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Show haw' C0NN has lt 811 "Sored , Not only for himself but Br Joe Louis. The showing 3f My returning Dah players has W cheered him up. . i,fr The leading chal-paL chal-paL ; lenger for the WflHy heavyweight title X takes this angle iiB number of i, y people have won- ' JH dered what sort of ! fighting form Joe r Louis and I would 1 be able to show by ' J the date of our i meeting next summer. sum-mer. A lot of them ( onn seem to think that the bout will be I but a pair of worn out old-doing old-doing the best they can. bf sn't make any sense in my i remember they thought the jray about a lot of ball play-tiere play-tiere was Hank Greenberg, ir years, around 35 years old. ink was almost as good as ifter a short workout. Then Red Ruffing, close to 40. JU can take up Bob Feller, ! Keller, and most of the oth-lost oth-lost of the returned veterans stepped right back into the of things. And several of were older than Joe Louis, older than I am. .-ill Louis and 1 have at least vantages over most of the '''layers Greenberg, anyway. t'.'Mbcen doing a lot of boxing, i -JLd something like 350 exhibl- j j In handle. That's more work d have gotten If I had stayed vAw. Louis has had just as We've D0n nad enough ring! etp keep pretty well sharpened. Ln not to get rusty. 4 jTn'm to 182 Pounds on fit's one edge. Now here's an-J-as a rule the ball players re- r&g from service had only a Jrhile to get back in champion-1 TBhape. Louis and I will havei Mune. Three months Is about "Jm training anybody needs for j m I expect to work my weight ' "191 down to 182 pounds. 1 Ji't want to go below that. I Wily won't lose any of my speed j T That's eight pounds heavier j T was in our first fight, where j Ha little too much on the light 1 1 also like to say that I don't LI I'm meeting any old, worn-j plow in Joe Louis. After all ; ilhree years younger than Hank ' Iberg and nine years younger j ied Ruffing, and no one is pick-1 either that I've heard about." j re are still one or two rather j tant factors that Conn must j ier. He is younger than Louis e is faster than Louis. But must also know that on the f night they meet, Louis will the best possible physical he can reach. it about Conn? Billy has al-had al-had a leaning in the general ion of the primrose trail. such trail ever leads to any arring a few exceptions. Conn ing and headstrong, a fellow ikes a good time. Who doesn't? Jw one Is going to beat even ag-jee ag-jee Louis liking a good time. Louis at 31 is far from being I' man. He is a trifle over the it not so far over. He has been a great fighter, and be pretty close to being a fighter the night he meets r any one else, with the blue Jown. . is a fellow you like, but he ways been irresponsible and o direct. He has supreme nee in himself. He had too confidence in himself the ie met Louis. For one ex-!, ex-!, after the 12th round of that Phe wasn't looking for a mere jy. he was looking for a knock- l of Over -Confidence it Conn's many supporters are I of is this that Conn will take granted that he can whip Louis ir next meeting, without work-k work-k hard to reach this difficult! If that happens Conn won't j a chance. After all, he can't I with Louis, either with the or left hand. night surprise Billy to know many experts rate Louis the boxer, granting that Conn has speed.' Taking no credit from Louis was verging on the side lifness when they met before. my belief that the Bomber e even harder to beat when meet again. n has never been any too about the grind of training, ring men are. But this time 'Urgh Billy will need all he can Specially road work and the f training needed to bring back increase his speed. This t mean that the likable chal-I chal-I will have to spend all his until next June on the job. loes mean, however, that ne I get started along the right bid gradually bring himself to ay he actually moves to his 5g camp for the final spin, er isn't so far away. I |
