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Show PAGE FOUR iPROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1941 o eh into totfis TO O - Tl Slender Challenge Pits Skill Against Bomber Dyn amite NEW YORK, Jane 18 OJJO Jw Ltab will have an advantage of pounds when he defends him world heavyweight championship champion-ship against Billy Conn at the Polo grounds tonight. At the official weigh-In, Louis scaled 199K; Conn. 174. - Tonight's fight wUl be broadcast ever the Mutual network at 7 p. Mountain Standard Time. BY JACK CUDDY NEW YORK, June 18 (U.E) With three supreme inducements tossed into the kitty glory, gold and a girl Irish Billy Conn makes an all-out attempt to win the world heavyweight championship from mighty Joe Louis. ' Romance was added to this Polo Grounds drama of blood and canvas with a last-minute Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh announcement that the father of Billy's fiance, Mary .Louise Smith, was objecting vehemently ve-hemently to their marriage plans. Handsome Billy politely refused to discuss the affair, but a member mem-ber of his entourage said: "Regardless "Re-gardless of the Pittsburgh story, those parental objections will end quickly if Billy wins the title which he surely will." Betting men were not so confident con-fident of this happy ending. The price favoring Louis lengthened to 4-1, with indications it might be 5-1 when the hard-hitting Detroit De-troit negro and smaller Conn' enter the ring for their 15-round battle. With fair weather forecast. Promoter Mike Jacobs was confident con-fident more than 40,000 would be in the Giants' ball park when his new-fangled quartet of gons open the fray at 10 p. m. EDT. He estimated the gate would range between $375,000 and $400,- 000. This would be the largest fight crowd and gate since .the return Louis-Max Schmeling match in 1938. Despite the betting odds, it is extremely uncertain what will happen after Billy-the-Kid and the negro monarch climb into the square of brilliant light. The bout may end in the first round with Conn in the resin. Or it may develop into a memorable brawl that will go down in history with the Dempsey-Firpo battle which was fought in the same park in 1923. Many expertse reg'ira it an all- Clever Conn Climaxes Years Of Struggle In Title Fight Principals In Heavyweight Fight - . important . test of Louis' greatness. great-ness. The Brown Bomber has proved himself the "most destructive destruc-tive of heavyweight champions by virtue of bis 45 knockouts in 53 fights, a better showing even than Jack Demp8eys 47 in 69. 3 lit many observers still question le negro's footwork and his ability abil-ity to think quickly against a fast, smart opponent. Fastest . Boxer Conn, who seeks to duplicate the achievement of two old-time "small" irisii warriors Jim Cor-bett Cor-bett and Bob Fitzsimmons unquestionably un-questionably is the fastest man Bomber Joe ever faced. He is also the cleverest and perhaps the most courageous. This 23-year-old challenger, who fought up from Pittsburgh's streets to the light heavyweight title, loves to fight. His yen for battle may prove disastrous dis-astrous tonight if he comes tear ing in wildly after being tugged. However, Billy can take a good punch. His neck is larger than the champion's. He never has been knocked out. Moreover, he has the stamina of a marathon runner. A slow starter, he usually doesn't get warmed up . until after the fifth round. In addition to starting start-ing slowly, his other disadvantages are lack of punch and lack of poundage. By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, June 18 (CLE) Nine years ago a man walked into a Pittsburgh gymnasium and said to Johnny Ray, who owned the tumble-down place: The big boys in our block are picking on the kid, and 111 give you a buck a week if you'll teach him how to fight." At that moment Billy Conn be came a fighter. If he can get money for fighting, so much the better If he can't, he'll fight because be-cause he loves it. " Gets Start The man who spoke to Johnny Ray was Billy's father. The kid, of course, was Billy. Johnny Ray took one look at him and saw a frail, pale youngster with pipe-stem pipe-stem arms and a face that was almost girlish. Standing there In the corner of the shabby gymnasium, gymnasi-um, Billy looked anything in the world but a professional fighter. Until he put his hands up and shadow boxed. "Right then I knew I had something." some-thing." Johnny Ray said, "and so I took the kid for a buck a week." 