It's impossible to describe fully the antics of the Great Baer on the pugilistic stage. He has to be io be appreciated. The airy gestures. the heavy sneers, the light laugh and the dark lock. broad farce written on his face in one moment and stark fury ing blazing in his eyes the next moment. With sound effects. too. He laughs; he snarls, he grunts, he breathes with dreadful emphasis.
In the first round the other night he stood off in a lordly manner and beckoned Nova to come on and fight He hadn't done a lick of fighting himself at that point, but that didn't make any difference to the Great Baer. It was a grand gesture and maybe he wasn't sure that he would have a chance to make it later on in the fight. He worked it before it was too late, He winked at the ringside spectators with his left eye as his head hung over Nova's shoulder, This was to indicate complete scorn of Nova's attempts to hurt him, But in the eighth round he couldn't have repeated the wink if he had tried, His left eye had closed for the evening.
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