Show I ry rr r h I yr In f t 47 4 I 7 l- l 1 t i It ri n t 7 6 x f a p pI pf I I I Ji 1 J f fI I i 1 I G 7 F r J r c J d 4 4 f r S io e ty r i J y f s AP A As S E Ezzard d Charles Carles Ends the Fabulous Joe Louis Era The mi once mighty Joe Louis Loui flinches as the new v worlds world's heH heavyweight ight champion Ezzard Charles sends end a powerful right to his leis face in the louis Takes Defeat like Uke Champion But Hes He's Had Enough Hes He's Through I By Fred Ha Hayden den NEW V YORK Sept 28 S UP jp- jp After the long hard road Joe JoeLouis JoeLouis JoeLouis Louis traveled to attempt a comeback comeback comeback come come- back he lost like a champion a a champion sportsman at least As quiet and monosyllabic as ever the bi big Brown Bomber who never exploded in m Yankee stadium I Wednesday night took his decisive defeat by younger year Ezzard Ezzard Ezzard Ez Ez- Ez- Ez zard Charles without an alibi or ora ora ora a whimper He reached the end of oC the road the way he had come up with up-with with class But now Joe says hes he's had had enough Charles the conqueror was al almost almost almost al- al most as quiet in his dressing room although obviously enjoying his greatest moment in victory He did not boast about winning a unanimous unanimous unanimous verdict over the man who used to be his idol but had only praise for his victim Mintz Boils Over O Not so dulcet was the comment from Jake Mintz Mint his Pittsburgh pilot who never was noted for reticence Voluble Jake took full fun advantage of the happy occasion Asked who Charles would fight now he gushed Well Veil fight anybody but well we'll have to have ha the champions champion's end We Ve came up the hard way and always have taken the short end Now were we're champ and anybody who fights us must take the chal hal lengers lenger's end That goes for Lee too We Ve dont don't recognize no European world champion I planned the fight Did you ou I Isee see me in Louis' Louis corner giving signals across the ring between rounds We Ve had a code worked out At the end of the round when I saw we nee had the fight won I went around to Ezzard's rd's corner and told him to coast Stay Star Off ore Ropes We Ve worked in training on two things to move backward and keep of off the ropes Did you OU notice how ho hoEz Ez stayed away from the ropes Louis keeps crowding a fighter until he has them against the ropes Then they're at his mercy To Louis' Louis many admirers the Brown Bomber presented a sad sight in his Ius dressing room Even en the most wise ring-wise apathetic visitors visitors visitors tors had to feel sorry for the gallant gallant gallant gal gal- lant old warrior sitting on a table with his left eye closed and his left lefthand lefthand lefthand hand in a bucket of ice Im through said Joe I wont won't fight again I done the best I can Louis said he knew from the seventh round on that he have it He even congratulated Charles before the verdict was announced as they threw their arms around each other after the final bell Enjoyed Fight The once mighty champion told newsmen he enjoyed the fight and thanked them all vcr very much Asked if Charles was the best man he ever fought Louis just said naw flaw He Hc had the same simple answer when asked if he felt bad To the question is Charles a great champion he merely said Hes good in all departments Joe said he hurt his left hand handin I in the third or fourth round but you knew that wasn't said or meant I as an excuse for losing Some of I Ithe the boys thought though t the year old I Louis had Charles in a bad way in the round but Louis wouldn't even take lake r credit for that Ian Man sa say sayI I 1 won ori the Jo Joe Jae round of the blood bloody championship fight in Madison Square Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- I den Wednesday night Charles won unanimous round 15 decision said but he wasn't nearly outA out A scribe asked him if this fight would take care of Joes Joe's income tax troubles and the beaten Bomber just replied Yeah Finally the crowd dispersed from the steaming room patting flatting 01 Ol Joe on the back meantime Unemotional Unemotional Unemotional at least on the surface Joe Joc repeated repealed to each Thank you very cry much Was as in Trouble Charles too had to peep through one eye in his dressing room The left one was closed by Joes Joe's jabs Ezzard's remarks went like this Sure I was in trouble trouble all all the time The round was pretty prett tough He hit me a good left hook and a hard right to the back His left jab was his best punch though Its It's real stiff I can see sec why hy he was champion so long Joes Joe's body punches never hurt me It was that jab I had to watch out for He dont don't punch hard in close Ez said it felt great to be champion champion champion cham cham- pion adding I know v that before I was National Boxing champion champion champion cham cham- pion but I also know the people didn't consider me champion Not as long lonn as Louis was around Charles said hed he'd go back into training and meet any good fighter when I g set get t this eye opened He hesitated then went wenton on I r think though I just fought foucht the toughest around right now I |