Show SPORTS SPOTS MIRROR By JOHN MOONEY T Telegram m Sports Editor Of an ev evening I am sitting around inhaling the atmosphere and anything ng else that Is lz tACO free and I begin to reason as follows tollow Billy Conn Is la fighting Joe Louis for tho the heavyweight championship champion champion- W ship thip of at the world Right Right I nay lIay ay to toP t. t myself P myself there being no one smarter around 1 at the time The smart money boys arc figr figI fig fig- I 0 o r that the old champ Is th through and w r that betting five lve against 13 on Billy the K I hid like is-like finding It O on the street Right No 1 I say eay there thereby y starting an argument 4 with myself and proving the contention that tor for the Ule hatch until you are not ready booby c you start answering yourself Listen Mooney 1 I say aay who are are you to listen to those those guys in New York What I do they know about the prize fight except what Uncle Mike Jacobs tells them How HowIn Howin in the name of anything logical can you state that Conn has any chance in the world against Louis unless you let your J Irish temperament get control of at you T And so 10 o I sit eit and wrestle the Mooney intelligence against the Mooney fooney common commonsense r sense and arid If It that i Is 15 not a s claiming race I will wUl bet all aU tho the tea In 10 China But Dut finally John Mooney l I figure It out this WR way No matter what hat the smart boys bos say in 10 New york Vork ork no matter what chat the New York boxing commission doctor says about Louis' Louis condition no matter what anyone says sn's Louis will stop Conn Con before the bell for tor the sixth round this is the height of 0 something something some some- thing or other but I still remember the tho up build for tho the Louis Louis- Braddock fight which I see the Max Louls Bacr fiasco and several severa others and anti if this is not a carbon copy I never call on a pat straight again as long as aa I live J I believe the whole mess is the from tram the start that Louis stops Conn the first time timo he gets close enough to smack im and that Conn who Conn who gets no better than a draw from his from his pappy in in a kitchen brawl has brawl has no more business fighting for forthe the the championship than I have and I am an old man Billy Conn goes 13 rounds on a n fluke and a a. business proposition tion the last time and Louis stops him If Conn should happen to win from Louis I will yell copper the rest of my life and I 1 personally personally per per- demand a rematch for Bill Longson's heavyweight hea championship with Jack JacJ Kogut as my opponent I paste this In my hat for future reference Louis wins inside of cf six aix rounds or Mike Jacobs should take a long hike Don Gardiner and assorted prize fight experts ar are not on Conn pointing out how he lie leads on points in the last fight and If It he ha does not get careless ho he is champion I hear a great deal about this so- so o called lead of Mr 1 Conns Conn's in his first fight with Louis so 50 I look lookup lookup up the official scoring of rounds and find Conn Louis Even Referee Ed Eddie lc Joseph 7 5 s 0 o Judge Marty 1 Moore loore 7 4 1 i Judge Bill BUI Healey 6 6 6 0 Now I J admit admit this this makes males Conn leading but not by the big margin the radio boys have hac us believe belie I concede in fairness too that the champ must be beaten to lose that if the fight ends as ts it Is going until the it Isn't a cinch that he loses the cham cham- Coming close only counts I In horseshoes and Conn had enough horseshoes In his first bout hout with the tha champ There is something fishy about this whole fight and old old timers may smell the same odor of herring as emanated from a certain New York ring many years ago when Georges attempted to wrest Jack Dempsey's heavyweight Weight title The tear down the tho champion club is always popular and Mike knows it helps 1111 fill the money bags Sure we know Louis is older that hes he's looked lousy in training that Conn Coun is bigger fast as lighting etc We ve also know a mongrel can nip a a. horses leg for tor quite a while but when Old Dobbin connects that's all brother |