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Louis to Fight Before Charles Bout Hein Ten Hoff Is Next Likely Foe To Meet Winner of Layne, Mariano Scrap if Berlin Event Fails to Materialize By BARNEY NAGLER Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16.— Joe Louis is not going to grow old waiting for Ezzard Charles. • The ex-champion, whose resurgence over the fallen form of Lee Savold surprised even his fiercest supporters, will have one fight before taking on his tormentor in Detroit next September. Marshall Niles, Louis manager, made this plain today as exultant officials of the International Boxing Club reflected happily on the all-around success of a promotion that seemecj doomed only a week ago. "Were waiting for word from Fred Kersch, the promoter in Germany," Miles said in the IBC offices, "about that fight with Hein Ten Hoff in Berlin on August 8. If he gets a 5,000 guarantee posted over here by the end of the week itll be all right." f Should Kersch fail to win official approval for the shipment of so many dollars out of Germany, Louis will stay here and await the winner of the Rocky Graziano-Rex Lane fight, scheduled for Yankee Stadium on July 11. Louis announced willingness to take on the Stadium survivor if the Berlin expedition fails to materialize may have been so much calculated nonsense. Its purpose would be to give currency to the ballyhoo that the Marciano-Layne winner would qualify for an eventual shot at Charles. Charles Managers Ask 50,000 Bond Louis bout with Charles depends on at least one important demand by the heavyweight champions managers, Tom Tannas and Jake Mintz. They are asking for posting of a 50,000 bond by Louis to guarantee a return. In Louis dressing room, after the sixth-round knockout of Savold last night, Mintz, more in earnest than some suspected, said: "Maybe well ask for a bigger bond. This guy looked real good." This is a barrier that will be hurdled if Jim Norris wants the bout. There had been a disposition among the IBC officialdom to knock down Louis as a competitor for Charles title, which he must defend against Jersey Joe Walcbtt in Pittsburgh July 18. But the reception accorded the ex-champion, and his persuasive performance against Savold, has won even the cold hearts of Norris and Co. Louis performance was superb, even conceding that Savold, as forecast by this operative, seemingly froze up the hot Garden. Savold goes back to the earlier days of Louis* glory and recalls vividly the ex-champs stunning assaults on sundry citizens. This was a great factor in the slugging. However, Louis was effectively efficient. He employed the jab superbly, took only two solid head punches right-arm leads in the fifth round and threw as potently perfect a left hook for the knockout as he ever had. Joe Earns 5,115 Purse Louis did not come down to the IBC offices in the Garden today. Instead, he rested in his Edgecomb Avenue apartment in Harlem. If he had, he could have picked . up his purse of 5,115, 35 per cent of a net , derived from a 3,918 gross. Savold, who i . , i stayed in Jersey, had 7,939, or 25 per cent, coming, to him. The outpouring of customers on Friday was amazing. The advance for the fight, after the refunds resulting from the two postponements at the Polo Grounds, came to 0,000. Thus, the sale of tickets at the Garden Friday came to more than 3,000. One booth in the arcade sold more than 3,000, a record. Standing room ducats, retailing at each, went in the end arena sections. It was an unexpectedly successful promotion, even if the IBC did lose about 5,000 because of the expense involved in switching from the Polo Grounds. The fight occasioned* so much nationwide interest that the Pabst Brewing Company may purchase the film of the fight for use as a Wednesday -night telecast on the Columbia network. It was pointed out that approximately 40-.000 persons saw the fight either in person or in the movie houses. Therefore, it is considered by Pabst a public service to put the show on open circuit or parlor-bar television. If the deal is consummated, Louis and Savold would share in the proceeds on the same 35 and 25 per cent basis as prevailed for the gate receipts and closed circuit TV. One thoroughly gratifying aspect of the promotion was the reception of the closed-circuit telecast to nine movie houses In six cities. The 22,000-odd who sat in on the big-screen telecast cheered and thundered as though in the arenas. The IBC was guaranteed 0,000 for this, as against a payment of 40 cents on each seat in the theaters. 1
