BOXING
Baer New Champion SEVERE GRUELLING FOR EX-CHAMPION. (Aus. & N.Z ('able Assn.) NEW YORK, June 8. Baer defeated Schmeling, by a technical knock-out, in the tenth of a scheduled fifteen rounds contest. NEW YORK. Juno *. I »ispiaying | rrific punching power. Bail- (••iiiglit Schmeling. the former world champion with a barrage of rights to the chin in flu 1 ninth round the Teuton tottering groggilv after the ( eming out savagely Io lii.ish the German in tin tenth round Baer loos'd a volley of rights ami tloore I Schute!ing fur the count of nine. Schmeling came up gamely. but helpless ami Baer sma-Jir.l h.m from on*' side of tin 1 ring to th • other before the referee’ stopped the Iwul. Baer had l.'H pounds weight advantage. The betting was 3i to one hi Schmeling’s favour. Baer had the idvantng” throughout The attendance j was sixty-live thousand.
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Grey River Argus, 10 June 1933, Page 6
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