Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-08
BULKY SCRAPPERS
FIGHT WEDNESDAY
Clash Should Provide Some
Fun, but Is Unlikely to
Prove Instructive.
By WILBUR WOOD.

n YEW YORK, June 8.-If no
M legal obstacles are inter-
4 Y posed by the Madison
Square Garden Corpora
ton, if neither of the principals
falls down and breaks a leg in
training, and, lastly, If the weather
man Is willing, those two pugilistic
Behemoths, Primo Camera OF
Italy and Pat Redmond of Ireland
and Australia, will be showed into
the Ebbets' Field ring Wednesday
night with gloves on their paws.
While this cannot be taken seriously
as an exhibition of fsticufing, 1t should
be amusing, if not instructive. Many
recent combats IN the ring have lacked
either of those qualities.
Voices have been heard crying that
Redmond Is not fit opponent for Car
nero. Why? Surely not merely because
he has yet to show that he knows how
to fight. Rarely has Primo consented
to enter the ring with any one who
knew him. In fact 1t is very much in
doubt whether the Ambling Alp himself
knows how.
Tom O'Rourke, who is directing Red
mond's deStinies, admits privately that
Pat is nothing to rave about. In his
heart, Tom feels that Joe Walcott, his
one-ttme colored welterweight, prob
ably could have disposed of Pat in
short order had they been contempt
raneous.
Redmond Not Lonesome.
Ao,,k ra,onrLe n'Dourta Hehou, y,,e
q heavyweight in the game today who
measures up. Show me one and I will
pipe down. II you ask me, consider
that Redmond has a good chance to
tip over Camera. Pat Is almost as big
as Primo. Pat, 1 am sure, can hit
harder than Primo. We are gambling
that he will lay his right hand on
Primo's chin with sufficient force to
fiatten him. If he does, Pat Will be
in the money. And so will l."
Though there has been, and still Is
some uncertainty as to whether the
bout will come off as scheduled, be-
cause of the injunction granted the
Garden Corporation Of Illinois prohib-
iting Camera from boxing any one not
approved by the Garden, Promoter
Jimmy Johnston is going ahead Sc
renely with preparations for his open
ing card at EbbetS Field.
Gardens power to block the affair. Gar
den attorneys have notified all concerned
that the contest is in violation Of the
ruling Of the court. Yet to step in and
block a Camera Redmond fight would
be tantamount to an admission that the
man the Garden Corporation Is holding
in reserve to fight for the title is so
fragile that he cannot be trusted to dis
pose of boxer with no standing what
@oouor That uO,I1d he terrific knock
at the Gardens September program.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 8.-Primo Car
nera restrained from fighting Jack
Sharkey or any other major opponent,
will plod through 10 rounds or less with
Pat Redmond, at EbbetS Field, Brook
lyn. Wednesday night. Redmond feet
4 inches tall and weighing about 230
pounds, has done all or his fighting at
the smaller clubs.
Camera has appeared only once be-
fore in New York. He started his Amerl-
can tour with a one-round Knockout
in Madison Square Garden over Big Boy
Peterson.
At Braves Field, Boston, tonight.
Paul Swiderski, young slugger from Sy-
racuse, tackles the veteran trial horse,
Babe Hunt Of Ponca City, Okla.
Kid Chocolate, Cuban 1eatherweight
attempting a comeback. will encounter
Steve Smith of Bridgeport, Conn, in
a hereunder at New Haven, Conn,
Wednesday. Chocolate has whipped
Smith twice on decisions. On the same
night at Cleveland, Billy Wallace, Cleve-
land lightweight, faces the Filipino,
Lope Tenorio.
Out Of the Pacific Coast, Speedy Dado,
Los Angeles featherwelght, will battle
Roy Montoya of San Diego at Holly
wood Friday.