Three years ago lanky Max Adelbert Baer of Livermore, Calif., starting his career as a professional fisticuffer, killed an opponent named Frankie Campbell with his punches. That for a long time remained his most notable achievement. But a string of eleven victories over competent fighters in the last two years and the fact that Promoter Jack Dempsey thought Baer's Jewish ancestry (on his father's side) might make him popular in New York, qualified him last week as an opponent for Max Schmeling of Germany—intent on earning another chance at the world's heavyweight...
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