Show GUIS OUIS' 20 1 1 FAVORITE OVER FOE Joe foe oe Seeks Victory No 27 In Scrap With J Gate Expected II J By STUART CAMERON CAl United Press Sports Editor J CHICAGO Jan 17 Joe 17 Joe Louis crown prince heir apparent and I most everything else except champion of the boxing world and harley barley hardest puncher the Detroit Bomber has ever everet et face each ot other er t tonight in a round 15 heaVY bout I The Detroit dusky will vill be seeking his is twenty-seventh twenty consecutive pro pro- triumph and his twenty twenty- third Ird knockout Joe would not venturo ven yen turo uro a a. prediction on how long th the ight fight would last lost except to say ay h he would auld get it over as quickly as pos- pos Ible lible Studied from every angle the fight figures to be the most one- one sided contest in recent ring his his- tory Not even cven the affaire Levinsky Levinsky Levin Levin- sky ended soon after atter two ho minutes n of fighting seemed on the day of tho the contest conLest to be bo as ai soft oft oft a touch as ns tonight's session at it Chicago stadium Despite this universal impression a a. crowd of some probably will rill have paid out nearly by jy the time the doors are unlocked The crowd wont won't be a local one either for the promoters have sold theIr heir wares to customers from as asar asfar astar tar far ar south as Atlanta and from as asar asI asfar I far ar north as Alberta No fewer than ban New Yorkers wilt will make overnight trips to be on hand for forthe forthe the he newest service of Louis' Louis artistry 2 J Charlie Hits Hard While almost ever everybody body debates the number of rounds the contest can last ast a few die hards insist Retz- Retz laff has a a. chance Chief argument for a possible but improbable Retz Retz- laff Jaff victory is the contention that he hits harder than any of the men Louis has faced in his year one-year climb to international renown Ring students whose opinions must be respected insist that a right carries more firecrackers than a n aBaer aBaer Baer belt or a Camera Carnera clout and the writer thinks this is true But there is a compensating doubt that Charles will ever set off one of these crackers and a greater one that it would land It was to 20 and few takers for tor foran foran toran an an outright triumph Prices on an carl early termination with Louis doing the terminating varied from even money to to 5 depending upon the length you thought the bout could achieve and the bookie you dealt with A casual average was even money that it would end in in round one and to 3 that it would end before the bell sounds for round four I Mike l Signs Him There is of course an admitted possibility that could win by puro pure science or miracle While there was virtually nobody who looked for such an outcome there was was one ono man who was protected He was the man who stood to win ar or r lose most Mike Jacobs of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York who holds a year three-year option option option op- op tion on Louis Louis' services ser If the tho miracle mi mi- mi- mi should happen Jacobs has a contract calling for tho the services of f next three bouts r f. f Som Somebody body waggishly suggested i- i that Jacobs must value such a document most highly Youre not kidding me Jacobs Jacobs Jacobs Ja Ja- Ja- Ja cobs said The Garden had one on Braddock in case he beat bent Baer That didn't look like ilko much either the tho champion i r But now they've e got I sewed up i- i iAn An heavyweight all-heavyweight attraction has been arranged for tho the preliminary I card ard Art Sykes Elmira N. N Y will i York in meet Eddie Eddio Mader New I one rone one rounder eight while Tiger Al AI Lewis Seattle Wash will meet I in an an- Chief Paris Texas Indian other Tom Tout Beaupre Dallas Texas and Harry Nelson Detroit Mich l tare are re scheduled for tor a n six Two round four-round bouts will send Joe Cleveland against Buddy Knox Kno Dayton Ohio and Izzy Singer Sing Sing- er er New York against Hal Anderson Anderon Ander Ander- son on Flint Mich |