BOUT POSTPONED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 27 August 1937, Page 7

BOUT POSTPONED

LOUIS-FARR MATCH. RAIN UPSETS PLANS. WILL MEET ON MONDAY. (United Press Association-—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 27, 9.45 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 26. The boxing match between Joe Louis (holder) and Tommy Farr (the British challenger; for the . world heavyweight title has been postponed until August 30 owing to rain.

EVE OF THE FIGHT. JOE LOUIS FAVOURED, NEW YORK, Aug. 25. On the cve of the world heavyweight boxing championship match Louis is favoured to beat Farr. Despite the virtually unanimous opinion of experts that Farr will be outclassed by Louis it as believed that tho interest in the fight can be attributed to the fact that Farr is an unknown quantity here and that Americans support the underdog in the hope that the experts will he wrong, which is not exactly rare. The British delegation and British boxing writers here favour Louis.

Farr and Louis, who are both confident of victory, spent a quiet day at their camps. Farr’s attendants said that his cheek gash was not likely to bother him, although it would be taken for granted that Louis would make it a target. The attendance should be 30,000.

TUNNEY’S PREDICTION

MUCH COMMENT AROUSED,

Received August 27, 10.25 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 26. Considerable comment hns been aroused by a radio speech in which Gene Tunncy, the former champion, predicted that Louis would knock out Farr in the fifth round.