Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-09-19
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW ), FRANCE, ,rAuu
of With the Goutee
BY FRANCIS sTANN


outthough knocked and up Rocky Marciano TO
rethee-we vocaly, that is Now approaches the time
to do it in the ring on with the goateea curly black
patch of hair that he adopted symbol OF his lnaDhy
to get fights with top men-and with sx-ounce gloves
Moore help but be encouraged by the knowledge
Joe Louis picks Marciano to win tomorrow night IN
Yankee Stadium The old Brown Bomber has been wrong
as prognoscator he rights fighter But on the
other hand Archie will have to win the hard way, TOO,
heavyweight king has ever wresed away
the big title.
delphia Jack OBrien fought draw with Tommy
Burns then lost in rematch Billy Conn was leading
Louis less until he exposed his chin in the 18th round
Of their first fight
None of the others :. Carpenter Loughran, John
Henry Lewis, Lesnevich and Maxim cut much mustard
when they tried to graduate.
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ONE DAY LAST WEEK at Moore's camp in North
Adams Mass there temptation to ask the selfmade
philosopher and speaker of parallels how he felt about
bucking this jinx. This was at time when Archie was
taking dim view Of newspap he began
to call them-and fortunately perhaps Jack Doc) Kearns
strongly advised against posing the question.
mot in his present mood" Kearns cautioned, land
besides will answer for him" Doc who had three title
winning meal tickets in Jack Dempsey Mickey Walker and
Joey Mixim has interest in Moore, although with
straight face he VOWS it is purely academic
I'm the first place" Kearns began Moore not real
light heavy He natural heavyweight He's been having
trouble making IT'S pounds for years and he to be sort
Of physical freak to do 1t.
LET illustrate. In May he fought Nno valdes in
Welgneu
title at ITS pounds by knocking out Bobo olsen His true
weight Is somewhere in between, say 1856"
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LIKE MOST OLD istic men, Kearns puts little stock in
weight as such. tits punch and speed that counts,
mainly" Doc says Dempsey only 78pounder when
he took out willard, and remember correctly Jess
weighed 265. Oh guess maybe had my foot on the
scale when Dempsey weighed and in the records
1t may show he 1874 But that to keep the
public from getting discouraged"
Discouraged" Kearns asked.
sure. People see where fighter weighing l78 is
meeting 265pounder and they figure. He don't have
chance The fact is that Dempsey could hit and hurt
willard We didn't go to Toledo to lift bar bells
Nov, my Walker 1853 or 1sopounder is ALL
but he could punch and he was rough. He drew with
Jack sharkey big who really could fight, and
he spotted Bearcat Wright, who wasn't bad ata
100 pounds and knocked him out Course, Mickey really
was too small to win the big title"
WHILE IT IS ACCURATE to say that no light heavy
weight champion of the world has the heavy
crown it's also artificial happenstance This the fault
OF Bob Fitzmmons whose physical specifications
those Of heavyweight although he won the title.
Had Ruby Rob proceeded to scale the heights in normal
proper manner the whole subject never would have
title s next proceeded to knock out Jim Corbett for the
heavyweight championship Later that he acquired the
175-pound dadem, word to be used only when running
low synonyms
Kearns had the floor again, saying:
Nov, Carpenter Dempsey was mismatch. That was
selling job. The Frenchman didn't belong in the same
ring. Tommy Loughran got beat by Sharkey II it
only for the American title because Lougtran was
boxer, not puncher. Sharkey both John Henry
Lewis was finished when Joe Louis belted him out That
was one of those bum-of -the-month things
Conn did well in his first fight with Louis but he
wasn't puncher either, and later he figured
to make mistake just later is ALL Ezzard Charles
didn't have any trouble with Gus Lesnech and my man
Maxim because Of the reason although joey was
mean is-as good boxer ever saw"
This prompted inquiry to whatever became Of Kearns
weworn warrior Doc grnned you might say theressno
great demand for him. He's been all the United States
and we've out of countries abroad Right now I'm trying
to get him into Russia" y