BOXING GROWN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23384, 28 June 1939, Page 13

BOXING GROWN

LOUIS AND GALENTO 2000 EXTRA POLICE ANTICIPATION OF TROUBLE BOUGH TACTICS LIKELY By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received June 27, 5.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 23 Anticipating that the world's heavyweight boxing championship fight on Wednesday between Joe Louis, the negro, and "Two-ton Tony" Galento will be rough and foul, the police are assigning 2000 extra men, many mounted, to , the Yankee Stadium and the Harlem district. This is the largest protective force in the history of New York for a sports event. Galento, who has been beaten 22 times, and lacks speed and science, stated that he intends to get close and "rough-up" Louis, but the champion replied: "It is okay with me. Ah can get rough.too." The heavy policing is due to the fact that Galento is of Italian extraction, and the world's most thickly populated "black" belt is just across the river from the stadium, and the Ethiopian incident has not been forgotten in Harlem. Galento's manager, Joe Jacobs, alleged that Louis' seconds in the past have substituted smaller gloves for. those approved at the weigh-in, and intends carrying the scales into the ring to weigh the champion's gloves before the fight. Although Louis is an eight to one favourite, with even money that Galento will not last five rounds, ticket sales are so heavy that the "gate" may reach 400,000 dollars.