Evening star., 1941-02-17
$1,000, Record
Indoor Thronq,
Due in PhiI|y
: Brides Will Serenude
Gus Within a Rounds,
Writer'S Prediction
BY SID FEEDER,


about 10 o'clock tonight the Joe
Louis crosS-country express rolls
into Convention Hall for the third
stop in It's busy winter tour of
fistiana.
This time it's Gus Dorazio, a
squat South Philadelphia fiailer,
who will try to derail the express
that has more stops than the Arch
street trolley in this City of Brother
" Love. What's more, Gus doesn't
see how he can miss muSSing up
the Bomber all over the place and
taking the heavyweight champion
ship of the world as his reward in
their bout, scheduled for IS rounds
In this respect, the under-slung
190-pounder. who bears a distinct
facial resemblance to beetle -broWed
Max Schmeling, probably will be in
a minority of one among the record
local indoor crowd of $1,000 expected
to sit in on the proceedings in the
West Philadelphia Arena.
Has No Chance, Is Consensus.
Not even the paid-up members of
the D. c. & C. S. CDorazio Cheering
and ChOWder Society believe Gus
has a chance, although Louis was
far from the destroyer of old in
knocking off Pudgy Al Mccoy and
no1Iop+ Dad p,,yy,ooy, II, tho fret
two outings of his winter tour.
Dora1o brings to the tussle the
same half-crouching, bobbing. weav-
ing style which bothered the Bomber
against Burman. Arturo Godoy,
Tony Galento and Tommy Farr in
the past. The 23-year-old warrior
also packs more confidence than
most of the fellows who've tangled
with Joe in his 13 previous defenses
of the fight games most priced
bauble.
Those factors should enable Gus
to hang around for a while tonight
to give the cash customers some
entertainment. This corner believes
he'll hear the brides sing inside of
four rounds. The chief worry Gus
handlers have at the moment is that
their gladiator may be cut around
the eyes by punches, as was the case
the night he lost to Billy Conn.
This is Louis second appearance
in the Quaker City. Shortly after
Max Schmeling f1attened him in
their first bout, some five years ago,
he took on Al Ettore, another local
product, and put him to sleep
rapidly.
The champions fiStic family isn't
worried even little bit Joe shuf-
fled off a train last night with the
word he'd take care of Mr.. Dorazio
the fust time 1 catches him with a
good punch. Nor could Chap
pie" Jack Blackburn, his trainer,
and Co-managers Julian Black and
John Roxborough find any reason
to run for the aspirin bottle. They
already were making plans for the
champions 18th title defense against
enormous Abe Simon in Detroit
March 81.
SellOut in Prospect.
Provided everything goes accord
ing to the blueprint, Joe will re-
turn to New York a couple of hours
after the fight, go to Detroit some
time next week and begin training
there March l.
Regardless of the artistic achieve
ments in tonight'S clambake, Pro-
moter Herman Taylor announced it
will be pretty good pay day.
With the advance sale just under
the $4,000 mark, Taylor said he
wouldn't be at all surprised if il
turns up a Sellout, although tickets
still are available. If that happens
there will be a net gate of about
S50,000. of which Louis gets his
usual 40 per cent and Dorazio about
1919 per cent.
Three siX-rounders and two fours
are on the supporting card