The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-14

A legend has grown up around
Camera that he is so big and power
full he can not be hurt by human
fists.
Similarly, Baer has been endowed
with the Olympian qualities OF Thor
no human can stand up in front
Of his right hand.
Automatically, then, you have
a rematch of those two fine old
belligerents, (a) immovable object
and (b) irresistible force.
Who's going to win, mister?
NTELL, the night I saw Baer al
w most unhinge Max Schmel-
ing's head with a roaring right hand
punch I concluded that he was the
mightieSt hitter since Dempsey S
time, and that none of the other
fellows in the division had any bust
ness in the same ring with him.
If you are to concede Baer is the
mightiest hitter since Dempsey
what, then, will happen if Baer gets
home with bulls eye dive?
Personally, 1 think the Primo will
go down and stay down, but as is
always the case in such SpeculationS
the Primo must first be hit. Car
Baer hit him? You may ask: "Why
not? Didn't Sharkey in their first
f1ght?" True, but that was some
several years ago. The Primo is not
so easy to hit now.
When the Primo was matched
with Tommy Loughran, my first re-
action was that if fellow with ar
eighty-pound pull in the weights
and every corresponding physical
advantage couldn't win that kind OF
a fight he ought to go back to Jug
Cling pianos. Not only win it, but
win it quickly and by a knockout.
Then it occurred to me that it is
very difficult to knock out fighter
who does not want to be knocked
out. Hadn't Tommy Gibbons proved
that against Dempsey? Even so, ]
insisted, the Primo would have to
look awfully good all the way, no
matter what kind of fight Lough-
ran made, or else public sentiment
would turn solidly against him.
DURING the early stages of the
~ fight the Primo did not louk
good at all. Loughran took amazing
liberties with him. More than once
the little geezer stopped boxing
rushed in and banged the Primo
squarely in the puss with right and
left hands. You grinned to your
self: Wait until Baer gets a crack
at this hooligan."
Along about the tenth round the
Primo started to come. Mr.. Billy
Duffy, his handler in the corner
whispered to me: Hes fought him
self into condition" a remark that
seemed very strange at the time
What had he been doing the three
previous weeks?
But as I say, the Primo began to
come, and from then on he gave
one of the most astonishing exhibit
tons ever seen in the ring. He pro-
ceeded to outlook the master boxer
to outscore him at his own game
and to outscore him by such a wide
margin that there was no doubt as
to the winner. Indeed, Loughran
was hanging on, practically out or
his feet, when the last gong rang.
ATOW that shows versatility anc
IN resourcefulness 1t also shows
something more important-it shows
that the Primo improves in various
departments as he goes along. Six
months before he had slugged
Sharkey to the floor with crude
ponderous blows. Here he was now
the epitome of skill and dizziness
left-handing a dancing phantom
silly.
So don't be too sure Baer is 60
ing to reach the Primo's chin with
one of those whizzing right hands
and this is what he must do to win
He isn't going to outlook him. On
that you are invited to bet all the
broad AS in Boston.
Getting back to that remark Mr.
Duffy made to me in the corner
It's a hitherto untold story. The
Primo slipped away from his train
ers the night before the fight, at
tended an all-night party, con-
sumed a dozen eggs and two quarts
of milk before retiring the next
morning, and-weu, that helps to
explain why he didn't get going for