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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...
...corner of the ring sat the buffoon of heavyweights, U. S. ex-Champion Max Baer, sometimes described as Madcap Max of the faint heart, now billed as attempting a serious comeback. In the other corner sat the heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Welshman Tommy Farr, loser to Joe Louis and Jim Braddock in his two U. S. fights, clumsy but courageous, now billed as the owner of a newly-developed punch. The odds were 2-to-1 on Farr, who had beaten Baer in London eleven months...
...Madison Square Garden, 18,222 hopeful customers paid $74,409.22. To their surprise they got their money's worth. Few heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth so much wholehearted socking, done so much visible damage (see cut). It was Baer's lusty right against Farr's jabbing left. The Welshman landed oftener-and occasionally with a right that really bothered Baer-but when the former champion let loose, he came very near to ruining Farr. No one disputed Baer's victory; he was variously credited with from nine to 13 rounds. Surprising his critics...
Fortnight ago at the Braddock-Farr fight fists flew when Sun Sportswriter Ed Van Every repeated Dan Parker's charge to Jimmy Powers' face (TIME, Jan. 31). Last week this phase of the unseemly friction between Editor Powers and most of the rest of his colleagues closed with a letter printed in Dan Parker's column "in justice to Jimmy Powers. . . ." "Dear Mr. Parker...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime World Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock had entered the ring an 8-to-5 underdog in a ten-round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost...