The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-13
FARR FINALE AS FIGHTER MAY BE
 RESULT TONITE
Welsh Walloper Faces Dempsey PrOtege, Red
 Burman; Knox on Card
By HARRY FERGUSON Limited Press Sports EditOr)


 New York, Jan. 13-(UP)-They're throwing six pretty fair heavy weights into the Madison Square Garden ring tonight for 30 rounds or less of crawling and bleeding. Don't look now, but isn't that Squire Thomas Farr among them, making another attempt to gain his first victory in the United States on this, of all days-Friday the 18th?
 Yes, it's the squire, the unlucky squire from Tonypandy, Wales, who is approaching some kind of record for consecutive defeats on the big time circuit. If the squire should happen to get belted over the ropes tonight into the lap of a ringsider it will be finders keepers so far as Promoter Mike Jacobs is con- cerned.
 Chance for Red
 This evening the squire goes against Red Burman of Baltimore, young man who is under the wing of Jack Dempsey and is nestling close there in the hope that Demp- sey's punching power will prove con- tagious, bringing welcome case of sock to the Burman right and left fists.
 Squire Farr has been to the wars four timse since he invaded the u. s. A. Joe Louis, Max Baer, Jim Braddock and Lou Nova all have used him for a ladder up to the top of the tree where the biggest, rip est apples hang. But the squire has put up hustling, willing fight every time and that's the only req son he's being allowed to duck his tow head through the ropes at the Garden again tonight.
 In fact, the squire has never been knocked out, and young MT. Bur man has a theory about that. He thinks other boxers have wasted their time whamming the squire on the chin and head, a procedure as futile as throwing a pebble against the chalk cliffs of Dover. MT. Bur- man intends to belt the squire in the belly and see what happens.
 Despite all these good intentions, the squire is the favorite and plenty of customers in the Garden will be yelling for him.
 Knox Has Record
 Either one of the other 10 round- CTS may turn out to be a better fight. Lots of eyes, for instance, will be on Buddy Knox of Akron, mak- ing his debu' in New York against Chuck Crowell. Knox comes east with the reputation of a puncher, and in the last two years he has never been on the wrong end of a decision.
 Crowell, a stoop-shouldered string bean from Los Angeles, appeared in a preliminary bout at the Garden a month or so ago and belted Jim Robinson into dreamland in two rounds. The Crowell-Knox thing may develop some Fourth of July fireworks before the 9th round.
 Roscoe Toles of Detroit and Gus Dorazio of Philadelphia meet in the third 10 rounder. Toles is the boy who hammered Jimmy Adamick out in two rounds few months ago, hitting him so hard that Adamick wound up in the hospital. Dorazio, a former amateur champion, holds a victory over Bob Pastor as his chief claim to fame.
 Among those who will attend is Max Baer, here seeking a fight and delivering lectures on the evil of n- temperance. Max is especially in- censed at Tony Galento, the Jersey heavyweight, because he allowed himself to b. photographed drinking beer at a bar. Max belongs to the school of thought which believes you should order scotch, not beer, and sit down at a table to drink it