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Show l RedBurman Close Victor Over Tommy I SKW YORK, Jan. 14 (I P) Mai Baer and 1U Neva, California Cali-fornia heavyweight, today signed In meet In a lo-round bout at tha Yankee stadium on May So. I Neva, a hard-punrhing y.ung- ater, won his way to this match by .VfeaMng Tammy Fare In Md-btn Md-btn Square flarden a few weeks age, Baer, former heavyweight ehamplon, I. attempting a comeback. come-back. By GAVLK TALBOT l NBTVV YORK. Jan. 14 So help tu. 'th. heavyweight pris. fighters f thi. country fast are becoming divided Into two dlMinct groups thoe. who have whipped Tommy Farr and those who h.ven't had th. opportunity of fighting th. hard luck Welshmen. Latest to Join the former lodge, and without much doubt the meat aurprlseel member af tha circle. Is Red Barman of Baltimore, wha tea a highly disputed deeieloa vee Tommy In It round but tight at the Garden. Tha erewd sf do dlrta t think the redhead had any business getting the duke, and neither did a majority of the crttlra at tha ringside. It wa. th. fifth tlm. r.rr had aeew an opponent milt raised .inc. he cam. to thee, shore, summer . before last, and th. Welshman wa. so Indignant h. was practically peachla... Not eo hi. manager, ' Joe Oould, who awor. h. would go before th. Mat. athietie commission and have th. decision reversed. Jo., f course, waa Just talking. It wa. cru.l blow to Farr. because, be-cause, believe it or not. be had every prospect of figtiting Joa Louis for th. championship again n.xt June If he had dlepoeed of Burman. Hi. next opponent wa. to hav. been Tony Galento, and. winning that, he would nave gon. against th. champion. Now Promoter Mike Jacob, ha. to flgur. thing, out all v.r again. Burman U mor. than willing to take Farr'. plac. in th. I plan, but Promot.r Mike I. not I likely to target th. anvil chorus ! last night . Th. man who mak. th. fight odd. took anothor beating, and their recant record threaten, to outslrip Farr's. Laat night th.y wag.red 11 U I that Tommy would break j hi. losing streak. I It waa a hard tight and a fairly I close ana. Tha Ase.ciateel Frees hakwiea sheet gave Farr five rewBda, Burma four and ana van. That waa about tha eoa-sraeys eoa-sraeys af tha rlngalda tabulators. Same figure Farr had a wider : i nwrgln, but they likely were In-flaeneeel In-flaeneeel by tha fact that he had : he) lighter apnonrnt In a had way ' "7 ieavard the laat. A decided minor' Itf agreed with tha official decision. de-cision. ' Both fighter, w.r. battered and1 ec.nt at tha finlah. Neither hit th. aaawaa, though several time. on. , or he other appeared on th. verge of -going down. On. round, th. third, waa taken from Burman be-i be-i cease la hit aaal he dug .ev.rai c hard onea Into tha forbidden aone. Thar, was nothing fancy about th. fight: th.y Just butted head, for thai moat part and alugg.d away. Warn all th. 'howling about th. decision, de-cision, Burman proved himself eey handy heavyweight |