The resurgence of interest in boxing has been such that Jacobs has been forced to transfer the forthcoming battle between Louis and Abe Simon from the Garden to a baseball park, Originally listed indoors on May 9, the Louis-Simon battle will be presented on May 16, in the Yankee Stadium.
Neither Nova nor Baer appeared at, the Twentieth Century headquarters to pick up his check, which amounted $22,303 each, They left that task to their managers. The beaten Baer, who bears no man ill-will, made it a point to visit Nova at his hotel, and the pair spent a pleasant couple of hours. Baer congratulated his fellow Californian, but pointed out what he considered' a few flaws in Lou's make-up. Max refused to announce his retirement, insisting he would be back in the picture after "six months in the sunshine,"
The beaten boxer carried considerable evidence of his ordeal of the night before, the right side of his face being swollen to the size of a grapefruit and evincing a colour Scheme in which an angry purple was e motif.
Jacobs declared that the crowd at the Nova-Baer fight was the largest ever to see a bout in the Garden, The figures revealed 22,114 tickets had been sold, and the promoter explainet there were more than a thousand complimentary ticket-holders in attendance. These uncounted observ-ere, aécordíng to Jacobs, raised the total considerably over the figure of 23.190. the record created by the Fritzi Zivie-Henry Armstrong clash last January,
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