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Show r, f J Louis Angels 3 ALL the hullabaloo, back i; I , number of noncom-r noncom-r fe wondering Just what Joe bo: .1, t0 do about bis UUe and :ts 1 T rfa hai no Intention of re-fl re-fl the prize fight nng. He ,in this talk to to Jl ft PI t Iff using " help his exhibition trip where he has been knocking over from $10,000 to $15,-000 $15,-000 for each show. This is the easiest money anyone can make, using 14 and 16-ounce gloves. 2. LOUI3 has no I one to fight except kid Rice Eward Charles who i'wnt to fight Louis. Be-ft Be-ft - 175-pound Charles would KJuis look like an elephant 4: 1 rabbit or a whippet. It 3 be a contest. It wouldn t j J.000. .. , I E IS the situation as it Is a mil is through and there illenger to meet him. The x ght division today is at its J b in ring history. X obitY OPINION) Louis " ej ssional fighter. That's his , thy shouldn't he pick up Jjt:' o.OOO to $300,000 meeting ft -hover? '.' u are s few of the anglea J't. jeered recently, from I, l King men as Jack Demp-,) Demp-,) Abe Roth, the referee, 1 f-gn the line. f Is in a spot where he can j fedit for beating any of the ' lights now gumming up the 0n the other hand, to be one of these alleged prize jfwould leave a large blot soalled escutcheon. The ' ing with thousands Is: "It ' rhit you used to be it's what today." 1 outsider advising Louis f' i) d9 Is wasting his time. i will either do what he - or what Mike Jacobs , 1 Louis hates to pass up 1 iks to be the softest touch amplnn ever faced. Mike uys use more money, no j how murh he has stuffed ij hrough the years, th gs look now, the Bomber would be the slowest- 1 champion that ever de-1 de-1 i 1 heavyweight title if he ta post again in June. His op- it ; 11 have to be a fairly sour " ni to lose. cflnos d boy with the scythe can Via hurry. It hardly seems 4 that 50 years have passed iy ung Jim Jeffries knocked Filzsimmons. as Big Jim's 11th fight. He n Jim Corbett's sparring jr before Corbett's fight with i Nons at Carson City. And J J e still vague rumors that w gave Corbctt a heavy beat-f beat-f fi re Jim lost to Fits, via the Folar plexus route. " un, Corbrtt, Fits and Alison have put on their i r'g cloaks and moved on 5 I. But Big Jim is still ; ilh us, hale and a trifle I after a bad paralysis lijyear or two ago. blears after he knocked out Prions. Jeffries, now in his as bald as two doorknobs, il a powerful looking citizen. II I first met Jeffries, back 1002 or 1933. he could high x feet and run the 100 in 3 seconds flat. He then 212 pounds and he was as his feet as a featherweight. - me way;. Jim fjorbett told : "Jeff has become a better ! an I ever was. And nobody f hurt him, not even with ; roke almost every bone in 4ndi slugging Jeff in their fP'ght, without even Jarring might as well have slugged -f hydrant," Fitz told friends 4 fi"ht '"I Jeffries, around 1902 and -; a (..cat a ich' r as 'me has ever known. He ht you and hurt you and 1 culd hurt him. in 1910 training for the Jack Johnson party. He ; over 270 and he was bald, 1 8l(w- He had been out of jr seven or eight years. The 19"2 or 1903 would have .; !tl Joh'san. The Jeffries of 5 a Pushover for anyone who 'athe and move around. talk about Dempsey and , f ften wonder how either r.ve 1,iuked against the Jef-rl Jef-rl "scd to be. You wonder aW their fists would have Jfter a few rounds. if has been a long gap ay. Jim Jeffrie, was ' h" had to retire. It was '" mention anyone having wa ihance against him. D'"a.ed hi, field more Louis ever did. |