The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-03-02
CHALLENGER MAKES
BRILLIANT SHOWING
AGAINST Big ITALIAN
Champion Unable to Dislodge
n.Hearted PhiIadel.
phian From Feet
CHAMPION WINS 10 ROUNDS
Tommy's Boxing and Footwork
Make Man Mountain Look
Like Beginner

Miami. Fla, March 2.-(R}-Due ex-
clusively to his superior poundage and
power, the combination OF which
proved entirely too much for even the
1ion-hearted challenge of Tommy
Loughran to offset In Is wcarying
rounds, Primo Camera retains pos
session OF the worlds heavyweight box
ing championship Friday and turns
his thoughts toward the completion OF
negotiations to meet his next Ameri-
can rival, Max Baer.
The title was Just about all that the
mountainous man from Italy had to
show for his ponderous efforts Thurs
day night In clubbing back the attempt
OF Loughran to match his mere 1874
pounds Of beef and Drawn.
The champion, in his second title
defense since he knocked out Jack
Sharkey last summer, won decisively
enough. He gained the unanimous
vote of the three officials and mar
gin In 10 Of the is rounds, but he was
unable to land single punch with
sufficient power to dislodge Loughran
from his feet. Camera simply club
bed Loughran, by a slow. cumbersome
process into such state OF WEAKNESS
that after holding his own with a
dazzling exhibition for the first ten
rounds, Philadelphia Tommy lasted
the closing five rounds mainly on raw
courage and display Of boxing skill
that never deserted him.
Pending an official count Friday 1t
was estimated scarcely more than
5000 spectators, of whom perhaps q
third were there ION the house." wit
messed the first heavyweight title fight
Iii Florida since Jim Corbett knocked
out Charley Mitchell at Jacksonville
in the gay nineties. The gate receipts
were placed between $40 600 and $780,
600. This marked the lowest ebb for
tn. heavyweight championship bust.
ness since Corbett fought Bob Fitz-
simmons at San Francisco In 1902. It
contrasted sharply with the first big
bout n his winter playground in 1929
Ssaa Striking ara .Sha.aey attract
III gate" Of 100000.
L5ughran's brilliant fight against
the heaviest odds any heavyweight
challenger In history has faced, q
deficit Of IS pounds In the ring and
better than q one-to-five shot In the
betting beforehand, was the only fac
tor that saved the bout from being
complete flop.
It rained hard for few minutes a
half hour before the bout, came down
heavily once while the twelfth round
was In progress and sprinkled inter-
mittently for the rest Of the night.
But for q slow start in the first
three rounds, during which Camera
dubbed or hurled him hriskly around
like . mastNf playing with terrier
Loughran might have piled up enough
points to have made the decision
closer. From the third to the tenth
when he flashed his last real stand
however, Tommy's beautiful boxing
and footwork made the Italian giant
look like . novice.
II had the fight won-I'm sure o.
that-until Camera stepped on my
foot and bruised 1t In the eleventh
round" said Loughran In his dressing
room.
Cameras performance against thu
most skillful boxer he has ever faced
convinced ringsiders that they wer'
right, In the first place, when they de-
clared the big man cannot punch
The champions bludgeon-likc blow
chopped down Loughran's resistance
finally, but he landed no more thar
tw7 clean punches on his elusive tar
ret In the whole Is rounds.
Camera was repeatedly warned b!
the referee, as we'll as jeered by tn
crowd for his tactics.
Loughran, on the Associated Pres
score sheet. was credited with tn
third, fourth, sixth and tenth rounds
with the seventh even and the re-
manning ten given to the champion
Tommy's best all-around work wa
done in the fourth and sixth although
his best single punch, hard right II
Cameras head. was delivered In tn
fifth.