CARNERA COMES HOME
A MODERN MIRACLE
LONDON, 14th December, j Exactly a year ago the giant Italian boxer, Camera, landed in London practically down and out, with shabby clothes, but plenty of ambition, and a clever manager. His first fight in London against Stanley netted £100. This week-end he stepped out of a Pullman car at Victoria Station, dressed in the height of fashion and with the air of a man about town. Hundreds crowded round him, and he had to faeo a whole battery of photographers. He admits that he now has a personal fortune of £30,000. Ho earned £100,000, but some nine persons concerned in his pugilistic career are entitled to a percentage on his earnings. He exclaimed: "I'll say I am satisfied. Two years ago I was a handyman travelling with a circus. Now I have everything. The whole thing is a miracle." His chief anxiety now is to prove to the English public that he is not a slaughterer, but a boxer-.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 11
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166CARNERA COMES HOME Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 144, 16 December 1930, Page 11
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