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Born. To Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Camera, 33, hulking, gullible Italian roustabout, who became world heavyweight champion prize fighter in 1933, later a cinemactor, and Giuseppina Cavazzi Carnera, 27; their first child, a son; in Sequals, Italy. Weight: 11 lbs. Name: Umberto...
Married. Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, 32, onetime carnival wrestler who became world heavyweight champion boxer in 1933, later turned to cinemacting; and Pina Cavazzi, 26, postal clerk; in Sequals, Italy...
...Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...
Last week, almost penniless, onetime Champion Carnera was discovered sprawled out on two beds in a Budapest hospital, wistfully admiring a silk bathrobe he used to wear in the ring. He had suffered a kidney hemorrhage and was definitely through with fighting. One of his few prudent acts while in the money will save him from the fuddled penury of most prizefighters' declining years. He had given his mother a little hotel in Venice. The injured and obsolete giant plans to go there and retire...
...Madison Square Garden made $1,000,000, mostly from boxing. Last year it made $180,000, mostly from hockey. This year a new organization called the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, by promoting the Louis v. Baer fight and the Louis v. Carnera and Louis v. Levinsky fights which preceded it, has far outdistanced the Garden as a matchmaking organization. That this sad state of affairs is due to the way the Garden has been managed by President Kilpatrick is the contention of Board Chairman Hammond who hopes to oust him at next week's stockholders' meeting...