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Louis-Jacobs Partnership, Richest In Boxing History, Slated To End After June 1 By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, May 25.-(.P-The richest partnership in prizefight history that between Joe Louis, the Alabama Negro, and Mike Jacobs, the Broadway ticket man will become Just a fabulous memory after June 1. That Is the day when old Mike's retirement from the 20th Cen tury Sporting Club, the near-monopoly he founded 15 years ago, becomes official. Actually, Jacobs has had no active hand In the club's promotions since he suffered a stroke two and a half years ago. Already the men who watched the great Louis-Jacobs combine take over the fistic world on the strength of Joe's fists and Mike's Men's Good Clothes at Harth'i Toggery 128 N. Jackson I debate made brains are beginning to the question of "who whom?" Perhaps a majority hold that it was Louis, a mighty champion, who carried Jacobs into national headlines, established him as the undisputed czar of the boxing industry and made of him the most respected if not loved figure In the game. "Where would Jacobs of been," they Inquire, "without Louis? He would still of been peddling show tickets." The Jacobs faction, on the other hand, contends that Louis got at least an even break when, fresh out of the golden gloves, he signed a personal contract to fight only for Mike. Of course, Joe would have Something New Has Been Added IT 1 .i Gus Zernial, left, and Gordon f w ' ( THIS TIRE MAKES OLD CARS RIDE J!, a mfe? mm m 1 THAN MEW! by GOOD Everything a tire can do . . . Super-Cushion does BETTER! HANSEN MOTOR CO. TiRE DEPT. OAK & STEPHENS ROSEBURG, ORE. PHONE 446 HiHnatroft BuHfng Heed mn4 Grinder. No. 23-603 Pi hirptni. polishes 'ith attach menti as shown - 4,. -i-n 5:'f. HrrttfrofTl0.ln. tofhe. 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"But who can say for certain that he would have had a chance to win the title, much less defend it suc cessfully 25 times, if Mike had not been guiding him?" There was no answering this question. Until Louis knocked out Jim Braddock in June '37, there had been no Negro heavy weight champion since Jack Johnson. "Another thing," continued the Jacobs adherent, "Mike never let Joe make any mistakes. He kept him on the right track. Probably the best example was when Joe got knocked out by Max Schmel ing in '36. "It could have ruined Joe. He thought the world had come to nn end. His confidence was shot, Mike was the only one who kept his head. As quickly as he could he threw Joe into a tight with Jack Shar key, a former champion. He figured Joe was like a flier who had been in a crack-up and need ed to go right up again. So Joe knocked out Sharkey, got his confidence back, and went on from there. "All the point I want to make, he concluded, "is that Louis owes a lot to Jacobs, too. They ran as a pair. Mike's Career Accidental . It was a strange chain of events which eventually brought Jacobs and Louis together. Mike, in fact, never had a thought of being a ngnt promoter until group who had been putting on charity bouts here fell out with the bosses of Madison Square Garden and began looking for front man to buck the big house. The groups first choice was lack Curlev. a then famous pro moter of wrestling matches and otner novelties, out Curlev lacK- ed the ready cash to finance the venture, and the boys' next stop was at jacoos aoor. Mike consented reluctantly to be tapped. His first show at the Bronx Coliseum between Barney Ross and Billy Petrolle was a success. That was In '34. Ross won, and out of the bout grew a series of terrific scraps between Ross and Jimmy McLarnin, a baby-faced sensation from the PraclUa t limping VII P Enjoy a Universal Automatic Water System for low cost "all around" effi ciency. 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His lone loser was his big out door "carnival of champions" In '37, when he displayed three ti tleholders on the same card. He guaranteed Lou Ambers, the 135 pound champ, something like S80,000, and that was too tough a nut even for Mike to crack. University Of Experience Awaits Torrent Of College Graduates By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (.fl Now li the golden time at end for many a rose-lipped maiden and many a light-foot lad. This is the season when alma mater opens her Iron gates. And out Into an Iron world she hurls her annual tide of college graduates. It is always a trembling hour when mother deliberately unties the apron strings that bind her to her children. Freedom and respon sibility they are so strange and new. Goodbve to brackety-yackety-yack. Farewell dear campus so well beloved, but never so loved as now. Hello, world, so wide and ter rible. Oh, me! Ah, me! Ah. youth! Ah, wilder ness! Aw, hell! Don't look so for lorn son. Life isn't all fang and claw and a sharp tack In a tight shoe. You're just a freshman in a bigger university a university in which it is terribly important to pick the right professors. Stay With Nice Boys Until now there has always been somebody ready with a handker chief to wipe your nose. The first thing you have to team In this new university you are entering Is to keep your riose out of places where people will make it bleed. There are tough kids around, who the nice boys. There are cli ageoia jungle that is vour new campus. Work with the people that want to tear down some of the choking moss and chop down some of the dead trees that hide the sky. The best fun in life is to leave something better than vou found it. And If you don't help clear the campus, the moss will smother you In time, as it has so many, and you will become a dead tree In a dying part of the forest. Okay, son, I know that sounds highfalut'n. Get the glaze out of your eyes. I know what's on vour mind you want a Job. Fine. Drop that sheepskin from your warm little hand. Here's a broom. Get busy. What No BroomT What's that? You don't want to push a broom? Why not? Do you want the broom to push you? Oh, you'd hoped for something better? Well, so do we all. But vou have to learn to saw wood before Wad., May 25, 1949 The Ntwi-Review, Reicburg, Or. 7 more than ambition to be an oak tree. It lakes years. Ever hear of Spyros Skouras. the motion pic ture poobah? He makes more money that 'most anybody except Uncle Sam. Know how he got started; working as a busboy In a St. Louis hotel. Any job is hetter than no job. It Isn't as Important where you start as it is where vou go from where you start. The nice thing about starting at the bottom is that there Is only one way to go up. Work and brains and friend liness will get you anywhere. And honesty will help keep you there. Advice On Marriage Of course, you ran always mar-; ry a rich lady and live a life of ill ease. 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