Word: baer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered...
Bidding recklessly, the studio audience quickly ran the platina fox up to four figures. Spurring professionals on were such amateur bidders as Mrs. Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, a Lady Sydenham of Calcutta. To $1,600 went Mrs. Baer, to $1,900 Lady Sydenham. Then the professionals boosted it to $2,100, but gave up the struggle when Manhattan Furrier I. J. Fox offered $2,200. Graciously refusing to accept the platina fox, Dealer Fox suggested that it be given to the American Red Cross to auction again, stayed after the show to present his check for $2,200 to the four...
Grappling for the role of challenger for the world's heavyweight championship were two washed-up fighters: Barkeep Tony Galento, a beer-bibbing ham-&-egger who had never heard of the Marquess of Queensberry, and Madcap Maxie Baer, who had been floundering around in the second division since losing his world's title to Jim Braddock in 1935. Both were over 30, had already been knocked out by Champion Joe Louis...
Some 22,000 fight fans went to see the show. The boys slugged, slapped, tugged, butted, pushed, did everything but reach for their water bottles. In the first round, Baer went after the fresh wound on Galento's chin which Tony's disgruntled brother had caused by slinging a beer glass at him two nights before. By the seventh round Galento was spouting blood, reeling drunkenly, his eyes closed, his head throbbing where he had landed with a running, broad butt at Baer's jaw. When the bell rang for the eighth round, Galento...
FRANCIS S. BAER President Pacific Finance Corp. of California Los Angeles, Calif...