BOXING

Evening Star, Issue 20311, 21 October 1929, Page 4

BOXING

A PROMISING HEAVY CAENERA IMPRESSES. LONDON, October 19. Is the giant Italian a world beater? ask the newspapers’ boxing experts in view of Prima Camera’s lightning victory. Despite his 20st he gets about the ring like a middle-weight, and has punching power and ringeraft amazing in one who has been boxing seriously for only a year This is only his fifteenth fight, and most of the bmits have lasted one or two rounds. Critics agree that ho has mastered timing, short punches, footwork, and right and left uppercuts in a manner which usually takes at least two years. It is generally agreed that no heavy-weight during the last thirty years has had the same potentialities and the same development, and the heavy-weight title cannot be fought out without considering Camera as a challenger. The ‘ Daily Express,’ in an editorial under the title, ‘ Eight to End Eights,’ says; ‘He is an Atlas, a centipede, and a scientific l.oxer in one. Ho does not fight: he massacres. §o long as he stays in the game everybody may as well retin- He has made it ridiculous.” Matt Wells says Camera looks like a world beater: Mr Bettinson, the manager of the National Sporting Club, describes him as a big discovery. Despite his apparent awkwardness, he dances about with agility, and his boxing skill is obvious Jimmy Wnde comments- “Camera will create a stir among the big fellows in America.” Eugent Corn is surprised at the accuracy and the power of Camera’s left. On London form he is capable of beating anybody It is a problem just how Camera, wh< was virtually unknown a week ago, but has now jumped into pugilistic prominence, will fit into the complicated scheme of things surrounding the world t tle. Phil Scott’s manager, cabling from New York, say* Scott will not recognise Camera in connection with the world title. He suggests that if he gets a post with Barnum and Bailey’s circus as a giant for exhibition; among other curiosities he wall do his best to assist him. Regarding this, it is interesting to note that Camera has already been engaged ai a big fee to give boxing exhibitions at the Alhambra. Offers have been rolling in all day since his spectacular victory. Camera’s chief trouble is that he is unable to find anybody to bit sufficiently hard. He said; “1 am sorry for Stanley, but I had to win quickly. I would not hurt him for worlds. It was no credit to me winning, but what could I do? I have heard of Jeffries, Johnson, Burns, Fitzsimmons, Dempsey, and Tunney, but they are only 14-stone men. If 1 could only find a 20-stone man I would love to hit him.” All this.was said in Italian, Camera’s only English being “Yes” and “Hungry.” He has been beseiged all day wherever he has gone, and his London manager’s chief difficulty is preventing him from eating. Camera will meet Young Stribling, the well known American, on October 31, in Paris Stribling has had 268 fights, of which he has won nearly 200 by _ knock-outs.—Australian Press Association.