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TUESDAY, AUG. 81, 1937

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

on PAGE 11

‘KILLER. EXPERTS

Tommy Farr, left, feints from a left by Joe Louis. It was such

Here's another shot of the heavyweight title milling at Yankee

. Times-Acme Photos. Jack Sharkey, also a former heavyweight champion who has felt

Jimmy Braddock, former heavyweight champion, who lost his title to Joe Louis in Chicago, last June was an interested spectator at last night's battle as The Brown Bomber made his first defense of the title. Jimmy seems to be enjoying himself.

the sting of Joe Louis’ blows, attended the battle with Mrs, Sharkey. Here they are enjoying the proceedings and Sharkey no doubt wonder=ing how it was that Joe was able to give him such a beating.

Stadium last night in which Farr is throwing a left jab into Louis’ face, drawing blood. Tommy often jarred the Bomber with his long, tantalizing left jabs.

FING

REEMAN P. DAVIS shot a 72, two over par, to upset the defending champion, Henry Simons, 2 up in a second round match of the

a sec Bookies Get Jitters as He! Highland Golf and Country Club championships.

Dr. E. W. Grant defeated Ralph Burdick, 1 up; Earl Sheffield won, Collects $100.000. [3 and 2, from William Van Landingham; Steve Davis defeated Jim . ,

tactics as this which enabled the game Welshman to stay away from those devastating punches of the champion and to last the limit much to the surprise of the fight experts and most everyone else.

‘Joe Won and Lost—Farr ‘British Proud | | Lost and Won,” Mac Says Of Tommy GOL

Welshman Offers No Alibis After Dropping Close Battle Sorry He Didn't Win, but

Evans Favored in Western Amateur

| Art Rooney |[ squareo circLE is LONELIEST SPOT IN LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 (U. P),

| | Is Busy Again | S usy gain WORLD—SHARKEY —A veteran and a youth were | -— . | favorites in the Western Amateur | . g Golf Championship today as the first qualifying round began at the | Los Angeles Country Club. Chick Evans, an old-timer crowding 50, turned in a 69 yesterday, and

OSTON, Aug. 31 (NEA). —The lonesomest place in | the world, Jack Sharkey was saying the other day, is the

To Bomber; Decision Booed. Laud His Courage.

By HENRY M'LEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Joe Louis, the brown boy from Alabam’,

about all. His glamour was gone. No one spoke of him as the “dynamite killer.” him to the stubble-bearded Dempsev of Toledo. No one thought of him as a ruthless executioner, with an ax concealed in each knotted fist. Because, last night, under the white lights, and in the sticky hea:

tin! held the world’s heavyweight boxing championship today, but that was,

= | LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—Brit-

ish fight fans, although greatly disappointed that Tommy Farr did not

win a decision from Champion Joe | Loius, believed today that he had |

No one compared | raised himself to a place among the |

ranking heavyweights of the world

| by his performance last night.

It generally was agreed that

Farr’s showing was one of the great- |

Young, 1 up, 20 holes; Don Rowles won from Bob Elliott by default; Dr. Harry Leer won from Dr. Paul Hurt, 3 and 2; Paul Shaffer defeated Harrison Bennett, 4 and 2; Paul®—— edpesiin — - Whittemore won from Dr. C. B. Blakeslee, 2 and 1. The third round, which will be | played this week and next, must be finished by Sept. 12, according to tournament regplations,

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noon, Trophies and merchandise awards will be made to the winners at a dinner following in the evening.

Shooting with a borrowed

Club starting at 2 o'clock this after-!

of Yankee Stadium, he barely—oh @

so barely—eked out a 15-round de- | cision over Tommy Farr of Tony- | pandy, Wales, Joe's margin was so | thin that when his arm was raised at the finish, 33,469 customers | greeted him with such thunderous | boos that he held his arms aloft ! scarcely a second before lowering | them and covering his ears. The | boo was a strange cry to him—he | who had always been an idol—and he seemed a little frightened. And, | as if to get away from it all, the champion, his face badly swollen, his fists bandaged, caught a plane | shortly after midnight and speeded | home to Detroit at 200 miles an hour. Perhaps he felt, as did all the spectators and critics, that he had won—and lost. And that Farr had lost—and won. Louis was a very ordinary workman last night. In his first defense, and against a challenger held: so lightly the odds against him were 10, 12, and even 15-to-1 at ring time, he could do nothing. Thousands were bet that Louis would knock out the little-known Welshman in the first round, but when the electric scoreboard above the ring flashed “Round 15° there was Farr, standing out in the middie of the ring, waiting for the cha rion to come | out. And when the champion came | out, Farr. trained in the circus and | carnival booths of the old country, | tore into him, using his last bit of strength to paw at Louis with lefts and rights. Blames Injured Fist

