Levinsky Fight Proved Camera Was Turning Point in Louis’ Career By P. L. PRATTIS (For The Associated Negro Press) Chicago, Aug. 15—When Joe Louis, Detroit’s heavyweight gift to the white gentlemen in Now ork and Chicago who promote prize fights, pounded out a smashing two-minute victory over King Levinsky at Cominsky park last Wednesday •evening before .19,195 rabid, yelling fans, his tom tom fists carried a curt, pre emptor y message to all other heavyweights, white and black. “Get out of my way—I mean business!” said the Louis’ maul ers for their owner. Thousands of charged and livid words have pranced over the tele graph wires designed to describe the downfall of the Kingfish and full credit lias been giben to the Brown Bomber, but the after math of the battle is contained in the “Clear the way” command o ft lie sledge hammer blows which cut the head of the Kra kows down. Before the Levinsky fight, some reporters, eager for an an gle of exploitation, criticized the Louis training methods. They said his sparmates were hams. rl his writer thought they were heroes. One round each they went with him at each session, one round if they could last. But most of them could not last. For five dollars, they volunteered to be knocked unconscious. Do you think that’s an easy job? How would you like to tell somebody, “Well, 1 worked hard last week— I was knocked unconscious three times”? Louis did his real training for the Levinsky fight in the Yankee Stadium against Primo Camera. Vv hen he had chopped the giant oak of Lombardy down, he was ready then for the mighty King fish. After that fight, Louis was through with his tests in the prize ring. There be those who will boast of their exploit in going the limit with the Brown Bomber. Four men will tell that story to their grandchildren if the effects of the beating they took from Louis allow them to live that long. 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Believe this writer v^hen he tells you that neither Patsi Peronni nor Natie Brown could either last more than two rounds with the Joe Louis of to day. Believe him when he tells you that neither could have last ed at any time if Joe had been told to plaster them to the flodr at any cost- No, blood brothers, they could not have done it. Up unti lthe Camera fight ,Joe Louis was taking his examina tions in the prize ring. He was young, he was new, he was green (lacking in experience). Remem ber how Jack Johnson said Car nera would beat him because he lacked experience? There was something to the dope that Joe had better be on the lookout for the tricks of the crafty old vet erans of the ring. Joe was like any youngster learning. He had, his eyes open to learn. His friends, his trainer and his man agers, all cautioned him. Nobody wanted to see him through ignor ance, become the victim of a trick that would spoil his career. He had the strength, the power and the skill. Why run the risk of losing a million dollars by some rash oversight in the ring. So, for one year, up until the Camera fight, Joe took his les sons in ring craft. If an opponent went down and stayed from the effect of one of Joe’s blasts, that was all right, but that was not the Bomber’s set design. He didn't rush himself to finish them. Remember how he floored Birkie in the early rounds of a fight at Pittsburgh, then coasted to give the German a boxing les son? That was a good chance to learn something from one of the veterans. In the final round, he closed in and polished his man off Remember the Natie Brown fight ? Remember how Brown stuck his head outside the ropes to keep Louis from hitting him? Remember how the referee stay ed in Joe’s way? Remember how Brown gave the Bomber nothing but the top of his head to hit at? Remember how gentlemanly the White Knight of the ring was, stepping back to give Brown a chance? And do you remember the two Ha mage fights? The first one went eight rounds. Rarnage, the master boxer, kept a left jab in Joe’s face. Before the first fight, Louis did not know what Rarnage might do to him. He knew he was a skillful boxer, but did not know the weight of his blows. There was no sense in him laying Kinf self open to a chance blow frolu the coast boxer. In the eighth round, he caught up with him and! set him on his pants. In Los An-1 geles, a few weeks later, it took ■ him only two rounds. He had i learned much from the first fight; above all, knew that he had noth ing to fear from Rarnage. But Camera was really ques-1 tion Number Ten in Joe’s exam!-; nation of himself as a prizefight-; er. Here was a giant hulk of a1 man who had been a champion. He possessed size, height, reach, strength and some skill. He was known to be, not only tricky in the ring, but “dirty” also. He’ll step on your feet and sock you” they warned Joe. “He’ll maul and wrestle you until you are tir ed”, others cautioned- He was told that it would be difficult to reach the giant ’s chin. He had the example of Camera’s stand against Baer as a test of the toughness and recuperative pow ers. Question Number Ten was really the key to Joe’s examina tion of himself. The correct an swer to it was to prove to him and to his handlers his real pow i ers. So lie took his pencil from ! behind his ear, scratched his head and figured out the answer. The first knockdown of Car nera in the sixth round at Yank ee