New York, Nov. 2.
The first all-negro world heavyweight boxing championship, feature ing Joe Louis, the champion, and John Henry Lewis, the light-heavyweight titleholder, was arranged today to be held at the Madison Square Garden. January 27, Mike Jacobs, leading promoter, announced.
Jacobs said that he had signed contracts with the two negro battlers for the title match.
"The announcement was greeted With mixed feelings.
Although an all-negro heavyweight championship bout must be listed as an attraction because of its novelty, most scribes were inclined to criticize the choice of Lewis as an opponent for the Brown Bomber. out in the fifth round in New anything but through. He was attic, and only the Seattle youth's him from losing by a knockout.
Savage infighting and masterful boxing by Krieger snapped Hostak's chain of seventeen straight knockouts.
The slashing body attack so weakened Hostak that his famous punching lost a great deal of its steam and made him the target for a continual assault by the Brooklyn boy.
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