| At the finish, when he stretched | out on a rubbing table, and held | out his hands to have the bandages | cut off, Louis complained of in-| jured fists, and said that the hurts, sustained early in the fight, had | prevented him from scoring a | knockout. His handlers pointed to | a swollen knuckle on his right hand | —spoke knowingly of a contusion of the metatarsal knuckle. They said Joe got it in the third round, when he bounced a right off Farr's skull, and that had it not happened the champion surely would have finished the challenger in the seventh. Louis said Farr couldn't hit—that he was not hurt at any time. Yet even as he spoke his staff of repairmen applied ice packs to his right eye and cheek. Louis said the injury to his right hand—the one he used to put Braddock away two months ago—definitely ended any chance of his fighting Max Schmeling this year. When Schmeling, who watched the fight from a ringside seat, was told of this, he shrugged and said: “I do not care for alibis. Neither does the public. Did you hear the big applause the people gave me when I was introduced? The peo- | ple, they are tired of seeing me given a runaround. Soon Louis will | have to fight me, and I will knock | him out. Easy, I knock him out. He is finished.”

No Alibis From Farr

There were no alibis of any sort from the Farr camp. Neither Farr nor any handler would criticize the decision. Tommy paid tribute to Louis as a clean, fair fighter, and a strong puncher. Asked if he thought the decision was unfair, Tommy said: “I will let the American people decide that. I am satisfied. You thought I was a clown and couldn't fight. I proved I could. I am very | happy.” He should be. From the moment he steppzd off the boat until he stepped in the ring, the one-time coal miner with the pock-marked face was ridiculed. He took it all | like a game guy, and last night he fought like a dead-game guy. He made such a scrap of it that if he | hadn't been a “bleeder” the chances | are he would today be the cham- |

pion of the world. | candidates are natives of this state.

He bled because most of his life was spent deep in a coal mine— where the sun never had a chance to harden his skin. He came into the ring with milk-white skin. Early in the fight a left hook tore open

| the wound under his right eye that |

he suffered in training, and shortly |

| night's fight:

| Total income ‘e ‘ Louis’ share (40 per cent) 112,987.52 |

60,900.00 | MIT : | lating on Farr’'s chances of a return bout with Louis.

| the booing

| did that to me.”

‘Buddy Baer

| Chris Derosa, 156,

| Pavlovich.

Fight Figures NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U. P.).— Following are the figures on last

Total attendance Paid attendance Gross receipts Federal tax State tax Net receipts ............ Radio and movie rights ..

33,469 Do

999

Farr’s share (guarantee)

Stadium rental .. Milk fund

22,246.38 22,246.08 64,983.52

knockout punch. He never kept still, never offered Louis a shot at a set target. First he would move to the right, then to the left. Now he'd fight in a crouch, now he'd move in irom an upright stance. He feinted with everything—feet, hands. head and body. Louis missed dozens of times, as he floundered in the wake of the shifty Welshman.

Injured Hand Blamed by Joe

DETROIT, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—Joe

Louis, disappointed by his showing |

against Tommy Farr, arrived here

today and blamed his injured right hand.

small party of friends.

in the third round,” he said. came at me bobbing and I off.” “toughest fellow I've ever seen.

can take it like no man.”

Dr. Chester Ames of Detroit, wio | plane, |

accompanied Louis on the said the injury was a severe contusion of the third knuckle of ihe right hand. He said X-ravs wonid be taken to determine if the hand is fractured. Louis said his only hurt was a puff under the eve. “Outside of that, Farr didn't hurt a muscle.” he said. He said he was bothered by that greeted nouncement of his victory. “That's the first time they ever he mourned. The champion said he would spend today sleeping. “T'll be ready for Schmeling whenever they want me to go.” he said. “That's if the hand turns out all right.”

'Flattens Simon

NEW YORK, Aug. 31. — Buddy

| Baer, 243, Livermore, Cal., brother of | former heavyweight champion Max | Baer, | Brooklyn, in the third round in the

stopped Abe Simon, 250, semifinal on the Tommy Farr-Joe Louis card in Yankee Stadium last night, In other Balsamo, 165,

preliminaries Harry New York, stopped Boston, in the first round; Tiger Jack Fox, 1841..

Spokane, Washington, got the deci- |

sion over Steve Dudas, 188. Jersey City, in six; Sol Paco, 180!:, New York, outpointed George Cress. 192':, New York, in four: John 161':, New York. feated Max Long, 158':, Dallas, in four: Joe Wagner, 1741.

sera, 186':, Pittsburgh, gained the

verdict, over Dave Clark, 1741's, De- | | troit, in six.

