The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-20
Joe Louis Collects $8O3. II Per Second
ForFirstR undKnoc out OfMaurielzo
Mike Jacobs Says Joe Will
Don Gloves Again In
January Or February
BY SID FEEDER

NEW YOhk, Sept. ~. -(P- Joe
Louis was paid off Thursday at the
rate of $803.11 per second for his
in-a-hurry knockout of Tami Maui
riello last night, amid growing &C.
claim that he's just about THE
greatest of them all and as a far
flung manhunt got under way to
pick out a future victim for the
bomber.
Promoter Mike Jacobs figured
out that Joe's 40 per cent of the
net gate of $3.50, O29, left from the
$685., 063 gross after taxes and other
odds and ends were taken out, was
$103, 611.89 for the 2 minutes, 9
seconds it took him to dispose of
the tubby Bronx Barkeeper, in his
23rd defense of the heavyweight
crown. Tami's slice of the pie, Is
per cent, amounted to $38, 854.
Having checked all the figures,
Mike said Joe would next fight in
January or February. Jacobs mean
time, got the manhunt for a June,
l947, challenger under way by ten
tatively outlining an elimination
plan involving such bumpers as
Jersey Joe Walcott, Elmer CThe
Violent) Ray, Joe Baksi, Joey Max
i'm, British Champ Bruce Wood
cock, and Tami once more. The
general opinion after Uncle Mike
let the folks in on the idea, how.
ever, was that it would be just as
well to send all six of them in
there at once, just so it might be
close to even.
Joe, himself, didn't even show
up to collect his pay-check. He let
his managers take care of the sor-
did finances, while he made an ap-
pearance at a charity affair and
then went out to play some golf,
Just as he did after his clambake
with Billy Conn last June. He is
probably the only man in the
world who figures golf is more i'm
portant than collecting six-figure
bundles of cash.
incidentally, Billy Conn's name
also was penciled in on the future
picture late in the day. The Pitts
burgh Pretty Boy, who was flatten-
ed by Joe in eight rounds the last
time they got together, feels low
over charges in some quarters that
he quit that night. So this after.
noon he got Jacobs on the phone
and offered to fight Louis any
time any place and contribute his
entire purse to charity. "Only this
time" he demanded, II want to
fight him my way, with no advice
from my handlers" Q
Jacobs rejected any idea that
Louis might go to London to tangle
with Bruce Woodcock. The British
Champion was stiffened by Maui
riello here last May and Mike, says
now he'll have to come back and
"get a few more wins before he
would dare to serve Bruce up to
Joe.
The promoter, too, said he had
heard nothing definite of reports
Louis might put the title on the
line in Mexico or South America,
although Joe has said in the past
that he wouldn't mind fighting in
the continent to the south some
time.
The plan now is for Joe to stay
around town for awhile, trying to
pep up the cash registers in his
Harlem saloon, and then to 60 to
Detroit about the first of October
so that he'll be on hand when his
manager, John Roxborough, is dis
charged from prison.
After that, he'll golf and be a
restaurant impresario until he
starts training for his first 1947
job of legal mayhem, against an
opponent still to be picked out. As