Show BILLY CONN CAMP PLEASE NOTE Dempsey Would Stop Louis in n Cuddy 2 I i n By JACK CUDDY NEW NEV YORK April 25 UP UP- UP Would Joe Louis or Billy BUly Conn have had the better chance against Jack Dempsey 1 That's a question often otten a asked ked in Cauliflower Canyon now that the tho Louis Louis-Conn fight tight is approach approach- ing Had the tests been made when the three scrappers were at their peaks it Is our opinion that Conn would have done better than Louis against the old Utah Mauler because 1 Dempsey a bobber and weaver would h have ve had much more difficulty in coming to close quarters with footed fleet-footed Billy than with shuffling Joe 2 Louis is much more vulnerable vulnerable vulnerable to a n left-hooking left attack from the bob and weave than is Conn Coan 3 Conn takes a punch better than the champion Because of Dempsey's style and punch we believe that Jack would have knocked out Louis within two rounds We reached this conclusion conclusion con con- elusion after watching watching- Louis in his brawl with Tony Galento and andIn andIn andIn In his first bout with Arturo Godoy Galento hog fat and short armed became a bobber and weaver for a night June 28 1939 1930 at the request of his smart manager manager manager man man- ager the late Joe Jacobs Because of the roll of blubber around his belly Two Ton Tony was not a natural croucher but he did have havea a good left hook A As long as Galento could keep down he amazed the wild eyed fans But when he had to come como up out of tho the unnatural position he was butchered in the fourth round Before he came up however It seemed that the bodied barrel-bodied man manfrom manfrom mantrom from Orange N. N J. J might register one of ot the tho rings ring's greatest upsets Throwing Throw ng left lett hooks from the bob boband boband boband and weave he had Louis groggy and staggering in the first round Louis floored Tony in the second but Tony came storming back hack in inthe inthe inthe the third to floor the champion and give him a savage battering Unfortunately for him he had to come up for air in the fourth If a fat short-armed short poorly- poorly con conditioned unnatural bobber was able to stun and floor loor Louis with left hooks imagine what the great Dempsey would have done to Bomber Joe Dempsey was wa a n nI I natural bobber and arid weaver his left hook was much more explosive than Galento's and the trim Tiger Man didn't have to come up for air Moreover Dempsey was far more elusive in his crouch than roly-poly roly Tony He was more elusive even than Godoy of ot Chile who gave Louis such an uncomfortable uncomfortable evening and such I a close fight at Madison Square Garden 1 Feb 9 1940 Godoy was a light I puncher Thanks to the coaching of ot the late Jack Blackburn Louis did much better against Godoy in their second bout at Yankee stadium stadium stadium sta sta- four tour months later He stopped Arturo in the eighth round Louis and Conn each have a n knockout against their records Tho The champion was belted out by Max and Conn was WM knocked out by Louis However we never saw Conn stunned or staggered before the tho Louis s scrap rap Louis was stunned by Jorge Brescia floored by Jim Braddock and Galento and belted through tho the ropes by Buddy Baer We might mention here that the great Dempsey was knocked out in the first round by Fireman Jim Flynn and belted Into the press seats scats by Firpo |