STRIBLING WINS FROM CARNERA AS RESULT OF FOUL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 9

STRIBLING WINS FROM CARNERA AS RESULT OF FOUL.

BUT HE WANTS NO MORE FIGHTS WITH HIM. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PARIS, December 7. Primo Camera was disqualified at the end of the seventh round for hitting Young Stribling after the gong went. Camera weighed 2871 b and Stribling 184^1b. Stribling did nearly all the hitting in the first round, including a right to the jaw which evidently hurt Camera. Stribling fighting vigorously hit Camera twice in the stomach, and then gave him a left to the head and a right swing to the jaw. When the second round opened, Stribling ignored Camera’s threatening left, and scored with punches to the jaw, drawing blood from Camera’s face. Stribling continued to score freely, but his blows were mostly poorly timed. Camera began the third round more like a fighter, but his leads continued to be futile. He landed a straight left which nearly knocked Stribling off his legs. Stribling became wild, rushing Camera and often missing altogether. Camera did much better in the fourth with a right and left to the body and a left to the jaw but he left his guard open and Stribling landed twice to the stomach. Stribling was now letting Camera make the pace. He landed a right hook to the jaw, and won the round comfortably. Between the fourth and fifth rounds the referee cautioned Stribling about holding. Stribling in the fifth round tried to make play with Camera’s right cheek, which was swollen and bleeding. Carnera made crude lunges, enabling Stribling to score two-handed on the body, inside his guard. Camera’s nose also began to bleed. He got Stribling against the ropes, but the American easily ducked and got clear. Camera seemed weaker than Stribling who now had a large advantage in points. Fierce clinching and wrestling opened the sixth round. Stribling landed three times and then dropped Camera with a right to the point. Camera hung on the ropes. Stribling tried to finish him off, but Camera avoided him. Camera landed a hard right to the jaw. Stribling hung on in order to recover. Camera punished Stribling considerably until the bell sounded. Camera returned to the attack for the seventh round in which there was some clinching. Then Camera floored Stribling and almost knocked him out. Camera’s last punch was a right to the jaw which the referee ruled, was delivered after the gong. It should be understood that as soon as Camera floored Stribling the gong sounded, but in the pandemonium following the blow nothing was audible. It seemed as if both men continued beyond the legal limit. Another account says that there is no doubt that Camera never heard the gong. He landed the blow just as Stribling broke away, and it floored him. Stribling was rising when Carnera rushed him, evidently ignorant of the fact that the bell had soundea. The seconds threw themselves upon the giant, but he had not understood what was the matter and hurled them aside, trying to get at Stribling again. The crowd, which numbered 25,000, was shouting and hooting, and Camera looked round puzzled. Then the result was announced. After the fight, Stribling said: “No more fights for me with this man.” Camera and Stribling met in London on November 18, when Camera was awarded the decision on a foul. In the present fight a condition was that the loser should be deprived of his purse if the decision was given on a foul.