Trailing on Points, Champion Turns Tide
With a Right to Jaw and Keeps Crown
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42,667 AT THE STADIUM
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Jeers Early in Bout Because of Lack of
Action-Bomber Says He Is Retiring
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Because he has the punch that has made him one of the greatest heavyweights ever to hold the title, Joe Louis, the ring's Brown Bomber, still is the world champion. He knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott of Camden, the challenger for the title, in the eleventh
round of an ordinary championship battle last night in the Yankee Stadium, and plucked glorious, spectacular victory from threatened defeat. Trailing the 34-year-old challenger through ten rounds of fighting which more than once drew jeers from the crowd of 42,667, Louis turned the tide of battle with one punch. It was a right to the jaw which shook Walcott to his toes. It was delivered as the shifty challenger was boxing in the confusing style that had baffled Louis last December and was baffling him again before a great crowd which paid $841,739 for the spectacle. The blow provided the opening which Louis had sought from the start.

The New York Times-June 26, 1948