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Evening star., 1934-07-03
FLETCHER Attacks
NEW DEAL POLICY
G. o. P. Chairman's Address
Officially Sets Issue in Con-
gressionaI Campaign.
Continued From First Page.)

party in this campaign will be fighting
for Democracy-for the inalienable
right Of the people to govern them
selves. In its broad aspect that Is
tuSt what this contest means.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
BY GAYLE TALBOT,

Associated Press Foreign stan
ONDON, June 15.-Miss Amelia
Tersini, the raven-haired young
waitress, who saw to it that
~ Prima Camera collected none
of the proceeds for the batter
ing he took last night, insisted ex-
citedly today that "Baer didn't fight
fair
He tried to make Primo look
foolish" exclaimed Emelia, who didn't
exactly see the fight, being some 5000
miles away. But she stayed up until
after am. to read the results on
a ticker in an express office.
New York lawyers at the instance
of Miss Tersini tied up Cameras share
of the proceeds, since the recent
heavyweight champion for some
months has owed her $4,000 she was
awarded in a breach of promise suit.
Hope alternated with despair on her
face as the fight progressed, and at
the end she sank her face in her
hands.
"Baer fouled him." she shouted.
why didn't they disqualify him. It's
a shame. I know Primo can beat him.
I still believe in Primo"
Before the fight started she said:
Il want Primo to smash this Baer.
This Baer insulted him, but he will
pay for the insult"
Evening star., 1934-06-15
CRACKS PRESTIGE
OF GIANT BOXERS
Opens Way to Grooming of
Normal Heavies for Shot
at LaureIs.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON,
Sports Editor, The Star.

Sports Editor, The Star.
N YEW YORK, June 15.-Max
M Baer probably doesn't
VI know it, nor care, but he
did more than bring the
heavyweight championship back
to America by stopping Primo
Camera before some $4,000
thrilled spectators in Madison
Square Gardens Long Island
City Bowl last night.
All the big, bad Baer is thinking
about today, in all likelihood, is some
new and fancy angles to protracted
celebration of his impressive victory
over the huge Italian, with a long
term movie contract, additional radio
gravy, lucrative vaudeville bookings
and a swanky night club of his own.
All these, Of course, to come when
he decides to start cashing in on the
fame he has earned as the foremost
fist-slinger of the universe following
an unrestricted indulgence in those
things he holds most dear and which
he had been denied for weeks while
training for his ring triumph.
What Baer did for the leather
pushing game in the process of
feathering his own nest through
whiting the vast Venetian to the
size of Singer midget was to save
1t. No more and no less.
Had Camera retained his title and
thus established precedent for
champions seeking to defend their
laurels in the spacious saucer-like
arena here we would have had the
spectacle of a man at the head of
the highest class in the racket who
was too big and strong for any one
now on the f1stic horizon to hope
successfully to cope with.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Baer Looms as Ring General
After Win Scored According
To Carefully Prepared Plan

Baer gambled, but not in close
quarters where Primo could land that
uppercut. Max gambled smartly. It
was his night and with the spotlight
flush on him, the Livermore lover was
no blushing violet.
He clowned and he grinned, like
some diversified Cheshire cat playing
with dazed. even more diversified
mouse. He playfully patted Camera
on the shoulder at the end of rounds.
strutted and pulled out his chest for
the benefit Of Da Preem and the
crowd. and even kept the COLOSSUS
waiting in the ring for nearly S min
utes when custom calls for the chal-
lenger to do the waiting.
1t was all part of the act. In his
way, Baer is a genius-the premier
flstic goat-getter of his day.
AS for Camera, whose performance
brings our prognosticating average UP
thing on the ball But today, de-
throned, he enjoys more popularity
than at any time during his one
year reign as heavyweight king.
Camera, it definitely has been
proved for the first time, has more
than mere size. He has courage. A
circus freak pushed and showed, in
shady manner Of which he was
ignorant. to the very peak, has that
one qualification of a champion If
nothing else-gamenesS.
For all of his punch Baer couldn't
flatten him. At the end Primo, eyes
unseeing, hands down and q helpless
hunk of protoplasm, was ready to
take his medicine.
Evening star., 1934-06-15

