CARNERA’S DEMANDS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 April 1932, Page 13

CARNERA’S DEMANDS

TERMS FOR AUSTRALIA.

£16,000 GUARANTEE WANTED.

London, March 31.

“Surely! Why not? I would just love to go to Australia!” said Primo Camera. “If they have no big fighters there they could get some from America,” he suggested. “It’s all the same to me.” Camera is staying in a luxurious suite at the Savoy Hotel. He grinned expansively at the suggestion that Cook should be taken along to fight on Australian soil. He said: “That’s O.K. with me. They can take anybody if the money is O.K. You must ask Leon See about that.” See said: “Cook’s tough and he put up a good fight, but Camera is a worldbeater. Tommy Burns at his best would not have stood a chance against him.

“I am ready to take Camera to Australia at the termination of his present commitments and when I receive my guarantee of £16,000. I thought it was all fixed, but I have heard nothing definite since. We are making £6OO a week here. A visit to Australia means at least 20 weeks, and it would not pay us under £16,000.

“Oh, yes,” Primo interjected, “that’s O.K. for me. Australia must be a fine country, and we jiass Naples on the way?”