Evening star., 1937-07-10
Farr Te1Ued Snap for Louis F0ur:F00t Putt Colts
BOUT MEANS REAL
COIN TO BR|T|SHER
Will Get More by Meeting
Joe Than He'd Make in
Years in England.
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

~H1cAGO. July 1o.-ofhand
and from hearsay information
only, I am Of the opinion that
Thomas Farr, the British
heavyweight champion, will be one
Of the softest touches ever pitched to
Joe Louis.
OF course, that fight is necessary,
for It is far better for Uncle Mike
Jacobs and the heavyweight business
that Thomas fight Joe Louis in New
York than Max Schmeling in London.
The longer the German can be kept
idle the more eager he will become
for crack at the Brown Bomber and
that Is the match the paying customers
want.
Herr Schmeling is the odd party in
nice little game of freeze-out and will
learn that Uncle Mike Jacobs is the
world champion at that pastime.
Schmeling's tactics already have cost
him the chance at Louis this year,
and when he comes up to taw next
Summer he'll just be that much older
and no better in any detail.
Farr Is Warned.
FARR cannot be taken as a serious
threat to Joe Louis, despite his
wins over Max Baer, Bob Olin, Wal
ter Neusel and others. Chances are
Louis could take that crowd into
the ring and flatten them all in a
battle royal. Writing in the London
Express, Ted Broadribb, the Briton's
10 L,o
ton" All that I can say to that is
that Mr.. Fairs intuition must be
jumping few cogs, otherwise it
would tell him to remain a. home
while his skeleton still is in good
working order. Kingflsh Levinsky also
had intuition, but it told i'm to get
knocked down quickly before Louis
had the chance to do him any perma-
nent damage. I don't know much
about Farr's fighting form, but I can
tell him at this distance, his intuition
Is all wrong and won't be worth a
ha'penny in blocking Joseph's rights
and lefts.
Farr, Welshman, who comes from
Penygralg in the Rhonda Valley coal
nelds. was nothing but small-time
fighter around London until the last
few months. He started business as
4 plt-face miner, then became a
bellooy in Cardiff and finally waiter
In London before taking to the ring.
Never in Big Dough.
EARR never has been in the big
money, which is one reason the
chance to fight Louis in New York
is so attractive. Trevor Wignall, the
London Express columnist recently
told me that Farr received only a
few pounds for fighting Tommy
Loughran and Bob Olin and that one
OF his top purses was the s375 paid
him for beating Ben Foord, the South
African champion. So, in a way,
there's nothing wrong with Fairs
intuition about money. for he'll get
more fighting Louis than he could
pick up in England in several years.
Farr is bandy-legged 6-footer.
weighing bit over 200 pounds and
has just turned % years. He is not
rated hard puncher but is fair on
defense and has plenty of stamina.
wherein he differs from Phil Scott and
some OF the other Britishers who
were perpetrated on American fight
fans in the past. The fellow may
be q fair. run-of-mine fighter, but
there's nothing to indicate he will
be any match for Louis But, as was
said before, there's nothing for Uncle
Mike Jacobs to do but pitch him
70 Joe Louis and clarity the heavy
weight situation 50 that Schmelinp
will have to come over for a return
with the Bomber.
think there is every reason to
suspect that when Louis has fin
Hhed OF Farr, the Welshman will
appreciate fully our popular song
That's September in the Rain"