The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-11
BY JACK GuENTHER

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Fort Dix, N. J., March 11-(UP) In the course of their work sport writers see many strange things Some of the strangest are fight camps = places like Lakewood oI Madam Bey's or Pompton Lakes They are peopled by odd characters and they are alternately hilarious and somber or calm and noisy, de- pending on the personality of the boxer who is training.
 I have seen a number of these camps and thought had witnessed just about all they had to offer Today found that I was wrong Very wrong unmiStakeably wrong For today I saw the fight camp to end all fight camps - the training site within a training site where Private J. L. Barrow is preparing for his first heavyweight title de- fense.
 The name of this camp is Fort Dix and it is a pretty big place. There are thousands upon thousands of young men living there and most of them are being readied for a more important fight than you will find in any ring. In the center of Fort Dix is a more personal camp. That is the Louis Camp and, brother, 1t is military all the way.
 Army Comes First
 There are no odd characters here. There is no hiliarty. There is no horseplay. It is a fight camp in name only because at Fort Dix Louis is heavyweight champion in name only. At Fort Dix he is 8 soldier working in military surround ings under military regulations with military men supervising every move he makes when he isn't boxing.
 For instance 8 reporter needs a military pass to see him. No pass, no admittance. Louis is not on furlough. He is on detached serv- ice after being transferred from his basic training center, Camp Upton for two weeks. He was transferred because every cent he earns from his March 27 bout with Abe Simon will be handed right over to the Army. He gets $21 month.
 As champion Louis is valuable asset to the Army and he is being guarded accordingly. He is living in an old Red Cross building whict also houses his Sparring partners and trainer. His actual work 1: done in a new and magnificent field house a few blocks away. Aside from his boxing activities, he is strictly the soldier
 He retires at 10 p. m. and is up at 6 a. m. He does road work first at 10:30 a. m. He reports to Cor poral Robert Sherman, who drills him. Sherman has only one man in his squad and that is Louis. The corporal gives him the works = manual of arms, marching, gas mask instruction, military courtesy orders and the other essentials his mates are learning back at Camp Upton
 At 1:30 p. m. he goes to the Field House. I watched him yesterday, along with about 1000 of his bud dies who happened to be off duty. The soldiers sat in stands along the wall. They were not permitted to smoke, to offer comment or to ap- plaud before round ended. They were so quiet that the entire scene seemed unreal-like 8 movie minus the soundtrack.
 Off Form
 When Louis came out of the dress ing room there was an M. P. on each side of him. He boxed four rounds with four different spar mates and since he was 10 pounds overweight at 215 he was slow and his timing was poor. His hired hands tossed lefts at him and hit him oftener than he hit them. By next week things vii lbe different.
 When the workout ended Joe punched the bag and then answered questions. He said he felt fine, that he hoped to weight 205 for Simon and added: T have to win because I'm fighting for the Army" He also seemed a bit unified because he