Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1942-03-14
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Joe Louis, Training For Abe Simon,
Without Canny Jack Blackburn's Gems
Of Wisdom For First Time In Career
By melancholy" Jones

IF ABE SIMON stops Joe Louis in their return match
March 81 for the Army Emergency Fund you charge
the upset the absence from heword heavyweight cham
pons training camp for the first time in the Brown Bomb
ers of Jack Blackburn his foxy old razormarked
trainer.
Blackburn recently involved in legal troubles along
with the Louis comanagers John Roxborough and Julian
Black is iii in Chicago and while his condition is not
garded critical the veteran ring expert is yet too
to undergo change of to to Fort Dix, N
j., where the champion is Oiing daily.
Jesse Owens appointment of this Photographer to his
National Advisory Board Office of Civilian Defense Dvis
ion of Physical Fitness, rather big surprise be-
the writer had taken seriously compliments
heaped upon him few by the quadrupe Olympic
champion and holder of world track and field records
than any other human.
When the devastating Big Ten 100 and 220 yard DASH
broad jump, and 220 yard hurdles champion At
lanta several years side attraction of big profess
siona baseball promotion by W. B. Baker Ponce de Leon
park this column carried statistical analysis of
complete track field career starting with his Junior
high school days. Even that early period his athletic
dOngs Owens toured the 100 yard dash seconds which
equaed the world record and of still the outright
world nerschOastc record Owens equaed the world
ord several times in senior and collegiate competition
Besides holding joint claims to the world record in the
100 yard DASH Owens is the outright of the uni
versa peak figures in the 100 meter DASH 220 yard
hurdles running broad Jump and 200 meter dash
member of the 400 meter relay which set the pres
world record of 1877 in the 1886 Oympiad at Berlin
Still further Owens holds every national nterscholastic
record in the sprnts the 220 yard low hurdles the
broad jump, well the high jump event most peo
pie don't Know he exceled in
Owens, the column recalls, using the Olympic herOs
words declared the writer's treatment of his track
and field 1.-The best written authoritative and
most treasured clippings in the scrapboOks Mrs Owens
daughferS).
THEY'RE GROOMING Harry Bobo, the Philadelphia
title aspan of sepa hue for Bob Pastors next major
doubt that Bobo is ready for such the former
New York University football star who lasted Fl rounds in
two battles against Joe Louis.
Pastor in you haven't kept tab, has whipped such
ThOmn Rock
Beckwith and the touted Lem Franklin. Thompson was
rated No. the coast and going good Bicycle
got Off the floor TO win ceacu decision
him. Beckwh unbeaen in his whole career until Pastor
stopped him i'm Chicago Franklin kayo record that
was more impressive than the world heavyweight
p0ns against three recent Louis opponents But Pastor
nailed him for a kayO.
So there is the strong possibility then they'll
be overwhelming young Bobo if they pit the youthful
Philadelphia against the veteran New York heavyweight
Pastor and Billy Conn probably the most scientific of
presentday heavyweights outside Joe Louis whom rate
both BOXERS the stic world to the con-
trary saw Louis outlook Pastor in Detroit September
1889 after making the Motor City jaun along with Grand
master John Wesley Dobbs, Walter H. Smith, N A. Hoop
err John Parks Preston Thomas James Harper Zee Harris
field returning from the 1889 National Open Golf Tour
nament in Los Angeles and host of other Atanans who
dotted ST. Antoine Street in the heart Paradise Valley for
that great Homecoming bout colossal Briggs Stadium
Promoter All White of Washington, d. c., still hasn't
paid white Brooklyn College its $3.50 guarantee for that
recent interracia dream game against the NJ c. State
Eagles in the Nations Capitol, according an au
thOry than Dan Buey deepbrowed sports editor of the
New York AMSTERDAM NEWS Burley says the promotion
DID PAY the coored team-which makes it bad case of
racial discrimination of nature which, ultimately
may prejudice the few remaining liberal white colleges like
Long Island IT, Rio Grande and Mexico City against future
engagements against sepa clubs That course would be
setback ii might take quarer-century to rectify
When Jack Johnson "bew" the world heavyweight
boxing to Jess Willard on "sell-out proposition
II took exactly that long, century Louis to
bob along unknowngy to become the Moses of his race
and wipe the dark blot off the escutcheon 100000
minority people by flatenng Jimmy Braddock in eight
heated cantOS at Chicago June % 1927