Monday, Feb. 26, 1940

"Listen, Godoy"

Last week, on We, the People, Sanka Coffee's Tuesday-night odditorium of the air, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and his freak-style opponent of last fortnight, Arturo Godoy from Chile, faced each other anew. Joe said fighting Godoy had been just like "sittin' in a big easy chair, restin'." Arturo boasted that after "the fight he still had enough left to step--'but with his wife and "just go do little rumba." Back home, said Godoy to Joe and his radio audience (about 7,000,000), he had big brothers, "good fighters, too. . . . And don't forget, Champ, next time we fight, you want to watch out." "What's that?" asked Joe. incredulously.

"You want to fight again?" "Yes sir," Arturo announced. "If you want tomorrow, I be there tomorrow." According to the script, he was then supposed to follow up with: "Next time, Champ, I knock you out." But smoky Joe, swinging clear from the script, beat Arturo to the punch. "Listen, Godoy," Joe said ominously, "I'm gonna give you another chance. And next time you'd better bring up your five big brothers."

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