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Show WIND, CLOUDS ! TRiram AT TITLE GO BRIGGS STADIUM, Detroit, Sept 20 MP) A cool wind, blowing a few clouds in from the west, held down the attendance at-tendance tonight for Joe Louis I defense of his world's heavyweight heavy-weight championship igainat the challenge of Bob Pastor, former New York university footballer. Not many more than 5000 of the faithful were on hand an hour before be-fore the first preliminary started. Promotor Mike Jacobs had held hopes the scheduled 20-round bout would attract' a crowd of 50.0(10 and-a gale of more than MOO.OOO. Louis. In prefight wagering, was Installed a lopsided 1 to 8 favorite against the fast, shifty boxer who went 10 rounds with him back In 1937. He was considered even more of a cinch among ringside rivals as a result of the weights of the two: The brown bomber, in perfect .condition, hit 200 on the nose at the weigh-in. Pastor, although al-though four pounds heavier than In his previous outing against Joe, was a disappointing 183. He had expected to seal at least 187. With the temperature considerably consider-ably lower than during this after- I noon, fans were armed with top- coats and sweaters, , |