The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-01
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BY JACK CUDDY


 New York, Oct. 1.-(UP)-They said goodbye to the Cinderella Man" last night. More than $50 friends from Broadway, New Jersey and just plain Hammers Lane joined in 8 fitting farewell to Jim Braddock, former heavyweight champion, and his cocky little man. ager, Joe Gould, who have joined the army together.
 Braddock-key man in the dawn of new fight era that saw the con- trol of big-time boxing shift from Madison Square Garden, as a cor poration, to Mike Jacobs-said, "1'm back on the docks again. I'm in the Longshoremen's battalion of the Army Transportation Corps"
 They're first neutenants now = Braddock and Gould-as they go back to the docks, to any danger ouS docks in any part of the world where the army sees fit to send. As they complete the cycle-from docks to docks-they're big shots, in rep utation at feast. But to their friends, the big IriShman and the little Jew ish pilot-the rings beloved "Abie's Irish Rose" combination-are still the same salty guys who started pugilism's greatest comeback from the New Jersey wharfs in 1884 and wound up year later with the worlds heavyweight championship.
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 Braddock, who has joined cham pion Joe Louis and former heavy weight kings, Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, in service, said at the big party: This is once when my manager has to go into actual train ing with me for the big fight. We report Saturday at the Brooklyn army base. Then we attend the of ficers' school at Fort Slocum for 8 few weeks. And, brother, they say that's 8 tough course"
 'Braddock could have become a physical instructor, but he didn't want that" Gould said. "Jina wanted action-and guess I do too. So we figured the Transportation Corps in this worldwide war would assure of of plenty of action, and at the same time make us more valuable to our country than any other department of service"
 Various speakers paid tribute to Braddock and Gould during the fes- tivities at Toots Shor's. but none did them justice. They were too close to their subjects. They couldn't see the forest for the trees. Some of them indicated that the return of Brad dock and his title triumph were but accidents-that big Jim and little Joe were but children of fortune:
 Maybe they were, but the fact remains that Braddock-down and out, with a wife and two hungry children on his hands-fought his way back, from the scrap heap to the games most coveted title, and then, in it's defense, floored challen- ger Joe Louis in the first round and gave him a great fight until Jersey Jim was knocked out in the eighth. Braddock accomplished these featS when he was an "old man." in the pugilistic sense.
 Braddock was 30 when he went in- to the ring that June night in Mad ison Square Garden bowl, suffering from torn fragments in three ribs, He outpointed slugging Maxie Baer in IS rounds for the crown, turning in ti,e greatest upset in heavyweight championship history-a greater up- set even than when Jim Corbett beat John L. Sullivan at New Or leans. Baer was Q 12-l favorite over Braddock, who wasn't given even the vestige of chance by anyone but little Joe Gould, who had hooked his watch to bring Braddock back from the Jersey docks. just . year before and toss him Into a prelim- mary bout with Corn Griffin, the night Maxie Baer wrested the crown from Giant Primo Camera.
 In that Corn Griffin preliminary, Braddock had to get up from the floor to win, and he broke his right hand in the process. But that mis- fortune didn't prevent him from going on to lick John Henry Lewis and Art Lasky to win the shot at Raer-because there was nobody else around to fight Daer.
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 Meanwhile Mas Schmeling knock cd out young Joe Louis and refliaod c e300,000 offer to meet Louis iil a return bout three months later, poe