The Phoenix index., 1942-03-14
S PO r T
SLAM IS
By melancholy" Jones
Joe Louis, Training For Abe Simon,
Without Canny Jack Blackburn'S Gems
Of Wisdom For First Time In Career

IF ABE SIMON stops Joe Louis in their return match
March for the Army Emergency Fund may charge
the the absence from the world heavyweight cham
pons training camp for the first time in the Brown Bomb
career Jack Blackburn his foxy old razormarked
trainer
Blackburn recently involved in legal troubles along
with the Louis comanagers John Roxborough and Julian
Black III in Chicago and, while his condition is not
garded critical the veteran ring expert is yet too
to undergo change of to over to Fort Dix ~
j., where the champion is oiling up daily
Jesse Owens appointment of this paragrapher to his
National Advisory Board Office of Civilian Defense Dvs
ion of Physical Fitness rather big surprise be-
the writer had taken seriously compliments
heaped upon him few ago by the quadrupe Olympic
champion and holder world track and fleld record
than any other human.
When the devastating Big Ten 100 and 22o yard dash,
broad jump, 22O yard hurdles champion to At
anta years ago side attraction of big prOfes
sona baseball promotion by W. B. Baker at Ponce de Leon
park this column carried statistical analysis of Owens
complete track and field career starting with his junior
high school days Even at that early period of his athletic
dOngs Owens toured the 100 yard dash 94 seconds which
equaed the world record and of still the outright
world nterschOasc record Owens equaled the world
ord several times in senior and collegiate competition
Besides holding joint claims to the world record in the
100 yard dash Owens the outright of the uni
versa peak figures in the 100 meter DASH 220 yard low
hurdles running broad Jump and 200 meter das and
a member of the 400 meter relay which the pres
ent world record of 1877 in the 1886 Oympiad at Berlin
Still further Owens holds every national nterscholastc
record in the sprnts, the 220 yard low hurdles and the
broad jump, well the high jump, most peo-
pie don't Know he exceled in
Owens, the column recalls using the Olympic hero's
Words declared the writer's treatment of his track
and field the best-wren, most authoritative and
most treasured clippings in the scrapbOOks Mrs Owens and
the girls keep for me The Owens have three lovely little
daughters).
THEY'RE GROOMING Harry Bobo the Philadelphia
title asprant of sea hue for Bob Pastors next major test
doubt that Bobo is ready for such the former
New York University football star who lasted in
two battles against Joe Louis.
Pastor, in you haven't kept tab whipped such
cOOred heavyweight sensations Turkey Thompson Book
er Beckwth and the tOuted Lem Franklin Thompson
rated No. the coast and going good but Bicycle Bob
got off the floor to win cean-cu ten round decision
him. Beckwith was unbeaen i'm his whole until Pastor
stopped him in Chicago Franklin had kayo record that
was more impressive than the world heavyweight cham
plons against three recent Louis opponents But Pastor
nailed him for a kayO
So you see there is the strong possibility then they'll
be overmatching young Bobo if they pit the youthful
Phiadephan against the veteran New York heavyweight
Pastor and Billy Conn probably the most scientific of
presenday heavyweights outside Joe Louis whom rate
over both BOXERS the of the stic world to the
rary saw Louis outlook Pastor in Detroit in September
1889 after making the Motor City aun along with Grand
master John Wesley Dobbs, Walter H. Smith N A. Hoop
err John Parks Preston Thomas Harper Zeke Harris
ted returning from the 1889 National Open Golf Tour
nament IN Los Angeles and host of other Atantans who
dotted St Antoine Street in the heart of Paradise Valley
that great Homecoming bout at colossal Briggs Stadium
Promoter Al White of Washington, d. c., still hasn't
paid white Brooklyn College it's $3.50 guarantee for that
recent nterracal dream game against the n c. State
Eagles in the Nations Capitol according to no less an a
thOry than Dan Burey deepbrowed sports editor of the
New New YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS Burey says the promotion
DID PAY the colOred team-whch makes it bad case of
racial discrimination of nature which, ultimately
may preJudlce the few remaining liberal white colleges like
Island O Rlo Grande and Mexico City against future
engagements against sepa clubs That would be
setback it might take quartercenur to recfy
When Jack johnson "blew' the world heavyweight
boxing crown to Jess Willard "se[out' proposition
TOOK exactly that long qartercentury Joe Louis to
bob along unknowingE to become the Moses of his race
and wipe the Clark blot off the escutcheon of B 900 600
minority people by flattening Jimmy Braddock in eiebt
luna