WORLD BOXING TITLE
PASTOR TO MEET LOUIS.
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NEW YORK, July 13.
It is- announced that Bcb Pastor and sJoe Louis will fight a 20-round bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship at Detroit on September 21. ...
The champion will get 40' per. cent, of the gate, and Pastor 17|.It will be the first .20-round chain-. '• pionship bout since Willard' and Jack Dempsey met. It grew out of the fact that Pastor stayed 10 rounds with Louis in 1937.
LIGHT-HEAVY CHAMPIONSHIP.
NEW YORK, July 13.
Billy Conn (Pittsburgh) ■ won the world ..light-heavyweight boxing championship by 'a points decision over Mello Bettina (New York) in a 15round bout. /
It was a closely-fought contest in which the winner, came from behind. Bettina seemed far superior in the first four rounds, after which the challenger made Beilina's face the target for jabs with his left. J3oth. fighters- staggered each- other with hard blows. The referee and the judges unanimously mcked Conn.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1939, Page 7
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