Joe Louis or Baer w York, Dec. 16.
Lou Nova of California became the outstanding "white hope" tonight when he gave Tommy Farr of Wales the worst beating of the former Welsh miner's eight-year boxing career at the Madison Square Garden.
Nova won the fifteen-round heavy. weight bout after almost knocking out the game and rugged Welshman. He achieve what Joe Louis, Max Baer and Jim Braddock could noe accomplish—he belted Farr eggy and had him staggering about the ring on the verge of a knockout in the fourteenth round when only the bell saved Farr from hig first knockout.
The youthful Californian was unable to send in the fatal blows in the final round because he had shot his bolt in the fourteenth round.
Before the fourteenth round it was body's fight. But the fourteenth decided the battle, for Nova lashec bir foe from pillar to post under a terrible barrage of deadly blows that sent Parr reeling blindly around the ring, attempting to hold on and save himself from being stretched.
A crowd of 10,443 paying spectators roared their approval of the furious fight throughout the fifteen rounds, There was plenty of action. The two slugged with fury and their exchanges brought the crowd to their feet on many occasions.
Farr weighed in at 203 pounds, while Nova tipped the scales at 199. Farr was 7 to 5 favourite to beat Nova because of the Californian's inexperience. Nova, however, was firmly backed by his admirers who emphasized that he had won about half of his 26 bouts by knockouts, while Farr is a "powder puff" puncher.
Nova's impressive victory caused sports writers to hail the Californian as a new "white hope" against Joe Louis, dusky holder of the world heavyweight championship.
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