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...Uzcudun. Paulino Uzcudun, "Champion of Europe," is training in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., birthplace of William F. Carey, who succeeded Promoter Rickard at Madison Square Garden. Last week Promoter Carey visited him there. Unlike Schmeling, Uzcudun, a Basque woodchopper who wore shoes for the first time at the age of 24, is almost always noisy. He likes to sing and dance, both of which he did last week in honor of the Carey visit. He claims to be the champion woodchopper of the world. When Max Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck...
...Uzcudun style consists of many wild gyrations, of leading with rights. He is no boxer as Tunney was a boxer, but he is an oppugnant fighter with a fine disregard for other people's punches. He was assuring everyone who would listen last week that he would defeat Schmeling with no trouble. Schmeling said he would defeat Uzcudun, intended doing it with his left although he might with his right. Uzcudun's known ability to "take it" (stand punishment), and uncertainty whether Schmeling can "take it" or not, was what made Uzcudun a 7-to-5 favorite in last week...
Campolo. Perhaps the most interested spectator of the Schmeling-Uzcudun duel will be one Victorio Maria Campolo who last week arrived with friends in the U. S. from the Argentine. He stands 6 ft., 6½ in.; weighs 225 Ib.; scorns everybody's boxing ability but his own. Of his countryman Luis Firpo he said last week: "He is fat, he is disgusting, he weighs 275 pounds and looks like a wine barrel. But he intended coming to New York last spring anyway. He will not now because I am here...
...going to fight again, Jack?" reporters asked him. "No," said Dempsey, as usual. Later he admitted that he might fight famed Paulino Uzcudun next June, for a guarantee...
Sailing for Spain, Paulino Uzcudun, heavyweight, said he would like to fight Tunney for nothing...