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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-05-21, Page 7The Truth About A Famous Fight Perhaps you are one of the millions. Who still have the idea that Tommy Farr -- "'Itonypantly Tommy" — lhnost beat Chaiilt pion Joe Louis for the heavy. weight championship. In a recent issue of NEWSWEEK one of our greatest — and most amusing — sportswriters, John Lardner, gives the lowdown on how this strictly erroneous legend calve into being. Take It away, Mr. Lardner. It's interesting, but also dis- turbing, to note how quickly and smoothly legend can replace his- tory, There's a legend afoot today that Tommy Parr, from Tony- pancly, Wales, gave Joe Louis a bad time in the prize ring one night in 1937, and was robbed of the decision in their heavyweight title fight. The other clay, when Tommy was visiting here in the States, your correspondent was struck by the fact that' practi- cally everyone who was born since—let's say—the Hoover Ad- ministration has come to accept this proposition as gospel. Mr. Farr did nothing to knock it down. To be frank with you, I hadn't expected that he would. "I won't say that I beat Looey," Tom observed thoughtfully, when4 the point came up, "but it can't be said that Looey beat me." Oh, yes, it can, The fight is clear in my memory. I put in with the officials, who gave Louis anywhere from 'eight to thirteen of the fifteen rounds. Joe had a tender right hand that night; so he used his left almost exclusive- ly, and turned Farr's face into what looked like $1,50 worth of hamburger. When the fight was over, Tommy did not claim vic- tory. That thought came to him later, through one of those cur- ious sidelights of history that produce legends. Few eyewitnesses believed Farr had won. One of these was Clem McCarthy, who called the bout by radio, on a national network. Clement was a peerless caller of horse races. Fight -calling was new to him. He liked the way that Farr charged into Louis's left hand face -first. He was sat- isfied that these tactics had won the fight for Farr—and so was his audience of 20 million souls. The call was Clem's last one for a while. Next day, when Uncle Mike Jacobs, the promo- ter, learned that there had been two fights, MdCarthy's and the real one, he swallowed his syn- thetic teeth, turned the color of a dahlia, and stripped Clem of his epaulets. This action came too late to stem the tide of myth. Twenty million radio fans hand- ed the wrong story down to their children, so that today the Louis - Farr fight is firmly fixed in the list of famous fight legends, along with: 1—The legend that Jim Jeffries was drugged in his fight with Jack Johnson. (Don't worry, friends, T will not claim that I was there.) 2—The legend that Carpentier almost knocked out Dempsey . with a right hand in the second tound. (The motion pictures show. that Dempsey took a half a step backward.) 3—The legend that Billy Conn imild' have beaten Louis In their et fight if he hadn't with Hi - mien recklessness, suddenly ed to knock Louis out. (I don't ink Conn was ahead, but the talient point is this: He had used sip his speed and gone flatfooted, lend had no choice but to punch +2nd be punched,) Tom Farr now believes in the Louis -Farr legend,' and, for my VIKING PRINCE — Denmark's .Prince Christian, 15, wears his viking costume, shield and at at a Copenhagen rehear'sai. The Prince will wear the outfit when he takes part in a viking festival this summer in Rams- gate, England. money, he's entitled to. In his heyday, the squat Welshman fought 65 rounds in New York with America's five best heavy- weights, and was never off his feet. If a maker of history can't tell it his way, what becomes of Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery? Or, for that matter, Mr. Eisenhower, Churchill, and U.S. Grant? Tommy has been in our midst as a journalist, covering the un- pleasantness between Floyd Pat- terson and Brian London. He's a rarity among ex -athlete journa- lists, in that he uses his own words in print. They are a much higher class of words than the ones he used in the ring to Jim Braddock, Max Baer, Lou Nova, and Red Burman when he was trying, without great success, to push their teeth down their throats. Farr was the most up- right British fighter who ever carne among us. Going from loss to loss, he earned some $200,000 here. To be exact historically, per- haps I should say that Joe Gould, his American manager, earned some of it for him. Mr. Gould adopted Farr after his loss to Braddock. 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