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The Washington times., 1933-07-10
Ring Crown Worth Hdrdships;
SAYS Primo Camera

Iably would testify that am of
norma intelligence. I speak,
read and write both Italian and
French passably well and surely
I have made fair progress in
English during four years.
Some think I must have been
foolish to find myself bankrupt
after earning so much money in
few years but, on second thought,
any fair reader will understand
that a boxer, as busy as I have
been, has little time to look to
his many money affairs.
Far from being stupidity igno-
rant, have been kept acquainted
with important news and COM
ments, especially bout boxing,
through M. See, Mr.. Soresi and
others associated with me.
Will Explain Myths
Later on in this sketch of my
life, 1 will relate some more of
the Camera myths that amused,
and sometimes, annoyed me. You
will read, for example, some
strange stories Of how my nose
was broken-how I was reputed
to have tried to carry a baby
elephant as part of the days
Work-how was said to have
been substituting for brick-car-
rying mule the first time I was
asked to take up boxing-and
other weird yarns that have at
tached to the so-called "Ambling
Alp" in his travels by land and
sea and air.
When in England a few years
ago, I saw pictorial book of
"Gulliver Travels" That story
was filled with giants and little
people. DR.. Gulliver, M. See ex-
planned, was a little man among
giants and. in turn, giant to
little people. He travelled much
and saw some wonderful sights.
Now a peasant and a pugilist
can hardly be as observing as a
learned Gulliver. But, I, too,
have travelled much and have
had many strange experiences.
OF these you shall read in this
story later on, if you care to
do so.
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; the ablest handlers of boxers in
the world. He has trained many
of them-notably, Jack Dempsey
for that fight in 1927, when he
stopped Jack Sharkey. He, as
well as Monsieur See, knew I
was only a novice when I first
reached New York.
Hand-Picked Opponents
Many wanted to see me through
out the country, and I was book
ed in advance to box in dozen
or more cities. Everywhere We
appeared in 1880, and the tour
went from coast to coast, capacity
crowds jammed all the halls in
which I boxed. Naturally, Mr..
Duffy did not pick first-class op-
position for his green prospect,
and after a few blows most of
my opponents went down and
out. That provoked many boos
and some serious scandals, which
I will comment on later.
I clearly recall the past from
my boyhood in the village of Sc
quala, not so far from Venice
early working days as a mosaic
and carpentry apprentice-many
hungry months as a day laborer
when tramping through Southern
France-poorly paid years as a
combination strong man-Wrestler
with a mobile circus. and then
my ring career, which now IS i'm
portant in the light of the cham
pionship.
1t has often been published that
I was really a big imbecile hypno-
tized by the sharp-eyed, keen
minded Monsieur See. Though
without education in schools, I
have never been considered a half
wit, and my former manager, de-
spite our money differences, prob
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CHAPTER ONE
BY PRIMO CARNERA
Copyright, 1888, King Features
Syndicate. Incl

At last the championship is
mine-and by a clean Knockout
and my pleasure in that alone
makes up for whatever pain and
trouble I met with on my excit-
ing journey to the top.
Just five years ago I first saw
boxing gloves and started learn
ing that style of fighting. I
was 81 years old then and had
been a wrestler with a small
circus ever since I was 16. My
first professional fight was at
Paris in September, 1928. Since
then I have taken part in about
IS formal matches and 100 or
more exhibitions.
AS far back as 1929, my for
mer manager, Leon See, predicted
that it would take about five
years for me to win the worlds
championship. We often dis
cussed that goal, even when
things looked black.
Often Discussed Goal
We often discussed that goal,
even when things looked black.
M. See called me "a generosity
of nature" in prophesying that
"in five years Primo will be in
vincible." Many fight fans, and
experts especially, laughed at that
idea. And I don't blame them
when I look back, now realizing
how crude I must have appeared
to ringwise eyes.
But I did not take that cham
pionship objective as a joke when
so large a part of the sporting
world was laughing out loud at
me. Believing that I had ex-
traordinary physical assets for
fighting-strength, weight, cour-
age and ambition-I decided to
develop them fully and to learn
as much of socalled ring science
as I could.
Now there have been many
giants in fiStic history but few,
if any, had much skill at boxing.
Most Of them were pure sluggers
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FOOLED
EXPERTS, SAYS
WALSH
BY DAVIS J. WALSH


