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Show mm Brown Bomber Determined To Catch and Stop Pastor Early in Titular Battle By CHARLES DCNKLEY DETROIT, Sept. 19 (AP) Joe Louis, ready to defend the world's heavyweight championship against Bob Pastor tomorrow tomor-row night, has contempt and hatred in his heart for his chal lenger. Personal feeling rarely has played any part in Louis' fights, but the negro -titleholder has no liking for Pastor because of statements state-ments attributed to him and his manager, James J. Johnston, since Pastor surprisingly surpris-ingly stayed the 10-round limit with Joe In their battle in New York In January, 1937. Louis Is determined deter-mined to prove Tnst Pastor was extremely lucky a k in ft I tf . rnaJi pion places this time limit on the duration of the bout even should Pastor attempt to run away from him. The champion said: "I'm going to catch Pastor just as fast as I can. There ain't no use me fbolin' around with him. The sooner I catch him the sooner my work will be finished." Tomorrow's night battle, scheduled sched-uled for 20 rounds, will be the first over that soute in 25 years, since Jess Wlllard won the heavyweight heavy-weight crown from Jack Johnson in Havana in 1915. Supposedly, that distance favors Pastor, who is convinced he will tensive skill and experience gained in longer fights. Pastor says Louis can easily be bewildered by feinting, causing him to miss his blows, blink his eyes and throw up his hands in an in- rounds. He is su- Joe Louis premely confident of stopping Pastor Pas-tor within five rounds. The cham- stinctive defensive gesture. Pastor says he will take advantage of that momentary befuddlement with offensive of-fensive blows of his own. Pastor Bests Pastor, Idle since last Thursday in an obvious effort to gain weight, breaks camp at Brighton, Mich, today to move into the battleground. battle-ground. He will hide away in a hotel here until time to weigh in. Manager Johnston said that Pastor, Pas-tor, in refraining from boxing, was merely following a custom of a long rest period before a fight. The challenger has dona no boxing box-ing for five days but has continued his daily roadwork and light gymnasium gym-nasium exercises. Reporting an advance sale of $300,000, Promoter Mike Jacobs expressed confidence the fight would attract a gate of at least $400,000. A sharp drop in temperature, tempera-ture, bringing autumn chill, caused a measure of apprehension in the last-minute demand for tickets, but that was no worry to Promoter Jacobs, who calmly went about the task of converting Briggs stadium, sta-dium, home of the Detroit Tigers, Into a fight arena. The ring was pitched over sec- ond base and above it huge strings ot lights were swung Into position. The inlield and a portion ot the outfield were hidden beneath 12,-500 12,-500 ringside chairs and raised tiers of seats. The park has a seating capacity of 65,000 at prices ranging from 2.50 for bleacher seats to 127.50 for rlngsides. Referee Preepeeta The third man in the ring will be chosen from these three: Elmer (Slim) McClelland, Sam Hennessey and Clarence Rosen, all Detrolters. The general Impression is that one of the first two will be chosen. Both are highly experienced and are physically capable of handling heavyweights. E. J. Giffels of Detroit will be timekeeper and Wilfrid Goldman knockdown timekeeper. Harry Ballogh. New York announcer, will be brought here especially for the title struggle. Promoter Jacobs doesn't even want to discuss tha possibility of a postponement because of rain but. If the weather forces one, the fight will be held on the first clear night following. Rain insurance hasn't even been considered because be-cause Jacobs considers the premium premi-um exorbitant and the chances of collecting too slim to permit the investment. Louis and Pastor will weigh in at the Michigan state fairgrounds here at noon tomorrow. Pastor expects ex-pects to scale 187 pounds and Louis about 201. |