A FIGHT THAT WILL BE HEARD IN CHINA

Southland Times, Issue 24138, 29 May 1940, Page 10

A FIGHT THAT WILL BE HEARD IN CHINA

Anthony Galento, the self-sustaining beer keg from Orange, New Jersey, and Max Baer, the fairest flower of Livermore are sworn enemies. For more than a year Galento has been yelling, “Get me that Baer. He talks too much!” Baer, whose savagery outside the ring has made him widely feared by people who have to catch a train and don’t want to listen, resents Galento as a claim-jumper, a copy-right-breaker,. and an uncouth peasant, says John Lardner in The San Francisco Chronicle.

“It’s people like Galento,” says Baer, “who give this country a bad name.” Baer neglects to mention what the bad name is, but he probably means “the United States of America,” which is what people have been calling this country ever since Galento opened his saloon. Galento was yelling, “Get me Baer!” the other day when word reached him, along with six cages of lager, that Mr Herbert Hoover had decided

to give him Baer on behalf of the Finnish relief fund. “There was a time,” said Baer, “when I would not have soiled my hands on Galento. I regard him as a boor, a clod, an oaf, a hind, a bumpkin, and a goniff. “BAER WILL BE THERE” “But my services are completely at the disposal of Finnish relief, and I must admit that it will give me real pleasure to punch a hole through Galento’s head. You may tell them Max Baer will be there.” Galento’s feelings about Baer is that he talks too much, looks too pretty, dresses too pretty, and obtains money under false pretences in the prize ring. “I’ve watched Baer four-five times,” says Galento, “and every time I leave the joint I ask for my money back. He can’t fight! He -oughta be stitching doilies.” Baer and Galento should run up a pretty good score for the Finns, and my only regret is that the Finns themselves can’t see the fight. But Galento reassures me on this point. “They won’t hafta see it, they’ll hear it,” says Galento. “The first time I hit Baer they’ll hear it in China.”