The Archive · 1939

Charges Against Joe Louis

THE SPORTS — Manager of Schmeling, Joe Jacobs, Alleges Negro Used Metal Bit in World Title Bout — ASbury Park, N.J., June 14

E "We Were Robbed" Jacobs, manager of Tony Galento and former manager of Max Schmeling, today made sensational ges that Joe Louis, world champion, used a metal bit to blast jeling into unconsciousness in the first round last year.

But when the New York State Athletic Commission threatened to hold an investigation of Jacobs' charges, the cigar-smoking manager beat a hasty retreat and announced that he Wanted to withdraw his allegations, "Yussel" Jacobs, known as the

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