Description
Black and white 10″ x 12″ photo of Boxer Joe Louis as he prepares to box for the Heavyweight Championship. The picture shows him skipping rope in the ring as he is training for the fight with James J. Braddock within a week. The article talks about his height and weight, his good left hand and how his Mother and Father were poor cotton pickers named Barrow. It talks about how he was working at Ford as a $25 per week unskilled laborer when he was picked to train as a boxer in 1934. It mentions how, in the ring, he is “lithe, shuffling and stolid”, yet outside of it is is known as “lethargic, uncommunicative, unimaginative”.
Source: June 21, 1937 Life magazine.
