Word: baer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating Sharkey-who won the championship a year ago by a debatable decision in his bout with Max Schmeling and who had previously been considered a shade the best of a mediocre group of U. S. heavy-weights-Monster Camera last week qualified for a bout with Max Baer, who knocked out Schmeling (TIME, June 19). Onetime champion Jack Dempsey, who, as promoter, has an option on Baer, last week began negotiations with Madison Square Garden Corp. which controls Carnera. for a Camera v. Baer bout to be held next year...
...maggots eat dead tissue and germs, but do not touch live flesh. This maggot habit the late Surgeon William Stevenson Baer applied to the treatment of festering wounds and bone diseases. He got astonishingly good results. Surgeons every- where are beginning to use the Baer technique...
...three years, a return match next autumn. Far more uncertain than the light weight situation is the condition of the heavyweight championship. This week's fight between Jack Sharkey (champion) and Primo Camera is actually no more than an elimination bout to provide a worthy opponent for Max Baer, who beat Schmeling. In Oakland, Calif., newshawks last week unearthed another Baer possibly even more alarming than Max-his brother "Buddy" Baer, 17, 6 ft. 4½ in., 246 lb., who plans to become a professional fisticuffer next autumn...
...first round Schmeling, a 2-to-1 favorite, although he was outweighed 189 to 203 lb., was surprised when Baer, instead of sparring cautiously, planted a thumping left hook to the head, followed it with looping dangerous rights. Confused, Schmeling backed up against the ropes, managed to get in one crashing right to the chin before the round ended. In the second round, grinning whenever Schmeling reached his face with short jolting punches, Baer was still forcing the fight, but in the third he was less aggressive. Referee Arthur Donovan warned him for hitting low, awarded the round to Schmeling...
...Baer ran out of his corner and sent three of his powerful, clublike right hand punches to Schmeling's head. Schmeling backed away to the ropes, dizzy. Baer, who talks constantly while fighting, said to the referee between pants, "This looks like the end," and followed Schmeling with a rain of blows which made Schmeling's knees buckle. It took one more solid punch, this one a carefully measured right while Schmeling stood forlornly near the ropes, trying to hold up his hands, to send the German down. Schmeling went over backwards, sat on the canvas till...