THE GREATEST HEAVY-WEIGHT
TO THE EDITOR. ;Sir, —As I am most interested in your boxing notes in the ‘ Sports Special,’ I notice in last Saturday’s issue that the late champion of the world, Tommy Barns, states that he would never have had a chanpe against the brown bomber, Joe Louis. He says also that the bomber will go down in history as
the greatest heavy-weight champion of all time. Now, in my humble opinion Tommy Burns in his prime would have beaten the bomber. I just wonder what chance Louis would have had against Jack Johnson, Gene Tunney, or Jack Dempsey in their prime. The fact is we are not at this period producing the men of the calibre 1 have mentioned. With the exception of Tommy Farr and one or two others, the bomber has been up against only
second or third-rate boxers. Ho has so far met no “ Phar Laps,” and his case is analogous with that of Carpentier, who held the boards until the redoubtable Jack Dempsey knocked him into the middle of next week. What about our own boxer, the late Bob Fitzsimmons, of Timaru? Perhaps some of our local sports will express their opinion.— I am. etc.. Old Timeu. [“Hooker” will enlarge upon this topic in the next issue.]
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Evening Star, Issue 23651, 10 August 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)
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214THE GREATEST HEAVY-WEIGHT Evening Star, Issue 23651, 10 August 1940, Page 6 (Supplement)
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