* Sports News Classified Ads D _ ~~~ 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 Lou Nova, but it really wasn’t Nova who licked him. By any high was placed on the amount of standards, Nova is not a good heavyweight. 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 Max Baer by a technical knockout 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 Yankee Stadium, 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 Joe Louis 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 boxing, 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.