Evening star., 1940-04-25
From the
Press Box
Boer Brothers Vietors
Before Their Fights
BY JOHN LARDNER.

NEW YORK, April 25.-The bon
ny Baer boys, Max and Jacob, are
training together for pair of fights
in May, and Max, the spokesman
for the group, predicts a carnage
from which nobody in the world,
at a rough estimate, will emerge
alive except the Baer boys.
Jacob, or Buddy, will meet Nathan
Mann a week from Friday. Later
in the month Max will engage
Anthony Galento in duel in which
kicking and gouging will be barred
between rounds.
Taking these events in chrono-
logical order" says Max, who is
now using the name of Lord Haw
Haw in most of his broadcasts,
Buddy will stiffen Mann in a
couple of rounds. You wouldn't
recognize Buddy. He's a changed
man"
This propaganda form JOG is an
old standby. Sometimes it begins:
Buddy is changed man. Some
times it starts: You wouldn't know
old Buddy" Sometimes it is: Buddy
has a brand new attitude" The
gist always is the same-were about
to see different Buddy.
In reply, we can say only that
It will have to be a different Buddy.
The old model was no ball of fire.
Buddy Has Genuine Punch,
To Hear Mox Tell 1t
"Yes, indeed" continues Lord
Haw Haw, my brother is now a
great fighter. No kidding; after
he slaughters Mann, he's got real
good chance of beating Louis. He
really can hit, you know. Louis
never has been hit by puncher
like my brother Bud"
Max spoke mouthful there.
Louis never has, and never will be-
All this noisy, but nervous bonn
bast in behalf of the Brothers
Baer reminds me of the last time
the boys trained together. That was
winter before last, when Buddy was
preparing to fight Gunnar Barlund
and Max was dressing his own gor-
geous carcass for meeting with
Tommy Farr.
Then. too, Buddy's fight came
first, and Max led the cheers while
drops of cold perspiration be-
spangled his brow. Thrice daily
he told Bud what was going to
happen to Barlund.
you will cruelty the Scandina-
vian," he assured his young brother
''This boy is better fighter than I
am" he told us onlookers.
Borlund Exploded Myth
Of Buddy's Prowess
The trouble was, we believed him
until the night that Barlund tore
Buddy to rags and mad him literally
paralyzed on his feet when they
stopped the fight. Soon afterward
Max gave Tom Farr a good licking,
proving what we should have re-
membered all along-that while Max
never was great fighter himself, he
belonged to class several notches
above Buddy's.
This younger Baer is handsome,
hulking fellow with nice voice and
pleasant manners. Like any other
well-constructed big man, he can
hit hard with his right hand whe1r
he lands it. But he has no more
true appetite for fighting than Max,
nowhere near as good a left hand,
a much rendered chin, and none of
Max's rough poise in a prizering.
The first time 1 saw him was in
Buddy's first match on a big fight
card-in Chicago, supporting Art
Lasky and King Levinsky, who
fought to sleepy draw. They tossed
a trained seal to Buddy, and the seal
dove in the first round. don't mean
that the thing was fixed. But the
other fellow had no intention of
fighting, and Buddy looked pretty
devastating against that sort of
opposition.
Reaches Crest Of Small Wave
In Scrop With Doyle
He also could put on good show
against man with the same equip
ment as his own-as in the case of
Abe Simon, another huge fellow who
traded long, slow rights with Buddy
and lost.
Buddy reached the crest of his
own small wave the night he fought
Jack Doyle, the Throstle of Kerry.