NEW YORK, July 10.
Strangely, almost incredibly, a
man has been able to win
major golf championship who is
neither a quiet egoist nor COM
petent, well-mannered blusterer,
the fact suggesting that they
ought to have him mounted and
stuffed and placed under glass
where all might come and cape.
He's more than rarity. He's
practically a curlo. winning golf
and the man-ot-destiny business
being closely associated.
The result was that Densmore
Shute, of Huntington, w. Va,
and Columbus, Ohio, and now of
the comparatively short but very
sporting and very beautiful
Llanerch Country Club, just out
side Philadelphia, won the British
open on Saturday and it then
turned out that very able golfer
had been going about his busi-
ness SO quietly all these years
that nobody knew him. They
knew a great deal more, for in
stance, about Craig Wood, the
man he beat by five strokes in
the play-off.
Won Title, Yes
Nobody, it seems, can recall any,
thing about him that they thought
was worth treasuring. None can
rightly remember any circum-
stance that ever took him, even
for a moment, out of his neutral,
orderly, orthodox groove. All agree
that, now that he has won a big
title, Densmore Shute, aged %,
weight almost nothing and as
lean as a hitching post. will be a
big title golfer henceforth. In
nately modest and inclined to be
Unconditional, he saw no reason to
believe his own destiny before. But
he can't miss it now. The title
will steady, rather than unsettle
him. It will give him the faith
and belief he rather conspicuously
lacked on occasions in the past.
This was about the only thing
he did lack; this, and the quality
of showmanship they like to pirate
about. He has no eccentricities.
In a sense, it is tribute to the
man that there is nothing note.
worthy about him. Diegel, for in
stance, has that grotesque putting
crouch. He was within three feet
of the championship on Friday
and missed the putt. Hagen has
his fa---ous sway on the tees.
But it often takes him off the
line. Farrell buries his right
thumb nail deep in the handle of
the putter and he was putting all
over the landscape at st. An
drews. Sarazen interlocks with
his grip and, from time to time,
he cannot play lick.
All of them are notable shot
makers, of course. What about
Shute's great shots? He has
doubtless made his share, but
they do not live and endure.
Great shots are usually made from
trouble-and Shute is not "trou-
BILE" golfer.
The coming 10 weeks constitute
an important period for profes-
Sional football.
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or maulers, knowing little and
showing less of what a fencer
with the first could. and should
do. now none can become a
highclass boxer in a day or a
month or a year. 1t takes years
five of them, at leaSt-to really
know ones way when battling
skilled opponents. Please bear
that idea in mind as you read
my own story of how I picked
up what I know in the art of
boxing.
Required Skill
Of course, great size, weight
and strength might still seem to
be my main advantages but, by
themselves, they would not be
enough to win the championship.
In fact, they would be handicaps
against good boxers unless I
knew how to combine them and
put them to effective use when
in action.
First, I had to develop speed
and so I had to take off about
80 pounds of normal weight Il
scaled around 300 when I first
started boxing back in 1923. Nat
urally 1 was slow then on those
enormous feet, the fame Of
which has spread around the
world.
Of course, the ballyhoo over the
foreign giant when I was still a
beginner outraged and misled
many good judges. So I was
stamped definitely as "a freak" "
a Clown" and later-worst of
alias a "faker," when my Amer
lean tour got under way. That
was conducted under the imme,
diate direction of Mr.. William
Duffy, supervised by Monsieur
See. Now, Mr.. Duffy is one OF
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40 IN WOENS GOLF TOURNEY AT INDIAN SPRING
GR|DDERS
FACE GREAT
SEASON
BY HARRY COSTELLO

