Word: farr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Farr, battered, cocky, onetime British heavyweight champion; in the Royal Air Force...
...YORK--Tommy Farr of Wales is a 12-5 favorite to achieve his first American victory tomorrow night when he meets Clarence "Red" Burman of Baltimore, Jack Dempsey's protege, in the feature 10-round bout of an all-heavyweight card at Madison Square Garden...
...horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...
Engaged. Thomas George Paul ("Tommy") Farr, 24, heavyweight boxing champion of Great Britain; to Eileen Wenzel, 27, former Ziegfeld Follies dancer, who in 1936 won a $40,774 damage suit from Louis J. Ehret Jr., brewery heir, on the grounds that an automobile crash had "marred her beauty and lessened her prospects of a favorable marriage...
Afterwards, demanding a match with the winner of the Louis-Schmeling fight next September, irrepressible Max boasted: "I didn't quit, did I? I had to redeem myself and I did. Did Louis have Farr on the floor?* Did Braddock?* Well, Papa Baer...