HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXING

Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 5

HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXING

LOUIS OUTPOINTS GODOY IN TITLE 1 ' BOUT DECISION BOOED BY CROWD NEW YORK, February 11. In a world heavy-weighet title bout, Joe Louis, 14st 71b, outpointed Arturo Godov 14st 61b, of Chile, over the full scheduled 15 round:; at Madison Square Garden. A crowd of 16*000 booed the decision. Louis was a long-odds favourite, and Godoy was not expected to last five rounds. . Godoy danced about the ring full of fight at the finish after forcing the champion to back-pedal in most of the rounds. It was a split decision, one judge voting for Godoy. Lhc United Press gave the men five rounds each, last even five rounds. _ ’ Louis concentrated on rights to tho head, with Godoy favouring lefts to the bodv. Both were bleeding, from cuts on the face in the third round. The crowd howled with delight during a sensational eighth round, when Godoy cornered and pummelled Louis. Ho remained fresh, forcing the fight thereafter until the fourteenth. round, when he taunted the champion to • “ Como on.” Louis was more accurate throughout. He said : “It , was ray worst fight. That guy is ..nothing but a. clown.” Godoy shouted: ‘"'T will fight him again to-morrow.” v '- John Lardnar, the correspondent of the North American : Newspaper Alliance, said it was a clown fight, witli Louis insulted more hit. Tho crowning insult occurred in the fourteenth round, when, the .bouncing, buffooning Chilean kissed Louis’s embarrassed cheek. This slapstick fooled on.e judge into giving the loser 10 rounds, hut not the referee,^'-*' - The, gate was 88,000,,id oil a rs. ——-asl—- —„ ——, m ■■ ■ r-"'