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| weight | pleased that he had surprised the

| 36,903 | |it was one of the greatest heavy-

oo... 8265,753.11 | Weight fights in years. They paid

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(up to indulge in the national pas- |

| families crowded into the assembly by plane from New York at dawn | mi Sl lo > \

lothers sat or stood in the streets,

T 3 . . = | : Ww earing smoked glasses to conceal | while nearly | eye bruises, Louis was greeted by a |

. | The champion said Farr was the! He | can’t hurt with his punches, but he |

the an- |

| been making more monoy at the

de- |

Newark, | ‘and Phil Sommese, 189'4, Westbury, | [N. Y., drew in four; Charlie Mas- |

est ever put up by a British heavy- | contender. Britons were |

AY C. FOX, Indianapolis Athletic Club golf chairman prei Cath | dicts that a large field will compete critics who had ridiculed his chances | in the club's annual competition toha predicted a knockout bY | ow at the Broadmoor Country Fans and sports writers said that On. Ot ees Of She om Reed Jr, W. F. Souder Jr., Leroy Sanders, R. E. Snoberger, Roy C. Bain, Dudley R. Gallahue, James T. Kirby, Dr. K. R. Ruddell, C. W, Mann, John Welch, Harry J. Herff, L. M. Bloch, and J. H. Wolf.

un un n HE qualifying round of the championship of the Country | Club of Indianapolis has been extended another week. Pairings for first round matches will be made : . at the clubhouse Sunday night. avyweig cha . my | . : es : “i Braddock or Max Schmeling. They | he championship fighi, while believed Farr would be a favorite | against either. Tommy's former working com- | panions—the miners in the Rhondda Valley, including his home town of | Tonypandy-—were recovering from a sleepless night. They had stayed |

booed the outcome as it was announced over the facilities of the! British Broadcasting Co. Supporters of the British Empire champion—ygerticularly his Welsh | miner friends—already were spaci-

Many fans ere looking forward | to a bout in which the British |

dent's and vice president's The first round is to start Monday. on ”n

afternoon at

small,

Sunday Grove, though | ton Nichols for instance, in | third round match with | Petersen was fighting an

time of group singing. Pubs, inns, public halls. parks and squares had been fitted up with

not own radios could listen. IN Five hundreds miners and their nine. Nichols won the 11th when Hall at Clydachvale, where Tommy | Petersen picked up, and spent most of his life, and 5000 | looked a little brighter. He then | won the 12th, but lost the 13th on 1500 were crammed | a stymie. into Judge's Hall, the scene of many | three holes, and luck was with of Farr's earlier triumphs. | Nichols on the 17th. STATE FINALS "SET | drive he hooked his next shot into FOR SOFTBALL TITLE 150 yards from the pin. Se match drew to a close yet paid lit-

31 | tle attention. to young Nichols as of | he made ready to make an iron shot. He took a gambler's chance and shot for the pin.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Aug. (U. P).— The Bendix Brakes South Bend and the Vitrified Bricks | team of Terre Haute will meet here next week-end for the state softbail championship. . The two-out-of-three-game series will start Friday night and end Sunday.

| the edge of the green and with a hop, skip and a jump rolled into | the cup for an eagle. : : Aww ;.| The crowd roared almost as on By wi High Sn loudly as the grandstanders across Haute team the southern tourney to | he a y in! Badin, "iol earn the right to play for the cham- | though Nichols won the hole pionship. > jas well as the admiration of the The state champions will repre- | onlookers, he failed to take the sent Indiana at the softball “world | 18th which would have tied series” starting Sept. 10 at Soldier | match. They halved the hole Field, Chicago. | Ing Petersen a l-up victory.

MEHLHORN BRIDGE ACE

tournament was the failure of

v ‘ 11 eight linksmen to show up for the | NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Wild Bill first round of the president's flight. | | The prizes offered by the committee | {in this flight seemed to be enough |

{ to make any golfer want to compete. | | card table lately than he has on the | Thirty-two were slated to play and |

| greens.

Mehlhorn may give up tournament golf for tournament bridge. He's

| only 24 were there to start.

PLANS BUSINESS CAREER NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Aug. 3l.—

others will be placed in the presi- | flights. |

loudspeakers so that those who did | battle to break down the 4-up lead | | built up by Petersen on the out |

things |

They halved the next | After a good | the rough among some small trees,

The gallery grew tense as the |

The ball | | soared through the air, bounced on |

the | giv= |

" nun =» NE of the little tragedies of the |

| Druggists from all parts of the | | state will compete in a golf tour- |

in-one a! Coffin course He tallied the ace on the 170-yard 15th hole. a foursome with John Parsons, George Franks and Bill Birsfield. He used Parsons’ No. 2 iron to make the ace drive,

LEWIS RUCH DEAD MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Aug. 31 (U. P.)—Lewis Charles Ruch, 75, former president of the Philadeiphia National League Baseball Club, died here yesterday. The body will be sent to Brooklyn for burial.

JIMMY BRADDOCK MAKES $5000 AS GARDEN FOLDS UP

By NEA Service EW YORK, Aug. 31. — N When Mike Jacobs takes over Madison Square Garden it will mean $5000 to James J. Braddock, former world heavyweight champion. The Garden releases all claims on this sum posted as a forfeit by Braddock to cover prefight expenses for the “Phantom Fight” with Max Schmeling.

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