CARNERA INFURIATED

Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1930, Page 9

CARNERA INFURIATED

FIGHT WITH STRIBLING ITALIAN DISQUALIFIED. SCENES AT THE RINGsSI.DE. An English paper gives a vivid account pf the boxing contest held last month in Faris between “Young” Stribling, of America, and Primo Camera, the Italian giant. The latter was disqualified for striking his opponent after the gong had sounded. Extraordinary scenes followed .and for a moment it appeared that Carnera- desired to attack both the referee and his manager. He also made a threatmovement toward the crowd. “Up to to-night Camera proved to be one of the biggest box-office attractions seen in the last decade,” wrote the special commissioner of the English papei from Paris. “This was proved by the 16,009 people or so who crammed their way into the Velodrome d’Hiver to see the out-sized boxer meet Young Stribling, whom he defeated on-a, foul at the Royal Albert Hall, London, a few weeks, ago. * “We had been served up with the old-time stories, including one that Stribling had been punching at a special bag with a line marked on it at the height of Camera’s waist-line in order to school himself against hitting the big fellow too low, but it remained for a statement given by the French press to set Paris alight. “’This was to the effect that as early as lust June Camera had renounced his nationality and become a naturalised Frenchman. It can be imagined what a bombshell this -was to the sporting world and how it Was taken by the huge Italian colony in Paris, who had made an idol of their countryman. So serious was the feeling in several quarters that Mr. J efl' Dickson gave a sigh of relief when this evening he had hustled Camera through tbo waiting crowd and into an adjoining restaurant after the weigh-in. It is a hard job keeping a crowd as cosmopolitan as that which filled the Velodrome d’Hiver quiet when the boys are all on edge waiting for a big fight, but by introducing some good supplementary bouts and giving us some ‘canned singing’ through the loud speaker, Mr. Dickson succeeded in doing the trick. . “There were many notable people present, among- them M. Fernand Bouissant, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M. Henri Pate, Under- Secretary of State for Physical Culture. I also saw Steve Donohue making his way to a ringside seat just as the big fellows were entering the ring. “In my opinion Camera’s performance to-night has for ever placed him beyond the pale, so far as - a potential v world championship goes. His violent temperament, moreover, must be curbed; otherwise, I am afraid, we shall have to put .him on the shelf so far as boxing is concerned.

<! Y’hcre looked like being an ugly scene in Carncra’s corner, when he was disqualified at the end of the seventh round. It is many years since I saw such scenes at a ringside. This man-moun-tain was completely out of hand, and for a .moment it looked as if he would attack both the referee and his own manager, Air. Leon See. As they tried to take the gloves from his hands he struck at his seconds, while all the time the crowd were yelling nasty expressions at him as only a French crowd can when fully exasperated. “The catcalls and yells of the crowd increased rather than diminished, and Camera made, for the centre of the crowd in a threatening attitude, as if anxious to climb over the ropes and engage in a free fight with the. people who were yelling at him. LUMBEB-JACK TACTICS. “This fight has shown us that Camera is not the unbeatable giant many people thought he was. Here we had a man weighing seven stone less than himself who hit him practically as he pleased, and it was only when this man-moun-tain resorted to the tactics of a lumbcrjac’ that he showed any prospects of coming out on top in the battle. “When Camera made his threatening move from his corner after the disqualific ition, Stribling’s seconds, including his father, gathered round him as if to defend him from the infuriated attack of the Italian giant, but Stribling himself sat there probably the most unconcerned man in tlio building. He was without a doubt the least excited man in the house as he sat there, an immobile figure, with as little expression on his face as one would see on the face of the Sphinx. The yells of exacerbation against Camera were now drowned by the cheers that' raised (lie roof for the young American. “I saw both men in their dressing rooms after the fight, together with Mr. See, Camera’s' manager, who was most emphatic in his explanation of the extraordinary scene which closed the fight. ‘Camera, did not hear the belt,’ said Mr. See. ‘How could he be expected to stop fighting? He did not lose his head. He just couldn’t understand why he was not allowed to finish his man off.’ “■Stribling’s version is: ‘[ did not fight after the bell. I merely defended myself.’ How could'you expect me not to put up my lists, bell or no bell, when lie raenheed me with such ferocity? No more fights for me with this man. He is too big. I am not badly hurt, but I am badly jarred all over. Every time he. hits you he shakes you all up; and it goes-to your head. “Camera’s future plans have been affected by to-night’s events. ‘Finally and emphatically,h it was stated, ‘there will lie no appeal against to’-night’s verdict.’ Throughout the fight Mrs. Stribling, the boxer’s wife,- and her little son and Ulis grandmamma watched every blow with-rapt attention.”