Evening star., 1940-03-30
Boxers He Beat
Only Foes Left
For Champion
Joe Tosses But Five
WoIlops to Finish
Iowa Challenger
BY ORLO ROBINSON,
Press Sports Writer.


NEW YORK, March 30.-Mr. Ed
itor: You might as well keep in type
that headline, Joe Louis Wins" 1t
looks as if therell be plenty more
opportunities to use it.
The Brown Bomber still is cham
pion of the world with no indica-
ton he'll have the crown knocked
from his brow by the present crop of
heavyweights. He disposed of the
Johnny Paychek threat, if it might
be dignified by that name. "A sec
onds after the start of the second
round in Madison Square Garden
last night.
That pile driving right that lifted
the partly bald. 25-year-old Iowan
off his feet and sent him to the can
vas left Promoter Michael Strauss
Jacobs and II $50 fans asking them
selves: who's next?" There are
Arturo Godoy, the durable Chilean:
"Roly Poly" Tony Galento, Max
Baer and Bob Pastor. But all Of
them have felt the dynamite packed
in Louis fists
Godoy After Return Bout.
Godoy. who stayed Is rounds with
Louis during the winter, may get a
summer shot at the title, or it may
be the winner of the May engage
ment in Jersey City between Ga
lento and Baer. Godoy is due here
from a vaudeville tour Monday and
with his manager. AL WE'LL. he'll try
to persuade Jacobs to see things
his way.
Then you can rest assured Jimmy
Johnston will be on hand to do
some talking for his boy. Pastor.
The disappointed can get some con-
ISOLATION in that Uncle Mike will
stage another heavyweight extrava-
ganza in September, with Louis the
No. actor
Probably the less said about last
nights fight. the better. Louis has
had shorter fights. but even he re-
fused to admit his first round knock
outs of Max Sohmeling, John Henry
Lewis and Jack Roper were any
easier. The Bomber swung just five
real blows. Four of them he used in
flooring Paychek three times. each
for the count Of nine. in the first
round. The fifth finished the fight
Paychek Dazed From Start.
Paycheks offensive practically was
nil, unless the lefts he kept f1icking
around at random come under that
category The only blow he struck
was looping right which just
grazed the champions chin after
Johnny was down for the second
time. Louis couldn't recall that.
The Des Moines fiddler was pale
at the start. He was white as a
sheet after feeling the power of the
right that sent him down for the
first count of nine. He told Referee
Arthur Donovan he was okay after
going down the second and third
times, but later. in the dressing
rooms, he said he didn't know a
thing after Joe connected with his
first right-much less the instruc-
tions that Benny Leonard gave him
between rounds.
mo. wasn't afraid" said Johnny,
but I was little nervous. That
final blow! Let me tell you. that
was about the damnedest feeling I
ever had"
Louis Never Ruff1ed.
AS for Champion Joe, he was so
unruffled that he even considered
not taking a shower His chief
thought was to catch the As train
for the West. He did, with plenty of
time to spare
The gross gate of $62, ,48l was the
smallest return attracted by Louis
since he lifted the crown from James
Braddock three years ago. Out of
that, the Finnish Relief Fund re-
ceived 10 per cent and in addition,
will get ~ per cent Of Louis share
and ~ per cent of Paychek's purse.