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Show wmm mmm m : Emu? mmmm t T Brown Bomber Confident He Can Catch Bob Pastor In Heavyweight Title Go By GAYLE TALBOT DETROIT, Sept. 20 (AP) After a lapse of nearly three years, Champion Joe Louis tonight resume his chase after the little imp who once eluded him and injured his pride. He and Bob Pastor meet all Briggs stadium, home of the Detroit De-troit Tigers, before a crowd that 1 .. ,1 is expected to reach the 40.0110 mark, and this time the feeling Is that the big negro will catch and pulverize the former fullback full-back for New York university. This time he will have 20 rounds in which to corner his the ' 10 they fought in Madl- Salient Facts DETROIT, Sept. 20 (IIP) Salient facts about tonight s championship cham-pionship fight: Principal! Champion Jne Louis, Detroit, vs. Challenger Bob Pastor, Pas-tor, New York. At stake World's heavyweight championship. Oiatanre 20 rounds. Place Briggs stadium Promoter Mike Jacobs, New York, and Scotty Monteith, De-trolt. De-trolt. Expected crowd 50.000. Expected gate S45O.0UO. Fighters' purses Louis, 374 per cent of net gate; Pastor, 17S. Time af main bout 9:30 p. m. Central daylight time (7:30 Salt Lake City time.) Weather foreeaat Fair and warmer. Radio broadcast N BC Blue network. net-work. Mupporting card All heavyweights, heavy-weights, four four-rounders and two six-rounders. SchiaeUnc den before Louis became ehamplon. He will have an advantage of 17 pounds, having officially weighed In at 200 pounds. He is a greater fighter In every respect re-spect than he was when the freewheeling free-wheeling Bob held him to a hollow derision. Pastors official weight was 183 pounds. Louis has been angry at Pastor for nearly three years. He has ' felt all that time that the New York boy made a sucker nut of him, and ha haa yearned to get Bob In the ring with him again. He has worried his managers and Promoter Mike Jacobs half to death about It Ha wants to square accounts with Pastor, as he did with Max Rcameling. with a kayo In the first j round, back In June, 1938. The Fight Tape DETROIT. Kept. I (I P) Tale af the tape ea tonight's championship fight: LOI IN. PASTOR. M Years. A ge. IS Years, tae Lh. Weight I si Mm. ft. l In. Height. ( ft. 114 ifcnnan nan oejiea joe tor a knockout In their first meeting. In 1936. But since the night that eers and boos filled the air at Madison Square Garden while Joe was chasing Pastor, the Bomber haa talked much more vengefully about Bob than ever about Schmeling. Schmel-ing. And tonight, before the home folks, he finally gets his chance to close out that account. He fully Intends to knock Pastor kicking in the first round. Bookmakers i around town are offering odds of 1 to 1 against Pastor's chances, !- and doing practically no business ! at. all ' t.-. m .. I Pastor does have a chance, of j course. He Is young. Is an exceptionally excep-tionally clever boxer and hits pretty pret-ty well. Last night, sitting around the hotel and talking, he said he thought he might knock Louis out. His manager, Jimmy Johnston, laid It was a cinch. "All right, you wise guys," Johns- la In. -Reach. 71 In. 41 In. Chest Normal. 41 In. 44 In. ( hot E spend. 47 In. IS'., In. Neck. IT, In. St In. Uskt 14 In. 14 In. Rle eps. IS In. II in. Forearm. It In. g In. WrM. 1 In. 11 In. Mat. II In. It In. ' Thl gh. II In. 15 In. a If. If In. . If In. Aa kle. 1 In. ton said, "Just remember that I told you what was going to happen to this great champion. Louis has been trapped ever since he agreed to fight us 20 rounds. He'll be worn out about half way, and then watch Bob work on him." It could happen, one supposes. After all, Jim Braddock was even a longer shot against Max Baer. Tony Galento was generally felt to be a set-up for Lou Nova last week In Philadelphia. Joe's Punching Power Gives Him Great Edae in Predictions But It Is necessary ts string' along with Louis, in about two rounds. He hits terribly hard. Just how hard he hits a man was realized real-ized anew the other night when we saw Galento take everything Nova had for 14 rounds without being greatly Inconvenienced. It took only about a dozen of Louis' ' blows to make a wreck of Tony. ; The way Joe feels, he should hit Pastor this tune. Perhaps he will get to him aa quickly as he did to Max Schmeling. against whom he harbored a similar cold rage. One of his handlers has said, confidentially, that Louis would have killed Schmeling that night. and that he tried to do It, too. Pastor's hope lies In his ability to start fast and to keep clear of Joe's fists for dear life until such time as Joe tires a little, or perhaps per-haps becomes discouraged. There Is a lot of feeling that if Pastor survives 10 rounds he will have a chance to win, because he real.y la a fine boxer. Pastor obviously has trained himself him-self for a long fight Since last Thursday he hasn't had the gloves on, but has only taken light exer-1 else and stored up his energy. Louis went at it hard right up to yesterday. He doesn't intend to muff this one. |