Evening star., 1935-11-02
GERMAN IS WEAK
IN PEPLESS BOUT
Primo, Winner in Fourth
Round, Still Appears
Drug on Market.
BY JOHN LARDNER.


a man who couldn't hurt him
and. with this comfortable knowledge
in the back Of his brains. the Leaning
Tower of Sequals, Italy, suddenly be-
came the advertised Ogre Of old. He
knocked out Walter Neusel after
minutes and % seconds of the fourth
round.
1t was Neusel who stopped the fight.
He stole the job cleanly from Referee
Arthur Donovan. Primo was clubbing
the unfortunate German in a corner
and Neusel couldn't reach him with a
return punch. So Neusel ducked under
the man mountains arm and hob
bled sadly out of the ring. He was
through for the evening-probably for
life.
No one ever exploded reputation
more cleanly than Primo did. Having
been exploded himself on two occa-
sions. he knew how to go about it
He made the blond German look sick
After one minute of the first round,
you saw that Neusel was a hopeless
victim, and you found it hard to real
lie how far removed he must be from
o fighter like Joe Louis, who played
with Camera like a dog with rat.
Shows Absolutely Nothing.
YOUR correspondent was stunned by
Neusel's frailty and general in
competence. Billed as real fighter,
he had absolutely no weapon to throw
against the freakish Primo. He tried
to rush and stab at the body. but. each
time he tried it, the rejuvenated
strong made of Sequals brushed him
aside with a right and dubbed his
head with left. He tossed Neusel
around like a baby.
You should have seen Primo when
he discovered that he couldn't lose
His grin was wider and brighter than
the Aurora Borealis. Picked on and
batted for more than a year by men
like Louis and Baer, he worked of all
his spleen on the fragile young man
from Westphalia. 1t was like the
town bully suddenly running across
the littlest kid in town. 1t was rev.
elation for Primo.
After hacking away with his pom
derous left for three rounds, the Ital-
ian broke Neusel's defense half way
through the fourth and lashed both
right and left to the head time and
again. He opened up Neusers left eye,
the eye that Schmeling slit apart last
year in Germany. Referee Donovan
was just peering in to assess the dam
age when Neusel stopped 1t.
No Glory for Winner.
lie DUCKED away and followed the
rope to his corner. Jimmy
Bronson and Paul Damski, his man
ayers, came out to meet him. Primo
laughed, and Donovan lifted the Ital-
ian's hand That was that. don't
know what they'll do with Primo. now
that they've got him. but Neusel is
no mystery. He doesn't belong in a
ring with the good boys.
The Neusel-Carnera fight was the
main event. but the crowd Of 10000
taxpayers got much more entertain
ment out of the preliminaries. Mr.
James ]. Johnston, the bloody but un-
bowed matchmaker for Madison
Square Garden, had lined up most OF
the young white hopes Of the Nation
in regular heavyweight carnival
None of the performers showed enough
to win the privilege of holding Joe
Louis hat, but they we're all very
much in earnest.
In the semi-fnal, that popular per-
sonality named Tony Galento, who
looks like a beer keg, but holds more
beer, ran up against the rougfest and
most reckless of the newcomers, Eddie
Nader. 1t was a grand punch festi-
val, with Nader landing oftener and
grabbing the decision. This Nader
will give the customers a good show
any time he climbs in the ring, and
he likes to fight.
Brescia Is Disappointment.
Jorge Brescia, the perfect slow mo-
ton fighter from the Argentine, was
the first disappointment in Mr.. John
ston's white hope cattle show, for he
failed by narrow margin to knock
out his man. His man was Heinz
Kohlhaas, Teuton with little to
recommend him except his willingness
to get off the floor and keep punching.
Brescia had him on the floor four
times in the course of a six-roung en-
gagement. and should have had him
out. The fact that the Argentine, who
can hit hard with both hands. failed
to get the clinching punch home is
pretty fair evidence that he is at least
a year away from the bona fide white
nope class. Just now, because of his
clumsiness, Brescia is nothing more
than a white wish
George Turner did a lot better.
George is the callow youth who gave
Max Baer licking in training for the
Louis fight. He caught a tough and
cagey Oklahoman, named James j.
Marriott, who outweighed him by %
pounds, and carved James up The
fight went the full six rounds. but
Turner learned enough about oppo-
nents who clinch to last him a life
time. He's a sound prospect.
The man who once licked Louis,
Max Marek. gave a hint of how he
performed that astounding feat. He
has a tremendously compact batch Of
muscles and a fast counter punch
from any angle. On strength alone, he
almost whipped Bob Pastor, the best
Of the recent golden glove graduates.
Pastor, who is smart and game, got
q close decision.
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