Joe Louis, dusky holder of the world heavyweight title, continued to reign today as 13-to-5 favourite over John Henry Lewis, negro world light-heavyweight campion, whom he meets in the all-negro world championship bout at the Madison Square Gardens on January 28, It Louis wins, and the sports scribes can not see how he can lose, he will probably clash with Roscoe Toles, another negro heavyweight who has been doing well recently, in March. The bout against Toles is planned in the nature of a "warm-up" because of the likelihood of Louis opposing the winner of the bout between Lou Nova and Max Baer in September. Nova is to clash with Baer on May 25.
The negro world heavyweight champion, who has been idle since knocked out Max Schmeling of Germany last June, weighs about 200 ounds compared with the 185 pounds which Lewis scales at present.
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