20-ROUND BOUT
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
FIRST SINCE 1919
NEW YORK, July 13.
It is announced that Bob Pastor and Joe Louis will flght a 20-round bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Detroit on September 21, The champion will get 40 per cent, of the gate and the contender 17 £ per cent, It will be the first 20-round championship bout since. Willard and Dempsey met on July 4, 1819, when Dempsey won in the third round, The decision to make the fixture grew out of the fact that Pastor stayed ten rounds with Louis in 1937,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 13, 15 July 1939, Page 9
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9620-ROUND BOUT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 13, 15 July 1939, Page 9
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