European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dues Hes by Bill assistant sports editor it was the night of june the slender 16ycar old youth pressed his ear closer to the Loudspeaker of the radio As the rasping voice of Clem Mccarthy unfolded a ring Joe Louis had retained his world heavyweight Champion ship by knocking out Max of in the first round before in notch to the it Ezzard found the bigger boys a Little it Doest show in his he won every tournament he entered that with that scintillating Amateur record behind Charles turned to the business of making real he fought his first professional fight on March in Middletown a Charles lands a Lone left to Louis ear while Duck in away from a left thrown by the Brown the morning after the Ezzard can mop Bis head and the picture he holds tells Bow he proved he is the new Louis face shows his pain after Charles brought a right uppercut up from the floor and connected with the exch amps fast As a darts in and lands a left to the Side of Louis jaw before the Brown bomber is Able to protect new Yorks Yankee to the Young Cincinnati who was just beginning to make his own Fristic impression in Amateur the night was one which would live in his his idol had scored a tremendous twelve three months and five Days in that same Yankee Ezzard Charles battered his idol into a bleeding Hulk to gain rightful recognition As the new heavyweight Cham Pion of the Charles life is a rags torches born in a Small town on the outskirts of july like his was fortunate in that family moved North of the Mason Dixon line to Cincinnati before Jim Crow could make an impression on but that was As far As his Good Fortune his childhood life was one of in Cincinnati or at Lanta or any other for that the opportunities open to the negro in the 1920s hardly offered a peaches and cake and although the Charles table never lacked for neither it abound in the vital vittles which stick to a growing Young mans Charles today might be As nondescript As a Kansas Farmer or Pittsburgh steel worker if he haunt wandered into a Cincin Nati gym in a few work coupled with the fact that at that same time Louis blazing fists had opened a new Avenue to riches for the con Vinced Charles he should take a crack at the ring of card campaigned for three years among the and during that period won just about title available in his weight As a welter weight in Charles won the Diamond Belt and Ohio aau and in retained both while adding the Golden gloves diadem to his in the Charles framer Hes an even 8 to fill and he moved up against one Medley who haunt fought Over three rounds As an saw no reason Why be should do so As a he flattened Johnson in the Charles fought 15 times that first winning 12 by Knock outs and the other three on easy he ran his Streak to 20 in a Row in 1941 when he Sud Denly found himself matched with Ken Charles had developed but not so fast that he could take on the like of who in that was making his first Start since losing his middleweight championship of toe world to Billy Soose in a close i5round the Veteran Overlin cuffed Ezzard around for 10 rounds to win an easy although tagged with his first professional Charles still got something out of the bout he picked up his first Good and he picked up some valuable before the year was Ezzard showed he had Learned his lesson he pounded Tommy Yarosz from pillar to Post to win a unanimous then followed that up by knocking out Elligh heavy King Anton of in three rounds in his 1942 among his other victories in 1942 were two verdicts Over Joey current Light heavy weight and in a return bout with Over earned a from 1943 until 1946 Charles was in the and during that period fought one of the with Lloyd resulted in the Only knockout of his it was in after leaving the that Charles Star began Ito Rise to its present in that his contract was purchased by Jake Minter the celebrated linguist of Tho id Charles evened the score yith but tucked the Cove Lander to so cup in the sixth round of a 19is then Beu cred his record by four rounds in Charles other losses were handed him by kid tuner in Jimmy Bivins in 1943 and Elmer Ray in 1917 Ezzard Sot his revenge by twice taking decisions from Bivins and flatten ing him in the fourth round of a third Ray was put away in the ninth round of their when Charles put away Khaki for civilian clothes in although slowed Down still was the unquestioned Boss of the heavy thus it was that Charles set his sights on the Light heavyweight then adorning the head of Gus every Lime Charles tried to Corner Gus for a title the Veteran was looking the other Mintz howled and screamed that the title should be vacated and Given to Ezzard in View of Lesnevich failure to recognize Charles As the top three Breaks occurred which changed Charles entire Lesnevich took his Light heavyweight Crown to eng land and Freddie Mills knocked it off his Charles was Given a Madison Square Garden but with Joe and in turn proved he could beat the big boys by flattening the former coalmine in nine rounds and on March Louis announced his retire ment from the naming Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott As the two logical contenders to fight for the vacated the National boxing association went along with Louis Call but the new York state athletic commission see it that they argued that Only after a True Elimina Tion series could the title be and they were backed by the British boxing Board of control and european boxing both growing Powers in the world ring under the newly organized International boxing clubs Charles and Walcott squared off in Chicago on june when it was All Charles was the heavy weight Champion in the 47 states under Aba jurisdiction Ezzard defended his title three and oddly his first defense was against the Man who  give him a Charles flattened Gus in seven Lowed it up with an eight round to of Pat Valentino and then put away Freddie Beshore in the Beshore win cleared the decks for the Battle with who a month before had announced his intention to return to the despite his Long Layoff and the old ring adage that heavyweight champions dont come Louis was in stalled a 2tol favorite to prove what Many though Charles was nothing More than a chinese what happened from be ginning to Charles gave his onetime idol the worst beating of his career he tabbed Brown bomber silly with stiff and crossed Over hard rights which had Louis swaying to and when the final Bell there was Little doubt that was the new Champion a Good Charles win earned him recognition in new York in be still is the logical they Lee Savold Champion on this o the Butto those who saw Ezzard scale the Heights against there ii a fran conviction that the split title will last Only As Long Ai Savold avoids feature Section