CARNERA FARCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 11

CARNERA FARCE

U.S.A. BOXING HEADS GUN FOR HIM FAKE FIGHTS FOR PROFIT United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, Wednesday. The State Boxing Commission at Oakland, California, has withheld from Primo Camera, the giant Italian boxer, a purse of £2,000 in connection with his match last evening against Leon Chevalier, a negro. The

commission has be- , gun to investigate reports to the effect that the result of the contest was prearranged. Chevalier boxed in an impressive manner for six rounds. Then he went down for the count at nine, at which he rose to his feet. One of his

seconds, however, threw in the towel and Camera was awarded a technical knock-out. This action is illegal in California, unless the chief second stops the fight Chevalier’s chief second says he was so surprised by the action of the other second that he failed to protest to the referee. The negro’s wife is alleged to have persuaded him to admit that he had been approached with a promise of a purse of more than £IBO if he consented to follow a questionable arrangement. A message from Los Angeles says: Recently Camera, the giant pugilist, was heartily booed by 12,000 who saw him batter Neil Clisby, a negro, in Camera’s 14th successive knock-out. In the middle of the second round, Camera, breaking from a clinch, smashed the negro’s jaw so hard that Clisby was unconscious for three minutes. The Boxing Commission now is on Camera’s trail, and is trying to bring to an end his money-making tour and “burlesque set-ups.”