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Show Chile Sends j Latest Hope Against Joe NEW YORK. Oct 10 Promoter Pro-moter Mike Jacobs today said Ar-turo Ar-turo Godoy, Chilean heavyweight, had displaced Lou Nova of California Cali-fornia as No. 1 prospect for a February Feb-ruary bout In Madison Square Garden Gar-den with Champion Joe Louis, Jacobs originally had favored Nova, beat his last time out by Two-ton Tony Galento, but has swung to the South American since learning the latter is planning another an-other trip to the United States. Victor Over Tony Godoy, holder of the South American heavyweight title and winner of two decisions over Galento Ga-lento in 1937, is due here next month. Godoy, a square shouldered, leather faced veteran, who is cele-bratlng cele-bratlng his 30th birthday in Buenos . Aires. Argentina, today, announced over the South American radio hook-up, "I'll knock him out. He can't take it. But I can. I'll prove to the world that Louis is not the Invincible man everybody tries to make him out" Godoy said he expected to arrive in New York around mid-November. He would try to persuade a Peruvian heavyweight, heavy-weight, Juan Ulrich, to accompany him to the United States as his . sparring partner and perhaps to take on some important bouts. Kayoea Flrpe Godoy first attracted the attention atten-tion of American promoters in 1936 by knocking out ancient Angel An-gel Firpo of Argentina in the tenth round. Remember, Firpo was the lad who belted Jack Dempsey out of the ring in '23. Although the rugged Chilean made a great showing show-ing against Galento in his two bouts, he was outpointed by Roscoe Tolei and Nathan Mann. He is one of the toughest pugilists pugi-lists of modern times, ranking along with Tommy Fair of Wales. He never has been knocked out or floored, although he was stopped once because of gashed brows in a novice fight with Louis Aravena of Chile. ' When Louis makes this ninth title defense in less than two and a half years he will be giving future heavyweight kings another mark to shoot at. And since the bout will attract about 1115.000, he will add robustly to his purse total of 1,5M;000 about half of what Jack Dempsey pounded out with his fists. |