THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 31, 1937.
BUDDY BAER CARNERA'S SUCCESSOR
HIS PARALYSING PUNCHES
TWO REFEREES CAUSE BIG UPROAR
WORLD CHAMPION MADE TO LOOK VERY POOR
(By Harold Lewis)
London, May 7.
ANGRY boos from a half-empty and, I fear, half-
Buddy Baer,. above, younger brother of Max Baer, the Liver- more Adonis, is acknowledged as successor to Primo Carnera in view of his ' tremendous punches and his great height and width, he stands 6 ft. -71⁄41⁄21⁄2 ins. and is as broad as his brother.
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ADMISSION - HIGH
If promoters could guarantee racing of that high standard re- gularly their financial troubles would be over, particularly if, as at the new Brooklands, the struggle can be watched at close quarters" "and from many different parts of the grounds.
But the enclosures on the hill need sorting out. It was not a happy idea to fence off the bo
best part of the Members' Hill and charge mem- bers £1 for admission. The empti- ness of the "pound" showed what they thought of it.
hearted house, greeted the end of the two chief fights at the Harringay Arena last night. First, the crowd thought Mr. Moss Deyong too tender- hearted when he stopped the heavy-weight fight be- tween Buddy Baer and Jim Wilde, of Swansea, fashioned himself into a hooker. In early in the fourth round, in favour of Baer, to save the succeeding rounds, however, he Wilde needless punishment.
did very well, particularly with his THEN MR. C. H. DOUGLAS CAUSED A FURORE BY DIS-favourite short punch to the QUALIFYING THE WORLD'S FEATHER-WEIGHT CHAMPION, stomach, PETEY SARRON, OF AMERICA, IN THE NINTH OF HIS TEN During a couple of rounds in the brought his right round to cuff ROUNDS FIGHT WITH DAVE CROWLEY. OF CLERKENWELL. middle of the fight he made Sarron Crowley with the side of the glove. MR. DOUGLAS HAD JUST GIVEN SARRON HIS NINTH AND look very poor, but the American The bell went simultaneously with FINAL WARNING FOR HITTING WITH THE OPEN GLOVE. was shrewd enough to change his Mr. Douglas's decision to dis-
Both referees were correct in their actions. It was impossible style: he began to wait for Crow-qualify Sarron. for Wilde to have won, unless by some accident causing a disquali- ley. It was then that the best was It was some time before the fication, and his pluck would undoubtedly have led him to accept seen of Sarron. His evasions and public realised what had happened. more punishment than it was ever intended in the sport of boxing heavy counters were brilliantly done, They booed, partly through disap- any man should be permitted to suffer.
and he often caught fast punches Pointment, and possibly also be- with his glove with Buddy Baer, giant brother of, on, and no doubt he could
skill.
Sarron, Max, former heavyweight cham-done. But he may have to thank
The American is a powerfully pion, had something of his fa- the referee for more than he rea-
·-Despite his clever tricks and his hardest of punches without
built little man, able to take the mous brother's air of non-lises.
the chalance but none of his skill and,
increasing storm of punches, how slightest visible sign. It is a pity AVENGED BROTHER'S DEFEAT evidently, none of his glamorous Thus Buddy Baer can claim to ever, Sarron continued to be warn his style is so bad. power of attraction. He proved some extent to have avenged the ed for his old habit, and a few sec most say, without boasting about One might al- to be another such as Carnera, defeat of his brother, Max, by Tomonds before the end of the ninth our boxing, but because of some standing 6ft. 61⁄2in. and weigh my Farr, recently. He is certainly round Mr. Douglas called out disregard for the rules by our
4lbs., against Wilde's a most formidable opponent, but tinctly, "I am warning you for the that if Sarron fought
have
astonishing cause they, too, were annoyed with
FOR LAST TIME
the
referees, over here long enough he would be a far bet- ter boxer.
Sarron weighed 9st 64lb
and
ing 17st. 14st. 12llb.
with like Carnera, he is vulnérable. His last time about hitting Unlike Carrera, he bit with brother has taught him well, and open_glove.” tremendous weight. Every punch, has produced a mechanical style in As soon as the boxers met, even though it landed only on a fore- this prodigious young man which ron delivered a good left, and Crowley 9st 71⁄2lb. arm, hurt Wilde, and the fight had will take him some way; but not not lasted a minute before Wilde all the way.
probably realised that he had an Petey Sarron did nothing against overwhelmingly impossible task.
CRUSHING BLOW
Crowley last night to alter my view that he is the poorest world's cham- Baer, like his elder brother, walk-pion ever sent from America. He ed about the rink on the flat of was cautioned in his recent fight his feet. He walked in with a rea-against Harry Mizler about hitting sonably good guard, and when he with the open glove, and last night, got to close quarters, shot out his for everyone of the nine cautions enormous armis. His straight left. made by Mr. Douglas, he must have though only a leading-off blow, was offended ten times. itself crushing.
WILD-SLASHING-STYLE A comparatively light clip to the jaw was sufficient to put the strong that way, for apart
It was a pity the fight had to end
Welshman down in the first round
from this habita habit born of for a count of nine, and before that
Sarron's round ended a right-hand blow on wild, round-arm slashing style of the ear and a left-hook to the face attack-it had been a clean, hard sent Wilde to the floor for counts fight, with much good boxing and of eight and five seconds. WILDE DOWN FOR LONG COUNT
Whether Sarron was leading or Wilde boxed well in the second not is impossible to: say-it depend- round, and with a good left ex-
ed upon the degree of severity with
action.
posed the fact that Baer had very which Mr. Douglas penalised him
little guard and no semblance what- ever of footwork. When Wilde aimed for Baer's nose. Baer's nose duly took the punch.
on his card. On blows struck the American was certainly well ahead. The fight began with a frantic flurry between two fast, aggressive boxers, each attempting to take the But the end was merely a matter other out of his stride, Crowley, of time. The punches of this giant in his feverish endeavours to at- were paralysing. A blow on the tack, twice fell to his knees in the back of the head dazed Wilde, and first round, at Sarron't feet, while forced him to take a count of eight he was himself surprised by the in the third round, and no sooner speed
of the
had the fourth opened than Wilde tack as the latte. Amerri with
a bewildering
was knocked down again. He was up flailing arms and fairly quickly, but Mr. Moss Deyong shower of all manner of punches. -* intervened immediately.
· MADE CHAMPION LOOK POOR Wilde was as indignant as any What Crowley needed here was of the spectators. He wanted to go a solid straight left. Crowley
has
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