The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-01
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By HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 New York, June 1-(UP)-Make mine Nova, sight unseen.
 1 Without ever having laid eyes on l the young Californian in ring, I'm i choosing him to win his fight with Maxie Baer under the Yankee sta- dium lights tonight.
 My guess is that the end will come in the 10th round or thereabouts, with the referee mercifully stepping in to keep Baer from taking punish ment while helpless.
 It may seem illogical for fellow to pick fighter he has never seen, but in this case it isn't. Because l have seen Baer. Seen him, seen him, seen him, and seen him, in fact. saw him as a grining, foolish, helpless clown in his defense of the heavyweight title against Jim Brad- dock. saw him afraid and halting against Louis. I saw him-but I won't name all the times and all the places saw him because this is an article, not book.
 | I just don't think the man has it in him to come back. Of course, there is always the outside chance ] that I may be wrong, but Baer left too much of himself on the road of life he chose to travel after he won the championship, ever to have time 1 to turn back and gather it all up. :, Six or seven weeks of training haven't given Baer time to return to the point he was, let us say, the I night he knocked out Schmeling Because boys, there wasa time when the laughing, clowning playboy realfly cut out a pace. Re brought a remarkable show of early foot to the primrose path, backed it up with stamina that kept him going round the clock. There was a spell in his career, when he was riding high that he was the first to arrive and the last to leave at every party.
 No one is going to convince me just by telling me, that six weeks ir the country is sufficient to repair ! that wear and tear on the Baei chassis. I see Baer right out there under the hot lights. with three strands of rope around him, skin tight gloves on his fists, and faced by a game, young, and tough kic who wants to let him have both barrels.
 | If Nova is half the fighter heal he is, then Baer's only chance is tc come out swinging that right of hi and trust it will land in the early rounds. You can throw out those stories you have been reading of how Baer has developed a remarkable left jab. and hook. Remarkable Jeff hooks and jabs aren't developed overnight. You are either born witf them or develop them only through months and years of hard, harc work.
 wouldn't be surprised to see Baei icome out jabbing. however. He'll try anything once, even against the best advice He tried such a style against Louis, you will remember. and nearly got killed. He tried it against Tom my F'arr, poor excuse for a fighter at best, and barely managed to win He tried it against Braddock and should have been thrown out of the ring.
 Nova's greatest assets are youth and ambition. That's rugged com bination, in any business. With his '; mechanical style expect to see him wear down and discourage Baer in the first eight or nine rounds and then really go to work on him. The bout is going to be televised, and If Baer isn't any better than he has been in his last two or three fights, the television folk had better get Orson Welles to do the announcing It Is likely to be that gruesome.