SCHMELING No. 1 CHALLENGER FOR BOXING TITLE
lEeceived 20, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. Tlie National Boxing Commissioi has rated Max Sclimeling the leadin; challenger for the hoavyweiglit title. Tommy Farr is rated as second, ai Jim Braddock sixth. Tommy Farr is coming to America . fight Jim Braddock. The bout will tui place on January 21. Max Baer, the heavyweight boxi technieally knocked out Hogan in ti third round of a contest which wa staged yesterday. He will possibly oppose Joo Louis. the negro champion, before Max Sclimeling meets hira. John Henry Lewis, the iight-heavy-weight champion, gained a decision over Eisko in the tenth round.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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105SCHMELING No. 1 CHALLENGER FOR BOXING TITLE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 74, 20 December 1937, Page 7
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