Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-06 | Page 20 | Mail Man Stops Frequently at Joe's Home Now with Great Bundle of Letters from Ring Fans

toMail to Mail Man Stops Frequently at Joes Joe's Home Now With Great Bundle of Letters From Ring Fans I i By 8 HENRY McLEMORE United Press Preas' Sports Sports' Writer I NEW YORK Sept 6 Every 6 Every day in the week some lome 00 persons sit down and nd write rite a a letter Jetter to Joe JoeLouis JoeLouis JoeLouis Louis a a colored boy boYAt at whose home two years ago the postman didn't ring twice t aye a year lr It is 18 doubtful if any national celebrity be it Greta or or Franklin Franklinn FranklinD Di n receives fan tan mail man of a more diversified nature He e appeals to to dirt farmers house death house death hou le inmates collegians ns saxophone players and poets alike Some Somo wa want t money some Bome want solace some lome want en encouragement en- en and some lame want plc pic tures Joes Joe's achievements in the ring have acted as 5 an electrical stimulus stimulus lus Itis on on negro on-negro negro poets poet Each o of hf his victories has resulted in hi his ls mail being flooded with lyrical outbursts the am amazing zin quality of ot which is ia shown by the following excerpts from a poem immortalizing im his Camera victory If In Tn the tho first round Camera Carnera c came me blundering out Egotistic although he was blusterous blusterous bluster bluster- ous and mighty stout That meant nothing to Joe for tor he gave U the e big a clip cUp That made maile the red flow low from the bIg biff fellows follows lip In Inc the fourth round Camera Carnera put up a pretty prett tough tight Light And jarred Joe oe a bit with a ft mighty good rIght fight But when th the smoke cleared way liway Joe had Primo subdued And made the giant sway like like he be he was wal homebrewed homebrew d. d This sort Bort of ot thing mind you when Joes Joe's only a challenger r. r Let nim win the championship and who I knows to what heights American i poetry may be lifted Naturally the gr greater ater part of ot Joes Joe's mall mail is made up o of requests for money orr or touches or There is 13 the tho man in Paris Texas who just doesn't t know what'll become of his crop unless nl sJ Joe hurries up with that for a two-ton two truck And there's theres the gont gent in Norcross Ga who haying hay hay- ing lag won 2 when whon Louis Loul kayoed kl Levinsky Sho would like Uke to have three mo to add to it and get the ol 01 J lady dy a pair of Sun Sunday lay shoes shoe toes A negro prisoner prison r in Ina a southern penitentiary wrote Joe asking for fora foran foran a an autographed ed picture Im in death row the letter road and I got only six more more iora weeks to go Your picture hanging on the wall vall will make me inc feel better as asI asI I th the electric chair He got the picture by return mail mall Another prisoner serving time in Oklahoma asked for the loan ofa of ofa a sawbuck Joe sent the ten dollars dol dol- dol- dol Jars lars and the following we week weCk k re received received re- re a n similar request from rom every other colored inmate of ot the prison Louis Loul has something like tucked away in annuities and has hu huhla his hla mother living Jiving In a mortgage mortgage- ge- ge clear home Which isn't bad for tor a colored colore boy who was wu picking up a 2 25 weekly check fewer than 18 8 months ago aiD 1 1 j