Evening star., 1938-12-17
Title in 7 Years
Deemed Likely
For Coast Boy
Single Killing WoIIop
All Lou Requires, Win
Over Tommy Shows
BY GAYLE TALBOT,
Associates Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17.-Write the
name of Lou Nova big in your book,
for the young man from Alameda.
Calf, who pounded Tommy Farr
into helplessness in IS rounds here
last night is certain as sin to be the
next world heavyweight fighting
champion.
1t might be a year, and it more
than likely will be two years before
the California kid is ready to knock
the wreath of Joe Louis placid
brow. But the 10000 who saw him
wreck the durable Welshman last
night will bet that he does 1t sooner
or later.
Nova, tempered in only Is previ-
GUS professional fights. lived up to
the most lavish hopes of his hackers.
He gave the veteran Farr a worse
shellacking than Farr received from
Louis or from Max Baer or from
Jim Braddock, and he had the
Welshman on the verge of a knock
out at the finish.
Worst Beating for Farr.
For the last two minutes OF the
14th round Farr absorbed perhaps
the most cruel beating of his long
career. A terrific left hook first
sent him tottering and brought his
guard to his knees, and Nova must
have poured hundred furious
blows to his chin and body before
the bell finally ended the round.
But Tonypandy Tommy stood up.
Furthermore, he came out for the
final round and lasted through that
one. too, though the ringsiders
wondered what held him up. as
Nova lashed him with everything in
his ar-enal. Nova, who was fight
ing his first 15-rounder, was too tired
to put across finisher.
Il hoped the referee would stop it
in the fourteenth" said the victor
as he lay. dead tired in his dressing
room afterward. Il was afraid !
would hurt him seriously. MY.
didn't know any man living could
take punches like that"
Fluttering around Nova like a
nervous hen was Promoter Mike
Jacobs. who has in the youngster
one-half of a million dollar gate in
the not very distant future. Mike
solicitously examined the two cuts
under LOUIS eyes and said that the
kids next opponent probably would
be Max Baer.
Baer Likely Next Foe.
II can't say for sure If he will fight
Baer, but it looks that way now"
Mike admitted. "Baer had a repre-
sentative here to see this fight. and
suppose it depends upon what he
reports to Max. I should know
within "a hours"
AS for Nova and his manager. Raw
Carlin, they are ready for Baer anv
time. They are willing to fight Louis
within year
I'll confess was a little tired for
the last five rounds" Nova said, but
now that I've gone Is rounds and
whipped man like Farr feel like
IN over the big hump. Maybe
Dempsey and Tunney won't think
now that I've been rushed too fast"
Joe Louis was one of the most in
terested spectators. The Negro
champion watched raptly as Nova
piled up lead on Farr with a lab
blng left and short right. and was
on the edge of his seat like every
body else etduring the last two stanzas
while Farr went from rope to rope
on rubbery legs and wouldn't 20
down.
mighty Good" Louis Rating.
Tackled for his opinion on the
latest white hope" Joe said: He
looks mighty good, mighty good"
Nova looked all of that Consider
ing the extent of his experience and
the fact that he was fighting one
Of the toughest trial horses in the
game, he looked just about perfect.
Farr still is hard man to whip.
Nova consistently beat him to the
punch, took everything the Welsh
man had to offer. and at the end
had him beaten virtually into sub
mission. Referee Eddie Josephs
nearly stopped it once in the 14th,
going so far as to send Nova to his
corner while he decided whether
Farr was f1t to continue.
The one thing Nova obviously
lacks is single killing punch,
though he repeatedly stunned and
staggered Farr, both with his left
hook and his straight right. Boxing
men say the knockout punch will
come to him gradually.