vincingly demonstrated that the wise
money" knew where it was going when
a belated flood of wagering sent the
challenger int the ring a 5-to-6 shot
to capture the championship.
Only Cameras gamenesS under the
heaviest fire Of his career, together
with Baer's tactics in merely stalking
his big opponent until such times as
he chose to turn loose his betting fury,
kept the fight from ending in short
order. Whether because he was some
what arm-weary from his opening
three-round assault or because he
decided to take his time and give the
crowd a run for its money as he
strutted his fanciest stuff, Baer re-
laxed his attack for the better part
Of the next four rounds.
There was never much question
about the outcome after the first few
slashing right-handers bowled Car
nera of his feet.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
CARNERA
Il TIMES IN FIGHT
New Champion Never Hurt
by Massive Defenders
labs, Upper Cuts.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, June 15.-Re-
M verberating today from
" the smashing savagery of
the most spectacular
battle of big men in nearly II
years of ring history, the fight
world acclaimed a new heavy
weight champion of the world
Max Adelbert Baer of California,
a curly haired wolf of a man
who combines a contemptuous
grin and the stage mannerisms
of movie actor with a killing
right-hand punch.
With magnificent gestures, abso-
lutte disdain for anything his giant
foe could do and a sporadic but
vicious onslaught, Baer stopped the
huge but helpless Primo Camera in
the eleventh round of q l5-round
match before a roaring crowd of
$4,000 In Madison Square Gardens
Long Island bowl, thereby ending the
Italians one-year rule at the top of
the heavyweight heap abruptly and
bringing the crown back to the
United States
Camera was knocked down no less
than IL times from the force of
Baer's smashing blows before Referee
Arthur Donovan stopped the one
sided affair, with only A seconds to
go in the eleventh round, and
awarded the verdict to the broad
shouldered, 25-year -old American on
technical knockout.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Carnera Tosses Off Own Grown, Whispering "Finito'
ehim to bdche PuEng After Storm,

ciate the fact that he, too, Is vulner-
able.
But the truth dawned. Just wfNn
or how or why may never be known.
As the round-by-round story will tell.
Primo was coming back. He had
weathered the early fury of the Baer
attack. He was on his feet. He was
still champion Of the world.
And yet in that eleventh round he
abdicated-quit. "Finito," he said
from the corner Of his bloody mouth
to Arthur Donovan, the referee. DON
ovan made no move. Baer smashed
across another looping right. Pinto,
finito," whispered the then world
champion once again, and 50 the
championship passed.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
BY FRANCIS E. STAN,

Stah Correspondent OF The Star.
n YEW YORK. June 15.-Mad
N Make Baer, the California
VI daffydill, stood out today not
i only as the most colorful
boxing champion since Jack
Dempsey, but also, in a goofy. clown
ish fashion, perhaps as Gene Tun-
ney's successor as a heavyweight ring
general
The mauling man of multiple
talents-crooner, thespian, lover play
boy, clown and perennial defendant
won the world heavyweight cham
pionship from Primo Camera here
last night with the mightiest right
hand wallop flstiana has boasted
since Dempsey dropped Tunney in
Chicago in 1927.
But that punching power was only
part of the reason why Primo Car
nera. like Sharkey and McLarnin
before him, failed to defend success
fully his crown in the Long Island
bowl.
Unlike Dempsey, the West Coast
megaphone is not one-punch kayo
artist. Da Preem's demise was pre-
pared in training camp and superbly
carried out in the ring by Baer, care
fully and expertly camouflaged under
seemingly blissful devil-may-care
attitude.
Max Baer, for all of the pre-ight
statements by Commissioner Bill
Brown and host Of other experts"
on condition and the fight game,
entered the ring in better shape than
Carnera and also with the idea that,
actually. the crown would be his in
the first round.
When Primo was uncemoniously
dumped to the canvas twice in that
hectic first heat Max knew 1t was all
over but for little more clouting and
shouting. Perhaps the colossus knew
it, too, for he never recovered to show
the form he displayed in outpointing
Tommy Loughran last Winter with
amazing speed for a giant weighing,
for that Miami fight, 270 pounds on
a pair of satchel-like hoofs.
Da Preem was nearly pounds
under that weight last night, but
Baer, supposedly the slower, proved
much to the contrary. Primo's left
jab, the sole weapon his supporters
banked their hopes on, was but a
timid poke at best. So timid, in fact,
that at times Baer appeared to relish
showing Primo and some $4,000 on
lockers how little 1t really annoyed
him.
Camera didn't seem to know what
1t was all about after weathering a
storm in the initial round just when
it appeared that Make, after a min
ute of nicely feigned fear, was going
to be content to feel out his foe. Nor
did Baer intend letting Primo find
out. Supreme egotist that he is, Max
had Primo where he wanted him
on Queer street-and appeared con-
tent to bide his time and soften up
the varicose-veined giant, confident
the Italians, duration in the ring
was up to little Make alone.
Unlike his murderous punching
predecessor and now part-manager,
Dempsey, the Californian didn't rage
in for the kill in that first round
nor in the second nor the fifth nor
the tenth, when Da Preem either was
on the floor or apparently groggy
enough to be rocked to sleep. Jack
Sharkey made a fatal move and Car
nera fattened him with an uppercut,
his only potent punch.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Devastating Punch Tells.

