“GOODABYE AMERICA ’
(Own Correspondent —By Air Mail) NEW YORK, July 13. Primo Camera, the man they called tho Ambling Alp, waved farewell to America and his career as a boxer as tho liner Vulcania bore him towards his native Italy, says a reporter. “Goodabye, America,” he said as he stood on deck with the aid of his cratches
“Goodabye, fighting,” ho said wistfully as he saw that none of the hundreds who used to acclaim him, nono of the backers for whom he made threequarters of a million pounds, had come to bio him farewell. I asked him: “Will you change your mind; docido to fight again!” He replied: “1 fight my last fight. I go home to Italy. I want to start a business. I want my son to be a millionaire.” I exclaimed: “Your son I I did not know you were married.” Camera laughed. “I go home tc find the right girl. I marry her. 1 havo sou. He will bo wonderful , ♦
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 212, 8 September 1936, Page 9
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