The defeat of Max Baer by Lou Nova, the promising young aspirant for the heavyweight title from California, opens the way for the latter to a contest with the redoubtable Joe Louis, who watched the fight from the ringside in New York. Baer undoubtedly went all out after the first round to end the fight as soon as possible, and there can be little doubt that Nova went through a bad spell in the earlier passages o: the fight. Around the seventh he commenced to improve, and from that time on appears to have carried the fight to Baer, who was subjected to very considerable punishment, so much so, that the referee had doubts about letting the eleventh round ko commenced, and eventually stopping it with a technical knockout in favour of the newcomer. It is to be wondered what Joe Louis, who may eventually have to meet Nova, thought of"him. If Baer was able to give Nova a bad time in the early rounds, what can Louis be expected to do? For five out of the first six rounds Baer seemed to be having the fight very much to himself, and if it is going to take Nova six rounds to get wound up sufficiently to outfight Baer, he will, unless he is very lucky indeed, be out of any fight with Louis long before that. The Brown Bomber carries the fight to his opponents from the sound of the gong, and what Baer could do with Nova, Louis may be expected todo much more efficiently. It may be that by the time a fight between Louis and Nova becomes due the latter will have had
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