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_ ~~~ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1939. D_j Nova Not Likely to Seek Louisi Crown This Year Over Baer ■" ■ ---— • ---A._- -_ Despite Victory < Nova Camp Gives or Win, Lose Draw Young Scrapper Books Beating B» « Staff Correspondent of The Star. By FRANCIS E. STAN, NEW YORK, June 2.—It was Star Staff Correspondent. Too Easy to Hit, great money fight at Yankee The End of the Trail Stadium last night, aside from the box office receipts and the NEW YORK, June 2—The spirit was but Maxie willing Madcap old guard took a heavy lacing Baer waited too long to take himself When he tried he seriously. finally Victim from Nova supporters. A con- found the flesh weak. He was technically knocked out in the 11th round Says servative estimate of $1,000,000 by , but it really wasn’t Nova who licked him. By any high was placed on the amount of standards, Nova is not a good . Baer beat himself years money changing hands. Lou Shows No Cards, similar ago and so today there is another saga of a prize fighter who has Deadly to those circu- reached the end of the trail. Punch as He Carves lated during the football season which pay juicy odds for Baer's exit—and undoubtedly his fight with Nova was his exit, at picking winners, were in evidence and the least from the big time—was one of gore, futility and retribution. This Max for T. K. 0. offer was 8-1 if Nova kayoed Max was a fight that Max thought he could win. He felt he couldn’t be from By GAYLE TALBOT. the sixth to 10th, or 11th hurt by Nova and. in a sense, he was Nova cannot nor to right. punch, Associated Press Sports Writer. 15th rounds. can he a take punch. He isn't ready to carry the water bottle for Joe It was 2-1 on a NEW YORK, June 2.—Victor over decision in his Louis. But the kid from Alameda on and outfumbled Baer favor. hung and by a technical cut the former The entire Nova brutally champion until the latter couldn't carry’ on. in the 11th round of a bloody duel at camp cashed sizeable There always are at least two stories to a fight—that story told in , Lou Nova of Cali- wagers. the ring and that revealed after the battle is over. The Nova-Baer fornia stands qualified today to fight no either or Galento affair was exception. Into the dressing room under Yankee Stadium Tony will, smashing his bloody features for the heavyweight last night they led Baer, a pulpy, bloody, sick-in-the-stomach, mentally championship with both hands as Max spewed in September or early next summer. fagged chap. They sat him on a rubbing table and left him exposed to crimson all over the ring, Fullam The 24-year-old ex-collegian fight- newspapermen and cameramen who set hot and asked Max wanted to stop it earlier in the up kleig lights ing only his 27th professional bout, to his mouth and the eleventh, but Maxie refused the re- pull open pose jagged, swollen lower lip which must cut the ex-champion down steadily prieve and took a dozen more blows have sent close to a quart of blood streaming into his stomach from the and until Referee methodically before he consented to retire. second to the 11th rounds. Frank Fullam stopped it in 1:21 of The was the 11th when Baer was choked and fight really decided in unable to continue from the blood the second, when Baer suddenly "I Had Good lashed out with his famous My Days—" that poured from a badly lacerated old right and Baer tried to speak. The words came thickly, muffled by those lip. caught Nova cold with a half dozen in fast succession. puffed lips that resembled nothing so much as a short, fat sausage, split i Almost 17,000 fans banked in the arena saw the Nova lengthwise. "I couldn't breathe,” he said. "I had him set up for a great younger man Weathers Rights. survive a bushel of Baer's thunder- That was when knockout twice but I kept gagging on the blood. I didn't know what Baer's followers ous rights in the early rounds and had expected the bout to end. But was happening. What round did they stop it? I thought it was the come back to him a sixth.” give cruel beat- Nova proved strong and resolute ing. Baer bled like a stuck hog from and didn't go down. He wobbled Baer stopped, bowed his misshapen face in his hands, and shud- the third round on, and when it was and staggered a bit from the fusil- dered. He undoubtedly was a sick man. His handlers applied ice bags TYPE over his face was a OF BLOW THAT TOLD—Lou Nova (right) landing one of New York last night. It was a constant face attack that travesty. lade. but he stuck to his feet and to the back of his neck. Max moaned and finally straightened again. his left-hand Max Injured Hand Slows Nova. came back fighting. punches to Baer’s face in the heavy battle the cut Baer’s mouth so badly that Referee Frank Fullam called a "I had my good days,” he went on, snatching wildly for a shred Nova, his left ear blooming like an former