While collegiate football execu.
tives are vacationing, their
brethren of the professional game
are making hay while the sun
shines.
From Chicago comes word that
the National Football League has.
adopted the play-off plan to de-
eide the national professional
grid title next fall. Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia and Cincinnati have
been granted franchises.
No word comes from Chicago
apropoS the executive strategy Of
the professionals. This phase is
by far the most important OF
the professional preseason actiVi-
ties.
Great Game Now
The play-off plan undoubtedly
will help the pro game. However,
it will not remotely compare in
Importance with the aid sure to
be rendered Professional football,
and the game as a whole, by
executives of the National League.
Professional football not so
many years ago was a boogie
man of gigantic proportions to
the collegiate executive. The lat
ter, relying on typical pharasaism,
squawked loudly and at great
length. He painted the profes-
sional game as an enterprise
threatening the very foundation
of American sport and American
ideals.
Today professional football has
character. 1t enjoys the respect
Of the public. It has not for.
gotten the pioneer men of the
game, and makes place. for them.
The collegiate executive in many
instances now leans over back
ward to prove his friendship for
the pro game. Often he acts as
a scout for professional team
owners, reporting to the latter
full information concer n 6
promising material for the pro
game.
They Have Ideals
Professional football acted
wisely when it chose it executives.
These officers, endowed with q
love for the game and sporting
instincts, and possessed of ideals,
have worked diligently. Over q
long period of years they have
operated intelligently, sought and
received advice from the expert
enced of professional sports, desr
ignated their objectives and dis
ported themselves in a dignified
manner. The result has been q
rush by the public to accept the
professional game.
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Sandlot Results

Stanton Cleaners, z Dora, 0.
Blue Goals, 3; Federals, ..
Mutuals, H. Clarendon. 0.
ST. Jerome's, 4; Ballston Bearcats, I.
st. Jerome's 5. Clarendon Generals, o..
Ianham A. c., Is: Colmar Manor, s.
Adel-hites, II; Tigers, 5.
Adel-hites, 5; Fellow United. 5.
Fort Myer Heights. 8; Mulhall, S.
Terminal Ice. IS: Shen. Giants, 4.
Dixie Products, 1: Rinaldi, O..
GoodaCres. g.
Front Royal All-stars, 3; Fairfax
Farms, 2.
Virginia White sox. S: White Star A
c., ..
Forestville. s Georgetown, 1.
Brenizer, 10; Fairfax Station, 7.
Union Printers. 6; Ballston A. c., 0.
Olympian A. c., II: Brandeis Club, 2
Baltimore Firemen, 9; Marines, 8.
Versis 10; Savoy, 4.
Washington Maid, s; Montrose, 4.
Eastern, 8: Potomac Fish Co.. s.
Mt. Rainier, 6; St. Jerome, 2.
Stadium A. c., Is; Bregman Wild
Cats, Z.
Benning. 7; Congress Heights. 3.
Indian Head Cardinals. ~: Orange
Ramblers, AS.
Mt. Rainier. "A: Maryland A. c., 0.
st. Rita's A. c.. 8; Friendship A. c., 8.
st. Mary's Celtics, 4; s.. Josephs, 1.
HyattsviIle Ali-Stars 2: Dixie Pigs 2.
lings, 4.
Horning jewelers.. 6: ellington A. c., 8.
Aggies. 7; Plasterers' union, %.
Rockville, A. A, 6: Takoma Tigers. (.
National Tribune, 6: Falls Church. 5.
Army War College, II; Walter Reed, 2.
The Washington times., 1933-07-10
POLICE TEAM
MAY GIVE UP
BASEBALL
BY SID KATZNELL

GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP!
This department has learned
through reliable sources that the
Metropolitan Police diamonderS,
first-haf champions of the Indus
trial League, are planning to
abandon baseball for the rest Of
the current season.
Fairfax Farms are leading the
second-half race in the circuit
with two wins and nary a loss.
The Dixie Pigs are second with
one victory and no setbacks.
During the first half the Farms
failed to cop a game, but at pres
ent are one of the favorites to
win the Second-half gonfalon.
The apparent reason for the re-
verse in form of the Dairymen
narrows to the new players added.
Some of them are "Wee" Willie
Wolf, George Ortel. Bucky
Buscher, Charlie Dofflemyer and
Huck Hilleary.
Ironmen Play
Gichner's Iron Works and Blue
Ribbons are scheduled to have it
out today in the loop at S o'clock
on the South EllipSe. Lefty"
Carter will probably mount the
hill for the Cigar team. while
either Eddie Hines or Lefty"
Brown will work for the 1ronmen.
Civil Service is on top in the
Federal Merry Go Round outfit.
It has copped five and lost two.
Public Documents and Book
binders play today in the league
at S o'clock on the Monument
lot.
With Sanford Ross pitching
one of the finest games in his
career, the Cavaliers had an easy
time disposing of the De Moleys,
10 to 3. The victory gave the
winners a stronger grip on first
place in the District Independent
League.
Ross permitted two hits and
famed IL. Not a bingle was
made off his slants until the
sixth frame, when Dennis singled
sharply to center. Cohen OBJ
tanned the other hit when he
beat out bunt. Errors were
mainly responsible for the losers
markers.
Benning A. C. Scores
Not only did Sanford hurl an
excellent game but he smashed
out hits along with McInerney.
Behind the good pitching of
Bill Greiner, the Renning A. C.
trimmed the Congress Heights
team of the Capital City yester-
day, 7 to 3. Benny Bookoff and
Eddie Heller again led the win
ners at bat.
One of the biggest surprise of
yesterday was the 6-to-0 Shutout
the Union Printers handed the
Ballston A. c. Tom Heany's
pitching and hitting enabled this
precious win for the Printers. Up
to this time Claude Rosenberger'
boys had won 10 consecutive
games.
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MUTUAL NINE WINS

The Mutual Life Insurance
nine defeated the Clarendon A. C..
yesterday, II to 0. Lefty"
Walker allowed but one hit. The
winners seek out-of-town games.
Phone Manager Shurman at Lin
coin 0814 between $50 and 6:lS
o'clock.
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Translation Describes Life

This autobiography is TRANSLATION" from the Italia" Of
remarkably clear of his thus far
Primo speak English sufficiently be understood but
preparing his life story he preferred do in his native
possible TRANSLATION the
ideas and spirit of the champion.
The Washington times., 1933-07-10
WHEATON BEATS SOLDIERS

With Windsor setting the op-
position down with one hit, the
Wheaton A. C. scored over Sol
diers' Home, 40.
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NATATORS VIE.
FOR TITLES

Championships in four classes
are at stake tonight in the out
door swimming meet to be held
at he Mckinley High School pool.
Action will commence at 8 o'clock.
The meet is under the auspices
Of the Welfare and Recreational
Association of the Public Building
and Parks office and will find
defending champions in the mems
50-yard free style, 150-yard back
stroke, and low board diving,
while a new 1O0-yard free style
event is to be staged for all
those with titular aspirations. En-
tries:
Fifty-yard free style, 1OO-yard free
style, 2OO-yard FREE style. ?o0-yard
breast stroke, 150-yard back stroke, 200
yard relay. and low board diving.
WOMEN
Fifty-yard free styl-, 10O-yard free
style, 100-yard breast stroke, 1nh-yard
back stroke. 15O.yard medley and low
ri diving
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
CLAIMS FATHER DIVINE PRoPHE
SIZES HIS DESTRUCTION.

