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Show LOUIS KAYOS BRADDOCKTO SEIZniTLE Braddock Wins Praise For Standing Up Under Un-der Terrific Beating BY HENRY HcLEMORE United 1'ress Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 23 (U.R) Joe Louis, a black man, today had completed his march down the glory road. The march started 23 years ago, in a tiny cabin in the cotton, way down in Alafcm'. Proclaimed Champion It ended last night in a brilliant bril-liant patch of light at Comiskey park when, with 65,000 persons looking on, he was proclaimed heavyweight champion of all the world. He heard the proclamation with upraised hands that still dripped with the blood of the big Irishman, Jimmy Braddock, who, after 22 minutes and ten seconds of battling, had crumpled to the floor unconscious. Only one other man of Louis' race burly, gold-toothed Jack Johnson ever stood where Louis stands today. But Jack lifted the title in Australia, which leaves Louis with the distinction of being the first colored man to win the championship on American soil. Sensational Climb When Louis blasted the defending defend-ing champion Braddock to the floor in the eighth round he cap- ped one of the most sensational climbs to the heights in the history his-tory of boxing. Three years ago Joe labored in an automobile factory. fac-tory. A pair of overalls was his dress, and pork chops and hominy hom-iny grits his fare. Today he was the best fighting man in the world, with $700,000 in the bank, and faced with the cheery prospect pros-pect of making twice that amount in the next twelve months. Already Mike Jacobs, the shrewd New Yorker who brought last night's fight to Chicago despite de-spite a flock of lawsuits, has laid plans for Joe to defend his championship cham-pionship twice before winter. Going to London Jacobs announced today that he had arranged tentatively to take the Brown Bomber to London in July and pit him against Tommy Farr, the gangling Welshman who holds the British empire heavyweight heavy-weight title. If successful against Farr, Louis will return for a September go against the test available opponent probably Max Schmeling of Germany, only man to conquer Joe since he began living liv-ing by his fists. "Mister Jacobs says I'm going to be the busiest champion ever was," Joe grinned- today. "And that sure suits me. I'll fight one a month if he can dig them up." -Top was ehnllenp-er last niht. jaw. It was in the middle of the round, and before the blow the Jersey man had landed several stout rights. His knees sagged but he recovered and Louis failed to follow the advantage. Jim did not move as the referee tolled the end of his championship. Joe knew that iblow had won before be-fore ever the count was complete. With the same swing of his body that drove the knockout punch home to Braddock's jaw, Louis swung and walked to the ropes in a neutral corner. His back was turned to the fallen champion. He didn't look back until the count was over and his handlers rushed into the ring. There were more than 35,000 men and women 'of Joe's race in Uie park and their joy knew no bounds. They poured out of the exits grinning ecstatically and danced and sang in the streets of the black belt into the night. The honky-tonks and cabarets of the south side were jammed with delirious celebrators. "Yea man, Joe Louis won!" screamed a high yaller gal stomping stomp-ing in the middle, of a crowded street. An old mammy sitting in the doorway of the First Church of Jesus the Almighty murmured: "The cullud man won. Praise de lawd." and got only a paltry 17 per cent of the net receipts. The gross was announced as $715,400.74 but the net hasn't been calculated. When it is Braddock will toe given 50 per cent for the terrific punishment pun-ishment he took. Braddock Courageous But from now on Joe's will be the champion's share and with his tremendous drawing power eventually even-tually he should build up a fortune for-tune to compare with that-amassed by Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Theie were many today who praised Braddock for his courage in carrying the fight to Louis but they felt, for the most part, that the champion had used poor judgment judg-ment in his first title defense. He fougTit for the crowd instead of the crown. Bob Pastor, one of the fighters who hopes to challenge Louis, asserted : "Jim was too game for his own good. If he had fought a waiting fight he would have lasted 15 rounds and might have saved his championship." One jolting right uppercut in the first round almost retained the title for the Jersey "Cinderella "Cinder-ella man." It whistled upward a scant eight inches, whipped the challenger under the chin and dropped him to the canvas. But Louis took it and was on his feet with a count. Louts Oil Guard Its only effect was that the brown man's placid features adopted adopt-ed an expression of mingled respect re-spect and worry. Thereafter his ordinarily half-closed eyes were ivide open. He boxed with new caution. When Bradock's upper-Dut upper-Dut was unleashed again Louis laught it with his glove. Braddock took a terrific beat-;ig beat-;ig from then on and seemed to care little for. the stunning blows that ripped his Irish face into a mess of streaming cuts. He lashed out with hearty rights and while they steamed with viciousness, Louis caught or rolled with most of them. Braddock took punishment that seemed beyond human endurance. Even as the crowd gasped in pity he shook his crimson head and advanced ad-vanced on the jabbing challenger. Occasionally a left or right would crash through the negro's guard, but almost invariably Louis would counter, set him back on his heels and follow through with a ripping blow. Even in the fatal eighth Braddock Brad-dock walked into the challenger's fists, taking two or three blows to land one. Braddock said afterward that he began to tire under the torrent in the fifth round, but it was not until the sixth that his most ardent ard-ent supporters gave up hope. His Knees iSiigged In that round a short left hook crashed against the champion's |
