World’s Boxing Title. Max Baer, who recently caused the biggest boxing upset of the year by outpointing the British heavyweight champion, Tommy Farr, has accepted I terms for a world-tit le fight in New I York in September. He will meet the winner of the Louis-Schmeling bout to be held in June. Papers for Baers fight were drawn up after a consultation between Ancil Hoffman, Baer’s manager, and Mike Jacobs, Madison Square Garden chief. “We have had all sorts of offers for Max to appear in exhibitions,” said Hoffman, “but he is going to keep in shape. I’ll take him up into the mountains and see to that,”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 89, 16 April 1938, Page 4
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