Tommy Farr

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In browsing the records, I looked at the record of Tommy Farr, the welsh heavyweight of the 30s.

His second fight, in 1926, when he was supposedly 12 (!) according to your records was against someone called "Young Snowball"

If you look at "Young Snowball"'s record, you'll see that he fought 3 times previously, his first fight in 1910 against a 22-3-3 Georges Carpentier.

So, questions to be asked are:
- who was Young Snowball, and how was he good enough to beat a great fighter like Carpentier in his first fight?
- how was he bad enough to lose to a 12-year-old Farr?

Or are the records just wrong?

[delisa]

Young Snowball was actually Ted Broadribb, Farr's manager -- I have a feeling Broadribb added this as an in-joke when he padded Farr's record for publication.

I would list it as a doubtful bout.

As Young Snowball, Broadribb was considered a pretty good fighter; I don't think he fought Farr or that he was the one who fought the 1936 bout on Snowball's record

[Alex]

- who was Young Snowball, and how was he good enough to beat a great fighter like Carpentier in his first fight?

Ted Broadribb AKA Young Snowball holds the disinction of being the only Brit to beat Carpentier. The record on Boxrec (like most of the records from this time) is vastly incomplete, so the carpentier fight was most certainly not his first. Broadribb's last fight - according to his autobiography - was in the autumn of 1911, against Charlie Dixon (Southwark), after which he retired with eye trouble. From then on he switched to managing fighters.

- how was he bad enough to lose to a 12-year-old Farr?

The Young Snowball Farr fought was, without a shadow of a doubt, NOT Ted Broadribb.

[Alex]

I've moved the Farr bout and the others that did not belong on Broadribb's record to save any future confusion.