Stadium was a red light stop sign for King Levinsky. Who was this guy Levinsky, known as the mighty fish peddl er? lie was an old hometown war horse. Many a good fighter oi championship class had come to Chicago to have his career blot ttd by this fish monger. Jack Sharkey had been knocked down. Mickey Walker, Tommy Lough ran. Leo Tom ski and numerous others had been knocked out. Jack Dempsey had been beaten by him. Many were they who had stood up before the Kingfish only to regret it afterwards. Not a skil led boxer, he possessed a wild right, filled with TNT. It came from everywhere and was apt to land anywhere- If it landed on his opponent’s jaw, the opponent landed on the floor. Furthermore this Levinsky was tough and courageous. Only twice before the Louis fight had he been knocked down. Once, in a fight early in his career, Ted Ross upset him and the Kingfish attempted to run out of the ring. The other time was last winter when Max Baer knocked him out in two rounds. But against other fighters, Le vinsky had caught all they could pitch and had done some pitch in gin his own behalf. He was the kind of a fighter who did his best under pressure, who count ered with his right swings when he was struck. What was Joe Louis going to do against a man like this? Sup pose Joe did hit him? Would not the Kingfish. retailate in a fury and smash the Bomber to the can vas? Few fans in Chicago believ ed Levinsky could win against Louis, but you could not have picked up any money betting that the Kingfish would not knock Louis down. It was ‘in the cards’ that Joe was to be set on his pant ies at least onee. “ What will you do if he knocks you down?” ask ed Wilfred Smith of the Chicago Tribune. TI 'II get fup,” replied Joe. Even Benny Leonard, who thinks Joe is an invention in the fighting game, felt Levinsky might floor Joe. “But he’ll get up,” asserted Leonard. Well, the Kingfish did not knock Joe down- Joe passed his examination with a mark of E plus. The Joe Louis who met King I Levinsky was a different Joe 'Louis from the one who defeated j Camera, Ramage, Birkie, Peronni jand the flock of others. He was a fighter with the same power and strength and skill, but in the Camera bout he had passed his ; test in psychology and ring craft. That is why 40,000 paid cus1 tomers saw the quickest knock out in Joe’s ring career. Many fighters inferior to Levinsky had stayed longer with Joe, but none of them had met the Joe Louis whom the Kingfish faced. The Hebrew lad can take some con solation out of that thought. Against Levinsky, Louis was| not only the powerful Bomber j and the master boxer. He added j fury to his work. He was a frenzi ed tiger, eager to kill, lie cared j not a wot for ring tricks, for th« j other man in the ring. The fa mous ^Levinsky Sunday punch meant nothing to him. Hadn’t he heard them “build up” all tlie other guys he had fought? Well, there had been nothing to that stuff. Too, he knew the crowd was wondering if he could take it. He had told someone sharply, “I don’t have to take it, I dish it out ” But he would show them. He’d take all Levinsky had and crush him like an annoying cockroach That’s just what he did. Only half the story of the fight has been written. It has been all about what Louis did to the King fish. That is but natural. Bui something should be written about what the Kingfish did (or tried to do) to Louis. Louis him self, after the fight, stated that Levinsky had stuck his thumb in hs eye, “but I jpLon’t think he meant it”, added Joe. Don’t let anybody try to tell you Levinsky did not want to make a fight of it. Don’t you believe that stuff about Levinsky being afraid. The writer knows Levinsky, has talk ed with him, punched him in the belly. The Kingfish fears no man. He might have been puzzled (his face showed that) but he was not afraid- He intended to turn the power on Joe at the first oppor tunity. And he did. There were lots of those at the ringside who seem not to have seen the sock which Levinsky landed on Joe’s jaw. That is possible. The fight was so quick, so filled with ac tion, that it could habe been miss ed. But this writer was within ten feet of the two fighters when the Levinsky sock landed on Joe’s cheek bone. Joe said Levinsky just grazed his eye. Other report ers thought the blow landed on Joe’s neck. It didn’t. It hit him flush on the cheek bone. It is a tribute to Joe’s toughness and durability if he thought Levinsky had just grazed his eye. Levinsky hit Joe twice with all he had .But he might just as well have socked the chin whiskers of a George Washington statue. Joe was a deadly rampaging ma chine. He knew he could take it His first sock to Levinsky’s chin a curving combination left hook and upppercut told him that the Kingfish was his dinner. And with a fury shown in none of his other fights, he sped up the kill ing. Before the Camera fight, Lev insky nii^ht have laster six or seven rounds with Joe. But, after the New York brawl, it was “in the cards” that the likable boy of Maxwell street was to go out early. And “it is in the cards” that all the other heavyweights ,black and white, must fall before the dynamite of the Bomber for a long time to come Louis will fight Baer in September. Baer will be in condition for this fight. And he’ll fight. But don’t worry my dearies. It will do no good. These six-inch