The Washington times., 1930-06-23
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Kirk Miller

PHILADELPHIA; June %.
without intending any jest, a
very ominous cloud hanes over
the heavyweight division in to-
nights fight between George
Godfrey. popularity termed the
Black Shadow Of Lieperville,
and Primo Camera, the Italian
who took out his first papers
with a view to becoming a
Frenchman and who then de.
cided it were best to remain an
Italian.
The foreboding element in
this fight rests in the fact that
Godfrey, by winning. will have
a touch on the heavyweight
business which up to now has
been carried on with little def
erence to his presence in the
division in which he fights.
They, the boxing powers In
the several States doing busi.
ness on the pugilistic curb, have
rather ignored Baron Dough
erty's Black Shadow. Long ago
they decided boxing would be
better carried on in the cham
plonship circles, "au lait" and
for that reason any gentleman
with a touch of "noir" about
him has been given the merry
old run-around.
This has not been so in the
lighter classes, the Kid Choco-
lates and the Tiger Flowers and
others Of equally dusky hue
being given cracks at the
smaller titles.
But not since Jack johnson
reigned the heavyweight walks
has there been a tendency to
let another of his race even get
close to the title, and so we
find that up until tonight big
Gawge Godfrey has been given
plenty of go-by.
Qualified boxing experts
whose names are far more IA
miIiar to the boxing readers OF
the United States than is ours,
have long ago stamped God
frey as an uncommon good
heavyweight. They have said
he has the heart. the boxing
ability and the punch.
He may have all Of these and
still falter before the man.
mountain from Italia, because
if Camera knows nothing at
all about the finer points of
boxing, he has a physique which
it would almost take a locomo-
tive to floor-unleSs Godfrey
can get to him at a very op-
perfume moment and in a very
vital spot.
You know your own 10-year-
old child can K. o. you If he
hits you in the proper place
and he can knock you down II
you are clumsy enough to let
him catch you off balance.
And in almost some such q
light do we hold Godfrey's
chances against the behemoth
Of the Bay Naples.
Then there is another angle
to the fight, and it concerns
Signor Camera himself. Having
been dubbed merely a mon
strosity ever since he set his
Number Nineteen dogs on
these shores, and having met
unknowns so far in the ring for
this splendid record of 18 knock
outs, in this country to say
nothing of those who wflted be.
fore him in Europa, he isn't
given great credit as a ring
man.
Now-if Camera beats God
frey-they cannot longer say he
is merely a freak who belongss
in q Sideshow, because God
frey is a fighter and boxer OF
known qualities, as we were try
, ing to hint q few paragraphs
back, and diSpoSing Of Gawge
in any manner, by k. o. or by
decision, will enhance Sisnor
Cameras rating substantially,
even in the minds Of the skcp-
tics.
And, because a victory for
either Of these gents has such
an important bearing in the
heavyweight division a group
not frighted with class at
the moment, we find ourselves
up here In Cumberland shifting
at the resin again and trying
to dope out this fight game, a
game, which in view OF the
many things that have hap
pened within. the past 10 days
or two weeks-.not overlooking
Stribling's K. o, Of Won Porat,
nor Sharkey's, foul of Schme-
ling and their announced will
ingneSs to meet again in Sep
tember-SeemS to be nothing
short Of q racket Of which no
man can foretell much-if any