Writer Eyes Louis' Fight With Charles
By GAYLE TALBOT
NEW YORK - (. -The income
lax authorities willing, it now ap
pear! more than likely that Joe
Louis will come out of his semi
retirement to fight Ezzard Charles
at the Yankee Stadium in Sep
tember. It is the only means the once
great champion has of lettling a
six-figure tab .with Uncle Sam,
and it would seem the part of
wisdom for Washington to approve
the reported "deal" whereby Joe
would surrender his entire end of
the purse in exchange for a full
financial pardon.
The layman might well be puz
zled at Joe's ability to run up such
a bill with the government. Even
those closest to the situation are
somewhat vague about it. Their
awed remarks about Joe's terrific
spending ability, while undoubted
ly true, still leave a question or
two unanswered.
But there it is: The man who
earned some $4,000,000 while hold
ing the heavy title for 11 years
owes a pile of money, and he's
got to make a stab at coming up
with it. The only way he can earn
that kind of money is by fighting
again.
It's Tm Bad
So it is too bad. Louis was a
great fighter maybe even the
greatest ever to pull on a glove.
The way he could tear a strong
man apart in a few fleeting seconds
a decade ago is something which
those of us who beheld the savage
operation will never forget.
But that Joe Louis is gone, leav
ing only the memory. The man
who is preparing now to try to run
and sweat himself back into 15
round fighting condition is larded
with fat around the hips and should
ers and is packing 36 years on his
back.
Here is one Louis admirer, at
least, who has no desire to watch
him chase Charles around a box
ing ring until his legs grow weary.
It can't possibly be a good fight,
and it might easily prove a worse
one that Joe's last title defense
Opener
GEORGE DRAKE
vs.
WRESTLING
AT THE ARMORY
SATURDAY NIGHT
Main Event
MEL PETERS
vs.
JACK O'REILLY
DANNO MacDONALD
FIRST MATCH STARTS 8:45 P.M.
against Joe Walcott two summers
ago.
Charles Young, Fast
Charles is not the fighter that
Louis once was. and he never will
be. But he is young and fast and
almost certainly cute enough to
avoid the old champion for eight
or 10 rounds, or until Joe runs
plumb out of gas.
That's all he would need to do.
If Louis could talk the New York
commission into using a 10-foot
ring for this one fight, just as a
sort of sentimental gesture, then
we might see a whale of a scrap.
But the commission is short on
imagination.
Another alternative would be to
let Joe earn his tax money against
Lee Savold. the newly - crowned
world champion of England. Lee
has been around a long time, him
self, and he wasn't too agile to
begin with. There probably never
will come the day when Louis can t
climb out of his wheel chair and
bounce a couple of salvolds.
Naw York Disitnts
Difficulty about that is that,
Charles, for belter or worse, is re
cognized in 47 states New York
alone dissenting as the heavy
weight champion, and the Inter
national Boxing corporation can't
very well put on a title contest
; without inviting the guest of honor.
What the I. B. C. has in mind,
really, is to put Louis and Charles
on as a sort of semi-final, with
the winner meeting Savold for the
world championship next summer.
It is a laudable scheme, provid
ing it goes through. Joe will get
off the government hook and the
moribund heavyweight situation
will be fanned back to faint signs
of life.
So if you've got to do it, Joe go
i ahead. You can't get much worse
i than beat up. Only promise that
i after this one you'll grab that old
; income tax blank each March, fill
i it out carefully and go light on
the exemptions. This can't go on
i indefinately.
Sports In Brief
(By The A.ioc Liltd Prcul
BOXING
New York Featherweight cham
pion Willie Pep agreed to defend
his crown once more against Sandy
Saddler in Yankee Stadium, Sept.
6.
RACING
Chicago Flamaniia (59.20) cap
tured the $18,025 Pollyanna stakes
at Arlington Park.
New York Marabout ($21) won
the Goshawk classified handicap
on the Saratoga-at-Jamaica pro
gram. Del Mar, Calif, r- Star Fiddle
($9.40) won the six furlong feature
at the Del Mar track.
