How much of the fight still exists? Evening star. [volume], January 22, 1938, Page B-6, Image 22 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...ddock&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 The times-news., January 22, 1938, Page 4, Image 4 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063811/1938-01-22/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=01/22/1938&index=9&date2=01/25/1938&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=BRADDOCK+FARR&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=braddock+farr&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=range&page=1 Santa Cruz Evening News, Volume 61, Number 45, 22 January 1938 https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCEN193...en--20--1--txt-txIN-braddock+farr----1938---1 The Maitland Daily Mercury (Australia) Sat 22 Jan 1938 Page 8 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/13400693 Daily Illini, 22 January 1938 https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=DIL19380122.2.79&txq=braddock+farr Braddock one of Ring's Gamest Heavyweights (Not especially relevant TBH) Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., March 04, 1938, TOWN WEEKLY MAGAZINE, Page 10, Image 22 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...ddock&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
This content is protected This seems to be the most complete version on YouTube atleast. Perhaps comparing the footage with the reports round by round could be the best way to tell.
Farr seems to be more consistent in most rounds and does more leading. Braddock fights back when attacked several times gamely but from what I saw- I would give slight to moderate edges to Farr in most rounds.
Round 1 starts at 2:46, and ends at 4:05. Looks like it could have gone either way depending on what the rest of the round was like. Round 2 starts at 4:12, and ends at 5:28. Again too close to call with so much missing. If I had to say maybe a slight edge to Braddock, since so much of Farr's work looked like ineffective punches in the clinches. Santa Cruz Evening News says Braddock won the first two "listless rounds". Daily Illini Mentions Braddock taking an early lead, and The Maitland Daily Mercury (Australia) says Braddock won the first 2 rounds.
The papers mention him being sure he won too. But that fighters themselves aren't always the best judge. The papers I've seen so far put it closer to a draw, or Braddock just nicking it. But I'd like to find a lot more, and especially ones from the area etc. before coming to any firm conclusions.
Interesting thanks for sharing. From what I see, and it’s impossible to draw a conclusion from an edited bout, I would say Farr’s opinion was correct. Now it’s not the worst robbery, Braddock does seem game throughout and highly competitive swing rounds early on, but as rounds progressed from what I see Farr had built up an edge. Farr was a very good fighter, beat Baer their first fight, arguably beat Braddock, and was quite game with Louis. He was always in top shape, used movement well and had a stinging punch if not quite a big punch. His jab seems weak on film but he uses it often, like a nuisance to keep his opponent occupied while he maneuvers into favorable position. Solid pro.
Round 3 starts at 5:35 and ends at 6:57. From whats there it certainly looks like Farr won it The Maitland Daily Mercury (Australia) says it was Farr's round Evening star. says Farr lost the 3rd because of a couple low shots Santa Cruz Evening News says Braddock was outpointed but won the 3rd on a foul
Round 4 starts at 7:09, and ends at 8:32. Looks like Farr was winning it. Santa Cruz Evening News says the 4th round, and the 4 after it went to Farr. The Maitland Daily Mercury (Australia) says it was Farr's round
Ok, I'll just finish the times for the rounds, then add in the other stuff later Round 5 starts at 8:46, and ends at 10:17. Looks like another Farr round Santa Cruz Evening News says the 4 after 4 all went to Farr The Maitland Daily Mercury says the 5th was Farr's Round 6 starts at 10:23, and ends at 11:40. From what was there, looked like a Braddock had the best of it to me. Santa Cruz Evening News says the 4 after 4 all went to Farr The Maitland Daily Mercury says the 6th was Farr's
Round 7 starts at 11:50, and ends at 13:12. Too incomplete to judge, Farr started stronger, and Braddock looked to be doing slightly better at the end. If I had to call it, I'd give it to Farr. Be interesting to see the reports. The Maitland Daily Mercury gives 7 to Farr Round 8 starts at 12:21, and ends at 14:45. Looked like Farr had the better of it. The Maitland Daily Mercury gives 8 to Farr
Round 9 starts at 14:55, and ends at 16:45. Too hard to judge from the footage. Maybe looked like an edge to Farr. The Maitland Daily Mercury gives 9 to Braddock Round 10 starts ar 17:00, and ends at 18:43. Looked like an edge to Braddock. The times-news says Braddock won this round wide The Maitland Daily Mercury gives 10 to Braddock
