BOXING IN AMERICA.
, CARNERA WINS ON FOUL. VICTORY FOR CAMPOLO. JTEW TOSS. June 34. At Philadelphia 40,0(30 spectators, Gene Tunney, Max Scnmeling and other boxing celebrities, saw Primo Camera (12si. 101b.),. defeat Godfrey (17st. 121b.}, on a foul in the fifth round. Before the contest Godfrey was greatly favoured in the betting. He opened by doing most of the fighting, then gradually slowed up and showed poor condition. The negro fouled the Italian giant twica in the early rounds, but each time Camera laushed and shook hands with his opponent. * Godfrey took the first two rounds, th« third was even, and in the fourth and fifth Camera began to show superiority until he was fouled fey a. blow in the lower part of the body and dropped to the floor in great agony. <*, A doctor entered the ring and the Italian was carried out. Spnrtmg writers say they consider Godfrey's foul apparently was deliberate. : - la a bout at Boston Campoio {lfist lib.}, knocked ent RnggiereHo (lost.), in the third round. In a bout at New York Cauzonieri defeated Tommy Grogan in 10 rounds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20600, 26 June 1930, Page 11
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