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...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...
...Farr has a lovely left. . . . Farr's left is out like a chameleon's tongue after a fly. ... A most satisfactory fight so far. . . . Farr's sitting pretty, thank you. . . . Farr is playing what we call a one to nothing game, hit and get away. . . . Baer's eye is bleeding nicely. . . . Fame and fortune are in front of Farr...
What he had been describing was a fight between onetime World Heavyweight Champion Max Adelbert Baer and a stolid 23-year-old Welshman named Tommy Farr. For winning decisively, becoming the first British heavyweight to attract international attention since Phil Scott (retired 1931), Farr got a purse of $15,000, offers of fights with Walter Neusel, Bob Pastor, John Henry Lewis, Max Schmeling...
...Miami, H. H. Farr awoke to find his pillow spotted with blood, a tiny cut in his nose, deduced that in his sleep he had punctured himself with his stiffly waxed mustache...
Wanda Kirkbridge Farr (in private life Mrs. R. C. Saulwetter) is a shapely, well-dressed, vivacious cytorogist (cell anatomist) who got her master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...