Farr v. Baer

Accustomed to staccato sports-reporting by U. S. announcers, U. S. radio listeners rarely get such a chance to sample the discursive style of English sports announcers as they did last week in an account of a prizefight at Harringay Arena in London, broadcast by Announcer Howard Marshall. Excerpts:

"Farr has a lovely left. . . . Farr's left is out like a chameleon's tongue after a fly. ... A most satisfactory fight so far. . . . Farr's sitting pretty, thank you. . . . Farr is playing what we call a one to nothing game, hit and get away. . . . Baer's eye is bleeding nicely. . . . Fame and fortune are in front of Farr. . . ."

What he had been describing was a fight between onetime World Heavyweight Champion Max Adelbert Baer and a stolid 23-year-old Welshman named Tommy Farr. For winning decisively, becoming the first British heavyweight to attract international attention since Phil Scott (retired 1931), Farr got a purse of $15,000, offers of fights with Walter Neusel, Bob Pastor, John Henry Lewis, Max Schmeling.

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