Evening star., 1937-08-27
DEAN Of ARB|TERS.
R|D|CULES 81 ODDS.
Calls Challenger Eng|and's
Fastest Heavyweight in
Thirty Years.
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n out there's another fellow
| ~ around town, named c. B.
Thomas, who doesn't think
Tommy Farr got reprieve when Pro-
moter Mike Jacobs imagined he de-
tected rain in the air yesterday after
noon.
What Jacobs actually smelled, when
he abruptly postponed the Welshman's
engagement with Heavyweight Cham
pion Joe Louis until Monday night at
Yankee Stadium, was, of course, some
fresh money coming down from Sara
toga this week end on the racing spe-
cials. And this scrap badly needs some
fresh money.
That has nothing to do with this
c. B. Thomas, who is the active dean
of British fight referees, and as such
knows considerable about British
fighters, horizontal and otherwise.
He says, without batting an eye, that
hard-boiled Tommy Farr is "the great
est heavyweight England has produced
in the last 80 years at least"
He doesn't contend that that neces-
sarily makes Farr great fighter He
does say it makes the battle-scarred
challenger good enough to fight Joe
Louis all over the campus for IS
rounds and very possibly win the
world championship by decision
Calls Odds Ridiculous.
Il WON'T try to KID you that he's
puncher," he said dead serious,
while watching Farr pull his clothes
back on after yesterdays abortive
weighing in. I've been in the ring
with him II times, think, and I can't
remember that he knocked any of
them silly with one blow But I do
recall that he didn't do any of them
any good. Most of them got cut up.
Il don't care how hard this Louis
hits Maybe he's the hardest single
puncher of all time. like they say. But
these odds they're quoting on him to
beat Fairs to 1-are perfectly ri
diculous"
Farr was listening in on this part
Of it, and he nodded full agreement.
Tommy is the fastest heavyweight
England has produced in my time"
Thomas continued. j honestly believe
he could have whipped the Dempsey
who fought Tunney at Philadelphia.
1 saw that one. Tommy is crafty, too;
clever as they come He rolls away
from punches. If Louis needs to get
set to hit man. like they say, ell
never tag Tommy with his Sunday
punch"
Fans Unruffled by Delay.
JACOBS decision to put things off
few days and see if he couldn't
get little more currency in the till
didn't seem to fret the local fans
much. If it did. they displayed re-
markable restraint
The only ones seriously incon-
venienced were IL miners from Farr'
home town. TonypsndS, who came
over on a cheap round-trip excursion
Their boat, the Laconia, sails late this
afternoon
Farr and Louis. equally unrufhed by
the delay in getting at one another
were back in their camps hitting a few
light licks.
Not to be showed into the back
ground, Max Schmeling, the man who
licked Louis and who is willing to
fight him again ANY time. any place
any where announced he was ready
to fight in October, but not for the
12i2 per cent offered by Mike Jacobs
Talk Of Schmeling bout was re-
vived when Jacobs told newspaper
men he would stage a fight between
the winner of the Farr-Louis bout
and Schmeling on October II if the
German would agree to accept the
challenger's end of 1879 per cent.