Word: baer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said onetime Champion Jack Dempsey: "I've got to like Baer. No one knows whether Louis can take...
Said onetime Champion Jim Jeffries: "Baer is terrible. If Louis is half as good as they...
Meanwhile last week another fight which will be fought the same day as the Baer v. Louis engagement with equal significance to prizefight enthusiasts was receiving no ballyhoo at all. This was the fight between Colonel John S. Hammond, board chairman and principal stockholder of Madison Square Garden Corp., and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president and lesser stockholder, for control of the No. 1 sports-promoting organization...
...Madison Square Garden made $1,000,000, mostly from boxing. Last year it made $180,000, mostly from hockey. This year a new organization called the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, by promoting the Louis v. Baer fight and the Louis v. Carnera and Louis v. Levinsky fights which preceded it, has far outdistanced the Garden as a matchmaking organization. That this sad state of affairs is due to the way the Garden has been managed by President Kilpatrick is the contention of Board Chairman Hammond who hopes to oust him at next week's stockholders' meeting...
That Twentieth Century is currently kingpin among prizefight promoters is not based solely upon this summer's fights. Promoter Jacobs may have a contract with onetime Champion Max Schmeling to fight the winner of Baer v. Louis next year. To match this the Garden has only Champion James J. Braddock, generally considered sure to lose his title in his next fight. That the Garden will have to find better ways than it has heretofore of dealing with Twentieth Century-either by competing efficiently or conceding defeat and renting out its boxing concession -was clear last week...