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Show "Returning" type seldom are used as hunt- J) oils by the Australians - f gard this type as a toy ' Farr Given Little Chance Against Joe BY RICHARD McCA-N.V NEA Service Sports Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 25 Peace, t's wonderful, and Tommy Fair s going to miss it terribly when ie shuffles into the battle pit of Yankee Stadium for his argument argu-ment with Mistuh Joe Louis in the cool of the evening of Aug. 26. That night the little patch of ,vater-splotched canvas known as :he challenger's corner will be a tumultuous No Man's Land, full Df as much fight as a Saturday night beer party in a Bowery tenement. Farr is mad at Manager Ted Broadribb, who is mad at old lob Churchill (Farr's foster pappy), pap-py), who is mad at Trainer Dave Evans, who Is mad at Camp Chef Kenneth Barker, who is mad at everybody. Right now the boy3 are only pouting at one another, but when the jets are thrown open, and the heat of battle rises, tempers will boil and they'll be shouting. Tr won't malro t-Viino-a nnv pnsier seriously, the champion has looked look-ed like a better fighter than ever before during his training PeHed'goes into battle with 80 rounds of sparring under his belt and almost uninterrupted training since he started working for the bout back in Chicago with James J. Braddock. He is most confident of winning win-ning but swears that he isn't taking the English champion lightly "Ah knows he must be some good else he don' win no inglish title, huh? And Mi-Mike Mi-Mike (Promoter Mike Jacobs) ain' pickin' him for to fight me unless he is good, huh?' Neither of these premises is necessarily correct, however. Phil Scott was a British heavyweight champion and he fell faster than Philadelphia's Athletics in May. And the desire on the part of Louis' managers and Promoter Jacobs to keep the champion busy means that most anybody with a cauliflower ear will be thrown into the pit with Mistuh Although Louis seems to have learned from Herr Schmeling that there's no telling what'U happen, hap-pen, the customers don't share this uncertainty. There have been no reports of citizens being killed in the rush to get to the ticket windows. But don't be surprised if Tommy goes as Farr as the 15th round. Some of the wiser heads of boxing think that Tommy's cuffing, mauling, dog-eat-dog style may confuse Joe. For that reason they aren't selling Farr short. for Farr, who, even if he was fighting Mistuh Joe in the rotunda rotun-da of the Peace Palace at The Hague, would have trouble enough without having to go back to a corner where he'll fight through his minute of rest with a bickering bicker-ing family of followers. Because of this raging civil war and other reasons, including those two lightning, lethal lumps of knuckles which hang at the end of Louis' mighty arms Farr has very little chance of becoming becom-ing the world heavyweight champion. Farr Kasy Target Louis has been allotted 15 rounds in which to do away with the Welshman. Some of the experts ex-perts think that this is 14 rounds more than necessary. You see, it has been agreed that to beat Louis a fighter must be an accurate, powerful puncher punch-er like Max Schmeling, or a shrewd, fast boxer like Tunney. Farr is neither. The- countless scars of battle on his face betray him he is an easy target. Of course, he claims that he has had 280 fights without ever being knocked out. But Paolino had such a record. So did Baer. So did Braddock. And Louis knocked them so silly with his savage punching that they need smelling salts to this day when they shuffle through the clippings of their fight with the Brown Bomber. Farr has the native courage of the Welsh and confidence oozes from his pores. Unlike some of our better equipped American fighters, they won't have to carry Tonypandy Tommy into the ring. T.ouis improves Despite fears that Mistuh Joe would fall in line with the experts ex-perts and fail to regard Tommy |