The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-17
NOVA OUTPOINTS .FARR IN TOUCH .15 ROUND BOUT WeIshnlan Nearly Out in l4th Referee Voted
 Draw
BY HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports EditOr)


 New York, Dec. H.--(UP).-It's hail and farewell today -hail to the rising star of young Lou Nova who seems on his way to shot at the world heavyweight championship, and farewell to tough Tommy Farr who deserves something better than the obscurity into which he is go- inT.
 They fought it out last night inc side the red ropes at Madison Square Garden, fought 1t out before 10000 persons who sensed that this hour of blows and bloodshed was the turn ing point in the lives of two men one going the high road and one the low road.
 There was honor enough for both when they stood there, sweaty and tired, in the breathless moment be- fore the decision was announced. But the decision went to Nova-just- ly so-and today his star blazes brightly. For Farr it probably meant the end of his career on the big time, with nothing ahead but tank town fights and a cottage in Tony pandy, Wales.
 Nova, who looks and fights like Gene Tunney, is headed for match with Max Baer. Beyond Baer stands Joe Louis and the championship. and, and what they're saying today is that if anybody is going to take Louis, Nova is the man.
 He had everything except experi- ence last night. His short right needs to travel only a foot to explode Ike TINT. His left hand was in Farr's face almost every time you looked at tkem. And. in the wild 14th round, Nova had Farr out on his feet and the crowd was yelling for the referee to stop the slaughter and save brave man.
 If this was Farr's farewell to the big time, then he left an unfor- gettable picture. His face was 8 mask of red and the blood rolled to his neck and forked into rivulets. He was reeling and Nova was after him, slamming him with left and right and left and right until his head bobbed like Q cork in the breakers. Farr's heart-and what a great heart it is-told him to go on but his legs said no. He sagged against the ropes near his own corner, and Nova measured him for the kill. Referee Eddie Joseph took a quick look into his eyes and stepped between them. Nova, thinking he had won by a technical knockout, raced for his own corner.
 But Paris heart was doing some thing besides pumping blood out of the cuts in his face. It was telling him to get up out of his half crouch on the ropes and throw punches. So he did, or rather tried to in his foggy way, and went out to take some more of that short right and that crushing left. The bell changed and saved Farr from what probably would have been the first knockout in his career.
 They patched him up between rounds and he hung on through the 18th, but there was no doubt that he had lost the fight.
 Until the 14th round. 1t was any body's fight. Farr, ducking his head behind his left shoulder. plouPhed in and took two to land one. Even after the awful beating Farr took in the 14th, Referee Joseph called the bout a draw, but the two judges gave the decision to Nova.
 Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey are only two of the wise men of the ring who had said that Nova was too inexperienced for one as tough as Farr. But last night proved that Nova, g years old, knows his way around the ring even if he does miss so badly at times that he slips off balance. It also proved that he could go IS rounds, a distance he never tried before.
 Nova and Joe Louis shook hands in the ring before the fight, Nova in his purple trunks and Joe in an elegant pin-stripped suit. Come another eight months or so, they probably will be shaking hands in another ring. This time both of them will wear trunks.
 Nova weighed 199; Farr 203.