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...really Joe Louis' last fight, it was fought like a summary of his ring career. He knocked out Lou Nova with a murderous right, in the sixth round, before 60,000 chilly and disappointed people in New York City's Polo Grounds. They had come, if not to see Joe licked, at least to see a fight between equals. But like 46 men before him, Nova was just a tackling dummy at the finish...
...YORK--After five round of deliberate stalking, heavyweight Joe Louis exploded a straight right punch on Lou Nova's chin that blasted the California challenger's dreams and readled him for the technical knockout that came one second before the end of the sixth round in their title fight at the Polo Grounds tonight...
...champion's punch dropped Nova backwards to the canvas and half through the ropes. The game challenger rose at the count of nine and Louis was after him, battering him from corner to corner until Referee Arthur Donevan Intervened at 2,59 of the sixth round...
...Though Nova's handlers were demanding that the bout be continued, Dr. William H. Walker, the Commission physician, examined the challenger's cuts about the nose and eyes and deeded that he would be unable to continue...
...wanted to quit three years ago, after he had his revenge on Max Schmeling for the humiliating licking the German gave him two years before. He didn't, because he felt he owed something to Roxborough, Black, Blackburn and Jacobs, the men who made him. But after the. Nova fight, with a uniform on his big, supple back, Joe may let the title go and be satisfied to defend his country...