Five or Six Lucrative Bouts and Retirement As Unbeaten Champion By Hery McLemore New York, Dec. 8.
"Chappie will fight five or six more times and then retire undefeated."
Jack Blackburn, the animated razor scar who trains Joe Louis, chose a particularly thoughtful time thus announce the future plans of the kpavyweight boxing champion. At least, so it seems to me, With the world in the chaotic condition it is right now, it should be comforting to know that there is at least one man wholly undisturbed by the present and completely without alarm for the future.
Joe Louis, I mean. Kings and Queens burn midnight oil to save their countries. Dictators froth. Statesmen steel themselves and their peoples for a war of nerves. But Louis, with a closetful of bright suits sell, and brighter shoes, with money in the bank, and power in his fists, can't bother to pay any mind.
Fists Grow on Cotton Balls All the rest of the world may be unsure of itself, uncertain of what is going to happen, but not Joe. The press- former field hand whose fists developed into steel from picking the soft cotton bolls, has pierced the mists that lie ahead and found the outlook pleasing.
Arturo Godoy. Patrick Comiskey. Bob Pastor. Tony Galento. Max Schmeling. Tommy Farr. Billy Conn. From these men must come all his fights in the future, so it is no wonder that Blackburn flatly further states that Joe will fight them and then retire undefeated. No other heavy-weight champion has even outlined his future so far in advance, because none has ever been so sure of what he could accomplish as Louis.
The thing doubtful about the Louis fights of the next few months is how much each one will enrich the Bomber. Godoy, a South American who, didn't have any trouble getting through the neutrality belt because he isn't properly a belligerent, won't be around long enough for the crowd to catch his full name.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.