Poverty to Fortune
SUCCESS OF PRIMO CARNERA BOXER ARRIVES IN LONDON I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.] Received Dec. 15, 9.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 14. Exactly a year ago the giant Italian boxer, Primo Camera, landed in London practically down and out, with shabby clothes, but an ambitious manager. His first fight in London against Stanley, netted mm £lOO. This weekend he stepped out from a pulhnan car at Victoria Station dressed in the height of fashion and possessed of the air of a nian-about-town. Hundreds crowded round him and he had to face a whole battery of photographers. Camera admits that he now has a personal fortune of £30,000- He has earned £lOO,OOO, but some nine persons are concerned in his pugilistic career, and arc entitled to a percentage of his earnings. The boxer exclaimed: “I’ll say I am satisfied. Two years ago I was a handy-man travelling with a circus. Now* I have everything- The whole thing is a miracle.”
His chief anxiety now is to prove to the English public that he is not a slaughterer, but a boxer
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 7
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180Poverty to Fortune Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 450, 16 December 1930, Page 7
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