PRAISE FOR LOUIS
BETTER THAN DEMPSEY: Anybody who wants to dispute the suggestion that Joe Louis could have beaten .lack Dempsey when the "Manassa Mauler" was in his prime. is invited to take up the matter with Arthur Donovan, who has refereed eight of the present champion's .fights, including the Jbhn Re.mry Lewis.
Donovan says the. Joe Louis of to-day is the greatest fighter who ever drew on a glove, and that he would have given even Dempsey a beating.
"I still say I know more about what Joe Louis does to a man than anybody else because I've been right next to him while he was doing it," said Donovan. "Not only seeing it. but hearing his blows land. I say that Joe Louis, who smashed up Schmeling and John Henry Lewis, could have beaten any fighter who ever lived, including Dempsey."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 11
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