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During the second preliminary fight before the Braddock-Farr match at Madison Square Garden last week, a brawling broke out in the press row at the ringside. Promoter Mike Jacobs, hastening through the crowd of spectators, police and opponents, irritably declared: "We're having a damned sight more fighting outside the ring than in it! We have a full house. I suggest you gentlemen save those fisticuffs for some night when we don't have such a splendid attendance...
Spirit of Youth (Grand National). Smart Producer Lew Colder signed up Joe Louis to make a picture for $15,000, right after Louis had beaten Welsh Tommy Farr in his first defense of his world's heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated...
CRIMEFILE NUMBER 3: FILE ON FENTON AND FARR - Q. Patrick - Morrow ($2.25). Two deaths, both by gunfire in a New Jersey boys' school; five suspects, most of them on the school staff; clues including photographs, lipstick, telegrams, bound in the volume, as in other Crime-files. Good...
Pugilist Tommy Farr...
Louis failed to knock out, returned to England, surprised English boxing writers by talking of his earnings in dollars rather than pounds. Explained Pugilist Farr: "There's more of them...