Evening star., 1933-06-30
PRIMO A PAL0OKA
UNTIL FINAL BLOW
Takes Boxing Lesson From
Champion Until Amazing
Kayo in Sixth.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.


n 1EW YORK, June 30.-Under
M circumstances that still
l Y seemed battling and some
what incredible today to at
least share of the fight fra
ternity, Primo Carnera, the 25-
year-old, 260-pound Italian, who
was just a strong man" in a
circus sideshow a few years ago,
stood astride the boxing world
like a modern colossuS as the new
heavyweight champion.
With one mighty swoop of his
ham-like right fist, Carnera took
the title from Jack Sharkey, 201-
pound American, on a knockout
in the sixth round of a 15-round
match last evening.
The finish came with a suddenness
that was as dramatic as it was startling
to a crowd of $4,000 spectators, little
more than half filling the Madison
Square Garden bowl An inside right
giant came to grips along the ropes
with his foe, felled Sharkey as though
he had been a tree hit by the wood
mans final blow.
The champion fell to the canvas,
face down, scarcely moved. except to
lift his head once and drop his mouth
piece to the floor, while Referee Ar
thur Donovan finished the count of 10,
after minutes and 27 seconds of the
sixth round.
Sharkey Had Big Lead.
TT marked the second time in his
erratic career that Sharkey had
lost an international battle, with
the title at stake, and it baft1ed most
of those at the ringside who had
watched the Bostonian drop after out
boxing. outsmarting and outpunching
Camera by a wide margin in the first
five rounds.
There was no question about the
power behind Cameras final thrust,
the climax of a spectacular closing
furry that saw the champion founder
suddenly, lost almost complete control
of his defense and crumple under the
ponderous punches of the biggest man
who ever scaled the world heavyweight
heights. 1t was an uppercut that had
everything Camera could muster in his
huge frame behind it, and Sharkey
looked cold" if ever fighter did, as
he went down. 1t was his secret
punch" Camera exclaimed exultantly,
after the fight, and perhaps he was
right, for Sharkey didn't see it COM
ing and may not know yet what hit
him.
1t required several minutes in Shar-
keys corner to bring him around to
on hi
own feet and acknowledge the wild en-
thusiaSrl of his conqueror who had
been tossing his squad of managers and
seconds around like SO many bags of
sand. But except for pains in his chest
and stomach, Sharkey showed no after
effects nor was there any evidence of
a conclusion more lasting than that
always connected with a knockout.
Giant Takes Lesson.
WET up to the finish Sharkey was
the master of his gargantuan
rival. The champion started
at least one hard right-hand clout on
the chin, but ne seemed unhurt, and
for the next four rounds gave Camera
a boxing lesson. He tented the big fell
low off balance. he hooked him dizzy
with leftS and tried desperately at times
to apply the "crusher" with a looping
right to the head.
In the second and fifth rounds.
Sharkey staggered Camera with right
handlers to the head. Primo, when
most flustered. resorted to bear-like
wrestling tactics and employed back
hand blows that drew warnings from
the referee in the third, fourth and
fifth rounds.
The Italian took many of the cham
pion's punches on his huge arms, but
up to the sixth round he did not ap-
pear to hurt Sharkey seriously with a
single swish of his massive paws.
AS if confident something was going
to happen, Camera came out for the
sixth round with a wide grin. almost
fearsome in the expanse of teeth it re-
vealed. They grappled along one side
of the ring. then another. Sharkey
ttmbled half through the ropes, going
to his knees after rebounding from a
left to the head. The champion tore
back at Primo without a count and
connected with a right that shook the
Italian. For the third and last time.
then. they went into the ropes and
Camera applied the final stroke.
Officials Okay Kayo.
~ INGSIDE opinion differed some
* what sharply as to the circum-