Word: carneras
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...Philadelphia. Primo Carnera, Italian behemoth, stood up straight as his first dangerous U. S. opponent, George Godfrey, 249 Ib. Leiperville, Pa., Negro, wove toward him with a yellow smile, shuffling his feet and feinting in a manner to which he had been tutored by onetime Negro heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Carnera was puzzled in the first round but thereafter held Godfrey's neck immovably in the clinches, jolted him with short rights, stung him with long lefts. In the fifth round Godfrey suddenly and apparently with deliberation hit Carnera low, followed the first bad blow with a long left...
...Carnera fought in Detroit last week, where he has not been suspended. Opponent was K. O. Christner, tough Akron rubber maker, who fought well against Jack Sharkey and Tom Heeney. Carnera knocked Christner out in the fourth round. On June 23 in Philadelphia Carnera meets George Godfrey, 222-lb. Negro, whom white heavyweight challengers have consistently avoided...
Bombo Chevalier, California heavyweight, was on his feet again and ready to fight in the sixth round of his bout with Primo Camera, monster Italian. Suddenly the crowd stood up, yelled, hooted. Someone in Bombo's corner had thrown in a large white towel, giving the fight to Carnera. Immediately the California Boxing Commission started an inquiry, summoned Bombo, who said Perry, his own second, was the man who threw the towel, that Perry had threatened to kill him if he did not "lie down" for Camera. Bombo further said that Camera's crowd had bribed Bombo...
Best shots of the season were taken in Albert Hall, dusty arena of pianists and pugilists. Among the shadowy audience of the Carnera-Stribling fight, Edward of Wales was photographed sucking on a cigar, asking puzzled questions of his attendants...
...second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat on his shoulders, and stayed there while the referee counted ten. This was in Newark, N. J. Jubilant, Carnera returned to the Park Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, broke two chairs in his arms as he capered about, pretending they were women he was dancing with, drank 15 bottles of ginger ale, snapping the tin caps off with his fingernails. Next day after a walk he entered the hotel, hurried toward...