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Show Mora cmetoot tutors ny cwa :J ' . . - : : : 1 Fighter How To Hit Baer . By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, May M Jim Braddock, the ex - heavyweight champion, is up at Lou Nova's training train-ing camp at Nyack, 1. Y, giving ths young California!, free and explicit ex-plicit instruction an how to boat th wadding out of Maun Bar la their fight at Yank stadium Jun 1. " v . Braddock woa hi tlU from Baer, it wlU be mailed, la an of th big upsets of ring history, , fa I In position to give Nova. . some valuable pointer. Th two have beeoaM regular pals, spending spend-ing a long a four tour together behind lacked doors as Jim pains- . takingly shows Lou bow to slug Max without getting slagged right , back. Jim himself Is rounding gradually Tnto condition preparatory to In sad-ing sad-ing England early in Jun for a aeries of scraps. He' still a master boxer and h thinks be can get hi legs back into good snough snap to hold him up against ths sort of heavyweight he will , encounter screes ths water. Will Whip Max -There isn't a doubt In my mind that Nova will whip Baer," said Jim. "This kid Is th strongest thing I ever ran into. He's still ' stout as a bull after five or six rounds. I can't even try to handle him Thit'i nlna A Ha tha hlo- difference in their fight Max hasn't th strength and endurancs he'll need against Lou. "I guess Max is gambling that h can knock Nova out in th early rounds, because that's th only chance he has. He's going to be greatly surprised, because even if this boy doe get knocked down he'll bounce right up. I wouldn't be surprised sur-prised If Lou wins by a knockout in th lata round. Max will b mighty tired by that tlm and Nova's short light carries lots of power." Jim said h dldnt want anybody to think h was trying to teach Nova how to box, because th youngster young-ster already knew th trick. Com la Handy "There are just soma things I know about Baer that maybe Max doesn't know himself, and they'll coma In handy for Lou. For Instance, In-stance, I've shown him how to sway away from Beer's right, not to try to step Inside it or step back from s it H doe it so well and so naturally nat-urally now I'm posiUv Max won't tag him." Braddock' enthusiasm hasn't been lost on Nova, for hs's mora confident than aver, if that' possible- Hs's reached th point now l where he says ths Jun 1 engage- . ment 1 just incidental to his championship cham-pionship bout with Jo Louis la September. Sep-tember. "I honestly think there's soeh a thing as destiny," be said with a " perfectly serious face. "I think I was destined to excel at anythlng I tried and I don't think anything eaa keep me from It I was amateur ama-teur heavyweight champion, I , high Jumped feet 1 Incite la . school and I woa at everything els I tried. Now I'm going ts win th heavyweight UUe." Lou's camp Is about th strangest yst It's full of wild animals, most ' of which, happily, are In cages. Also, . it seems to be a sort of local headquarter head-quarter for Toga, a Hindu cult that teach ss exceptional control of th body, muscle by muscls. Nova Is taking both th animals and th cult in his stride. |