Word: farr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J., where Champion Joe Louis was training for his fight with Welshman Tommy Farr, went his conqueror, onetime Champion Max Schmeling...
...tenth try DeSota, 6-to-5 favorite, got away in front, with last year's two-year-old champion Twilight Song and Tobaccoman William N. Reynolds' Schnapps just behind. Twilight Song broke her gait at the first turn. By the time E. Roland Harriman's Farr had taken the lead in the back stretch, the crowd of 35,000 was on its feet, cheering one of the quickest-stepping fields ever seen in a Hambletonian. Then one horse began to pull away from the ruck. It was not, as many hoped, favorite DeSota. It was the Hanover...
...chances materially improved by the winner's position at the pole, Shirley Hanover stepped out smartly in the second heat. In the backstretch her driver, Henry Thomas, seemed to ease, and for a moment lost the lead. But as Schnapps and Farr both broke into a gallop and were pulled to the outside, Shirley Hanover once more shot ahead in the homestretch. Time for the second and winning heat was an equally remarkable...
...sailed home last month claiming to have won the title by default. His claim strengthened when the man whom he had defeated defeated the champion, Schmeling was last week training for a "world's championship" fight in London in September, against England's current heavyweight hope. Tommy Farr. Major problem of Promoter Jacobs this summer will be to persuade Schmeling to climb into the same ring with Louis for what may turn out to be the biggest prizefight gate in history...
...Tommy Farr, British heavyweight boxing champion: a bout with Walter Neusel of Germany; by a third-round knockout; in London. Heavyweight Farr is now expected to fight Max Schmeling this summer...