The New York Sun, Monday, January 24, 1938 Setting the Pace By FRANK GRAHAM Thr Man Who Wins the Fight. The decision in the Braddock-Farr bout brings up once more tha proper way of deciding who has won a fight. The question naver has been answered to everybody's satisfaction, and, probably naver will be, since there are two schools of thought. One holds that, in a limited round fight, as every fight must be since the law long ago frowned on finish fights, the winner is the fellow who gains the greater number of rounds. The other, that the winner is the fellow who haa done the greater damage and is having the better of the scuffling when the fight ends. It is with this school that you are aligned. It is your notion that a fight in the ring is no different from a fight anywhere else, and that too much emphasis has been placed on the rounds. The way you look at it, a fighter can blow eight or even nine rounds of a ten-round fight, but if he is knocking the brains out of his opponent when the last bell rings he is the winner, because the idea of the fight in the first place was to see which one could do the most damage. When two men are fighting in the street, the one. who has the upper hand when the cop breaks it up is the winner, isn't he? He may have started slowly and been pasted around for a while, but if he has come on and is giving the other fellow a belting when the law intervenes, nobody with any sense is going to tell him that he had the worst of the brawl. Jim Was Boss at the Finish. In his dressing room after last Friday night's fight, Farr wanted to know what a fellow had to do to win a fight. Well, for one thing, he has to do more than to soak up punches through the last six minutes of it. Tommy had the better of the fight for eight rounds. His punches were not as effective as Braddock's, but he landed more of them. Once Braddock started to wind up and let fly in the ninth round, however, he had Tommy rolling on his heels and scuttling about the ring in a vain effort to escape the punishment that was being hurled at him. When the last bell rang there was no doubt that Braddock was in command. He had taken everything Farr could throw at him for eight rounds and now he was throwing it back, but with more precision and with more of a jolt in it. Maybe he couldn't have gone much further. He rated himself carefully all the way. Maybe he rated himself perfectly, so that his last punch was timed with the last bell, but whether or not that was so, he was the boss of that ring when—to go back to the street fight analogy—the cop came along. Never a More Inspiring Fighter. The fight illustrated a number of things. First, that neither Braddock nor Farr ever is going to lick Joe Louis. But quite as interesting as that, why the crowd still goes so whole-heartedly for Braddock. The crowd likes a guy who gets up when he has been knocked down and fights back when he is hurt, and Braddock has been getting up and fighting back for years. At his best Jim wasn't a great fighter and, naturally, his skill is waning as the years close in about him. But the ring never knew a fighter who had more courage or a deeper fighting instinct. There is dignity about him, too—the quiet dignity of a plain man who never has pretended to be other than what be is—but is proud of being that. Nor was there ever a more inspiring fighter. Nobody can see him fight without taking fresh courage from him. There is no way of measuring the effect of his winning of the heavyweight championship on men and women all over the world—men and women who never saw a prize fight and do not know anything about prize fighting. These men and women knew, though, that Jim had slugged his way out of the same sort of despair that was dragging them down and it made them believe that while they couldn't win the heavyweight championship of the world, too, they could beat off the evils that were besetting them. Jim's mail in the days following his victory over Max Baer was a reflection of the encouragement he had given and the hope that he offered, but there must have been inarticulate millions who were equally inspired by him. The Tribute of the Crowd. This fight with Farr was another episode in the life of this most amazing man that gave a tremendous lift to every one who saw it or read of it or heard it on the radio. It was another stand against seeming defeat, marked by a bold courage and a determination not to surrender. Jim had been cruelly beaten by Louis last summer. He had lost that fight the way he has won so many—by fighting with all his heart. Louis had the better of the fight from the beginning, in spite of the fact that Braddock knocked him down in the first round, but as long as Jim could stand—and long after he could see the Negro clearly—he continued to throw punches and the fight wasn't over until he was stretched unconscious on the floor. That was his last fight until this fight with Farr. Nobody knew how much that beating had taken out of him and whether or not he would be able to travel ten rounds against the young and rugged Farr. The betting was that he could not win—but the crowd was there hoping he would. No fighter ever drew a more robust or more heart-warming welcome than he did when he entered the ring. The crowd was paying him back for the things he has done for the crowd. It was laying its tribute on the line for a game and honest prize fighter who hasn't always won, but who never has lost for lack of trying. Who never took part in a shady fight and never claimed anything he had not earned by fighting for it, who never dodged and never quit and never hollered foul. The crowd didn't know whether he could win or not, either. But it was hoping, even praying, he would. And it knew that, win or lose, he would give it a run for its money and for its hopes and prayers. There Are Harder Hitters Than Farr. As a result of his victory over Farr, Jim is back in the comparatively big money again. He can make a lot of money as long as he continues to win. For this reason a hint, such as you threw at him lightly the day after the Farr fight, must bounce off him as lightly as one of Fair's punches. This was that it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to hang up that green robe of his and let some one else do the fighting from now on. Still, you do not want to see him go on fighting too long. There are too many strong, young heavyweights in the ring who can hit harder than Farr and you would not want to see Jim, slowed down by the years, taking too many of their punches.