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An oil-plated engine is one more economy you get from a change to popular-priced popular-priced new Conoco Nf oil. have been their companions most of the way. But win, lose or draw against Joe Louis this evening, their troubles are over. They will walk out of the Polo grounds with $60,000. and if they win they are on the road to half a million. It's more money than either of them knew existed in the days when they were on the tank town cir-ru'i. cir-ru'i. fight lor as little as $2.50 a bout. Has Fighting Spirit There are factors in a prize fight besides footwork, hooks, jabs and straight rights. There is an intangible something called fight ing spirit and Conn is crammed with it. I think he is too light and too much of a powder-puff puncher to handle Louis, but I m looKing ior mm 10 put up a wnaie of a scrap while it lasts. , 1 He is a- natural fighter in the .sense that Harry Greb and Demp-sey Demp-sey were natural fighters. They loved to fight and they found out to their astonished surprise peo ple would pay money to see tnem uo it The other type of boxer is the synthetic ngnter. xunney was one of those. He cared nothing about the prize fight racket, but he saw in it a chance to work hard and get rich. He did both of those things and retired. Fiehtinc 3nirit is deeD in the Conn family. They say Billy's lather got involved in an extracurricular extra-curricular fight almost every time Billv eoes into the ring, ine story is that Billy jihoned after one of his fights and his father inquired: "How'd you come out, son? "I won mv fierht" Billy re plied. "How did you do in your's?" Mehner Bows To Miami U Netter C0N'0C 0 MOTOR OIL Let Us Oil-Plate Your Engine with Nth . .'.-It's Your Guarantee of Satisfaction! CONOCO OIL SERVICE STATION Gorner Center and 1st Est - : : Phone 2020 TIMPS BATTLE MILLMENTODAY Four Industrial league baseball teams swing into action today in what promises to be one of the most important days of activity to date this season. Provo Tmps attempt to better their third-place standings against second-place Magna-Garfield at Magna this afternoon at 4:30 p. m. j Brigham City's Peaches defend their league lead against Gem-men Gem-men club at Bingham in the other contest. Sixth Holds Lead In Softbalf Play TUESDAY'S RESULTS Sixth ward 2, Fifth ward 1. Fourth ward 23, 20-30 club 22. Steel Plant 9, First ward 5. WILMTNOTON. Del.. June 18 n ui William Gillespie, defend- iricr tlflhoMr from Miami univer sity, became the favorite today in the annual middle states ten nis tournament when word was received re-ceived that Bob Harman of Oak- A close, pitcher's duel, a wild slugging spree, and a typical game featured Commercial league soft-ball soft-ball play Tuesday night. Sixth ward retained its league lead by edging Fifth ward in the pitcher's due 2-1, with Bill Overly and Mitchell besting Dabling in a mound skirmish. Each teams got only three hits. In just the opposite sort of contest. con-test. Fourth ward slugged out a 23-22 decision over 20-30 club in a wild encounter. Steel Plant captured the other tilt, defeating First ward, 9-5, behind be-hind the five hit hurling of Ken Gren. land. Calif., had turned professional. profes-sional. The list of favorites was dented further when Frank Mehner of the University of Utah lost to George Pero, Miami university, 1-6, 6-4, 8-6, in the second round Additional Sports On Page Seven Hubbell Hurls Giants To Uictory; Indians Dodgers. Cards Triumph By GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK, June 18 (UR) One of the high spots of the base ball season is the success of that little group of greybeards who are defying- father time out there on the pitching ., mound. There are six of them. Charlie Root of the Cubs is the oldest at 42. Ted Lyons of the White Sox has seen the longest term of major league service, 19 years. Lefty Grove of Red ' Sox has won the most games, 297, and lost the fewest, 135, and has the best rec ord this season, 4 victories against cne, loss. The other three old- timers are Carl Hubbell, who'll be 38 next Sunday, won his third straight and fifth of the season yesterday by pitching the Giants to 6-3 victory over the Pirates. Much of the speed and cunning is gone from Hubbell's arm but if he gets a few runs he's still a tough hombre to lick. The Pirates flayed him for 10 hits, including Elbie Fletcher's homer but Old Hub was at his best when ducks were on the pond. Ten Pirates were left stranded. H.ninthestinan All members of the Greybeard club are over the .500 mark this season. Some of them like Grove, Lyons and Root pitch only once a week. Fitzsimmons doesn't pitch that often. 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