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across the ring ana then nall iluR with a clout in the mushroom If all goes we'll for Joe the Jol- ter, the heavyweight champion soon will start a tour of our fighting fronts to give boxing exhibitions for the edif1cation and enjoyment of one and all concerned.
 Present plans call for Sergeant Joe and other members of his er- tourage to leave for posts abroad shortly after completing their tour of Army installations within the LISA. The domestic tour, which be- gan last August, has covered the country from coast to coast, play ing to packed houses at each stop en route. The War Department estimates that more than 630,0Oo soldiers have seen Joe do his stuff.
 The WD hasn't announced where Joe's overseas oddyssey will take him but it is a pretty safe bet that, wherever he shows up, he will be boxing for lot of CTS who never saw him before, because although thousands of Americans saw Louis great fights in the ring, millions of others never clapped eyes on the fellow. .:=
 Joe Louis-like good wine seems to have grown better with age. Maybe he's not the fighter to- day that he was when he stiffened Max Schmeling, but he's surely much bigger man. Right now-as matter of fact-he's the biggest figure in sports.
 Louis is a good sport and a gen tleman. He never talked down an opponent. He didn't gripe the one night in his life he was licked. He never got into street fights ane he never slugged a waiter in 8 night club. That's why everyone likes him so much.
 Someone has suggested that big packing crate full of movies should be sent along with Joe on his overseas tour. Then Joe could box a few rounds and after that he could run off a few films of his various bouts, supplying the corn- ment himself.
 "That fellow could punch," Joe would say. and on the screen you'd see Two-Ton Galento rubbering around on the floor.
 "He had good hook," Joe would say, and on the screen you'd see big Abe Simon collapse and fall as though shot.
 "And then hit him." Louis would say, and on the screen you'd see Kingfish Levinsky sitting in his corner, not wanting to fight any more.
 /. Seeing some of these movies again would be almost as good as watching Joe box. How about that Braddock fight, for instance, when game Jim dumped Joe in the first round, then took an unmerciful drubbing as Joe climbed up from the floor? How about the two Schmeling fights: the tragic knock out of Louis in the first bout, the savage revenge that was Joe's in t.e second? And how about the Billy Conn fight, when Louis felt the title oozing from his fingers for 12 rounds and then saved everything with one sledge hammer punch in the 18th?
 Louis rose to the top as good sport in that Billy Conn fight. In the tenth round, Conn slipped, dropped his guard and stood help less for second before the cham pion. But Louis wouldn't hit him He stepped back and let Billy re- cover, although the kid was ahead of him on points at the time.
 A tour of the fronts is the kind of thing Joe has wanted to do ever since he went into the Army. Like Barney Ross, he wanted to fight fight Germans or Japs, or fight with his fists. As boxing instruc- tor he may have been kind of un- happy, although he never said much ahOut if.