BOXING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 179, 1 August 1933, Page 7

BOXING

NEW CHAMPION CARNERA'S SUCCESS. HE AV Y W EIG HT TITLE. Jack Sharkey’s first defence of the world’s heavyweight championship vvuo his last. The Boston ex-sailor was knocked out in the sixth round of what was tQ have been a fifteen-round struggle iu the Long Island City Bowl by Prima Camera, Italian giant, (writes James P. Dawson in the New York Times). As a result, for the first time in ring history, the crown which has come down from Sullivan, Corbett, Fitzimmons, and the rest of that illustrious line to Diempscy and Tunney, is worn by a sou of Italy. A terrific right hand uppercut to the chin whicn almost decapitated Sharkey brought Camera the title. The blow dropped Sharkey in his tracks and stunned some 40,000 men and women, who had paid an estimated £40,000 for a view of the spectacle, which provided the thrill that all looked for but few really anticipated. Under tho impact of the blow Sharkey stretched limp and immovable on his face on the canvas, while a bewildered crowd looked on as the count proceeded. But there was no movement on the part of the defending champion, no quiver of a muscle to show that he heard or heeded. There was no recovery of jarred wits or numbed senses, not even when the count reached the fatal ten, which signified the crowning of a new ring champion. Ending Unexpected. Exactly two minutes and twentyseven seconds after the sixth round started the fight was over. The ending came with a shock that was equalled only with that furnished in the recent knockout of Max Sehmcling by Max Baer. None expected it. There had been no indication previously that Sharkey would collapse, because Car nera had not struck such a blow as that terrific right hand uppercut. And yet, the punch did not lift Sharkey off his feet. On the contrary, Sharkey slid gracefully to the floor. Sharkey in Front. Before he struck the fatal uppercut Camera evidenced nothing thut would lead to a suspicion of the result save a grim determination which became a raging fury on occasion as his efforts to wreck Sharkey with a blow were frustrated. Of the five rounds completed before the knockout Sharkey won four, three of them beyond question, and lost only one. The Italian, towering close to half a foot above Sharkey, and outweighing him at 18*!. 811 b., by 4st. 311 b., proved the efficacy of size and strength, in the first round, and bunged Sharkey around right merrily. But in tne soebud, third, fourth, and fifth rounds Sharkey had the advantage. There might have been a question over the fourth chap ter, but in this Sharkey’s boxing gave him the upper hand. In the other rounds Sharkey outgeneral led and out manoeuvred the huge Italian, whose defeat he was seeking systematically. Out of nowhere in the sixth round Camera pulled his right in an upper cut which curled to Sharkey’s chin and dropped him in his tracks. Ln a round the complexion of the fight had changed. Sharkey, the charger for most of tho journey theretofore, had become the man of fight. And in a jiffy tho title changed hands on Camera’s sweeping uppercut. Sharkey gave his best against odds that were insurmountable. Two years ago they didn’t constitute a hurdle worthy the description. But now the size and -weight of Camera proved Sharkey’s undoing. The championship bout was taken quietly Iby the public. There wen none of the rush ordinarily associated with fistic title struggles, particularly hcavy- [ weight championship events.