won in the eleventh In Baer’s other good round, the of "I-” round at the Yankee Stadium in halt. —A. P. eggplant from Baer’s philosophy. Wirephotos. despairing sixth, he again rocked the youngster A rights, said in the dressing room he newspaperman interrupted. '’Max,” he asked, "are you going with a series of rights, once almost would have his rival clean to fight again?” stopped spilling him. Vet again the kid as a whistle if he had not hurt his Baer tried to shake his head but fresh shook them off and at the end was only pains rewarded the right maulie in the third round. effort. "I'm going to he answered. jabbing away at Maxie's jumbled quit,” "I'm going to save what Maxie, looking and feeling terrible, I've features with his long left. The mentality got.” said he didn’t know whether he ever roundhouse punch that Baer laid would fight again. At the same time on Nova's whiskers, after the bell he mumbled a warning Nova: tq ended the seventh, hurt Lou ana Ancil Hoffman Admits He's ”He's a good, strong boy, but he’s Through sent him staggering to his comer, This the Baer that a long way off. He gets hit too wasn't everybody had come to know. Win, lose but he came fresh as a much.” up daisy to or draw. Maxie was a braggart. He always talked a good fight before he belabor Max in the eighth. His listeners nodded agreement, went into the ring and after he came out. He always wanted another In the long run. it was Nova’s most of them feeling in their bones crack at a victor, even after Louis knocked him out in four rounds. But straight left, delivered with all his that Lou, though he made a game, here he was. beaten by a raw, unfinished 202 pounds behind it. that ruined boy, who, during the lush times damaging fight against Baer, is not of would be Baer's comeback. The veteran , fighting preliminaries. And here was Baer saying quite ready to get in the ring and didn't know how to escape the stab- that he had better quit. face the dynamite blasts of Joe leather and as Baer bing gradually the buried his face into a towel, stained with as another ijouis. i\ova s manager. Kay uarun. blood, rounds went on it cut him to pieces. newspaperman asked if it were true that he said he wanted a few days to think had lost a bet on himself. Now and then Nova went into ac- "I $4,500." moaned it over belore deciding whether to dropped Maxie, “but I don't care about that so tion with both hands, standing and much. What hurts is tackle the poisonous, big Negro this that I let my friends down .'. Ross and a slugging, but he owed his victory Barney year. lot of other people who bet on me. And I to his left. they'll say quit again.” He Bout Plain began to sob into the towel. Slugfest. The occasional right that he Prom the start, last night's fight “You didn't said a crossed seemed to shake Baer, but quit,” handler who was trying to put some an- was a brutal rip-tearing, exhibition never threatened to him down. tiseptic on his lip. “You took your that put beating, Max. Don't say you quit.” kept the spectators an their last The handler Aftif night tt’s clear Nova is no bent over and whispered into Baer's ear. The feet. There was no fighter fpBil-out. knoJfcut artist, though the pun- listened dully. They went at it right now, rinfaing ishment he handed out might have After a and and while Max was helped up and led to a shower and the grunting scowling, hitting forced Baer to quit in the last few on the bracks and after the bell. 1 stragglers among the newspapermen turned to Ancil Hoffman, his mana- rounds even had Max’s lip not been The referee took two rounds from I ger. Will he fight again? What are the present plans? cut. Nova for hitting low and one from Promoter We talked with Hoffman the night before the fight and Ancil had was mad Maxie when he clouted Lou an said he wasn't he as a wet hen about the skimpy worrying. “Honestly,” explained, “we feel this is a awful smash after the bell. crowd that turned out and still was gilt-edged cinch. Max knows he can beat this fellow and I know he At the end of 10 rounds the Asso- to send can. too. We've threatening the Louis- bet on it—bet heavily. If he doesn’t, he's ciated Press score sheet Nova through.” gave Galento fight to another city, per- Hoffman didn't to last six and try hedge night in the dressing room. “He's chapters Max four. During haps . He blamed the through,'1 he said. “I he doesn't the ninth and tenth rounds Nova hope try again. He ought to quit.” hit World's Fair for holding the gross his tired, distressed rival almost at gate to $82,364.

