Evening star., 1941-01-31
How Far Champ
Will Go 10 Win
Is Main Angle
Red Moy Feel Joe's
Anger Because Of
Dempsey's Slurs
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Red Bur-
man, father of two children and
real good heavyweight, faces Joe
Louis in Madison Square Garden
ring tonight in the big Negro,s 18th
defense of the world championship
AS usual, the odds against the
challenger are prohibitive, and most
of what betting takes place will
hinge on the number of rounds
Burman lasts. 1t will, of course,
be great surprise if the redhead
manages to weather the entire IS
rounds and loses by nothing worse
than a decision.
Despite an occasional poor show
ing, such as in his last bout with
Al Mccoy in Boston in December,
Louis still has the boys buffaloed.
They know that when Joe is right"
and for some vague reason feels like
tearing man apart he is deadly
as rat poison.
Few who saw it will, ever forget
what he did to Max Schmeling the
second time they met, when slight
ing remarks by the German had
kindled hatred in Joe. He liter
ally tried to kill Schmeling and came
fairly near doing it.
Dempsey Puts Red "in Bad"
He is supposed to harbor some
thing of the same unkind feeling for
Burman. and though lot of it prob
ably is just press agent talk, still
it isn't good to have Joe even a little
mad.
He is supposed to be sore at Red
because Jack Dempsey said that he
Uoui0 couldn't take punch around
the head. Dempsey owns a piece of
Burman, and has made other un-
complimentary remarks about Louis
in the last two years while he has
been trying to chivvy Red into
fight with the champion. Now it all
comes back on poor Red.
Louis has trained long and earn
estly FOR this one. His managers,
recalling that the champion didn't
move around very spryly in his bout
with Mccoy. have run him half to
death over the snowy hills and his
long, brown legs are back like they
were before he discovered the joys
Of easy living. Prospects are he
will be tough man tonight.
Burman Good Fighter.
Except for these indications that
Louis is serious about knocking
Burman bow-legged and intends to
do nothing to jeopardize his big
outdoor bout with Billy Conn next
June, there would be temptation
to write a few paragraphs about
Reds chances of winning tonight.
Red is no bum. He is a genuinely
good heavyweight, one of the worlds
four or five best. 26 years old and
strong and willing. The fact that
he won a decision over Tommy
Farr here two years ago speaks for
itself, even though some did think
it was peculiar decision. He
hasn't been stopped since 1896, when
he was a light-heavy, and he has
licked lot of promising men since
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not been managed by Dempsey he
probably would have been given a
shot at Louis long ago. The cham
pion's handlers never have felt like
doing Dempsey any favors.
Red Will Be Trying.
Burman thinks he can whip Louis
and he will be in there trying. If
he had caught the champion two
months ago, the night of the Nc
Coy fight, there might have been
sensation. But this is another
night and another Louis.
The crowd will have to get its
moneys worth out of watching a
great champion shuttle out and go
to work with his fists. That in
itself is perhaps the most thrilling
sight in sports today.