"A BSOLUTELY dazed. his face q
~ blotchy red from the terrific
pounding he had received and
his features distorted in grotesque
bewilderment, Camera was led stum-
bling from the ring after the most
severe beating any heavyweight cham
pion has absorbed since Jack Dempsey
pounded jess Willard into bloody
pulp in three rounds at Toledo in
1919.
History repeated itself in this re-
spect as the 210-pound Baer, spotting
his giant foe more than so pounds,
proved that devastating punch can
wipe out any and all physical bar
riers or handicaps, and Dempsey, the
old man mauler," was one of the
first to rush into the ring to slap the
broad back of his California protege.
For the thrills of savage conflict
and the believing roar of the crowd
for the kill" Baer's stunning victory
surpasses anything that has hap
pened among heavyweights since
Dempsey knocked out Luis Angel
Firpo of the Argentine in two spec
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Gene Lauds Baer's Headwork
Fought Almost Perfect Fight, Tunney Declares.
Knew Puncher Could Master Carnera.

At the finish he was obviously ready
to quit and did so.
J. was not surprised Baer failed to
finish Camera in either of the first
two rounds. The big fellow has
amazing stamina and showed he Is
really game under fire, although he
used very bad Judgment in not taking
longer counts when he was down three
times in the first round. A fighter is
entitled to all the count he can get
under such circumstances and it was
ruinous for Primo to leap up at once
and stumble into another succession
Of hard blows.
I would say on the whole that Baer
fought q perfect fight. showing rare
confidence at all times and proving
himself a terrific hitter. He did not
waste time and energy trying to box
Camera,
Evening star., 1934-06-15

Gene Tunney, introduced earlier IN
the evening with Jack Dempsey at his
side in the ring, watched the fight and
heard that whisper. Gene is a scholar
and knows his Italian. "Finito," said
Gene after it was all over, means
have finished" And then, "And
that's an odd way for a champ to
hand over his crown"
But Primo, world heavyweight cham
pion of the world at the time, knew
the truth. All he had to give had
been given. All that he could assimi-
late has been taken. Through?
"Finito," he said to Donovan. And
Donovan heard and lifted the right
hand Of Baer. the new champion.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Brown Unchanged
On Unfit Opinion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 15.-Bill
~ Brown, the boxing commits
sioner who pronounced Max
Baer thoroughly UNIT to fight
Camera and recommended post
ponement, refused to alter his
opinion after seeing the challenger
win the heavyweight title.
my opinion stands" Brown
said. "Baer didn't show much, but
Camera showed even less. Car
nera was so weakened and befud-
died by Baer's flrst-round attack
that he was unable to do anything
effective to take advantage of the
challenger's obvious weariness. It
was a poor exhibition by two
poorly trained men, but if the
public wants that kind of stuff, it's
all right with me-"
Evening star., 1934-06-15
BY GENE TUNNEY,
written for the Associated Press.)

t"4Attch 4OI Tic hoSOCldLeQ FEeSS.p
NEW YORK, June 15.-Max Baer
fought exactly the type of fight cal
culated to whip Primo Camera and
he demonstrated conclusively what I
have felt and said right along-that
the italian has a vulnerable chin and
extremely limited fighting equipment.
After Cameras bout with Tommy
Loughran said Primo would be a
mark for a man who could show any,
thing like an effective punch. The
Italian himself cannot hit and he is
bewildered as soon as his defense
starts to break down. His confidence
was shattered in the first minute of
last nights fight and it was simply a
question of how long it would last.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
No Task for Boxer.

