The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-10
| ALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS
NEW YORK. Dec. 10.

TNHE JOuIndIneuL VI AOulo-a pr
i yate affair between Primo Car
tera. who owns the biggest feet in
he history of boxing, and Young
Stribling. whom the Italian out
Weighs by eighty-five pounds-now
even up. Camera got the trst
fight on foul, and last Saturday
night Stribling took the second |
Meeting on another foul. New York |
now is threatened with rubber
contest. so called. I hope this turns
out nothing more than rumor. |
We can raise all the homegrown |
fouls we need around here without
importing any foreign producers.
Tn. impression left by this second foul
Meeting is that Cameras chief claims to
fame rest in his tremendous size and his
big feet. In spite of his handicap In
weight StriblnE able to bring the
dig Carpenter from Venice to the canvas
in both engagements, and We All know
that stribIinE no longer is any great
shuoks in the American ring.
n
TINE suggestion has been ad-
i vanced to match Camera with |
Vic Campolo for the percheron
championship. This should be re-
served for the outdoor season. and |
held in a ring sufficiently large and !
built on a steel and concrete foun- |
dation. Boxing history holds out
no great hope for Camera. When |
they come too big, they are too easy
to hit and too unwieldly and awk-
ward against real fighter Of, say, |
the Dempsey proportions.
It was back in 1912 that Freeman, the
American Giant who stood seven feet in |
his socks, invaded England and was
knocked out by Bill Perry, the Upton !
slasher, who scaled only 100 pounds. We |
all know about Jess Willard. Dunkhorst, |
Pisacke. and the rest of the school of be-
hemoths. They never have amounted to
much.
VXTHEN Otto Won Porat, Swedish
w heavy, met Phil Scott, British
er, in the Garden Monday night, it |
must have been a shock for the
fistic old-timers to see two foreign
contenders fighting in a heavy
weight elimination tournament
right here in little old New York.
1t must have been particularly
bruising to the pride of the old
guard to find an Englishman scrap
ping with a Swedish-NorWegian in
the Garden and a German SchmeI-
ing waiting for the outcome, with an
Italian Camera chiseling into the
argument ever so slightly, too.
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II. F. writes:
You present records to show Dempsey
was q harder hitter than Fitzsimmons.
But you don't go behind the records. Con-
slider the circumstances. Dempsey stopped |
Willard. Who was willard? Just a great
bit unconditional hulk of a man whom
any fairly good puncher in tip top shape |
could have stopped. Dempsey stopped
Carpenter. Who couldn't have stopped
himP He was just a middleweight. And |
Bill Brennan. The wet washeries had |
just finished with him. And Billy Miske, |
a gallant old war horse who was critically |
i'll even at the time he fought And Fir |
po a green. unskilled giant but hitter
nevertheless and one who would have been
given the championship in any other |
country. And Gibbons. another smallish |
fellow and the medium by which the pub
lilo first got a real line on the the Slip
ping Dempsey. Finally came Tunney |
Gibbons type. Only larger and stronger. |
and what was the answer-Dempsey lost |
ten out of ten. at Philadelphia and the |
only round he won out of ten at Chicago |
was through his opponents carelessness."
Comment: Maybe the gentleman
Is right. Besides this is no time for
bitter arguments. 1t is getting too
close to Christmas, and I'm not 60
ing to be sucker and get good old
Kris Kringle off'n me now after
tough year in which 1 ate my spin
ach faithfully and was in my little
old beddo each night before nine,
some mornings. Still, will argue |
mildly against belittling DempSey'S /
seventh round performance on the
ground of Tunney careleSSneSS. If |
my correspondent will name me any |
fighter, in his right senses. who de-
nberately allowed himself to be
knocked down or out will be most |
interested in receiving the informa-
ton. To the extent that the recipi- |
ent fails to function 100 per cent de-
fensively. all knockdowns, as well as
knockoutS, are due to carelessness,
but that doesn't or shouldn't take |
anything away from the man who is
quick enough to capitalize the lapse.
IOWA FILLS SCHEDULE |