CARNERA’S RISE
RETURNS TO LONDON WITH t . FORTUNE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 14. Exactly a year ago Prime Camera the boxer, landed in London practically “down and out,” with shabby '.clothes, but with an ambitious manager. His first fight in London was against Stanley, and it netted £10i). This week-end Camera stepped out jfrom a pullman ear at Victoria Statiion, dressed in the height of fashion, and with an air of a man about i town. Hundreds of people crowded 1 round him, and he had to face a whole ■battery of photographers, j CJarnera admits that he. now has « j personal fortune, of £30,090. He has learned one hundred thousand pounds, I but some nine persons who have been jeoncerped in his pugilistic career are • entitled.to a percentage of his earnings. • Camera explained: “I’ll say lam |satisfied! Two years ago I was a handy man travelling with a circus. Now I have everything. The whole {thing is a raira.cle!”. . . I ~His chief anxiety now is to prove |to the English public that he is not in, slaughterer,, but a. boxer.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1930, Page 6
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184CARNERA’S RISE Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1930, Page 6
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