The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-10-11

NEW YORK, Oct. LINE FIliho
IN OF the Cameras is on his way
home. SO is his French manipu-
1ator. Mons. Leo See They are
carrying with them quite a load OF
American dough. Possibly as much
as 100000. The Primo is clown
fighter. But he seems to have had
the last laugh. For that kind OF
money a lot of legitimate perform
erg would ike to turn clowns.
The Primo was the most amazing fre@A
that has been unveiled on domestic SHORES
since old man Barnum perpetrated the
..hit. eIenban4 hoax. II was pretty evident
from the start that he couldn't hgnt
lick. Those two foul outs on the other
side with Young siribiing which hrst
brought him 10 American attention must
have been grand Bsrneys. l recall that
after the second foul out in Paris J got a
cable from a competent American observer
in 4.hich he said the strings on the bag
YER visible from the first cOmicaI punch.
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An astonishing development in the Primo
adventure in this country was tnc III
versity Of opinion ms status a. alfn ~
hovs vent FOR him hook line and upper
cut They wrote that the GOOD nenteLS
TSsv nredicted that II Sharkey ever
crawled into the ring with him the Boston
broadcaster would be demolished
n
Bat great majority Of the critics.
familiar with his background knowing
Mons See. and not utterly ignorant OF
the showmanshlp. if that is the word Of
the Managers Duffy. Madden and Fried
man. decided that the human horse lust
couldn't be a fighter. no matter how spee-
tacular he appeared to be in action. lhey
Kent in mind the very obvious fact that
znvbodv can look good against punch
ing that Is incapable Of punching oaoA'
ne end their judgment was con-
IA ed.
rTHE frs tip off came when an
unknown Negro, one Bomoo
Chevalier, refused to go INTO Ihe
resin waves. One OF our IluehI
fictionists of the Jerome Beatty type
co,ld do a nice piece on the Bomoo.
His sweet woman with illusions OF
future grandeur talked nm Out VI
tankine. She wanted her man 10
be another Battling Sikh. 1t Woula
mean something greater than money
for the Bombo to go in there ana
crush the white monster. IhaCs
what Sikh did to the ballyhooed
Carpenter and overnight ne pecaille
q headline figure.
A similar distinction failed to come ITO 10
the Bombo because one h o. ntS oc crowd
t t5rS" This was tough break dd i0F f Zee
Bonbo and his sweet woman, uo" "
leve he has won n9hu slhce'
Thanks TO the limitless gullibility Of the
rrest American sucker the Carnera tour
NC abIe TO keen on functiOning and pres
emily it arrived in Philadelphia Wnere
raudv evenings entertainment under the
stars with another Negro George OodireS'
handled by the suave and smoo'h jim
Daugherty, was arranged.
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This was a beautiful thing to watch
It looked very honorable az .t i,Si1,o the
primo's unrecogniZed greatness say AZ LII M
rirgeide Wearing superior expressions. 69V
the fight had not gone 1, l1 bis lunches and
the Primo dropped to the canvas W. from IN
fhe grace of q mountain size l9oseu Ai az
rsS came volunteers to lift him up IN
sections and carry him 70 n ms ~ e 9eatb
NV violence in all the mournful Keys
known to Mozart's stately dirge.
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..;,L the PENNSYLVANIA boxing com
,,issioners fined the simple minded stohd'
Negro IS 900, and while the hne was ac-
sralIv collected. there is no way to tell
whether Godfrey paid 1t out oil pis emo,
II were skeptical by nature ] would
venture the suggestion that neither nc
nor Dausherty paid it. CONTINGENCIES OF
this sort arc usually anticipated anu the
gentlemen involved make their arrange
mcrts accordingly.
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prima's success continued until the othef
rfoht when by some lncreolDie IuIi u
managerial moods ne was SEM ~ ~ 9 B5oetnn
tic second rate Jimmy Maloney OF Session
10 sink or swim. Inc outcome ~ LIZ w
fiqht wrote the final answer to the Glahl
,vhaf most critics had suspected all along.
namely and to wit. That he is lusV d pig Ig
GOOD natured clown with interesting ottLuse
work who was in there following nsuuc-
tions.
~Bowling~
by LEFTY LEE -
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