IF BAER, who packs a wallop more
than family reminiscent of the
kick Of a mule, had been unable
to conquer his admittedly clever foe
where could one look for an antagon-
ist with license to get into the same
ring with the fast and shifty though
hght-hitting man. mountain?
There would have been no point
to grooming an even faster and more
Skillful boxer to take Cameras crown
by the decision route, for that had
been tried.
Tommy Loughran undoubtedly con-
stitutes the acme of excellence for
science among the heavyweights, but
he had his shot at the crown last
Winter and failed, dismally.
No, il interest in the upper strata of
the sport was to be revived it would
have to be done through the medium
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Hamas Seen in Line.

Hamas Seen in Line.
TAS 1T is now, when Baer can be
n induced to forsake the primrose
path long enough, at least, to
go through the motions of condition
ing himself for the defense of his
title, some youngster who also can
sock and who combines with it a
measurable amount of the defensive
fnesse that Baer never can acquire
will stand a good chance of knocking
the diadem off Makes classic brow.
It might be Steve Hamas, whose two
victories in four bouts with Loughran
include a kayo and who became a
definite title threat by stopping Ex-
Champion Max Schmeling. Or it
might be some other youngster whose
top-f1ight class has yet to be estab-
lshed, but very well could be by the
time Baer will take in getting around
TO resumption of mauling for money.
The bloke who eventually adds his
name after that of Baer's on the long
list Of world heavyweight champions
will have to possess more than mere
walloping prowesS to turn the trick
however, for the playboy -pugilist dem
onstrated convincingly last night that
when it comes to sheer force of blows
there has been no one to compare
with him since William Harrison
Dempsey was in his prime.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Woman Who Won Damage Suit
Against Primo Roots for Him

But when the report said Primo
was down. she exclaimed: "Oh, it's
bad, bad Then Camera spurted.
She shouted: Come on, Primo,
wake up!"
Miss Tersini, although Of Italian
descent, Is an English subject and
was born in this country.
She won her suit in July, 1888.
Among letters from Primo read at the
trial was one saying: you can live
TRANQUILITY because 7 will not have
another girl but you. They are all
an aversion to me. They frighten me,
all but you. You will be my wife be-
fore a year."
Evening star., 1934-06-15

rounds the giant was Topped to his
launches in the third, still too be-
wAdered to take anything like count
and recover his wits. He rallied
bravely for the next few rounds but
in the eighth he sprawled full-length
to the floor from the force Of an
Intellectual lunge.
Only the bell saved Primo from a
knockout in the tenth round, at one
stage of which Donovan stepped be-
tween them and changed his mind
after giving every indication of his
intention to stop the fight. Twice in
this round and twice more, in the
eleventh the toppling tower Of Italy
went down under crushing blows.
Evening star., 1934-06-15

right uppercuts. Baer had discovered
in the first three rounds all any
fighter needs to know. Primo could
hit him but without effect. Primo
also, in what must have been to him
an experience more incredible than
any nightmare, had learned this truth.
And when the end came it was
Primo who cried Uncle" He was,
as far as the rabid fans could see,
still carrying the fight to Baer.
Eleven times down and still pressing
forward-his battered lips and fiat
tened nose the insignia of his viii to
win. There was no jade to this per-
formance. Sheer courage, the inabil-
ity Of a physical superman to appre-
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Gets Last Big Laugh,

THE Californian's lopsided mastery
of the giant who has stalked
through the heavyweight ranks,
his powers still something of a mys-
terry until they were left scattered all
over the premises last night, furnished
the climax to one of the most ex-
traordinary Of all heavyweight title
matches.
Declared unfit to fight by one Of
New York's boxing commissioners, Bill
Brown, only week ago, Baer not only
enjoyed the last big laugh, but con-
Evening star., 1934-06-15
52,268 See Fight
And Pay $428,392

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 15.-The Car
~ nera-Baer fight drew
gate" of more than $425, 900.
The official figures, as an
nounced by Madison Square Gar
den showed gross receipts of
$428, ,392.80 and net receipts of
1851 ,357.29. The paid attendance
was 52.268.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Always Looked Winner.

MANY were prejudiced against
lVl him because of his vain-glori-
business; his constant strutting
and posing and his caustic pre- fight
cracks in which he impugned the in
telligence as well as the courage of his
adversary.
They saw in the Livermore loud
speaker only a super-egotist who
spurned the drudgery of conscientious
preparation for the ordeal and earnest
ly hoped he would have his colossal
conceit crushed by the ham-like fists
Of the Ambltng Alp.
But even those who felt the greatest
resentment against the loose living
combination of Lochinvar and 10TH
ario now are forced to admit that he
had what it takes to back up his
supreme confidence in himself.
At no time in the course of the
slightly less than II rounds that the
Continued on Page 4. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Erratic From Start.

