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With blood streaming down his cheek for the first time in his career, the champion went after Baer with the savageness for which he is famed. In the sixth round he weakened the giant with chopping rights & lefts, then felled him as though he were a redwood tree. At the...
What happened in the pandemonium that followed will be hashed and rehashed for years to come. Many ringsiders claimed that Louis' final punch landed just after the bell. Baer's handlers, swarming all over the ring, demanded that Referee Donovan disqualify Louis. Instead, when the bell rang for...
Explained Referee Donovan: "Joe Louis hit Buddy Baer at the bell-and not afterward. . . . Suppose-as some claim, but with whom I absolutely do not agree-that Louis hit Baer after the bell. In that case, it would have been a matter for my own discretion. If I thought Louis...
Except for the absence of the band and the spectators, the climax-contest--used by Harlow and his staff of assistants as attesting ground for new formations, plays and "promising-or-not-so" players from the Sophomore and Freshman classes--simulated actual game conditions as closely as possible. The referee...
For 75 days Allis-Chalmers had been strikebound. Management's effort to reopen fortnight ago ended in tear-gas attacks, smashed windows, smashed cars, and the ignominious rout of Wisconsin's Governor Julius ("the Just") Heil, who failed as a mediator. The agreement engineered by the Mediation Board...