CARNERA DISQUALIFIED

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1929, Page 6

CARNERA DISQUALIFIED

HITTING AFTER GONG WENT. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, December, 7. Camera was disqualified at the end of the seventh round for hitting Stribling after the gong went. Camera weighed 287 pounds and Stribling 184). Strilding did nearly all the hitting in the first round including a right to the jaw which evidently hurt Camera. Stribling lighting vigorously, hit Camera twice in the stomach, then a left to the head and a right swing to the jaw. When the second round opened Stribling ignored Camera’s threatening left and scored with punches to the jaw and drew' blood on Camera’s face. Stribling continued to score freely but the blows were mostly poorly timed. Camera began the third round more like a fighter* but bis leads continued futile. He landed a straight left which nearly knocked Stribling off his legs. Stribling became wild, rushing Camera and often missing altogether. Camera did much better in the fourth with a right and left to the body and left to the jaw, but leaving his guard open. and Stribling landed twice to the stomach. Stribling . was letting Camera make the pace and landed a right hook to the jaw and won the round comfortably. Between the fourth and fifth rounds the referee cautioned Stribling about holding. Stribling in the fifth tried to make play on Camera’s right cheek, which was swollen and bleeding, Camera made crude lunges, enabling Stribling to score two handed on the body inside the guard. Camera’s nose also began to bleed. He got Stribling against the ropes but the American easily ducked and got clear. Camera seemed weaker and Stribling now had a large advantage of points. Fierce clinching and wrestling opened the 1 sixth. Stribling landed thrice and then dropped Camera with a right to the point. Camera hung on the ropes and Stribling tried to finish him off, but Camera avoided him. Camera landed a hard right-on to the jaw and Stribling hung on in order to recover. Camera punished Stribling considerably to the hell. Camera returned to the attack for the seventh in which there was some clinching. Then Camera floored Stribling almost knocked him out. Camera last punch was a right to the jaw, which the referee ruled was delivered after the gong. - - ■ (Received this dnv at H a.m.) PARIS. Dec. 8. It should he understood, that as soon as Camera floored Stribling, the gong sounded, but in the pandemonium following the blow nothing was audible. It seemed as if both men continued beyond the legal limit. Another account says there is no doubt Camera never heard the gong. He landed a blow just as Stribling 'broke away, which floored him. Stribling rising, Camera rushed him evidently ignorant that the' hell had sounded. The seconds threw themselves upon the giant, but not understanding wha.t- was the matter, lie hurled them aside, trying to get at Stribling again. The crowd shoutiiu r and hooting. Camera looked round puzdled and then the result was announced. The attendance at the Camera - Stribling fight was twenty-five thousand. There was tremendous excitement.

Striding said afterwards—No more fights for mo with this man.