Manhasset, L. 1.-The Rev. R. H.
Walker, pastor of the Methodist
Church of the Negro settlement in
the Manhasset Valley district of town.
raced into the 9Th Precinct station of
the Nassau County police here tonight
with the urgent request that some
body lend him a revolver right away.
He had just received a telephone mes
sage at his home. he said, that the
Rev. Major Divine, who ran Negro
"heaven" in Suffolk County until white
neighbors objected, had denounced
him as "a thorn in the side of the
Lord" and decreed his destruction.
The Rev. Mr.. Walker has exerted
his utmost efforts to combat the in
fiuence of Father Divine upon the
women of his congregation.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
!. Arnold Hill
viii Address
Two Meetings
TO MAKE THREE ADDRESSES.

T. Arnold Hill, Director of the De-
partment of Industrial Relations of
the National Urban League arrived
In the city Thursday morning to at
tend the National Vocational Gut
dance Convention now in session. AS
previously annouced Mr.. Hill will be
the pricipal speaker at public meet
ings to be held in both ST. Paul and
Minneapolis.
To Speak At Pilgrim Sunday.
Sunday at s p. m. at Pilgrim Bap-
fist Church, Central and Grotto
Streets, st. Paul, Mr.. Hill will speak
on the observations which he has
made of unemployment conditions
among Negroes during his recent visit
to a number of principal cities of the
South and Middlewest. Special mu
sic will be rendered by the Pilgrim
Choir DR.. Walter S. Ryder of Mac
alester College and member. of the
81. Paul UrDan League Board Will
preside.
Monday Night In Minneapolis.
Monday at p. m. in the auditor
ium Of the Citizens Aid Building, 4th
Avenue and Sth Street, Minneapolis
MR. Hill will again speak on the same
subject. This meeting is sponsored
jointly by the Minneapolis Urbar
League and the Inter-racial Commit
tee of the Minneapolis Church FEEDER
alton. Music will be furnished by the
Phyllis Wheatley singers. Ri. Rever-
end Stephen e. Keller, Coadjutor
Bishop of the Minnesota Diocese,
Episcopal Church will preside. The
public is most cordially invited to
each of these meetings.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
CONCERT ARTISTS HERE MONDAY

A concert given by group OF
noted Chicago singers will be held at
Pilgrim Baptist church, st. Paul Mon
day evening, Feb. 81.
The singers are under the direc.
ton Of Prof. William Henry Smith.
A former local girl, Mrs. Dequence
Jordan Nelson is a member of the con.
cert artists. She is the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Jordan Of 735
st. Anthony Ave-, st. Paul.
The singers come to st. Paul high.
ly recommended by critics in all the
eastern cities in which they have ap
peared.
A musical treat awaits those who
attend the concert Monday night.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
Scottsbsro Trial
Set For March 6
SEEK CHANGE OF VENUE.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 24.-The
new trial of the nine Scottsboro boys
has been set for March 6, in SCOTS.
boro, before Judge Alfred w. aaw.
kins, who presided over the original
lynch hearing which resulted in death
penalties for eight of them, 1t was
learned last week.
On that day General George w.
Chamlee, Samuel s. Leibowitz, Joseph
Brodsky and Irving Schwab, Interna.
tional Labor Defense attorneys, and
if they can be spared from the de.
Tense of Angelo Herndon and the At.
lanta "Six," John H. Geer and Ben.
jamin j. Davis Jr., Race attorneys OF
Atlanta, Ca, will appear in the court
to demand a change of venue from
the town in which the local band
played "There1l Be a Hot Time
while the jury handed down its hide.
Gus lynch verdicts of death against
the innocent boys in April, 1881, to
Jefferson county, which is the city oil
Birmingham, Ala.
The change of venue will be de.
manded on the grounds that in large
city like Birmingham it will be more
difficult to organize gangs to lynch
the boys and on the ground also that
the landlords in Jackson county
through their organ, the jackson
County Sentinel, have so conspired to
rouse lynch hysteria in Scottsboro
that no trial there could be anything
but the same legal mockery intended
to precede a legal lynching, as in the
first trial.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
Workers Protest
Closing OF Dance
By St. Paul Police
TWO ARRESTED IN RAID.

