In St. Louis just a year ago, a glum, well-built Negro won the U. S. amateur light-heavyweight boxing championship by scoring his 34th knockout in the finals of the A. A. U. tournament. Last week in Chicago, as glum as ever, though he is picked by many experts as the next heavyweight champion of the world, Heavyweight Joe Louis continued his surprising career as a professional with his 14th knockout in 18 fights, against a thick-skulled New Jersey trial horse named Roy Lazer. At the ringside, more worried about Louis than his next...
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