| Show Louis Conn-Louis Conn Louis Battle Throwback to v Dempsey's Flattening I 4 y Of Carpentier Looks Like LOk I e Tonight's T h- h r s Ending E n d' d H ib ibBy t tI b l bo boBy By y LAWTON TON CARVER there Editor Tb International News Sports Boot too NEW YORK June 18 Not IS-Not Not since those se dear dead da dahe d. d at t 42 ajl i Isack I the he golden twenties when Tex Guinan said Hello i ind sack luck e ts el six and nd Tex Rickard made it stick by charging 50 a copy cop J f fw or fi LeI f. f fon 1 tickets has there been an occasion exact exactly 1 y like this one t to ton on onI I f when oJ Joe oe Louis WI will VY A 11 d IA defend e f en HM d h. h his IS h heavyweight rf Y wei g ht chain cham p lJ on r i lost re fear reef Jev when oJ Joe oe Louis WI VY A IA HM against Billy Conn Do you remember that Georges I Carpenter trained in secret secluded se- se eluded from the prying eyes of ofle the le press and beyond the pale of ot all 11 ridicule when he was getting ready eady for lor Jack Dempsey in 1921 t tRun Run un for Money Stoney of Carpentier was a little man little promise and as the story goes oes Rickard surveyed the great Thirty Acres expanse of Boyles Boyle's and nd the grea greatest est crowd in pugilistic i history history up to that time and asked Dempsey to let the fight go along i ifor for or a while so that cust customers mers would get et a run for their money Here tonight we might have a I setting etting for similar incidents for once nee again a great heavyweight champion meets a little man of little line promise II VI c. c line II VI c. c Texas Guinan is gone with her cheery heery Hello sucker Tex Rick- Rick Rickard Rickard ard rd lies in a grave beside Bat Masterson Masterson Mas- Mas terson erson the old western gunfighter Starch shirts have come and gone from rom the ringside and the era of wonderful nonsense has long since been een forgotten except by those few ew who were a part of ot those times imes History Repeats Yet pugilistic history must repeat re- re repeat repeat re re- peat itself and now almost a half million dollars worth of customers are ready to turn out simply to of little see ee if It another little man promise romise can win the worlds world's heavyweight heavyweight heavy- heavy weight championship For weeks Johnny Ray the manager manager manager man man- ager of Conn has declined unwaveringly unwaveringly unwaveringly un un- waveringly to let his mans man's weight be known All he would say was It ain aint t anybody's business what wha Billy will weigh We aint makin no weights and when we hop on the he the scales for the New York boxing boxing box box- ing ng commission well we'll be satisfied Those contemporaries of Rickard and Dempsey and the others of the days long since departed rf g chain cham re p reef Jev tones tori three r greed Fred Hu Huday flub b b day his bis fl fi i pitch f f flu torY pu lu ning J but If to n rates air i bu buN butO t 0 N duckS 4 Pirat v All Jn dub aso odY odYs I s 4 I joes doesn f wl w wJack In his I ig Jack Dempsey In over Carpentier recall called I Conn Louis go bering Carpentier and that J four foes t round knockout scratched the I scalps and wonder If It this must JI another case of ot a terrific bund buHi t in the general direction of n i stupendous let I 1 sun a aThe Pa The betting odds odd today toda te tree w i 4 right to 1 on Louis and the t iomie mc c part of it all was that the heroin tm he ie heing heing 17 7 ing were ly reluctant to wager on their thiu oas ge let contender Conn was a hap hope Sl underdog and if It he were to i wit ru tonight the Incident would t tilt it place beside those two e evious B milestones when the ft col while light-heavyweight light Jim Cot Ca bett belt stopped John L. L Sullivan it L. L Gene Tunney another four lonne CARr CARE light-heavyweight light beat the senor tb rh grea greatest test ter of all aU tin tIm Jack Dempsey am 1 J rN |