mule kicks of Louis will put him out of condi tion. Not for a long, long time wil Ithe conqueror of Joe Louis come along, maybe never if lie takes care of himself. Somewhere up on the w a y, maybe two or three years from now, a dark shadow will probab ly cross the path of Louis, a Sam Langford dogging a Jack Johnson. The shadow will be a jet black boy, also from Detroit, known as Lorenzo Back. There are those who look forward to this fight. Pack is expected to pack away the entire pack of ex i [ isting reavyweights and confront Joe, But Pack has come along at the wrong time. LouSs is too far in front. When Pack has worked his way in front of the other heavies, Louis will still be in front of him, a boxing Corbett, a slugging Dempsey, and a strat egist like Britton, all rolled into one NEGRO NEWSPAPERS HAVE SPECIAL WIRES AT BIG FIGHT # Chicago, Aug. 14. (AKP)—Col ored members of the fourth Estate did a fine job by jJoe Louis and the promoters who put over the fight be tween him and King Levi ns ky at Comiskey Park last Wednesday night. Special wires were leased by The Pittsburgh Couriesr, The Afro American and The Atlanta Daily World, which carried blow-by-blow descriptions of the fight until its eventful end after two minutes twenty-one seconds of fighting. “Cheg” Washington, sports edi-* tor of The Courier, sat next to Bill Corum of the Hearst staff and piled up copy for his paper. Direct ly after the fight, he shot pictures in to Pittsburgh by plane. The publi caton of The Courier was held up 24 hours in order to obtain coverage of the fight. Within an hour and a half after tht fight was over, The Courier was on the street, B'll Gibson of The Afro American also wired his paper while the fight was in progress. The Afro had made special preparations for a blow-by blow description of the battle to be broadcast from its plant in Balti more. P. I. Prattis did the number for the Atlanta World. Also sitting in tse “working press” row was A1 Munro of the Defender. Munro began lor\g before the fight to grind out impressionistic copy for the special editions of his paper which were issued before 10 o’clock. Close by was Frank Young, sports editor of the Kansas City Call; Rus sel Cowans, Detroit, and numerous other representatives of he colored other x-epresentatives of the colored pi'ess. After the fight, as the colored boys gi-ound out their copy for the vaiting telegx-aph o p e r atox*9, a arge crowd of spectators fi'om the ‘millionaires’ row” behind them stood up and watched the writers at work while reading their stories. BAER NEXT FOR LOUIS. | MAYBE CHICAGO, MAYBE NEW YORK Chicago. 111.. Aug. 14, (ANP)—* The battle of the dynamiters, Joe Louis and ex-champion, Max Baer, Will be held either Sept. 26 or 27, either in Yankee Stadium, New York, or Soldier Field, Chicago. The papers were signed last Thursday in this city followng the Louis-Levinsky scrap. Wherever it is fought, there is a tentative arrangement that the fighters will each receive 30 per COULD NOT DO HER HOUSEWORK VV^H E N every ** thing youat | tempt is a burden —when you are ) nervous and irri table—at your wit’s end—try this medicine. It may be just what vou need for extra energy. Mrs. Charles L. Cadmus of Trenton, New Jersey, says, “After doing just a little work I had to lie down. My mother-in-law recom mended the Vegetable Compound. I can see a wonderful change now.” cent of the net receipts. There is no question about the fight being held. Mike Jacobs, pro moter of the Twentieth Century club, New York, which staged the Lou.s-Carnera imbroglio, holds the signed papers of earh man. The big question to be settled now is the city which will get £he fight New York wants it and Chicago wants it Managers of both fighters are said to prefer Chicago. Which ever town treats them' the better will get the fight. Ancil Hoffman, Baer’s manager, was quoted as saying that he’d rath er have his man fight in Chicago and receive less money. TENNESSEE GOVEENOR SAVES SLAYERS FROM CHAIR Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 14, (ANP) —•Clemency on the part of Governor McAllister, Thursday saved Morice Jones and obert White from the electric chair, to which they had been sentenced to die for the murder of Robert A. Oox, white insurance man of Memphis, Tennessee. The death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment by the governor The convictions were recently con firmed by the Supreme Court and only the interference on the part of Governor McAllister saved the doomed men from death. Jn sub mitting the recommendation to the governor for executive clemency, the court declared: “While constrained to sustain the findings of the trial judge that the confessions were not illegally ob tained the mind cannot be made to rest easily upon a conclusion to af firm the judgement carrying the death penalty without a recommend ation that the governor committ the sentence of bith defendants to 1 i f e imprisonment for life.” Cox, an agent for the National Burial Company of Memphis was killed as he was about to enter the home of a policy holder, December 24, 1934 by two men,' later identi fied as Jones and White. Follow ing their arrest both confessed to the crime but later repudiated their confessions, declaring that they con fessed under duress. 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