GENERAL
Nordmalung, Sweden Lloyd La
Beach of Panama equalled the
world record of 102 seconds for
the 100 meters, sharing the mark
with Jesse Owens and Harold Da-
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Dental School Ruled
State University Unit
SALEM (Pl The University of
Oregon dental school in Portland
should continue to be operated as
a department within the univer
sity, and not as a separate in
stitution, Attorney General George
Neuner ruled for tne state board
of higher education.
Neuner also ruled that the den
tal school advisory council's pow
ers are limited only to making
recommendations about the course
of study and appintment of the
dean of the school. He said these
recommendations are to be made
only to the state board of higher
education, wmch is tree to accept
them or reject them.
The dental school was created
in 1945.
Stan Musial Fails
In Batting Streak
NEW YORK-UP)-Stan Musial's
lengthy batting streak is at an
end today but the star St. Louis
Cardinal outfielder can be consoled
by the knowledge that he is only
the 11th big leaguer to hit safely
in ju or more consecutive gmes.
Musial entered yesterday's game
against the Brooklyn Dodgers with
a run of 30 straight games in which
he'd hit safely. He had five chances
in wnicn to keep his skein alive
but failed each lime although his
mates clubbed five Brooklyn hurl
ers for 13 assorted hits.
Stan's teammates tried valiantly
to give him a last chance in the
ninth inning. Six men were due to
bat before him. All reached base.
But the slugger, who had hit the
ball out of the infield only once
in four previous times at bat,
grounded into a double play.
Musial thus failed in his efforts
to equal or tie four marks. His
immediate goal was the team high
of 33 straight hitting games set
by Rogers Hornsby in 1922. The
second was the modern National
league mark of 37 games estab
ohshed by Tommy Holmes of the
Boston Braves in 1945.
Vet Pitcher Higbe
Hurls No-Hit Game
COLUMBUA, O., m If vet
eran pitcher Kirby Higbe is aim
ing at a return to the major leag
ues, he shot close to the target
last night.
The 35-year-old South Carolina
hurler, on the mound for Minnea
polis in th American association,
pitched a no-hitter against the Co
lumbus Red Birds in the seven
inning opener of a twin bill.
his leat was marred by a lone
Red Bird score. The Millers won
the abbreviated opener 3-1 but it
didn't detract from the veteran's
brilliant pitching.
The man whose lifetime major
league record is 118 wins against
101 defeats got into trouble only in
the first inning. The Birds got
their only run then when Solly
Hemus walked, stole sec nd, went
to third on Jake Early's poor peg,
and scored on a wild pitch.
Frl July 28, 1950 The News-Rsvlew, Reteburg, Ore. 7
W. I. L. SCORES
Mother Sentenced For
Aiding Fugitive Son
MEDFORD P Wilma Mae
Nichols was sentenced to 18
months in the state prison yes
terday on conviction of being an
accessory to a felony.
She was charged with aiding her
son and Gerald i.acomber after
a burglary in Linn county.
Macomber, after two sun fights
with police, was arrested at the
Nichols' house earlier this month,
Sedgman, Bromwich
In Tenpis Matches
MEXXICO CITY, July 2&-UPU-Australia
will rely on young Frank
Sedgman and veteran Jack Brom
wich to capture the first two sin
gles matches with Mexico today
in the American zone Davis Cup
finals.
Sedgman plays Gustavo Palafox,
Mexican singles champion, while
Bromwich will meet formercham
pion Armando Vega. '
Harry Hopman, non-playing cap
tain of the Aussies, also nominat
ed Sedgman and Bromwich for
the doubles, but can change his
mind later. Mexico hasn't named
its doubles team.
"We expect quite a tussle." said
Hopman, although confident of winning.
STOCKMAN BEST
WASHINGTON-UB-The cham
pion golfer of Congress is Ore
gon's Lowell Stockman at least
for this month.
He won the congressional-professional
sweepstakes here yesterday
with a two-over-par 36 in a nine
hole tournament. He beat out 50
other congressmen for a shiny tro
phy cup..
He started out like an also-ran,
raking a double bogey 6 on the
first hole. He came back with a
birdies, six pars and a bogey to
win.
MORE AUD MORE -ITS
ALEXANDER LEADS
SIOUX CITY, la., UP) -Skip
Alexander, a bespectacled 31-year-old
southerner, had a two-stroke
lead today as professional golf's
hnt.shnl. pntoraH th Annrl rnnnH
of the Sioux City open tournament.
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