St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-03-01

space last week, VILLA
we didn't expect any more Of them
Now that the war is over, it
may take another year or two be-
fore the real talent shows up, and
then it will be a different type Of
a story to write about
We ran into little Henry
Armstrong, the three time
champion, and about the great
est fighter to ever handle a set
of gloves Henry Ii all
through fighting, but still has,
as they say in the Rght game,
"the smell Of boxing in his
blood" He wants to come
to Minneapolis or st. Paul and
show of a couple of feather
weights that he has, and our
good deed for the day was Civ
ing him the addresses Of the
Twin City promoters So
600 don't be surprised If
Armstrong and his stable move
into these parts soon >. Arm
strORg's main ambition is man
aging a champion.
To make things easy for me this
week, I'm culling from Jimmy
Cannon's New York Post column
some interesting comment on JOE
LOUIS; read it. l like it, too:
"The fight racket is thronged
with liars and swindlers who are
foes of the truth. They believe all
things are for sale, including a
mans self-respect and his opinion.
The fear of the truth is big and
ugly in them, and they will bride
the honesty out of any one they
can reach with a dollar. In the
fight racket, the truth is only told
in secrecy because it is a belief of
the trade that only lies are profit
able, and facts are the enemies of
big gates.
81 have heard Joe Louis con-
demned by fight managers because
he does not know how to lie. They
believe that he should be educated
in deception and falsehood, or let
a manager do his talking for him.
They confuse his truth with wit,
and locate comedy in remarks that
have the great dignity of inno-
cence. They refuse to think truth
can be simple and frivolous, but
speak Of it as a malicious and
pompous weakness in man and the
causes of most of the worlds
calamity and poverty"
THE CHATTER BOXER:
Joe Louis and Mike Jacobs will
open a restaurant in New York
soon He hopes to take down
enough every week to stand off
the nips of his broken down friends
Barney Ross is now making
New York his home Tony
Stecher will have another boxing
show on the 21st Eddie Will.
liams will do the same on March
Is Jimmy Braddock is in the
auto business in New Jersey
Add things that pain me: The Joe
Louis-is-broke rumor - yes, SC
would a lot of other people like
to be as broke as Joe has been the
past 10 years And will earn
more than a million this year
II. Armstrong is now headquarter,
ing in Kansas City, but still makes
Los Angeles his home Did you
attend the fights last night at the
Auditorium Well, this column
goes to press only a few hours be-
fore fight time, but III wager you
did plenty of laffing Comedy
Of errors, Ell? e.. In the fight game
they cheer you when you slug il
out all the time, but when the same
slugger is punchy because he
pleased all the fans, the same peopl,
who cheered him will pass him b,
BUT DON'T GET Me WRONG
I LOVE THE BOXING GAME
Rabble ROuser Gerald X.
Smith, who is one Of the rea-
sons we have to have Brother
hood Week. is planning a ban
quet on the night of March
4, the evening of the day
on which he has his trial for
certain untowaTd events at one
Of his meetings It's to
be held at a loop" hotel, and
is being sponsored, according
to Smith in the newspapers,
by "a group of veterans" at
So a plate =. Some people say
that this man shouldn't be