Word: baer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telling you and I'm telling him just what I'm going to do. I'm going to wrap it all up in one package and let him have it in the first round. . . ."-Max Baer, in Speculator, N. Y. where a grandstand at his training camp last week collapsed, injuring 60 people...
Statements like these last week, two weeks before Max Baer and Joe Louis come to blows in New York, were a fair sample of the ballyhoo which has for the last month preceded the most exciting prizefight since Dempsey met Tunney in 1927. Whether newspapers publicize prizefights because the public likes fights or whether the public likes fights because the newspapers publicize them is one of the many riddles of pugilism. No riddle is the fact that while newspaper readers were last week absorbing the details of Negro Louis' romance with a dusky Chicago stenographer named Marva Trotter, whom...
...hope of re-establishing its prestige as the foremost prizefight promoting concern in the U. S., what Madison Square Garden Corp. arranged last month was a fight between Jack Doyle and Jacob ("Buddy") Baer Jr. Doyle is a handsome young Irishman who, since arriving in the U. S. last February, has distinguished himself by failing to get a job in Hollywood on the strength of his appearance, by marrying a minor cinemactress named Judith Allen, and by defeating three hopelessly obscure heavyweight fighters. Buddy Baer is the 238-lb., 6-ft., 6-in., 20-year-old brother of one-time...
...lasted two minutes, 38 seconds. In them, Doyle had time to fetch Baer one resounding whack on the jaw. Baer had time to hit Doyle below the belt and then, because New York Commission rules prevent referees from stopping a fight on a foul, to floor his opponent twice and win by a technical knockout...
Doyle's comment: "I know I can beat him, I hope we fight again." Baer's reward: a bout with teetering Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"), who was last month knocked out in 141 seconds by Negro Joe Louis...