BOXING COLOSSUS

Northern Advocate, 18 November 1929, Page 5

BOXING COLOSSUS

MEETS STRIBLING TONIGHT,

NOTHING HUMOROUS THIS TIME

(Received 2.28 p.m.) LONDON, November 17,

Camera’s first appearance against a first-class’ boxer tomorrow is arousing almost as much interest as the world championship. There is certain to be a record attendance. The Prince of Wales is going. The fight might easily be the turning point in Camera’s career. Most of his other fights have been of the humorous varietv.

Camera’s viewpoint is: “After all I am only a novice. Young Stribling is one of the three best heavyweights in the world. I want a good, clean fight, without any tricks. I have not hit anybody yet with all my power, and I don’t want to lose my temper.” This remark is causing his manager a good deal of concern, as he fears the Italian may be driven so mad by tile exceptional cleverness of Stribling that he will lose control and pick him up in an endeavour to throw him out of sight. He did that in Paris three months ago. His temper is easily aroused. It is an oddity that Camera, within a few months has been transformed info a skilful boxer, after his appearance in Paris as a joke, when he knocked out his man by hitting him on the top of the head as if wielding an axe. The measurements are. —Camera, sixfeet ten inches in height, 20 stone weight. Stribling, Oft 11 1 inches and 12st 101 b. Camera’s reach is sixinches longer than that of his opponent.