BOY AND CARNERA

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1932, Page 10

BOY AND CARNERA

30-MILE WALK TO SEE FIGHT MILAN, May 14. Among the many thousand spectators who will see Camera’s forthcoming match will be Giacomo Marini, a boy barely 12 years of age, whose admiration for Camera is so great that he escaped last week from his home in Novara and walked to Milan without a penny in his pocket. The distance between the two cities is about thirty miles, which young Marini covered in two days. A municipal guard, impressed by the boy’s tired look, inquired what was the matter with him, and on .'earning of his escapade took him over to the nearest police station. The boy was finally entrusted to the care of the director of a local institute for destitute children. Primo Camera, on reading about the boy having walked to Milan to see him fight, immediately went to the institute. He requested that Marini should be allowed to stay in Milan, at his expense. He also asked to be allowed to provide the boy with new clothes and shoes and with a special ring seat at the fight next Sunday. The request was' duly granted. Camera is now afraid that when the story appears in the Press, ■he may have hundreds of “stray” children arriving in Milan to be fed, dressed and kept by him. “Stray” children may be sent from all parts of Italy by their parents to obtain free clothes and shoes from the kind-hearted Camera.—Reuter.