Show Conn Go GoOn Goon On Television SCHENECTADY N. N Y April 16 Thousands Thousands of boxing tans fans will wUl see sec ee champion Joe Louis and challenger chal thai lenger Jenger enger Billy Conn battle it out for tor forthe forthe the thc heavyweight champlon championship June une 19 from ringside seats in movie novie theaters simultaneously With Yankee stadium spectators If Sf f promoter Mike Jacobs Jacob carries out but ut hi his newest idea The head of at the Twentieth Cen Cen- tury ury ury Sporting club witnessed a televised wre wrestling match here esterday Yesterday and promptly declared it surprise him If it plans to cast the Yankee stadium bout onto screens In theaters and In Madison adison Square Garden were cared car- car Vied Led ed out Uncle Mike and Madison Square Garden officials flew Jew here yester- yester the television demonstration tion which they witnessed In company com corn pany any with General Electric The wrestlers put on their show how in G. G Es E.'s television station The bout was cast onto a L 12 by l foot 15 toot screen en cn in the civic playhouse Jacobs didn't Indicate how far from New York City or in how many theaters the project would be practicable Declaring he was pleased with the clarity of at the demonstration tion Jacobs Jacob said in Sn an interview It wouldn't surprise me mc if it we could go through with our plans to h have ve the tho Conn Lout meeting televised on large screens a Of cour course e you know the bout boutis IB is only a couple a of months away he added and that doesn't leave us much time to complete the detail de de- de- de tails tail But after what I saw this afternoon I think a lot of those fans who will ill not be able to see seethe seethe seethe the fight first hand will be given givena a chanse to see lice It tt on the screen through this marvelous invention of television Carrying through of at Jacobs' Jacobs plan would mark another step forward In boxing's pioneering progress prore s. s A tight light was recorded for the motion pictures as far back as March 17 1897 when Bob Fitzsimmons tangled with Jim Corbett Corbeit at Carson City Nev Broadcasting of ot fights fig dates back to 1921 when Jack D Dempsey kayoed Georges Carpentier Television Television Tele Tele- vision was first used in boxing in Max Bacr Tommy Farr fight tight in London In 1937 |