Max's Color Made Him an Asset Max may try again. All fighters have a hard time quitting. But he is washed up. He won four of the first six rounds, on this score card, and had Nova groggy twice. He should have knocked out the youngster, but Max had no stamina, no co-ordination of mind and muscle and, except for a few seconds in each of the early rounds, no power to his TRI-WEARS punches. Even if he had won, Baer wouldn't have added to his prestige. It was a fight between a mediocre young heavyweight and a fast-fading veteran. It was reasonably exciting, but no more so than a WEARY VICTOR—Sweat was in Nova’s and his breath came deathless eyes BATTERED LOSER—His mouth badly cut, his left eye swollen, use duel between two cripples crutches for only using weapons. hard as he was acclaimed winner, but it was not difficult for him Baer’s was not a to Baer profile pretty thing look at as the one-time never was a great but there are fighter, a lot of people who to muster a smile of happiness. left thought he should heavyweight champion the ring. have been one. He may have quit to Louis, resting on one knee, but there was a measure of color about the fellow and the Genuine Buckskin racket event that he a fight needs somebody like Baer at the moment. His isn’t stages September had and counter-attacking sav- saga bout. repeated every year. agely enough to make Maxie break Pastor Is Crown No Match (or Louis. When Max first came out Fight Figure and give ground. They argue that of the West six or seven years he ago Lou can take didn t know how to box. Nova supporters, no little dis- the title from Louis But he had a marvelous and a physique good turbed aimed with the same modus but hand and a by jibes at their fa- operandi, right stout jaw-. He made a hit with fans and he made After Nova Even in Victory vorite because of his anemic punch- ringside critics are in violent dis- good copy. He belted out Ernie Schaff and then came close to great- ing .point out that Lou predicted he agreement over this point. ness by out knocking and Primo Camera. Looks Poor would stop the former titleholder Prevailing opinion is that Louis Challenger in the late stages of the fight after could take Nova, Baer and Galento him in a and cut ’em By LEWIS F. ATCHISON, ion is that only those interested in wearing down with a steady group down like And There's to Louis stream of lefts cord wood. Nobody Fight Star Staff Correspondent. Louis club two more to the head. watching oppo- Nova But Baer wasn't cut out to be a They argued that he proved his escaped serious injury at fighter. He was an actor ... A NEW YORK, June 2.—A new chal- nents insensible will plunk down mettle but an their for by taking everything Baer See ham, withal actor. When he became champion he rose to new lenger for Heavyweight Champion hard-earned dough PASTOR. Page D-4.) of either Galento or Nova and weird heights. He played the night club circuit and bent a con- Joe Louis’ crown emerged from the glimpses it in action against him. vivial elbow. He courted dazzling damsels June Knight of the Nova-Baer brawl today, but wasn't Young Lou Nova, the Pastor, who lost to Gus Lorazio movies and Mary Kirk Brown of the veddy, veddy set, and many others. collegian, who stopped Merry Maxie and then whipped Maury Strick- He was a playboy, was Maxie. He made a picture with in the 11th round of a scheduled ler and Roscoe Toles in his last called "The Prize Fighter and the Lady.” 15-round bout last night at Yankee three fights, is conceded an excel- He sang and tap danced in the movies and after he had whacked Stadium. lent chance of edging into the title Primo and won the poor title he did a stretch in . He learned Touted as Louis’ opponent after the match with Louis, although he a of couple elementary chorus steps and butchered a song called “Lucky, champ disposes of Globular Tony isn't given a chance of winning. Luckey Me,” or something like that. He was a ham. as we said, but he Galento. come June 28. is Bob Pas- The only reason for putting in loved tor, Bronx who such a it and so did the customers. They thought he was a prize fighter— cycling enthusiast, match is Louis’ anxiety to a world back-pedalled 10 rounds with the get another shot at the boy who champion—doing very well at stage work. What he really was, Maxie title-holder three years ago. made him look foolish, plus the fact Baer, was a very bad song-and-dance man doing very well as Nova whipped Baer, make no mis- that Pastor has a fol- a fighter. fairly good take about it, and did it the hard lowing among his fellow New York- He was the greatest in glamour boy boxing history. The world was way, electing to slug it out with the ers. at his feet. But he frittered it all away and then last night, at 30, he ever-dangerous playboy despite re- If sufficient interest in such an climbed into the ring at Yankee Stadium and was horribly cut up and peated warnings from older, more argument can be whipped up by beaten by a kid who isn't much of a fighter at all. Maxie was serious level-headed men in his corner. Uncle Michael’s propaganda crew, But, about this fight. He thought he could win it and he tried to win. He paradoxically, Lou looked so he'll not hesitate to change horses