| Show REF REFEREE REE PRAISES LOUI LOUII Dusky Shows Show I Better F Form orm He Declares I By GA GAYLE TALBOT ALBOT NEW YORK Feb 25 CJ On j On of the most enthusiastic men mesi ID town about tho the new and mature Joe Louis is Referee Arthur Do Dovan Done Dono Donevan Donovan van a man whose opinion r. r more than the usual respect J Donovan has handled ever eve heavyweight fight of important cl here in recent years including Mas Ma knockout of Lo Louis LoiL i Tommy Farrs Farr's round 15 roughhouse rough house with the champion am Louis' Louis three-round three gayo of the impetuous im impetuous Natie Mann night on bp ri last I Iho Ho sa says s 's that J Joe 00 now is VU ety vey close to the that X x g cited fight writers and bedazzled d thought he was V t two years ago Donovan has been in ia there close with the tho big negro Its It's obvious ious he thinks Joe will reverse the score on next time Hes got about everything now i 5 he said when asked for his s 's verj jr best opinion Principally he hal hai the greatest left jab Ive I've ever seii seffi seen Honestly its it's terrific The first time he reached out and Mann with it I heard Naties Natie's n ni Sl crack He could knock some g oo men out with it in time and W i would cut anyone to ribbons andi in 1 rounds I Joe Jacobs voluble manager was at the same tl ti time i assuring a neighboring gr p that Louis still is 15 a sucker I f for ra r a right i Look how Mann batt batted d him around with a right IB Im not so sure about that tha said Donovan J Joe oe has learned learne lot about keeping away from right and I can see it Ma caught him by surprise with a cot cou coupIe pie but hell he'll be watching out f fd X When they fought the first ti Um iT Louis had been popping over a lc a-lc Ic a-Ic Ie of fellows with that left ho thrown from front any distance and an angle He had been missing a lr If of them and leaving himself w open but nobody was smart to take advantage of it lintS came along M Now hes he's much more cau with it Against Mann if you EJi n he didn't throw his left U Util til the second round when he heV v V v vin in close and ad had a target he k kne e ehe he couldn't miss In other wor wor wora doubtless will hit wi I rights but not like the ones I j landed in their first fight wh wh he was crossing over Joes Joe's miss misi lefts and catching him flush c coi fing I f ing forward And AmI ling will vill find Jo tTo Joa I Ia a much keen keener r harder hitt hitte than the other time All tha thu was said and written about Lout not being properly trained f fo fob J that fight seemed to me to b t true He lie seemed bewildered when Max started smacking him Mann hit him the other night li ligot hip got mad the first time I ever e sa IS Continued on ot Following Page Joe Louis Shows Big Improvement Continued from Preceding Page Pagel him show a trace of the old Dempsey spirit Which naturally got Donovan questioned on whether he thought the present Louis could have whipped the Jack Dempsey of Toledo To To- ledo a tough one to answer but you can bet it would have been beena a great fight Dempsey didn't have a jab like Louis' Louis and neither did he have a left hook until Jack Kearns drilled it into him Louis had both naturally naturally nat nat- and Im I'm convinced that tha neither Dempsey nor any other man ever had a more paralyzing right than Joes Joe's The most terrible single blow ever landed in the ring Donovan believes was the right with which Louis knocked out Paulino Uzcudun Uzcudun Uzcudun dun in the Garden winter before last It would have he says floored a mule |
