Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-13
GIANT BOXER WELL
/ PUNISHED BY JACK
italian Is Once Sent Down
for Long Count-Primo
Shows Courage.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
n YEW YORK, october 49,
M The bigger they come the
4 y better Jack Sharkey likes
1t and Primo Camera, for
one, won't venture to deny it.
In the same ring at Ebbet's
Field, where he found 170-pound
Mickey Walker too tough a foe to
take a few weeks ago, Sharkey
blasted his way to a decisive vic
tory on points over the 260-pound
Camera last night and bounced
himself right back to the fore
front of challengers for Max
Something's heavyweight crown.
While q surprisingly large crowd OF
10000 looked on, Sharkey went to work
methodically on the big Venetian and
relentlessly cut him down to size. Be-
fore the Boston sailors hand was
raised in token of victory after Is
rounds Of spectacular milling, Sharkey
had noored Camera for one nine-count,
closed one Of the Italians eyes and had
given him so savage beating that
Primo was on the verge Of Knockout
on Q half dozen occasions.
Camera Proves Courage.
But If the fight reinstated Sharkey
TO his position as a leading contender
II served also to remove any lingering
doubt as to Cameras courage and
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exhibit his Wanted punch, but he
demonstrated all kinds Of courage.
Subjected to punishment severe enough
to have finished almost any other
heavyweight, the Italian man noun
tain still was in there offering what re-
sistance he could when the final bell
sounded
Through the first three rounds and
q part of the fourth Camera amazed
Sharkey and the crowd with his speed
and skillful boxing. Using left hand
la Tommy Loughran, Camera stabbed
Sharkey off balance and had the
American houndering about wondering
what 1t was all about.
But the whole complexion Of the
fight changed In a fash in the wild
fourth round when Sharkey, after
taking q cufang in the clinches, sud-
denly dashed out with left hook that
vas with q dull thud.
Sharkey Demands Decision.
Gunboat Smith. the referee, started
TO count. At six. Primo. stunned.
pulled himself to his feet with the aid
of the ropes, but went down again as
his head cleared sufficiently for him to
obey his handlers signs to take count
Of nine.
again, Sharkey tore across the ring and
shouted:
He went down without being hit;
he's disqualified. Count him OUT
But Smith waved him aside and re-
sumed the count. Sharkey, mad with
rage, tried to climb out of the ring, but
bis manager, Johnny Buckley, pushed
him back
Under the rules. Smith was within
his rights in resuming the count. New
York State Athletic Commission regu-
1ations provide that If a fighter goes
down, gets up end goes down again
without being hit, the referee, within
his discretion, either may disqualify
the offender or resume the count. Ref
erees here usually have resumed the
count If the offender seemed to be not
he seemed helpless.
Finish for Primo.
BY the time Sharkey was ready to
resume Camera was on his feet, leaning
against the ropes. The battle was on
again. but Camera never was the same.
Through round after round he took
merciless beating as Sharkey, using his
left hand almost exclusively, hammered
away at head and body. At times left
hooks to the body bent Camera double
and left hooks to the chin sent him
reeling on his heels or bounced him
to the ropes. In the final round Car
nera was barely able to keep his feet as
Eharkey nailed him time and again
with lefts and even tossed in a right
cross or two.
Camera won only one round, the
1hird, and held Sharkey even in an
other, the thirteenth. The others all
went TO the Boston sailor. Camera
weighed PSI pounds, Sharkey 20215.
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