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Baer Gives Varsity Boxers Helpful Hints and Advice

Heavyweight Champion Visited Indoor Athletic Plant

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"That's one Jack Dempsey showed me," said Max as he ducked one of Tom Choate, Crimson heavyweight's, fast ones while Coach Henry Lamar looked on in the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon.

None other than the world's champion himself, Max Baer in person, was paying Harvard a visit off the record. Dressed conservatively in a double-breasted gray suit, with coal black hair combed smoothly down, he blew in about 4.30 o'clock to give Coach Lamar's varsity mittmen a few sage words of advice.

Max showed his manly physique, flashed a little of the well-known personality, posed for a couple of pictures, and closed with the final remark, "Now boys, I hope next June you will hear the referee over the radio say '9 and out, and Baer is still world's champion'."

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