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...Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where he called a horse a goat; he had even passed beetle ; he was now referring to the animal as a roach...
...Madison Square Garden, which lost $20,000, last week's was by no means the most costly heavyweight championship fight on record. That distinction still belongs to the Tunney v. Heeney bout of 1928 on which $200,000 was dropped. Camera's failure to knock out an opponent who has only been knocked out twice in 148 fights caused most sportswriters to deride him for his victory last week. Nothing he has done since he landed in the U. S. in 1929-, an illiterate monster with a French manager, has won him any praise or popularity. After last...
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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...
Without the scowl but with butchery in heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut...