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CHICA MATE NOT

TRID ALDA JON STARMONIA FARR OFFERED £1,200 A WEEK

£100 FOR POSING IS

CHICKEN FEED

HAS NO AGREEMENT WITH

MIKE JACOBS

MARKS ON FACE HE WILL

BEAR TO THE GRAVE

(By PETER WILSON)

London, October 12.

BRITAIN'S boxing hero, Tommy Farr, has been offered a salary of £1,200 a week to go on a three months' tour with a baseball team next year. Offers for stage appearances are being showered on him. He revealed when he landed at Southamp ton that next year he hopes to earn anything from £100,000 to £150,000.

THE BURLY YOUNG MAN IN THE CAMELHAIR COAT LAUGHED SCORNFULLY: “A HUNDRED POUNDS WHATS THE GOOD OF THAT TO ME? - PM NOT INTERESTED IN CHICKEN FEED! THAT'S WHAT AMERICA HAS DONE FOR TOMMY FARR, WHO LANDED IN ENGLAND YESTERDAY AFTER HIS FIGHT FOR THE WORLD TITLE AGAINST JOE LOUIS AND HIS SUBSEQUENT TOUR OF THE STATES AND CANADA.

AUSTIN LOSES IN HALF HOUR

AND WILDE LOSES TO EVERGREEN BOROTRA

London, October 9. England's No 1- tenuis Bunny Austin, met with one of the heaviest defeats of his career yesterday.

He was beaten 6-1, 6-2, by the young Frenchman, Christian Boussus, in the covered courts. international match at Queen's Club. And it took Boussus just half an hour to do it!.

This was Austin's first competi tive appearance since, the Davis Cup, and he looked badly in need of prac

tice.

Boussus, without doing anything ordinary, ran through game after game. After losing the first, he won nine games in a reel to win the first set and go to three love in the second

Tommy Farr, above, British and . Jout of the o Empire heavyweight boring cham- pion, is now resting on his laurels in England, but has a heavy programme ahead of him in the United States early next year, ›

What's more it's not boasting. A hundred pounds which was offered him in connection with an advertising stunt is chicken was self-confident before, he looks feed compared with the sums he can get for film, variety and ad- now as though he'd fight his own vertising work. He has been offered £250 and a third of the gate shadow for treading on his heels!

It was a rapturous return, with by a Birmingham promoter simply to spar for three minutes with any partner he likes to select; he is to start filming at the begin-members of the family to greet him ning of November..

marred by only one thing. The unfeeling Customs officials

The picture will not be just a Queen Mary. It is a possibility insisted on him pay duty on all the boxing film. Farr will be seen as that he might meet the winner

presents which had been given him a motor racing driver and a of the forthcoming Strickland-in the States, and as he shelled out singer as well as a fighter. Polly Neusel fight. Ward, a personal friend of Farr's, will co-star with him.

NO AGREEMENT

As to his future fight plans, Farr told me definitely that there is no agreement between him and nothing is definitely arranged Mike Jacobs,, the American pro yet. Wembley had a represen tative to meet him on board the moter, which forbids him taking part in bouts on this side of the Atlantic.

TO-NIGHT'S

But he has a heavy fight pro gramme mapped out for America next year. First he may fight Maxie Rosenbloom, former cruiser-weight

BADMINTON champion of the world. Then in

ENCOUNTER

ST. JOHN'S TASK AT KOWLOON TONG

February he is stated to have a bout in Miami, Florida probably with Jim Braddock, who lost his world's title to Joe Louis,"

Fights in Chicago in May and in Detroit in June are also on the cards. If Farr gets through all these successfully he been pro-

Only one fixture in the "B" Divi-mised another shot at the world. sion of the Men's Doubles Bad-title against the winner of the minton-League is down for decision Louis-Max Schmeling bout this evening, when Kowloon Tong entertain St. John's, Waterloo Road.

In their first match of the sea played last Wednesday evening, St John's swamped St. Andrew's by nine games to nil, displaying good form and combination.

To-night, ho ver, they end

er a stronger team,

shown vaatim

"TM NO ACTOR" Certainly Farr could never pose as a matinee idol in the past there were scars on his face to remind

him of the days when he was a penniless miner, toiling under

round in the o

Now these imented by de

which has looking scars. Mementoes of the since last ebony fists of Joe Louis. There are season, and coupled with the fact deep gashes, but recently healed, that they will be playing away, it under both eyes and Farr will bear would not surprising if they just them manage to secure the points by the narrowest of argins.

ST JOHN'S

F. H. Kwok and A. G. A Smith and A... P: Ravilym and No

KOWLOON

To and

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Bernitt,

that he night of the

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BUT NOW!

Yet he filled the

"champ" to the life. If he

BOROTRA WINS

Another setback for England was

the defeat of young Frank Wilde probably our best player on wood- by evergreen Jean Borotra. Borotra won 6-4, 6-2.

At Borotia's request the umpire twice changed his decisions in this

match. Twice Wilde served what the umpire thought were faults, but Bo- successive pound notes a look of otra insisted that they were goo deeper agony than any opponent and that the points should be cre

dited to Wilde.

On another occasion he hit out de has been able to cause flitted across his battered features while he carolled dolefully: "Will ye no come back again!”

liberately after what he thought was

a bad decision against Wilde.

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