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Show Pastor Didn't See Kayo Punch Coming (Continued From Pneadlns Pat) a single blow, clean and neat. It was what he had dreamed of doing do-ing ever since the night 30 months ago that Pastor had danced around and taunted him in Madison Square Garden. , Soma of the experts were saying say-ing after the fight that Joe wasn't the Brown Bomber of old, else he never would have let Pastor get away from him temporarily after he had slugged him to the canvas repeatedly at the outset of the battle. They thought the champ's legs looked tired and that he was befuddled in the eighth, ninth and tenth rounds, . all of which Pastor won. But Joe laughed at that "I knew I waa In there for a 20-round fight," he said In the usual Louis dialect, which sometimes some-times Is exaggerated. "I wasn't in any hurry at all after I hit him so much there at the start. But when I sat down at the end of the tenth I felt strong and fresh, so I told "Chappie' (Jack Blackburn, Black-burn, his trainer) that I would get him the next round. Didn't L Chappie?" "Thau right," said Blackburn, solemnly. It wasn't a particularly brutal fight Pastor, who weighed 183 and spotted Louis 17 pounds, came out of It with a gash on his left eyelid and a slightly bruised face. Louis had a mouse under his left eye. Pastor got In some pretty good licks, first and last Once, In the eighth round, he stood Louis up against the ropes and whaled him right smartly. In fact long after the scrap was over, he kept Insisting In-sisting to his manager, Jimmy Johnston: "I can punch with that guy, Pop." |