Two raids by st. Paul police on
the Workers Center at 1S4 w. Sew
enth St., st. Paul has caused much
conjecture and controversy. Arrayed
on one side Is Mayor Mahoney and
the police department and on the
other side the International Labor
Defense, the Unemployed Council and
kindred organizations. The latter or
CARNATIONS claim the police raided
the center because the races were
mixing at a dance, held at that place
on Jan. 20.
No Dance License Mayor Says.
The Mayor and the police depart
ment assert that the place was closed
because of lack of dance license.
A committee of workers who called
on the Mayor pointed out that at the
second time the workers were driven
out of the hall on Sunday night, Feb.
5, no dance was in progress.
! Meeting Place of Many Races.
The place which the police raided
has been the gathering place for sew
erai months of workers of all races.
Negroes, white, Mexicans, Filipinos
and others have met there.
Two men were arrested in the Jan.
20, raid and will have their trials
next week.
The San Tache's club met at the
home of the president, Mr.. Wallace
Chambers, 340S Grand Ave-, at its last
regular meeting. The next meeting
will be held in st. Paul.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
JEWS USE TUskEGEE RECORD
MODEL.

Tuskegee Institute, (ANP)--
DR.. Robert R. Motion. principal o.
Tnskegee Institute, has been askeio
by the Yiddish Scientific Instituauq
through DR.. Max weinreigh, ofsw&w
Haven, Conn, for permission t6isaaDgq
the organization and techndte9pff6Eoo
department Of records raa s4lit trass aRssv
ct Tnskegee INSTITUTE With d9eTfbSna
to using the Tuskegese SYSTEM 81 re- si3s
cording Negro life sas aaP1a oagT for
the study Of JskihrMfd mr5taeahsif
world. Joe2g1uoo .yIssiw 1swoq
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
Man Who Weighed
All Lbs Dead
HUGE MAN DIES AFTER PNEU.
MONA ATTACK.

The death of Ed. Miller, 421 pound
cook at the Porters and Walters club
last week from the effects of pneumo.
mia removed one of the most pic
turesque Minneapolis figures. Miller
was one Of the latest men in the
Northwest. His great weight attract
ed attention wherever he went.
Theatres often used him for adj
vertising stunts. 1t will be remem-
bered that he was a sensational ad
for the Amos and Andy motion pic
ture. He impersonated the larger of
the radio comic pair
A special sized casket had to be
provided for Miller's body Miller is
survived by his wife who lives here.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-25
California Physician
Arrested After
Death of Girl
DOCTOR is HELD ON MURDER
CHARGE AS YOUNG WOMAN DIES

Los Angeles, Calf, Feb. 24-Dr.
M. ]. Marmillion, 1915 Central Ave-,
prominent physician and foremr pre-
sident of the state medical associa-
ton, was charged with murder fol-
lowing the death last week of Mar
garet Scott, 18-year-old high school
senior. AMI alleged victim of an lille
gal operation.
Archie Harrison, the girls lover,
and medical student at Iona Lin
da, testified before the coroner's jury
Thursday that he hired the doctor to
perform the operation.
According to the story as related
at the inquest, Miss Scott had been
i'll three months. A week ago, 1t was
brought out, Harrison, the girls
mother, Mrs. Viola Scott, and another
daughter went to DR.. Marmiilion's Of
fee and engaged him to operate on
the girl.
Shock Kills Girl.
Three days after arranging for the
operation Harrison took the girl to
the doctors office and an attempt was
made to treat her, but the shock was
too great. She died on the operating
table. Further testimony was to the
effect that the physician then per-
formed tonsilitis operation and GER
titled death on that ground.
DR.. Marmiliion refused to accept