NO SYMPATHY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 21

NO SYMPATHY

"LEABN TO BOUGH IT"

AMERICAN BOXING ADVICE

An insight to what is expected of anAmerican prizefighter is given in a recent issue of "The Ring," in which the editor, Mr. Nat Fleischer, hands out some advice to Ray Impeliitiere, an American-Italian boxer of Primo Camera's physical proportions Impeliitiere and Camera recently met in a "battle of behemoths" in the course of the 'elimination series to find a challenger for Baer's title. Camera won the fight but the Madison Square Garden officials had already made it plain that they had no intention of giving him- another opportunity to cross swords with Baer, to whom he lost the titleMn June of .last year. After the bout Impellitiere's manager, Harfy Lenny, complained that Camera bore down his man- by foul tactics, hitting wijji the . wrists, forearms, and shoulders, and roughing him around the ring. ■i ; :'• ■ "NO EXCUSE.".: ~ -';■ ■ '.'While true,'the complaint is no excuse to offer for Ray's defeat," writes Fleischer. "Ray had: the same opportunity as Primo to rough it, if he felt he was" being manhandled by his opponent but, instead, he apparently elected to be the-good boy, and suffered accordingly. "When, the referee, in .this ■ case Jack Dempsey, a student of the rough school, refused to take cognisance of Primo's infringements,- then it was up to Impeliitiere to give Primo a dose' of his own medicine —which, he failed to do., •'-, - ■'. ... "Boxing is not a parlour pastime. It is, in many respects,' a rough and tunable sport in which refinement carries little weight! This is, particularly/true as regards heavyweights, especially those of the build of Camera .and Impeliitiere: The hope of the fans who view such 'an encounter is to see one of the boys in a prone position and the manner in which the position is gained carries little weight with the average patron. Thus it behoves Lenny, for future bouts, to teach his Ray a few of the rough tactics practised by Primo, and then it won't be necessary for him to hurl the towel into the ring. "Lenny should have taken a lesson from Baer. Max remembered what Primo did to Loughran in Miami and decided that if there was any roughing he would have a hand in it, and well did he 'succeed. Max didn't let Primo get too far advanced. He took the bull by the horns, as Impeliitiere should have done, and handed Primo more than he had bargained for. In fact he practised on the Italian behemoth everything but bat swinging, and poor Primo never had a chance to come back. So there is a way of fighting Camera, Mr. Lenny, and for a few pennies Max Baer will, teach it to | impeliitiere."