GIANT ITALIAN BOXER.

Shannon News, 6 December 1929, Page 2

GIANT ITALIAN BOXER.

ACCOMMODATION DIFFICULTIES. Primo Camera, the giant Italian boxer, who is at present creating a sensation in London, is an extraordinary man from all points of view. It is said that the London hotel staff was not exactly sorry when lie left for his training camp. lie ate as much food at a meal as two men, and there was scarcely a chair on which he could sit in comfort. To provide him with adequate sleeping • accommodation, two double beds were placed side by side, so that he could -sleep crosswise with one set of bedclothes for his body and the other covering his legs. Before lie left Camera said there was not much happiness in being the world’s biggest boxer. At the luncheon table, for instance, he had to spreadeaglo his legs, because from the knee downwards they were higher than the table. <-

Camera said: "I cannot enter a shop and buy clothing like an ordinary man. Nothing fits me. Everything must be specially made. I -wear a 21in collar, a size 16 boot, and a jacket measuring sSin round the £hest. "Everywhere I go I am stared at — in Paris crowds of small boys follow me. I cannot take a theatre stall, because the seat is too small for me. For the same reason, I am unable to ride on top of an omnibus, and it is only with difficulty that I can squeeze into the average car.”

He has a chest measurement of 54in (normal), is 64in round the shoulders and has a forearm 16in round the thickest part. -He has a brother, aged 16, wllo stands 6ft Bin, weighs last, and is growing fast. It is reported that Camera and St-ribling will fight again in Paris in the second week in December. Stribling has agreed to a somewhat unusual clause to t-lio effect that if either is disqualified on a foul, he will not be entitled to the guaranteed share of the purse. Other possible opponents for Camera are Deiner and Tom Heeney.