Word: baer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During a suit in a Sacramento. Calif. court in which it was disclosed that Max Baer had made $500,000 in the last 18 months and spent it all, the heavyweight amused himself by putting matches in his lawyer's shoe and lighting them, by sticking gum in his lawyer's hair...
...Square Garden bout gave Jack Sharkey a decision over Max Schmeling for the world's heavyweight championship, Schmeling's manager swore never to fight for the Garden again. His vindictiveness had two results: 1) Instead of Sharkey, whom he might have beaten, Schmeling last summer fought Max Baer and was knocked out. 2) Instead of aging Tommy Loughran, whom he might have fought in Miami, Schmeling was matched in Philadelphia last week with young Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer...
...temporarily ceased to be an important promoter of fights. It also indicated that Schmeling had finished his career as a first-rate fighter; that young Hamas, who took up boxing four years ago to help pay his brother's doctors, was a possible opponent for ebullient Maxie Baer next summer...
According to a unique law of Pennsylvania, all men intending to study law with a view to practising law in Pennsylvania are required to file applications with George F. Baer Appel, 1500 Walnut St., Philadelphia, for registration as law students before they graduate from college. In addition to this application the prospective law student must answer a comprehensive questionnaire and in some cases submit to a personal interview...
...Prizefighter and the Lady," the other picture, is also good; you will enjoy it the more if you are interested in the boxing racket, as the leading parts are taken by Max Baer and Primo Carnera on the male side, and Myrna Loy on the female--not that the last named has anything specific to do with boxing. It is in this film that Max becomes carneravorous and fights ten rounds with Primo; some of the critics have even intimated that Maxie's edge on the Italiano in this picture version of their battle has influenced the betting odds...