Word: carnera
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...Newark Airport the private car which the pair had expected did not turn up. A fellow passenger obligingly motored them to Vincent Astor's Manhattan hotel, the swank St. Regis. That evening General Johnson watched Fisticuffer Joe Louis pummel Fisticuffer Primo Carnera at the Yankee Stadium. At a luncheon next noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck...
...heavyweight championship, selected Joe Louis as successor to Jack Johnson, Harry Wills, Sam Langford. Twenty years old, equipped with a formidable right hand, polite, a flashy dresser, so religious he sometimes reads his Bible between rounds, Fisticuffer Louis is matched to fight one- time Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera next June...
Paris, March 17--The International Boxing Union tonight dethroned Prime Carnera as European heavyweight champion and placed the title in open competition because the Italian former world champion failed to meet Pierre Charles of Belgium...
Instead of covering the shortage, Barry & Baiata soon approached Van Derck with a proposition for "financing" in the same manner a "Barry Special" train to the Carnera-Baer fight in Manhattan. That, they said, would net sufficient profits to pay off the $172 shortage, leave something extra for all. The "Barry Special" was a flop, and Clerk Van Derck, now into the bank for $1,100, was asked to finance two concessions at the Chicago Fair ? a Chinese Show in The Bowery and the Hall of Champions where a stable of broken-down fisticuffers pummeled each other nightly. Both...
...bout set for November 24, will be Carnera's first since he lost his title to Max Baer...