HEAVY-WEIGHT BOXING
NOVA OUTPOINTS FARR A TERRIFIC PUNISHMENT i United fress Association) (By Electric Telegraph— Cop.vrightl NEW YORK, Dec. 17. (Received Dec. 18, at 8 p.m.) By the manner in which he outpointed Tommy Farr in a 15-round bout, Lou Nova became the world's leading heavy-weight boxing contender. The Welshman suffered the worst beating of his career, and it was only the bell at the close of the fourteenth round that saved him from being knocked out. Nova had Farr groggy and staggering blindly, and punished him more severely than did Louis, Baer, or Braddock. It was one of the hardest hitting battles in the history of Madison Square Garden. Farr held his own until the fourteenth round, when Nova concentrated on short, explosive left hooks and rights. The Welshman swayed and reeled backwards into his own corner, and the referee intervened as he was hanging on to the ropes. Nova, thinking he had won on a technical knock-out, danced to his own corner, but Farr gamely staggered from the ropes, blorfd-smeared and helpless, and continued to take the punishment until the bell. Nova justified Dempsey's and Tunney's prediction, "He is the great white hope."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 10
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