Word: baer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theodore Baer '44, Sheldon Seven '44, Jerry Brown '44, Jack Corrigan '44, Thomas Kubn '44, Arthur Murphy '44, Donald Shaw '43, David Simon '43, Robert Ulln '43, and Charles Wolf...
...puppet. Today, after four years of monopolizing the world's heavyweight championship, he is not only the idol of his race but one of the most respectable prizefighters of all time. From the sorry pass to which a series of second-raters had brought it (Sharkey, Camera, Baer, Braddock), he restored the world's championship to the gate and almost the vigor that it had in Dempsey...
What happened in the pandemonium that followed will be hashed and rehashed for years to come. Many ringsiders claimed that Louis' final punch landed just after the bell. Baer's handlers, swarming all over the ring, demanded that Referee Donovan disqualify Louis. Instead, when the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round and Baer's handlers refused to clear out or let their boy leave his corner (even if he could), Donovan disqualified Baer, awarded the fight to Louis...
Explained Referee Donovan: "Joe Louis hit Buddy Baer at the bell-and not afterward. . . . Suppose-as some claim, but with whom I absolutely do not agree-that Louis hit Baer after the bell. In that case, it would have been a matter for my own discretion. If I thought Louis did it deliberately [which no one, not even Baer's hot-headed manager, alleged], then I would have had to disqualify...
...seeing the golden lining in the cloud of dispute: "All I can say is that anybody who stays away from a Louis fight this year is crazy. Anything can happen." Louis' next opponents: Billy Conn (June 18), Abe Simon (July 23), Lou Nova (Sept. 17). Then the Baby Baer will probably get another chance at the champion...