Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-20 | Page 20 | Dorazio Scoffs at 'Drive' Report, Saw Victory-until He Woke Up

Dorazio Scoffs at Dive Report Saw Saw Victory Until He Woke Up ALLENTOWN Pa Feb 20 U UP 11 Gus Dorazio who Dorazio-who who should kno v says I didn't quit or take a dive Jn in hr his fight with Joe Louis Furthermore the Philadelphia ie heavyweight believes there are ared d apparently some punch-drunk punch senators as well as punch-drunk punch fighters Gus who was knocked out by bythe bythe bythe the Brown Bomber In the second round of their heavyweight title bout last Monday night at Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia unlimbered his vocabulary last night and answered Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania State Senator John J. J Haluska's charge that he took a dive I thought I was winning the fight until they told me in the he dressing room that I had been knocked out said Gus When I 1 came back to my corner corner corner cor cor- ner after the first round I 1 told Jimmy Wilson my trainer that the fight was going easier than I thought Then came the fatal stanza I Z 1 saw Louis' Louis chin in front of me big as as a house ous and I swung for forIt forit fortt It tt Gus recalled all I remember re- re member But the spectators spectators Ha- Ha luska among among them remember Louis must h have ve seen Gus' Gus chin quite plainly too because a right cross to the button ended Dorazio's challenge Haluska had asserted he spent 10 years In the ring himself and when I speak of dives I know what Im I'm talking about But Gus reported I I never heard of him as a boxer and nobody Ive I've spoken to has ever h heard rd of him If U he knows anything whatever about the fight game and saw what happened Monday night he knows that I 1 didn't quit or take a dive The Philadelphian added I never took a dive in my life nor did didI I ever take part in a fixed fight of any kind 1 Haluska attended the fight as the guest of another state senator H. H Jerome Jaspan who introduced a resolution in the Pennsylvania senate two weeks ago seeking an investigation of the Pennsylvania Athletic commission and asserting Dorazio and Louis were unevenly matched