The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-18
Jacobs Sells
 Stond Room .For$5 Eoch
By JACK CUDDY Limited Press Sports Writer)

light limbering exercises to peak them for tomorrow nights $2.OOO,- 900 title bout, thousands of the nations fight fans poured into New York today, tanning downtown hotels and restaurants.
 Manhattan became the Mecca of Maui for the richest sports crowd in history-people who could pay from $lO to $100 ticket: but Mike Jacobs announced that the small fry" would not be forgotten. He would place 10000 general admis- sion tickets on sale at Yankee Stad- ium at P. M. tomorrow. These s tickets entitle the purchasers to standing room in the rear of the grand stands.
 Joe Now 14-5
 As the clout clan assembled, heavy support developed for cham pion Louis because he appeared so sharp in yesterdays final sparring at Pompton Lakes, N. J., where he will remain until tomorrow. The betting price, favoring the Detroit Negro to retain his title, scared from 11-5 to 14-5. Bookies predicted that Louis would enter the ring favored at Al or 5-1. Previously the trend had been toward Conn.
 Meanwhile, Conn-who broke camp at Greenwood Lake, N. J. yesterday afternoon-attended the Broadway show Billion Dollar Baby" last night and was slated to do calisthenics today in a 27th- floor gymnasium in the Metropol- itan Life building.
 Nearly 100 workmen continued assembling the new elevated ring side seating layout at Yankee Stad- lum, costing 0,00O-according to Jacobs-and capable of accommo- dating 15,000 ringsiderS at $10O a chair. Despite the announcement of 10000 general admissions, Jacobs said the crowd would not exceed his original estimate of from 75,000 to 80,000 he had figured on the general admissions in the original estimate, he explained.
 Because of the brisk demand for seats priced at $20, 80 and $50, Promoter Mike said he was positive the gate would reach at least $2,- 500,000.
 The fight mob wondered who would be selected to referee the bout. Candidates included Eddie Joseph, who off1ciated at the 1941 hrawl in which Louis knocked out Conn in the 18th round. Other Co p dido fac 1zyo,.a noov,, r nooo-S a,, lightweight champion; Frank Full lam, boxing instructor at thes New York A. C.; Ruby Goldstein. former lightweight contender; and Billy Kavanaugh. boxing instructor at West Point. The referee will not be named until fight time.
 No Question?
 At the Edison Hotel, Conn showed no signs of freezing up" on the eve of his second clash with explosive Joe. He was smilingly confident. He said, "I'm going to win. this fight. I don't know wheth- CT it'll be by decision or a knock out. But, put this down in your little book-I'm taking over for Joe Louis. Joe's been a great cham pion; but his days are done. I'm going to be the new champ. There's no question about that"
 Manager Johnny Ray and Train CT Freddie Fierro said he was in peak shape, scaling 184 pounds af- ter yesterdays two rounds of speed sparring with lightweight Sammy Schipani at Greenwood Lake. Billy expects to scale 180 or 181 at the Madison Square Garden weigh-in, tomorrow 12:3O P. M
 New York, June 18- UP) - Whichever way the Louis-Conn fight goes tomorrow night it'll hurt Ben Galomb more than 1t does the loser.
 Galomb, who weighs in at 135. makes the gloves for most of New York's championship battles. It'll be his good weather that does the knocking.
 50 I sit there," he said today, "and I feel like butcher. The guy who gets kayoed, he don't feel much-how can he- No sir, I'm the boy who really suffers"
 Galomb worries most about some thing going wrong with his gloves.
 T sit and watch 'em, all the time,' he said. I can't really see the fight for watching my gloves. Nothing is ever gone wrong yet, and 1t ain't 1la- tural to be so perfect
 To Be Water Repellant
 Galomb makes set of four gloves for each fighter. and the set sells for about $15.
 We don't do it for money" he ex- plained. Its just a feather in my cap, see. But now my head is aching from so many feathers"
 The New York State Boxing Com mission rules that the gloves must weigh six ounces, no more and no less. If the man is big in his hands, we make the glove smaller and stuff in added horse hair" Galomb explained. If the hands are small. we put in more leather and less hair. That way, we balance things up."
 For the first time in any cham pionship fight the gloves will be wa ter repellant.
 That means more than you'd think" Galomb said. "A mans hands perSpire plenty when he's fighting. It's the usual thing for six ounce gloves to weigh from 12 to IS ounces before the end of the fight. This time, even if they go all the way, the gloves will stick at six ounces"
 There's Always A Loser
 Galomb is calm until he fits the mittS to the fighters hands.
 That's when 1t first gets me-" he said. That's when I begin to worry. I put a hunk of leather on a guys hand and he seems to die little bit inside. It's funny. He looks at me, then down at the glove, and he seems to get cold all over"
 That's when Ben Galomb begins to fidget and fret. He wants nothing