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Show It .1 Z UP a first-class se t , for the navy. But the t as the top champ in a t, , , e name of Joe Louis. e said that the next .yweight champion would this war assemblage dead-sure bet It's my J Ss name will be Joe 1 offle unlooked for fate J in on the main act r life doesn't pack too r; weight on the Bomber's J ook him only a few days extra ten pounds after 1 i out Buddy Baer. , can put on weight as d e it off. Tbe ring; has i a champion before who !: lUCh time In a training s; nicked off more miles ! ki year after year, than I : n will be interesting to I uch Louis weighs some is from now. , i led the turn in his last cfore the fight was ever was training for Lou time. We were talking 1 rst Buddy Baer meeting 1 ny Conn fight Always 1 thing that looked like an it ..vvvaiMMijMiina 8 law i h .. i f JOE LOUIS ( Bomber finally admitted ' fes stale and we'll below : contests. I fought Baddy Baer in i," be said, "I was dead ' lined In a hot place and see black spots before I didn't have no pep left, y plenty that time, but ; I't much steam back of 8." II different in the second . r party after Joe had got- t and had recovered his , Quite different 0 admitted on the same at he wasn't any too keen i Billy Conn roundup. i fast boy," Louis said, -1 n't right. I was too slow. ' nade me look slower, but aster than I was then. I tale. I'll be different for the challenger picked for ouis start, if there is an-yweight an-yweight battle soon. At j lender Pittsburgher Is the f iven a chance. .' i boxer and as game a : i is, I still think he got a ; itching Louis below form. I got a break, on the odd funny thing," Conn told hest punch I threw cost ;ht. I'll tell you how and ad hoped and expected bim. I was doing that ie middle of the 12th it near the end of that 'led Joe on the jaw with ' ch. I saw his knees half-his half-his eyes roll. I knew I'd 1 thought he was about o I decided at that spot I iim out. j 't content any longer to ision. I got rough instead smart. If I hadn't landed h I'm pretty sure I ave taken the chance I "g in and swinging flat- ave him a still target lace of a moving target )i't hurt at the time. Don't tell you his body blows me down. They hadn't t that belt on the head in I hen I was trying to out- - that turned the trick. It J Ithat your best punch costs It But that's what hat - f Jne." I Best ' P" that Louis was only to something like four ; 0"e was against Max J e other was the second f fieht- The third was y Galento. The fourth wal shot against Buddy ' uis was strung to the n his second meeting with elmg. He came near kill-, kill-, Uhlan in less than a : can also gamble that set to wipe out Buddy ; dy with his title at stake : e entering army ranks. made up his mind to put ;j ""orm on the heavy-'mpion heavy-'mpion of the world. 00 8uch personal feeling uddy as he had against ' nd Galento. But his 1(Je was riding high. |