Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1940-09-01
Under My Hat
BY SKIPPER"

NEW YORK, Aug. 29-Things
are looking pretty bad for one Joe
Louis. Bad-yes-bad! Not that
he is III any trouble, or that he
has suffered financial losses, or
that there is any rift in his tram
Gull dOmesticity-but things are
looking bad.
Louis, as you know, happens to
be the worlds heavyweight cham
Dion, and as such, he has all along
been DESTROYS Of proving to the
world that he doesn't wear that
rOnicker for nothing. He is q
champion who proves his right to
be called such by bowling over
ever contender who thinks he has
a chance to lift his diadem.
The Brown Bomber, as many
Ike to call him, has gone along at
a terrific clip since he won the
belt from Jim BraddOck back in
1897. He has gone at such a clip
that none have been able to stand
UP against him, although numer-
Gus unfOrtunates have tried. Be
cause of this he now finds himself
forced into idleness-a thing that
is very distasteiul to him.
May be Forced to Retire
From time to time you have no
doubt heard talk about Louis re-
firing from the fight game. He
has been advised by this and sun
dry persons to hang up his mitts
and call it a day 50 far as the
Prize fight game is concerned. But
Louis, young man that he Is, and
full Of energy, has always turned
down the idea by calling for more
fights.
So now that he has fought 'em
an and beaten them to a FRAGILE,
it looks like the champion is go
ing to be forced into retirement
because Of 4 lack Of opponents.
He was supposed to defend his
title at least once more this year
The battle was supposed to take
place sometime in September. But
although September is right here,
there is not as yet an opponent
in the field to try conclusions
with the Dark Destroyer.
It may seem odd-and it is
that a man can be 50 good that
he is forced into inactivity be
cause he is TOO good. That is
Just about what has happened in
the case Of Joe Louis. For al
though Mike Jacobs has secured
the whole country, and even dip
ped down into foreign countries
in an effort to unearth a suitable
challenger, as yet there is none
who he thinks might be able to
draw a crowd with the champion.
Talk About Baer
With Tony Galento gone back
to guzzling his beer, after having
been put out of the way by Max
Baer, there was some talk about
putting the LiVermore butcher in
the ring with Louis But it seems
that the idea isn't clicking very
much. In fact, Jacobs is said to
have discarded all thought Of
a Louis-Baer fight, because
he doesn't think Max is d fit op-
pOnent. Jacobs seems to be one
Of the many who hasn't forgotten
Baer's first showing against Louis.
And because he knows that the
fight public has gone sour on
set-up matches, he is reluctant to
risk his reputation as a promoter
by permitting Baer to stage an
other humiiating surrender to
Louis.
Turning from Baer, Jacobs, like
a drowning man grasping for a
straw, cast his eyes upon Billy
Conn as probable opponent for
Louis. But it was not long before
the Conn bubble burst. Conn, as
a wise young man, doesn't care
to have any dealings with Mr.. Joe
Louis. So he has been press
ACCENTED as not being quite ready
for such a match. He needs more
more weight, more
power. Whether lie viii ever at