Word: farr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...computed how much Rooney has lost, but he is reputed to have $100,000 of his winnings salted safely away in annuities. His smallest, typically lucky wager was $400 he won last fortnight by betting that Tommy Farr would stay 15 rounds against Joe Louis...
Without the slightest evidence of fear Tommy Farr bounced out of his corner aimed two left jabs at the stolid face of Joe Louis, hit his dark opponent with a ft and right, mussed his own hair Thus last week began a prize fight that was to have a surprise ending. After one of Farr's blows had bounced him off the ropes Louis learned to watch for hard punches ducking, taking them on his arms, or rolling away. Louis soon found the range with left jabs, opened cuts under Farr's eves. After more of this Farr...
After collecting the judges' votes Referee Arthur Donovan announced that Louis had won the fight on points. The crowd of 50,000 in New York City's Yankee Stadium, amazed that Farr had not been knocked out or even knocked down booed the decision. But Negro Joe Louis, 23, made $75,000 and successfully if not brilliantly defended the heavyweight championship of the world which he won two months ago by knocking out James J Braddock (TIME, July 5). And Thomas George Paul John Farr, 23, who grew up as a colliery boy in Wales, who once...
...right to the jaw, an opponent to stand up against him had to be able to hit hard and must not be afraid of him. Braddock had not been afraid but he had not been able to hit hard, so he was knocked out. Before the fight, Farr's stock reached almost zero level with the prizefight public when he posed for a picture with onetime Champion Braddock, onetime Champion Max Baer, onetime Contender Harry Wills, as his "advisers" (see cut). In the fight,' however, Joe Louis did not hit as hard or as accurately as the experts...
This week a comparable legal question involving radio broadcasting arose in connection with the Joe Louis-Tommy Farr fight at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. Buick Motors bought the exclusive broadcasting rights to the fight for $35,000. Transradio Press Service, Inc. and Radio News Association, Inc. whose business is supplying radio stations with news for broadcasting, announced that they would furnish running accounts of the fight for $10 per radio station. Buick's advertising agency, NBC whose network was being used by Buick, the fight promoters and the fighters went to court asking $100,000 damages...