| Show t TODAY'S TODAY'S rODAY'S SPORT PARADE Scribe e S Sue SUggests Hints Hints' For Watching Bout Between Baer Beer Simon SimonBy By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Sports Editor Edio NEW YORK July 5 If 5 If everyone will now take his seat quietly and the committee please come cometo to to order I would like to make a motion that the Marquis of rules be suspended f for r the forthcoming encounter ter between Abe Simon and Hud Buddy y Baer Otherwise it H will will- willbe be impossible for them to fight Th They y are matched for next for next month and there may be be- tw two bigger boxers loose somewhere in the world but not even the the oldest inhabitant of Cauliflower Canyon can suggest who they might be Between them Baer and Simon and Simon will w weIgh more than pounds pounds- f f. o. o b. b ringside even though Joe Louis has fought them both and cut them down to his size Battle of of With a fine flair for lor artistic phrases the fight mob already is referring to the engagement as the Battle of the Behemoths and for once the press agents have kept a tight rein on their It really will be an awesome awesome awesome awe awe- some sight when Baer and Simon walk to the middle of the ring and the earth shakes for miles W We got a faint idea of the difficulties difficulties difficulties surrounding this bout the theother theother theother other evening when Simon was matched with some gladiator whose name shall be Legion because we weare weare weare are too lazy to walk to the morgue and look it U up in the files This was supposed to be a tune tip boutto bout boutto to prepare Abe for his engagement with Baer The combatants were in their corners the seconds w were re murmuring that old age-old admonition admonition admonition tion Get in th there re and punch he cant can't hurt us and most of the spectators were on edge there were three bars just outside the entrance entrance entrance en en- trance to the arena The crisis arrived when they tried to put the gloves on Simon The first pair were too small but they did cover the cuticle and helped disguise the fact that Simon Simon Simon Si Si- Si- Si mon had dishpan hands One of the officials rummaged around in tn ina ina a box came out with another pair and suggested politely Just slip these on for size please Simon obliged and the gloves came up slightly past his first set of knuckles Wont do at all said Legions Legion's second wearing the then then- l' l longer this season way up around the wrist Couldn't Find Gloves The result was that they couldn't find a pair of gloves large for Simon and had to call off oU the bout One spectator who was ve ver verj much on edge saw the gladiator leaving the ring turned to hi companion and said knockout knockout- I ever shaw It is impossible to see how a ref referee referee is going to operate in jn the thi baer Simon fight unless he learn to walk on stilts or puts hea phones on the fighters so so- so he car cai communicate with them when hi he wants them to break o out t of f clinch Another problem Is going to b bl how to get the stricken man ba bad to his dressing room in event hIs he h heis heis Is knocked horizontal and is unable to rise One suggestion Is that thaI Promoter Mike Jacobs call fo fOJ bids for removal of the body firms that recently have been engaged engaged en en- in wrecking the Sixth Av Avenue Elevated line Painted Circles But the the- most brilliant sugg has been that the fighters borro something from Abraham Lincoln who when challenged by a nud smaller man painted circles o ot or himself and told his opponent t te tc confine hi his blows to those areas areas area The idea would be that no perso could possibly shift his eyes iron Simons Simon's stomach to his head heM i lr ir time to see a p punch landed The eye is a wonderful thing buit but bu it couldn't cover that much dIstance dIs tance in a limited amount G vi time Under this system a r rectangle would be drawn on each m mans man I body and face and designated d a combat areas Punches that tha landed anywhere else would be ig ignored ignored ig nored or at most recognized onil by an exchange of diplo diplomatic diplomat tlc notes The broadcast will be done b Orson Welles I |
