The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-02
BRING ON LOUIS' SAYS THE NE W
 GENE TUNNEY'
Nova Took Everything Baer Had in End Round
 Then Stopped Him
By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports EditOr)

Limited Press Sports Edit0r)
 New York, June 24(UP) There's another Tunney on the path that leads to the peaks today-a story book kid from California named Lou Nova who, barring fire, flood or epi- demic, is going to be fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world by the time spring marches north again.
 And the kid is ready. He said so in the early hours of today when he stepped out of needle shower. pulled on his socks and remarked: "Okay, bring on Joe Louis"
 He said it not boastfully, but with a quiet air of authority that belongs to man who has just knocked former heavyweight champion into half blinded, bleeding mess. A few doors away in another dressing room was Max Baer who had just taken the licking of his life from Nova and was peering out through eyes that were swollen into slits. Sooner or later it will be Nova vs. Louis, provided, of course, that the Brown Bomber defeats Tony Galento on June 28. There is also possi- bility that the sun may not rise to- morrow.
 The dickering for the Nova-Louis match starts today. Promoter Mike Jacobs would like to match them in September, and the match will be made if Nova gets the right kind of deal on his percentage of the gate. Otherwise the fight may go over un- til spring.
 Sitting at the ringside in Yankee stadium last night, little heavier and a little grayer than he was in l the days of his greatness, was Gene Tunney. No one looking at Tunney and Nova could miss the parallel be- tween them. Tunney was quiet, con- fident and studious. So is Nova. Tunney licked a killre when her fought Dempsey. Nova licked a killer last night. Tunney fought strictly out of the book-left to the face, right to the body. So does Nova. Tunney didn't seem to have much natural equipment when he started. Neither did Nova. But today the California kid. "A years old and with his best fight ing years ahead of him, is riding high. Nova is no superman-he's just plain, ordinary guy who works hard at his trade--so it may be that Louis will knock him all the way back to the Golden Gate when they get into the ring together. But there is also fair chance that he will give Louis the stiffest competition the Bomber has had in the last two years. One thing was settled once and for all last night inside the green ropes-Nova can take it. Five times Baer got clean shot at his ! jaw and five times Maxie whistled across the right that sent Frankie Campbell to his grave. Nova shook 'em of and came on.
 Nova didn't win on techncial knockout until the 11th round, but to this observer it seemed that the issue was settled and salted away in the mad three minutes that made up the second round. In those three minutes Baer fired everything in his arsenal and . bewildered sort of look came across his face as Nova took it all and bored in, inviting more.
 In the middle of the round Baer slammed Nova back against the ropes with right to the head. He had him pinned there, all set up for the kill. Once, twice, and third time Max drew back his right and fired. Nova tried to throw right and missed badly and then, for the fifth time in the round, Baer cooked his right and sent it across like s rocket. But instead of dropping Nova fought his way of the ropes and pulled Baer across the ring.
 The rest of the fight was a lib. eral education in the art of carv- ing up a mans face. Baer had firec his last shot and Nova went to work on him like a butcher. lab, jab J jab went Novas left into Baers face and soon the red leather was wet with Maxie's blood.
 4 By the eighth round the years that Baer spent along the pleasure path were demanding their due. His vitality was gone, his left eye was a purple puff, and he was swinging a hopeless, helpless roundhouse right on the off-chance that he might land. In the ninth round Novs nlanted A hard left on the mouth and a crimson stream spurted from Baer's lips.
 H Between the 10th and 11th round. Referee Frankie Fullam walked tt Baer's corner and said: T ought to stop this fight but I'll give yol
 one more round"
 That's all Nova needed. In on'
 minute and 21 seconds of the 1ltf
 he had Baer's back to the ropes ana
 was pounding him into pulp Ther
 the referee stopped it.
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