Sport: Beer Barrel Palooka

As a general rule, a tough barroom bouncer figures to hang a shanty on the most rambunctious college guy. After the brawly bouncing around that occurred last week in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, the rule still stood.

Boxer Lou Nova, who spent three years at the California College of Agriculture, is a serious sort, reads books, diets, sleeps long, goes for some queer fangles in fighting. For the Baer fight, for example, he trained at the yoga roost of Dr. Pierre Bernard, the Omnipotent Oom of the Sunday supplements. Half an hour before the fight his handlers came into his dressing room, found...

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