Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-26 | Page 19 | Fight Looks So Easy for Joe, His Foe's Ability is Overlooked

Fight Loqks So Easy for Joe, His Foe's Ability Is Overlooked He spoke those words sitting on a' rubbing table In his dressing room after the fight. His hair wasn't mussed; there were no perspiration beads on his sleek brown body; he wasn't panting. He looked like a man ready to go into the ring instead in-stead of one who had just come out of it. The fight looked so easy for Louis that most people forgot today the caliber of the man who was in there against him, Lewis had never been knocked out before. He had the reputation of being a smoothie with plenty of speed afoot But he had never stood up snd shaken his fists at lightning before, and last night lightning struck three times and In the same place. Louis cams out In a shuffle and for 30 seconds they reached for each other with lefts. John Henry's left grated Joe's ear, and that was the only time hs ever came close to landing a blow. They were over along the ropss when Joe's right. moving only about 18 Inches, caught John Henry just above the eye. Bop! It went and Lewis hit the floor, blood gushing out of a cut. It's doubtful If Lewis ever win remember any more about the fight He got up, his brain too full of clouds and cobwebs to stay down for a nine count and recover. Then Louis stalked him. John Henry retreated re-treated toward his own corner, unable un-able to get In a blow because Joe's left was flickering In and out to the head. With his back to ths ropes John could go no farther. Bop! went Louis' right again, and Lewis' feet flew out from under and he reeled half way through the middle mid-dle and top ropes. Referee Arthur Donovan started a count, but nobody no-body in the Garden was sver going to live to see the day when John Henry Lewis dogged it in a fight. Again John Henry came up without waiting for a nine count and flung a left, hopelessly short, In Louis' direction.