Sport: Clown into Champion

The heavyweight champion of the work can, by rights, beat anyone who will fight him without weapons. There were last week possibly half a dozen men in the world capable of beating Champion Primo Carnera but it seemed unlikely that Max Adelbert Baer was among them. An exuberant young pugilist who enjoys night life more than fighting, Baer had trained so nonchalantly that a member of the New York State Boxing Commission threatened to have the fight cancelled because the challenger was in such pooi physical condition. Even after a committee of physicians had...

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