn't have been any easier than
this one, however.
Louis came out of his corner at
the bell and Paychek came out of
his. That's the last time they were
even. Joe kept coming forward and
the 25.year-old Iowan just went
backward, almost at the same pace
as Greyhound used in trotting to
victory in the Hambletonian.
Joe continued shuffling and stab
bling with a straight left hand. He
Unanswered and Unanswered until
he had Paychek backed in a neu.
trail corner. Then he pitched. Pay
chek escaped momentarily to mid
ring, where a right hand shot caught
him on the jaw. Down he went for
~nine.count.
He got up and back-pedalled some
more. Before very long, a left.right
combination flattened his whiskers,
put him down again, thi. time In
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chief cheering and chowder society
could see it. Johnny took nine more.
Then he got up and tossed a futile,
desperate right that was just short.
A moment later, Louis fired from his
right canno again and as might be
expected, Johnny went down again in
Joe's corner. He got up and Louis
rushed in for the kill just as the bell
rang.
Benny Leonard, working in Pay.
chek's corner, shouted frantic in
structions to his gladiator during
the minute rest period. But he might
just as well have saved the wear and
tear on his tonsils.
Johnny came out and tried to
back-water again. Joe caught up
with his rival near a neutral corner,
tented his left and then threw a
vicious righthand shot that crunch.
ed against Paychek's chin like Bron-
ko Nagurski used to crash into op.
posing football lines.
Paychek was lifted clear off his
feet, sailed through the air for a
foot or so, and ~spreadeagled flat on
his back-in dreamland. Referee Ar
thur Donovan didn't even bother
counting, but just waved Paychek's
handlers to come in and get him.
The crowd of 1880 fans, who con
tributed to a gross gate Of $62,4S1-
smallest cash register total Louis
has attracted since he won the title
three years a~go-booed at the finish.
They had paid to see a fight.