The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-13
zALE, MIDDLE
CHAMP, FACES
L|GHT-HEAVY
Odd Match May Draw 49,
600 to Garden; Conn
Is Confident
BY JACK CUDDY

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Feb. 13-CUP)-Billv
tthe KIDD Conn, defying a Friday
the 18th jinx, CANDLES his prestige
as the worlds second best heavy
weight prizefighter and a possible
Sl'Oo0,OO0 June title about with Joe
LOUIS tonight when he faces a
mlddleWeight at Madison Square
Garden just to pick up the money
ne needs to pay his income tax.
Ihe grlnning Irish boy from the
SIDE streets of Pittsburgh will 90
IL rounds or less against one of the
most Furnishing punchers the 100
pound division has produced in
years-Tony Yale, the rugged former
steel mill worker from Gary, Ind,
me odds are 81 that Pittsburgh
Billy VIII win, but many wise CIV
Is betting the other way.
It's a matter OF style and super-
stltlon the boys along hammers
Lane were saying today. For one
thlng Yale is a crowder and he car
RES the battle all the way. For an
other Conn has been married since
ne made his last serious ring an
pearance. A nd-this one is the
clncher-nobdy yet knows what toll
LOUIS TOOK of Conn's physical sta
NINA last summer.
Joe Wrecks 'em
Ihere is q saying that once Louis
unleashes his poWer-tbe man he
lights Is never the same again. Re-
member John Henry Lewis and Jack
Sharkey and Pauline Uzcudun and
Max Baer? Remember Johnny Paw.
check and Tony Galento? Some O,
Them fought again, to be sure, but
never again did they fight as well
The smart money boys say maybe
Conn got his, too
Although Billy figures to out.
weigh his opponent by IS pounds
he ii come in somewhere around ITS
While the middieweight champ won'i
do much better than 163-Promo.
ter Mike JACOBS has predicted tina
a crowd of 5000 or more would
roll up gate of $55 900 to see JUS
what a good little man can dc
against a good big one.
Iale is good little man, too. He
IS a savage body puncher who fig
ures TO be just as fast and maybe {.
shade faster than Conn and he has
knocked out rivals with punch. He
can be hurt, but he has been
knocked out only once in his career
and Conn is not known for devasta-
ting hitting. He is sharp puncher,
but not deadly one.
Problem
Conn's work is all cut out. He
must win decisively in the battle
which was arranged to provide him
with little ready money before he
enlistS in Uncle Sans navy. If he
should fail, he would knock down
the house Of cards which another
uncle-Uncle Mike-is building to
house the return match with the
heavyweight champion.
Billy has beer unimpressive in
his last two outings. A few weeks
ago he was given trouble by one
]. D. Turner, who is about as. prom
inent as a 1884 Baby Wampus queen
IS today on Hollywood boulevard.
He says he will whip Yale easily
with his left hand and he has
cockily predicted that he will knock
the Gary boy out--probably be-
fore the tenth.
Yale, on the other hand, has con-
fided that he has spotted weaknesses
in Conn which other fighters haven't
noticed and that he is going to beat
him about the body until he is sof-
tened enough for a few taps on
the chin. Since Yale made this
match himself-he personally asked
for crack at COMMIT may be
that like Max Schmeling, he has
"zeen zomething".
And Schmeling, you remember,
saw enough weaknesses about Louis
to knock MIN out after nobody In
boxing had given him chance.