Show Promoter Says Joe Louis Fears to Meet Braddock By HENRY McLEMORE l United Press Sports Writer NEW V YORK Oct 15 You 15 You may have have gone over Niagara in a barrel jarrel bailed out of a burning plane at midnight and been married married married mar mar- ried five times but until you have talked over the telephone with witham James Jame am Joy Johnston of Madison Square quare Garden you haven't fully lived If Ie Alexander Graham Bell had happened to get Jimmy on the other end of the wire when he tested out f 77 7 his first telephone he tic would h ha a v e thrown the whole contraption o 0 out u t the window and 4 started work on something e else 1 s c e. e r For Mr Johnston a M makes the the telephone tele tele- telephone phone device of phone a sc p. p terror He answers it W with a bellow which drives the receiver an eighth of of an inch into your noggin and j 1 going on fro from m Braddock there with ever ever- t increasing violence rca reaches hes a peak along toward the end of the conversation conversation con con- on- on which h has the poles and wires swinging like a trapeze swing When talking with Mr Johnston from a distance under a mile it is much more satisfactory simply to poke joko your head out the window and listen isten I I 1 talked to h him m Tue Tuesday day concerning concerning concern- concern ing ng the heavyweight championship situation and ne tie was in excellent voice if Ir voi voice e is the tho proper word for or the trumpet of a bull elephant Ion on on s stampede 1 I wanted to know lenow what Madison Square Garden planned to do with Champion James i I i J J. J Braddock now that chat Joe Louis had snubbed the tho offer of a title fight He gave me an answer answer In In spades And doubled and redoubled He talked for ten minutes but after expurgation his answer boiled down downto to this Jim Curl Up Louis is yellow a cat fraid-cat and anda a sissy and wants no part of Braddock Braddock Brad- Brad dock because he lie knows Braddock of or all the fighters in the business is not afraid of him and will walk alertly from his corner and knock his cars ears off If Louis isn't afraid of Braddock Braddock Braddock Brad- Brad dock why wont won't h hs he fight him himl Johnston demanded When he started fighting what did he want The heavyweight champ championship What docs does he want now now what's what's his goal The The heavyweight cham cham- Well Veil were we're offering him hima a a. shot at it anytime it-anytime anytime he says says and and if he thinks hes he's es e's such a fighter wh why doesn't he take it Could it be that he doesn't think Jim will curl up and die as those other bums he knocked out did |