Jackson advocate., 1942-04-25
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By Lucius Melancholy Jones
Joe Louis Chances Against Oldtimers
Evaluated By Famous White Cincinnati
Writer


HOW WOULD Joe Louis fare against old word heavy
weight champions?
That is a question l have heard discussed wise end
otherwise for long time pay any att2nt on o
such discussions unless the speaker has reogn
ring expert At that seem to cling to my own pet no
tions just the same.
Nat Fleischer, Robert Edgren, Grant'and Rice ia k
Dempsey, Jack Johnson, and Oher srch cte ted fsc
thinkers have along, from time to time with vu
opinions how Joe Louis probably would look sg
the oldtmers These men whose opinions command
spect.
Now another qualified observer has added lis rame to
the list Charles OConnor veteran Cincinnati NEWS sports
writer who asserts that Joe Louis is to ng vha
Bill Tden is to tennis, what Bobby Jores is to what
Ty Cobb to baseball what Red Grange to football and
what Earl Sande is to horseback riding.
How would Joe Louis have compared with John L. Sui
ivan?
O'Connor who did not Sullivan writes:
81 don't know But from the word of men of ancient
stic knowledge Sullivan would have had diff cult tine
hitting big Joe with solid punch and the of opi
ion is that Louis would have blasted the Hshman o the
picture with one of his pet punches"
'For about eight rounds" opined OConnor "Jm Cor
bet of the masters of the art probably would Rave
given Louis boxing lesson but the present ring
he could not stay from Joe Is rounds He would
to win points, if at ALL but if Joe solved his style,
bet like all the rest would have to go when the wagon
came
Bob Fitzsimmons would fight Louis great dsad-
vantage wrote the Cincinnati newsparerman and un
dOubedy would hit Louis the latter has learned the
art of going away with punch which he would have do
great deal of the time he would be fensa whole
lot against Ruby Robert But in the long run, ice
would take of things"
OConnor says Tommy Burns wouldn't class in the me
ring with Louis and that Jess Willard would have been
spectacle for pity.
"Jm yeffries with mighty frame and srcng as an OK
sun would have had his troubles trying to hit Louis in
opinion of the noted white writer "Wha is more" h com
nues, Jeff easy to hit himself and Joe ke would
have subdued him somewhere inside the Is round route
Writing about Jack Johnson the only 9th r clio ed
heavyweight champion of the world OConnor had the fol-
lowing to comment to make:
Jack Johnson who forced Jeffe out retirement to
win by Knockout must be compared with the erea est
fighters of the present. 1t would have been netting
see Jack and Joe at Is rounds johnson was und ubte "
The greatest defensive boxer of the d would
have been question which landed a haym aker"
Jack Dempsey would not have hid the cha ce TO h +
LOUIS Dempsey missed too many punches Joe would W
hit him with left abs and straight rights to the head tying
up Dempsey in the nfghtng Both had great left hooks
but Jack slow in getting his over again firstca~s
fighters Louis would have knocked Iemp ey out eyt
ably, inside Is rounds. That rather inters ing
opinion ofexpressed about Louis and DEMPSEY as
OConnor them. -
Gene Tunney, like Corbett" wrote O'Ccnnor " was
masteru boxer Louis would have had to crowd Gene ali
the way and whip him with short hooks Tunnev had good
rght hand but did not have the punching power Louis
would nave knocked out Tunney tco which mt be so
acut TO conceive when you remember that Dempsey had
Gene on the floor"
tInued "Schmeing had only right hand Sharkev was or
dnary Carnera nothing Max Baer good pune her who
couldn't land Braddock just game fellow who was lucky
to carry crown" '