LOUIS WINS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 9

LOUIS WINS

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Heavyweight Title CHAMPiON "CUT TO RIBBONS" Carried Out Unconscious In Eighth Round TERRIFIC PUNCHES WIN

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i 0.j:V-*5 «Pai.3 Zoz Louis defeatsd James Eraddock, holder of the world's heavyweight boxing title by a knock-out in the eighth round of a 15-round hout at Chicago. Braddock was carried unconscious to his corner, bleeding profusely froih cuts to the face and nose. .. In the opening round Braddock came out fighting but Louis quickly staggered the champion with a right to the jaw and two rights over the eye, opening a cut. Braddock suddenly' whipped a right uppercut to the chin and Louis went'down. However, he was up before the count. The champion chased him to the ropes and pounded him on the body with both hands.— -Braddock's round. The second round opened with Braddock -again rushing Louis to to ropes, but the advantage was only temporary. His blows were wild and Louis drove a right to the jaw, staggering him and the last. few seconds of the round had Braddock wobbly from a two-fisted battering to the head. — Louis' round. The third opened with Louis effectively jabbing with his left to the face. Louis suddenly leaped with a right to the body and left to the face. The contender shook the champion with a sharp right to the jaw just before the bell. — Louis' round, In the fourth Braddock ended Louis' cautious boxing with adeft to the face and a right to the body, angering the contender, who proceeded to tilt the champion 's head back-with stiff rights and lefts, which made Braddock miss many blows. — Louis' round. Braddock 's eyes were slxghtly puffed as he came up for the fifth. He jabbed Louis' nose, eausing it to bleed. Louis hooked a left to the jaw and stepped out of range of Braddock 's right swings. The contender then proceeded to jab Braddock 's face and punish him severely with rights to the body. — Louis' round.. In the sixth Braddock was badly shaken by a left to the jaw and two rights to the chin. Then he heedlessly walked into Louis, who was driving lefts and rights to the body and head, reopening the cut over Braddock 's left cye. . Similar blows stagged the champion and bruised his lips, but he stood fiat-footed vainly trying to counter his opponent 's vicious • blows. — Louis ' round. Braddock threw bis fists about wildly in the seventh, while Louis cut him to ribbons with straight left jabs and rocked him with a right uppercut to the chin. Braddock was' now fighting baek blindly. Louis' left always struck Braddock 's face, while the tottering champion waa incapable of retaliating. Braddock drove a right feebly to the head before the bell, but he was plainJy defeated. The end came after seveu seconds in tho eighth. Louis opened, boxing eautiously and stabbing his left to his ipponent's face and keeping out of .ange of Braddock. He rocked the ' hampion with a short right to the ivv, followed by another right to the •„w which floored Braddock, whom his . sconds carried, after the count, unccnscious to his corner. Braddock a Badly-Hurt Man. Braddock was a badly-hurt man at the end of the fight. A crimson stain a foot in diameter was left on the canvas whqre his head rested while the count was made. The boxing editor of the New York •Times says: ''For those who -visioned Braddock 's ascendancy when he knocked down Louis in the first round it was only a temporary vision. It disappeared under "the cool, calculating, crafty boxing and savqge and vicious punching of Louis. The finishing blow was one of hundrbds. with which Louis pelted and hammered Braddock who was fighting grimly, fearlessly and willingly. He was reduced to a bleeding mass at the end. He suffeTed haemorrhage from the fiual Jilow and even his seconds turned pale when they saw him lying on the . canvas in a pool of blood." The boxing writer of the North Amorican Newspaper Alliance says: "Thu finishing blow was one of the most terri fic single punches I have ever seen 11 the ring. Braddock never had a chanct He was ogitclassed by youth, speed ani. power. Braddock had only his game ness and stamina against a fighter whose both" hands were lethal to deai with eventualities arising from the fight.", Fifteen hundred police were assigned to the Harlem district of New York but order was maintained. Chicago 's southside, however, reported near riot con dltions although the demonstrations f oi the most part ' were goodnatured. Ncgroes held parades, commandeered trams and otherwise noisily celebrated Ihe first negro victory in a title bout since Jack Johnsou won the ciiampiou Bliip. Louis said: "J\ly only regrot is that 1 ilid not have Schmeling in the ring touight instead of the mai! I kuo.cked out. Braddock was by far the gamest man i aave ever facecl. The wondcr to me was diat he lasted as long as he did. Brad- . lock punches hard and I am not denymg he hurt me several times. I always u-anted the experience of getting floored early in the fight, then coming back to win." Wants Another Fight. B.'addoc"#said: "Louis is a good fight- , but I think with two bouts under no

belt I can. beat him. The ring lights hurt my eyes and I admit I was tirod .after the fifth round, but that's nothing. I '11 fight Louis again and when I do I '11 beat him. ' ' Louis' face did not show any marks of being in a battle. He . immediately changed into street clothes and motored > Ao'a nearby suburb for the night. He is proceeding ■ home to Detroit to-morrow after collecting 122,000 dollars, his share of the receipts. The fight attendance was 50,000 and the receipts -amounted to 700,000 dollaTS. . . . [ •