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TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1937
JOE LOUIS vs TOMMY FARR
By NORMAN HURST
New York, Monday. Farr, after being the target of scorch- Before the weighing-in members of
Wild, riotous scenes, unprecedented
before a big fight, marred the
weigh-in of Tommy Farr and Joe Louis
today at the offices of the Boxing Com-
mission, in New York.
As soon as Farr showed that he had
shed 2 1/2lb. since Friday- he was 204
1/2lb. to Joe Louis's 197-
Pandemonium broke loose.
At least 20 photographers with flash-
light cameras, and a half a dozen men
with high powered lamps, shrieked and
howled to the boxers to hold this or
that pose.
General Phelan, Chairman of the
Boxing Commission, yelled himself
hoarse as, with perspiration streaming
down his face, a greenish-white under
the glare of the lights, he tried to get
some semblance of order from the wild
mob of photographers.
ing lights and blinding flashes, began to
get fidgety and irritable. he looked at
Louis, whose black emotionless face was
sweating to such an extent that the
water dripped from his chin, otherwise,
not by so much as a blink did Louis
show his feelings.
At last Farr could stand it no longer
and made to step off the scale where
he had been posed. "Just hold it for
another" was the cry, and then General
Phelan, with the aid of some police,
broke up the party.
the British Press felt what it was like
to be shoved and hustled around by the
American "flat-foot," as the police are
known here.