The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-17

in New York the night Of Sspf,
ready to take advantage Of il. 7
the heavyweight boxing champios
/ have been dreaming Of This
chance for years. ! have been
preparing myself for u. And Lou
Nova is NOT the kind of a man 10
muff an opportunity like this.
Few men get more than one
crack at a boxing CROWN ! don't
think I viii need more than one
chance.
/ realize that majority Of
boxing fans think Louis will de-
feat me. That is all right, per-
haps only natural. Joe has been
great champion and fine
sportsman. He still packs a ter
rifle wallop. When a man has
proved himself assuperb fighter
the fans and experts like to
string along with him until the
end-untfI some new battler
takes his measure.
But champions don't last for
ever. Every mans time has got
to comeand Joe's number, /
firmly believe, will be up Sep
TENDER 90. l have the greatest
respect for him as a fighter and
true admiration of him as a fair
and gallant sportsman butt
think possess everything ] need
to beat him.
If Lou Nova had been In the
ring against Louis last June in
stead of Billy Conn ! would be
the champion today. Conn is
game, a marvellous boxer and
fast, but, after all, we shouldn't
kid ourselves that he is anything
more than crack light heavy
weight. Yet Conn outpointed
Louis for IL rounds. Further
more, this comparatively light
hitter had Louis groggy in that
18th round. Conn had him in
trouble. Nova would have kay
oed him.
Throughout that fight ! sat
beside my manager, Ray Carlen.
nudged his ribs until they were
black and blue as I noted chanc-
es for shots that even the speedy
Conn was missing.
/ can't tell you how am go
ing to fight Louis-because !
don't know myself. A fighter
can never seriously plan fight
in advance and carry it through.
Unexpected things happen and
you have to alter your schedule
to meet them. However, I don't
expect to win the championship
backing away or circling to the
right. a
I'll be standing at arms length
from Joe and I'll be shooting
labs or hooks or straight rights
at every opening / see. Joe is
easy to hit with a right and ] be-
lieve / am going to hit him plen-
ty. 1t is quite possible that Joe,
who seldom cuts, is going to be
pretty badly cut up am not
only pulverizing hitter but al
SO a damaging one. For proof
YOU can ask Max Baer or Pat
Comiskey.
Max Schmeling revealed, in
their first fight, that Louis is a
sucker for right But Max was
a cautious fighter. He was con-
tent to keep hitting Joe with
scattered rights and wait until
! he almost crIimpled from ex-
/ haustion before finishing him off
/ MY temperament is different,
/ When I see have a man in trou-
| BILE / wade right into him and
give him all I've got in a hurry
If / should get Louis groggy in
| the first or sixth or tenth rounds
i'm show hinn-and yOu--that ]
am Just about as fast polisher-
off as Louis is rightly given cred
lit for being.
! / think / am faster than Joe.
| / think am a better ring gen
eral. / believe ! can think faster
and more clearly ! figure / can
size up a situation and act more
bquicklv TO take advantage of il
| than he can. am confident
can take a punch better than he
can. / don't believe that his wal.
/ LOB can be much more deadly
than mine. He is an orthodox
/ style Of fighter and ! am famil.
lar with his methods. believe
II know Just what he viii dc
under any given circumstance
/ and III be ready.
some Of the sports writer's have
been kidding me about new
punch I'm using-tfe one thai
stopped Max Baer-the cosmit
punch. Really, there's nothinl
to kid about. It's a real punch
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