TITS showmanship and ability
marched hand in hand from
the first. He scored Is knock
outs, won three decisions and lost one
fight on a foul in 1929.
He had gone under the guidance
Of j. Hamilton Lorimer, now engaged
in litigation with Ancil Hoffman, his
present manager. For a time, while
being coached in the art Of trying to
land punches, Baer worked for Lori
mer in the foundry of. the latter's
father. 1t was for only brief period
as puglistic engagements took up more
and more of his time.
Ring tragedy cropped up to nearly
halt Baer's career in the second year.
On the night of August 25 in San
Francisco he knocked out Frankie
Campbell in five rounds. Campbell
died from brain 'hemorrhage the fol-
lowing day and Baer, while exonerated.
quit boxing until January Of the next
year.
His fistic rise since then has been
steady, mingled with marriage, di-
vorce, more heart affairs and re-
sultant breach Of promise suits, motion
picture acting and night club engage
ments, all combining to make Max
spectacular figure.
Insists on His Fun.
The course Of his play-boy activities
Is as fantastic as that Of free balloon
CONTINUED on Page 5, Column ~
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Camera Keeling Wreck.


THE giant, 26s-pOund Italian was
l. still on his feet at the finish,
after bravely trying to con-
tinue against odds that he knew were
overwhelmingly against him, but he
was a bloody, reeling wreck Of a
fighting man and he was muttering
"Fini-flni!" in utter helplessness
when the referee decided finally to
halt the slaughter.
Camera was knocked down three
times within the first minute Of
fighting as Baer loosed a succession
of long, dynamite-la laden right hands
to the head, followed by bruising lefts
to the body.
The Italian was down three times
again in the second round, with Baer
rolling on top of him as they waged
the widest kind of a melee.
For the seventh time in three
Evening star., 1934-06-15
BAER BRINGS Joy,
DESPAIR IN RISE
Gives Various Pilots Hectic
Life-Some Concluded
He Was Hopeless.
BY RUSS NEWLAND,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

N IEw YORK, June 15.-Max
M Baer, world heavyweight
" champion five years after
a he first pulled on a pair
of boxing gloves, has been the
JOY and despair alternately of a
procession of managers and
handlers since ne decided to give
up an irksome task of wrestling
quarters of beef on his fathers
farm to try his hand at thump-
ing chins.
From the time he knocked out Chief
Cariboo, an obscure Indian ringster,
the one-time Livermore butcher boy
has engaged in the clowning tactics
that ranked some fans, made others
laugh and caused still others to tap
their heads in significant fashion.
I'm going to get them coming to
see me, whether they're for me or
against" the big Californian confided
to friends early in his career. II
still think it's good box ONCE appeal"
he said the night before he stopped
Primo Camera. Boy this is great
stuff being champion" he smiled
today.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Carnera Does Leading.

A LTHOUGH the big man continu-
n ally did nearly all the leading,
while Baer backed slowly away
or sidestepped with the ease of a
dancer, there was no time when
Primos stiffest left jabs or faltering
CONTINUED on Page 4. Column g.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
Heavy Champs
tacular rounds at the Polo Grounds


For two rounds last night there was
carload of heavyweight bouts have
produced in the last half dozen years
and the crowd accorded an ovation
to the handsome, carelessly confident
youth who has given pugilism another
bone-crushing puncher to get excited
about.
Evening star., 1934-06-15

Of some one who could wallop, and in
this role the curly haired Californian
proved to be just what the physician
prescribed.
Evening star., 1934-06-15
By q Stan Correspondent of The Star.

By Stan Cofrespohdent OF The star.
n YEW YORK. June 15.-Primo
nj Camera took off his own
Y crown last night. He fought
a brave battle for the near IL
rounds he was in the beauti-
fully lighted ring Of the Madison
Square Garden bowl in Long Island
City.
Not once, nor twice, but IL times
Primo felt the unaccustomed contact
of canvas against his purple boxing
trunks. Each time, be it said to his
credit, he bounced from his recumbent
and unchampionlike posture without
o count to resumption of futile left
jabs and desperate but ineffective