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Buenos Aires, Nov. 5--Primo Carnera, former heavyweight champion, was signed today to meet Victorio Capolo, Argentina heavyweight for a 12-round bout at Independiente Stadium which seats...
Bedded in a Manhattan hospital with a broken ankle in a plaster cast, Primo Carnera watched movies of the fight which lost him the heavyweight championship of the world to Max Baer. Cried Ex-Champion Carnera: "Look at me go down ... I fall. I fall again. Look at Baer grin, the big smart Alec." Then he wept...
...knocked Carnera down twice more before the round ended. In the second, he knocked him down three times, made the champion so groggy that when he fell he dragged Baer down with him. In the next seven rounds, Carnera pulled himself together sufficiently to keep his feet on the ground and his guard up. Baer took to walking in with his hands down, laughing at friends in ringside seats, chatting in the clinches. In the tenth round, Baer stopped his clowning and started to floor the champion some more. When Carnera had twice hoisted his monstrous frame to its shaky...
...Carnera came out for the eleventh round still groggy and dazed. His huge sad face was covered with blood. He lurched on a twisted ankle. When he reached the centre of the ring, Baer smashed him in the face. A cowardly fighter would have dropped to the floor and stayed there. A wise one would have rested until the referee counted nine. Camera heaved himself up at the count of two, floundered toward his opponent like an enormous hurt animal. This time Baer hit him three hard cracks before he went sprawling again. The courage which made Carnera...
...since quarreled and made up seven times. When he left Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled for $5,500. Last year he was divorced from Dorothy Dunbar. After defeating Max Schmeling, Max Baer played in vaudeville, was master of ceremonies in a nightclub, performed...