The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-17
tReg. U. s. Pat. Off.)
 By HARRY FERGUSON (Unlted preaa SpOrta Edlt0r)


 New York, June i7. (UP)-I pick Joe Louis to knock out Billy Conn tomorrow night.
 It will happen, I think, some time before the bell rings for the eighth round. It can happen in the first and happen 50 fast that Conn won't have Q chance to throw 2 punch. Conn has speed, cunning and the best left In boxing, but Somewhere along the line Louis Is bound to nall him. Billy may side-sMp the first five punches and block the next four, but the tenth one is likely to catch him squarely on the button. When that happensh some oA the speed is going out of his legs and he is going to become an easier tar- get.
 Those who like Conns chances and there are plenty-argue that this will be another Corbett- Sullivan affair or another Dempsey-T -Tunney. What they are trying to ssy Is that c fast little man who can box stands
 No Compassion
 Taking the arguments up In the order of their appearance, lot us say right now that Louis iS no Sullivan. Sullivan was fat, old and ring rusty when Corbett stabbed him out of the title. Louis is comparatively young, fast and trained to the Enin- ute.
 Nor is Conn any Tunney. Even the boys who didn't like Gene in his hey-day admit that he was Q dan. gerous fighter. His left pab carried authority, he was 0 great counter puncher and he had knockout dyna. mite in his right.
 If you are looking for c closer parallel between this brawl ct the Polo Grounds tomorrow and another famous fight In history, take the Dempsey. Carpenter affair. Demps sey's legs still were good; 90 are Louis.' Dempsey could punch with either hand; 50 can Louis. Dempsey carried e pull in the weights and was much the stronger man; 50 is Louis.
 Carpentier, like Conn, pinned all his hopes on speed and cleverness. Dempsey caught up with him and blasted him to pieces.
 There has been 6 lot of talk about how Louis Is mad at Conn. Lots Of 1t comes out of the agile brains of press agents, but actually 1t doesn't iaake any difference how Louis feels toward Conn. The only thing irn- portant Is that oJe's trainer, willy old Jack Blackburn, knows that the farther the fight goes the better are Conn's chances. The Louis crowd definitely wants Q short fight and their idea of how to bring that about is to send Joe out blasting at the first bell,
 Louis may have slipped 6 bit, but not enough. He looked great in Washington after he crawled back through the ropes and went to work on Buddy Baer He rnaneuvered the big guy around the ring, hit him with iefts and rights and was punching hard and accurately. Baer took . lot of punches before cTurn- bling, and the question in my mind Is whether Conn can take punches. I don't say he can't, but l do say I ever saw him do it. Not the kind of punches that Louis throws. The hardest single punch I ever saw Conn catch was thrown by Lee So. void, and 1t broke Billy's nose.
 Good Fight
 Conn isn't afraid of anything that walks and Louis is going to have to give him c beating before the kid goes out. And while that Is happen ing it may be quite . brawl-cons siderabiy better than anything that's been seen around here for . long time.
 There are two old sayings in the prize fight game:
 1. String along with the champion.
 3. A good big man can always lick . good little man.
 People have got rich playing it that way.