Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
OvERSHADOWS ALL
CURRENT R|NGMEN
Primo Must Wait Till Fall to
Meet Strib-Max Go Victor
for Next Big Bout.
BY SPARROW McGANN.

N YEW YORK, May 30.-Primo
nj Camera can take it on the
Y chin. That is, legal blow.
Ruled out by a Federal
judge, the COLOSSUS of the ring
continues to overshadow anything
and everything in the game today.
There's a reason. The big fellow
is an attraction anywhere he
shows and you cannot blame the
first flight heavies for pushing
each other out of the way for the
first crack at the Italian. A match
with Camera means big money.
Victories bring the fighters a certain
need of consolation. Purses do more
than that They mean money TO ride
around In limousines and otherwise live
the life of gentleman.
Camera is drawing a princely sum
to stage his exhibitions for realty de-
velopment company. He packs them in
at theaters and increases the revenue
at boxing shows by just showing his
form in a tight-fitting gym suit. Oh,
yes, the Primo is a veritable gold mine
| to promoters of all sorts.
Now that Madison Square Garden
has Primo tied up it goes without say
ing that the far-seeing directorate OF
that body will not have him lying
around idle. That would never do
Why Primo Is Baking.
Camera claims he does not want to
fight for the Garden crowd because he
Is prohibited from meeting good man
| until he fights the winner Of the
Schmeling-Striblin fight in the Fall.
Primo is not afraid of losing form. His
boxing didoes to date have been little
more than exhibitions. What the
Italian hates to lose is the easy money
he could be collecting during the hot
months of the Summer.
Victoria Compolo is under contract
to the Garden. What Is more logical
than that Campolo be pitted against
Camera? 1t would be battle of giants
and a good drawing card in any mans
| town. Vic tops Primo by inches, but
the latter makes 1t up in weight and
bullying muscles.
Campolo proved in his fight against
| Tommy Loughran that he is capable of
| giving any heavyweight a warm eve
ming The Gangling Caucho Of the
| Pampas was clearly outboxed by the
Philadelphia. but he was eternelly
trying, and that. after all, is some
thing. Every time Campolo turned
| swing loose the fans gasped. One
| landed in the ninth round and it came
| mighty close to spelling curtain for the
! f1ashy boxer After that fight. his first
in over a year, the Argentine battler
served notice that he means to have
something to say about the heavyweight
situation before the year draws to
close.
Campolo Eager for Bout.
Campolo is eager to fight Camera.
| Vic wants to fight any one who can
| draw a big gate. That seems to be
/ his main purpose in his chase after the
golden fleece. Money comes first with
Vic. The caliber of his opponents are
a secondary consideration. Campolo Is
now uncer the management Of Luis
| Gutierrez If any one knows harder
man to do business with than the
! Cubcn, who first heshed on the horizon
with the sensational Kid Chocolate, the
writer would be pleased to make his
acquaintance.
jimmy Johnston is not discouraged
by his failure to put on Sharkey-
| Camera fight. Jimmy knows he can.
not use Sharkey except against wcrth-
while opponent, and these being as
scarce as bunch of orchids In poor
mans house, Johnston is seeking to
| pit big Pat Redmond against Camera
There is no likelihood that the Gar
! den directors will object to this. Red
mend is on the safe list and does
not figure to annoy Primo any more
! than those who furnished the string OF
| knockouts listed by the italian.
Redmond has been showing at the
small clubs To date he has not pro-
crossed to the extent that he would be
considered ether than big fellow try
ing to get along in the hard game OF
give and take.
And so goes the merry-go-round.
Every one is trying to use Carnera.
The fans are fed up on seeing Camera
bowling over a relic of better days or
a misguided fighter. 1t wants to see
him against q real fighter.