The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-31
Louis IS GIVEN
DECISION over
WEIGH MINER
Vast Throng Booes Unanl-
nous Choice Of Bout
Officials
BY JACK CUDDY .
,.I Press Staff Correspondent

of Detroit, last night IeldI''" nc
world heavyweight title by the
narrowest of margins in a bruis-
inc l5-round fight with Tommy
FAR. rangy British heavyweight
As the unanimous decision of
two Judges and the referee was
announced. $4,000 persons stood
IN i'm the huge horseshoe STADIUM"
and roundly booed the verdict
II was Louis first defense OF
the title ne won from James J.
Bradock i'm June.
The rugged Welsh coal MINER
who had been the I'll underdog
in the betting and 81 shot to
be Knocked out. gave Louis inc
most amazing battle OF the De
troit negroes career, Save only
one. The Max Schmcling knock
out.
The fight see-sawed through
out, with Farr now ahead-now
the agreSSor - and then the
champion taking the lead. CntlI
the announcement came there
was the greatest uncertainty M
the minds of all as TO who had
won.
Farr. champion of the British
empire. gave Louis a boxing les
son but lacked the dynamite that
Schmeling used to knock him out.
II must ne said for the cham
pion's credit, however. that he
out-scored Farr during most OF
the sessions with straight lett
jabS.
The bomber. stalking about the
ring with a puffed right cheek.
seemed amazed as round after
round wore on and he was unable
to knock out or even floor the
challenger, who ut times was a
surprisingly tasy target for left
labs and at other times as elusive
as a will-o'-the-wiSp.
Louis hit his chunky opponent
as hard as he ever hit anyone be-
fore. He suffered conclusion
of the third knuckle of his right
hand in the third round, but CON
tinued throwing it anyway. The
knuckles on his left hand were
badly swollen. Louis really hit
the challenger - opening gaShcS
under both eyes as early as the
third round. and splattering blood
during most of the remaining
sessions.
But the man with the touSlcd
browniSh-red hair and wearing
the black and red tights kept
tearing into the champion, and
actually trying 10 beat polling
Joe at his own game by out
punching him. He rushed Joe
across the ring again and again,
pounding him about the body and
head and knocking him back on
his heels. These flurries brought
wild cries in Welsh from delega-
tons of Pennsylvania coal miners
far back in the stands.
Farr started off the bout as II
he intended to win in walk
away, taking the first two rounds
with a hooking and jabbing at
tack that had the champions face
red. The champions left jab
started finding its mark IN the
third. Ii re-opened a training
cash on Tommy'S right check and
started a new cut on the left
cheek.
Farr landed two hard rights To
the head in the session.
They fought on even terms IN
the fourth and Louis took the
fifth after smashing the challcn%-
err with a terrific right hook TO
the chin and landing several hard
left hooks to the same spot. Farr
was bleeding profuSely at the
bell, but he weathGred the stun .
ming blows.
Tommy brought the crowd to
its feet with a grand rally to
take the sixth. He made his first
mistake of the fight in the
seventh and struck out his face,
snarlingly inviting Louis to
smash him. Louis did and won
the round.
FAIRS hooking and jabbing at
tack won the eighth and ninth.
He almost closed the champions
right eye in the latter. session.
Louiss' left jab speared Tommy
constantly in the 10th and he
staggered the challenger with a
hard right TO the head near the
bell.
Tommy shook off the effects
of this blow and tore after the
bomber to win the nth. The l2th
was even, although Joe's hard
smash to Tommy's nose started
that organ bleeding profusely'
Louis took the 18th, staggering
his challenger just before tne
bell with a left hook TO the chm
that almost dumped Tommy back
ward. Tommy ran into this one
after he had rushed Louis into
neutral corner. The champion
won the l4th also with JabbinH
attack and three hard right shots
to Fairs head.
But Farr was fighting furious
" in the l5th-as if he realized
that perhaps the world champion
ship depended upon this round.
He bullied and battered the cham
MON about the ring to take that
session by a large margin.
IL was an even fight. Both men
the same age, %. Both weighing
close to 200 pounds-Louis 1877
and Farr 2O4 l-2. Both stood
close to six feet. And in brute
strength they seemed virtually
eoual-with Louis showing su-
periority in some of the cllneneS'
and then Farr doing the bulllng'
Farr, with his flurries of hooks TO
head and body, and his bobbing
and weaving seemed the super