Word: carnera
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...efforts of Italian sporting celebrities to distinguish themselves abroad have not been altogether fortunate. Ablest of the lot, hulking Primo Carnera, after being a pugilistic laughing stock for years, finally surprised himself by winning the world's heavyweight championship in 1933, only to lose it within a year under circumstances so distressing that the Italian Government now refuses him permission to leave home. That the annual long-distance swimming race at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto could be construed as an equivalent of the title which Carnera lost is exactly the sort of notion which an Italian would...
Ever since a khaki-colored Detroit Negro made it clear by a long string of knockout victims climaxed by Primo Carnera that he was the most devastating hitter among heavyweight pugilists since Jack Dempsey, a smoking question in the prizefight business has been whether or not Joe Louis (pronounced Lewis) can take a punch as well as give one. The difficulty has been caused by the fact that none of Louis' adversaries, since he turned professional a year ago, has proved capable of staying in the ring with him long or actively enough to answer it. Louis' bout...
Since Primo Carnera lost the world's heavyweight boxing championship, Italy has been pleased to insult him even more consistently than his detractors in the U. S. When Carnera playfully suggested that he must have been drugged before the fight in which he was a brave loser to Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor...
...Negro real-estate broker named Julian Black, get one-third. In his first professional fight, Louis knocked out a third-rater named Jack Kracken in the first round. Since then, he has had 21 fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds against six sparring partners, knocked each of them out at least twice with oversized training gloves. Salient feature of Joe Louis' character is his almost psychopathic calm. He sleeps twelve hours every night, often takes a day-time nap as well. He talks rarely...
...Eulalia, Emmarell, Vunies, Dulcinea. In Manhattan last week, where Harlem Negroes held church services to pray that he would win, Joe Louis was attended by four special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over, Joe Louis gave out a detailed apology for his error: "I missed him in my round so I thought I might as well get him in his." Joe Louis' next fight, scheduled...