bad in victory—decisive as it was— in midstream. didn't quit until he became violently ill from swallowing blood and then that few observers believe Promoter There are other angles to Jacobs' it was the referee who stopped it. What really happened was that all Mike Jacobs will continue with plans September plans, too. for last' of a sudden the night club life and the mixed drinks and the gay for matching him with Louis in Sep- night’s show was not the financial camaraderie suddenly caught up with the fellow. tember. success Jacobs hoped it would be. Today the is no more The heavyweight picture pleasant to regard than 20-odd thousand who wit- But Mike apparently saw the writ- Mr. Baer, on ex-contender. Next Louis’ list of victims is , nessed last night's bout came away ing on the wall and prepared for the to whom it is paying tribute to take seriously. After Galento comes decidedly unimpressed by Nova's worst by installing only 16 rows of work, and Nova. Across the seas is Max Schmeling.. What it amounts to is this: generally disgusted with ringside chairs. He blames the bus- the current crop of so-called iness on the World’s which There isn't a heavyweight in the world who can last a round with heavy- sag Fair, weight contenders. is a Louis unless the Negro wants it otherwise. reaping golden harvest, and is Along Rue de la Cauliflower opin- casting about for another site in the jr Bigger Trade | NO EXTRA I Allowance I buckskin New York to Lose Louis-Galento For Your Old I Only genuine top-grade has the Bout, Jacobs Hints CHARGE soft, even texture that is so easy to clean and Gives Lesson in For Standard Tiro 4 Battery Co.’s holds its shape so long... only genuine buck- Tony Courtesy; Nova Claims Dictionary Wrong on His Name skin is so it "breathes" . EDDIE porous actually By BRIETZ, will give you an idea of the size Associated Press pion in New York State, was in- toonist, here for the fight, Is po- Sports Writer. of the crowd. Cheese from only genuine, top-quality buckskin meets ex- troduced as champion of the lice commissioner of Belmont, Over! CREDIT NEW YORK. June Noah a crepe Web- 2.—Those, hanger? world, he was so certain they Calif., and also a member of the Enjoy longer, easier riding, safer mile- acting TRI-WEAR requirements. ster says: “‘Nova,’ a new who didn't make it missed a star, were calling for some other guy, burg's volunteer fire department. I age with FEDlERAL Safti-Ride Tires, which flashes 5,000 up to increase its he waited a minute can and as ridel It takes but a few Whale of a fight. Mike Jacobs good to get Who remember when a Yan- Famous Make Tires I pay you TRI-WEAR genuine buckskin summer styles brilliance, etc., by 10.000 times in into a the ring. kee losing streak lasted longer minutes to open charge account, and plain-tip, half-brogue, full •aid: “Looks like I’ll have to take a week or two, but short wing-tip usually than one game? you don’t pay one penny extra for credit. and ventilated styles in all-over white the big ones out of New York.” lived.” Lou says the last Business note: Sorry to Gut Prices ! I part Harper Gault, Rock Hill (S. C.) brown or “ain’t state the World's Fair black caif-trimmed wing-tip Signor Galento was there and so.” Herald: “This is the home of didn't do much for Nova brown calf saddle oxford with heavy red gave the photogs a lesson in pro- While Galento and Louis were businessmen The and Baer. golfers. boys rubber soles. fessional courtesy. While Baer in there being introduced, one raised $136 to send Lester Reyn- and Nova tore into said: “This a each other, guy is history Here and there: is olds to the national open. But refused to with Tony politely pose making scene, gents It is higher than a kite on an 18-year- there are strings attached. If his thumb firmly grasped between the only time you'll ever see old heavy, Althus Allen, who has Lester wins, he’s got to return to and Galento in the the thumb forefinger of his same ring with just turned pro. Around here Rock Hill and give every con- left hand. Baer tried to look Louis and walk out. Max Marek, they keep referring to the Good- tributor a free lesson.” HAHN stern and determined while one of the few they lads who beat all round robin as the "Guldahl This and that: A St. Louis fan 14th fir G 7th &K *3212 14th *4483 Conn. Ave. were tying on his gloves, but be- Louis in the amateurs, took a round robin.” Don't miss the cen- sent Mize and Joe Med- Johnny 935 Prnntylvania Ate. N W fore the ceremony was over he licking in one of the prelims. tennial edition of Baseball wick 1839 to fl maga- pennies help get lAth A Rhode or laland Ate. N. IOth A H Sta. N. E. I *open evenings had either bowed winked at When Melio Bettina, he’s the zine—a honey. Maurie Morrison, them out of their batting alump, J W_• everybody In the gallery. That world light-heavyweight cham- San Francises Chronicle car- but it didn’t work. i a