Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-04
GREAT SUBSTITUTE
MATERIAL ON HAND
Cameras Advance AIibi May
Damage TomorroW'S Gate.
MaIoney Confident.
BY WALTER TRUMBULL.

EIANfI, Fla, March At
I'M Primo Cameras tenth rib
1 ' i grows any worse, they
should be able to put OH
e great substitute bout around this
vicinity. All they would need
would be little water from Ponce
De Icons famous fountain of
youth, for the place is cluttered
with former champions of the
ring.
Benny Leonard is here, and Johnny
Kilbane. So are Johnny Dundee. Jack
Delaney, Benny Bass, Joe Dundee,
Battling Nelson, Kid Berg, Mike O'Dowd,
Frank Klaus, Johnny Wilson, Lew
Tender, Ray Miller, Kid Francis, Jack
Dillon, Bob Olin and Dave Shade-not
all champions, but most of them men
who beat champions.
And in the Office where Francis
Albertanti presides over the destinies OF
the press. you will find such experts OF
ring matters as Lou Magnolia, Johnny
Martin, George Engel, Sol Gold, Pete
Riley, Ed Purdy, Eddie Nickerson and
Slim McClelland of Detroit, who will
referee the main bout tomorrow night:
This bout between James Maloney and
Primo Camera probably will go down
to history as the battle OF the RIB. Ever
since Eve was created, there have been
those willing to assert that the rib Is
q bone of contention, and 1t certainly
is q source of argument here.
Leon See is loudly proclaiming that
Camera will enter the ring with a crack
In his tenth rib and in no condition 10
fight. Others are Just as positive that
Primo has been looking for the nearest
exit, and that the rib is only an advance
alibi in case he is flattened by the Tor
mer fish salesman from Boston: Ihese
latter assert that Maloney went fsnlng
for a whale and caught sucker.
From all the evidence I can collect,
II would appear that Camera really has
or had a cracked rib. Pictures taken
by DR.. G. D. Cleghorn, reported TO De
as good an X-ray specialist as there Is
in the South, indicate slight fracture.
Cameras doctor has said that ne
shouldn't fight for several more weeks eek.
Camera is in shape to fight now. Leon
See says that he is permitting Camera
to enter the ring under terrific handi-
CAP. because he doesn't wish Frank
Bruen to lose all he has invested In this
fight Dan Carroll, Maloneys manager;
saws that Primo's rib Is all right until
he sees somebody from the Boston camp,
when it becomes very painful All tnis
conversation has done the gate no gooo.
THE customers are interested in Car
nera's fists, not his ribs. Customers are
cold and unfeeling.
Yelping Hurts Gate.
Inst how much money there is in the
box office at the present moment Is
known to few. For these few Frank
Brlen is spokesman, and he has gone
to the races. Before leaving Mr.. Bruen
expressed himself as highly optimistic
regarding the gate. know that ne
sold some tickets, because saw persons
parting with their money at the ticket
window. At the same time, II had TO
make a choice between the gate re-
ceipts Of this encounter and the con-
tents of the United States mint' l
should choose the latter. ~
Frank Bruen Is extremely popular IN
this region and everybody wishes him
the greatest financial success. AT the
same time, $4,000 seats are lot OF
seats to sell and Bruen has had some
bad breaks. The worst break was, OF
course. the rib of the Italian mammoth.
n Camera simply had refused to go on
with the bout it would not have peen
80 bad. But, deciding to continue, IL
does the affair no financial good 10 nave
Camera proclaiming so loudly MS pos
sible alibi in advance.
See SAYS that Camera cannot preatne
without grievous pain. Newspaper men
assert that the night before the cracked
rib announcement Camera danced gay
Nv at a night club, and that the rib was
supposed to have been broken week
before that. They also say that at the
Walker-R isko encounter, which every one
in Miami tells me was great hght, tnat
Camera leaped blithely into the ring 70
be INTRODUCED with no sign OF PAIN at
the applause. So there you are.
So far as known, Camera has Done
most of his training during the last
week in q rockingham, at the movies.
on the beach and walking over the goiI
courses. Perhaps he thinks that Q
inches advantage in height and %
pounds In weight over an opponent en-
titles o man TO be trthe slack IN ms
training.
Maioney, ON the other hand. has
trained hard. He did little WORK yes
terday afternoon and VIII Timber up To-
day. He states frankly that ne expects
to see Camera leave the ring IN q mucn
worse condition than he enters II. TO
the CONSERVATION Of many, It looks as
If this affair was to be strictly on the
level. See says that Camera VIII 90
his best"
Maloney says that he win, and that
Primo will have to do lot better than
the best that he has ever done before,
as he-Janes Maloney Of BoSton-in-
tends to make this country SAFE for the
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