JOE LOUIS ADDS TONY GALENTO'S SCALP TO HIS BELT
NEW YORK, TO-DAY. STAGGERING HELPLESSLY INTO THE ARMS OF THE RE- FEREE, TONY GALENTO, THE HUGE NEWARK BAR-TEN- DER, AFTER AN EXTRAORDINARILY GAME FIGHT IN
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WHICH HE WAS UNABLE TO SURVIVE THE MURDEROUS STOP PRESS
FACE BLOWS WHICH LOUIS SUDDENLY UNLEASHED TO CAUSE BLOOD TO STREAM FROM HIS AĜONISED FACE; LOST HIS FIRST AND UNDOUBTEDLY HIS LAST BID FOR THE WORLD'S HEAVYWÉIGHT BOXING TITLE AS THE REFEREE, HELD HIM HALF SAGGING AT THE KNEES, STOPPED THE UNEVEN ENCOUNTER · AFTER THE FOURTH ROUND · HAD BEEN IN PROGRESS 2 MINS., 39 SECS.
Galento, after a magnificent early, when the champion looked actually attack in which Louis was floored | bad! and he himself rose from a terrific punch which sent him crashing to the canvas, stirred the crowd to the point of pandemonium.
Galento was most dangerous with his awkward weaving style and sudden leaps into close quar: ters which bothered the Negro but when he straightened up he was a wonderful mark for Louis.
Interviewed in the dressing-room after the fight, Louis said: "It was one of the toughest fights I have ever had.”
Louis added: "Tony was very good, is very game and can hit.”
Asked if he was interested in travelling to England to meet Tommy Farr, Louis said: “I'd. like it very much."
BUTT FOR HUMOUR
Galento, who was somewhat in- For long before the fight Galento coherent, was greeted in his dress- had been the butt of humorousing-room by his wife: "I was just sports-writers but he showed no particle of fear, standing up gal- lantly to one of the biggest killers for years.
He roughly shook off the police- men who tried to assist him after the fight.
Galento's was the best display given against the Brown Bomber with the exception of the efforts of Bob Pastor, Tommy Farr and Jim Braddock
and there were times
careless and threw up my guard in the fourth round but anyhow I could not see by that time. I cer- tainly would like a return fight,” he said.
FIGHT DESCRIBED
First Round Both spar and clinch. Galento attacks with a hard left and right and Louis covers up. Galento cautious but lands to the jaw with right and left hooks. Continued at foot of Next Column
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Louis retaliates. Galento's round..
Second Round -Galento lands with a left hook but bled badly from the nose at which Louis repeatedly jabed. Galento clinches and shortly after, Louis is floored with a left hook but rises immediately, before the count is started. Galento lands another left hook to the chin and then the jaw which rocks Louis.
Galento lands to the jaw with a. left hook but Louis replied with two-fisted attack to the body, Ga- lento's lip is cut. Louis lands hard rights. on the jaw and Galento, much troubled, is floored with a terrific right although up at the court of one. Louis' round.
Third and Fourth Rounds Galento carries the fight to the enemy camp and rocks Louis with a left to the body but Louis lands
a series of hard lefts and then four terrific rights hooks.
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Galento was still most game but the referee stopped the fight,
The champion was completely un- marked except for a small bruise over the right eye.
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would fight only once more this year either against Farr in Lon- don or Lou Nova in America. He thank all those that attended the is said to be considering offers funeral and those who gent floral from General Critchley, the Lon- tributes and messages of condo- lence in their recent bereavement. don promotor-Reuter.
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