The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-07
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|FAY0RITE IN miami
HEAVYWEIGHT fight
First Chance at Championship
Crown for Philadelphia
Phantom
CONTENDER MUCH OLDER
Mammoth italian Has Taken
Beatings From Second
Rate Boxers
CONTENDER MUCH OLDER
By BILL BRAUCHER
NEA Service Sports Editor

New York. Feb. 7.-Offhand It
would appear Tommy Loughran faces
his first-and last-cllaace at the
worlds heavyweight championship at
Miami, Feb. %, without much hope Of
winning.
The Philadelphia phantom will be
outweighed by a matter Of go or 70
pounds. At his best fighting weight
Loughran will not go much above 1876,
which it not very large for heavy
weight. Primo Camera is as big as
they come, his probable weight be-
ing from PAS TO 255.
Tommy will be outraged. too. not
only by six years but by hundreds of
fights, most of them the kind that
make man feel very old. Loughran
will be 81 next Nov. %. Camera will
not be Is until October.
Loughran comes to his grand
chance after Is years of battling
Camera has been at it something like
five years. When Loughran entered
the ring for the first time, Camera
vas a l0-year old boy In Italy.
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Tommy has only one way to win
from that animated mountain OF
muscle he will face Feb. %. That is
to poke, jao. stab and get away. II
the Italian is allowed to get close to
Loughran he will paralyze Tommy
with punches. There is too much
weight behind those Wild shoves of
Primo's for Lougnran to cope with.
Max Schmeling believes LOughran
can win, however. and there are 9TH
ers with fine eye to fistic affairs
who agree. Schmeling points out
that Corbett was regarded as some
thing of STRIPPING when he faced
John L. Sullivan.
"Lougtran steps fast and may
outspear Carnera with his left hand.
says the former, champion. "Carnera
only pushes. I thought Primo had
improved until I saw Pauline Uzcu-
dun go Is rounds with him last fall
In Rome"
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Terrific odds OIL Camera to beat
Loughran already are being estab-
lished at Miami. the champion being
something like 5 to l to retain his
title. But, rating Loughran off his
last four bolts--with Impellittiere
Hamas, Gastanaga and Sharkey--it
seems to me such odds are a trifle
long.
After being almost knocked out
in the first round. Loughran rallied
to win from 1mpellittiere, who is a
bigger man than Camera. though
neither as experienced nor as fast
Hamas, Gastanaga and Sharkey were
beaten in 1888 by the lightning
Lougllran left.
Layers Of those odds must have for
gotten also that only little more
than year ago Camera lost to q
couple of second raters Larry Gaines
and Stanley Poreda.
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There are few things to be sale
about the Carnera-Sharkey fight
which do not appear ON the record
Sharkey was rather fat than fit. An6
slow though the sailor was. he wa:
ahead OF Primo on points up to thu
instant when he ran into that swish.
ing uppercut.
Now Loughran IS a much better
defensive boxer than Sharkey. who
has gone pretty far back in the last
few years. It will not be beyond thu
bounds Of imagination if he keep.
away from Camera. who is fast for {
big man but painfully slow compared
to Loughran.
It is not the purpose of this piec,
!, to predict that Tommy will win. I
is too hard to forget how irresistibl,
strong Camera was against Sharkey
even though Jack was not the sailol
man Of q few years previous.
] But certainly Tommy can win. TIN
only other thing am certain OF i
that he will be trying with everything
he has.