Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-17 | Page 15 | Diving Phil Scott's Pilot Says Carnera Was Robbed

Diving Phil Scotts Scott's Pilot Says Camera Carnera Was Robbed London Ring Critic Bases Opinion of Fight on Secondhand Second Second- hand haud Movie lUovic Information By DAN PARKER Special to The Telegram Maybe the Carnera Carnera-Bacr fight wasn't held In Woodside L. L I. I after alter all but In the ring London Then again maybe the brawl was not between Baer and Camera Carriera but between Phil Scott and Joe Beckett But whatever the cause the London fight critics with the exception of Norman Hurst whose views I have already reprinted seem to have hae arrived at the most startling conclusions imaginable as to what took place during the mill Most of oC them seem to think from Crom looking at atthe atthe all the pictures being peddled in jn Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope that Primo received a raw deal As they saw the fight Primo was far ahead on points and the bout should never have been stopped How far astray the celluloid version of or a fight can lead a boxing expert is is best bet illustrated d in an article written written writ writ- ten by C. C Rose in Boxing a British British Brit Brit- ish weekly devot devoted d to the sweet sel- sel dice ence C. C Rose is belter better identified as Charley Char Char- ley Rose who managed Weeping Phil Scott It is well to know this because cause in irs the course of his article Mr Rose seeking to emphasize Primos Primo's al at- martyrdom says he received a araw araw raw deal comparable to that accorded accorded ac accorded ac- ac corded his lachrymose lummox Mr Scott Charley Chancy doesn't state so but he hc I probably means Phil was swindled the he night he received a tap on the hip nip in the second round of his bout with Otto Von bellowed Foul and sent a n packed house home cheated out of ol a nj nights night's ht's enter enter- for which they paid dearly deary dear dear- ly y while he went vent to the box office and collected OOOO or more for his fraudulent performance Much is made b by Mr Rose and other British critics of Joe Humphries' Humphries Humphries' Humphries Hum- Hum spontaneous outburst in introducing in in- reducing Baer as the uthe California Adonis in whom we have great faith that hat he will bring back the heavyweight championship to the good old U. U S. S A. A The quotes are Mr Roses loses not mine The British writers seem to point to this outburst on Joes Joe's part as proof that the works were in against Primo Thc They should know J Joe oc Humphries as we do over here his here his love ove for all things American his flair for Cor getting sentimental about boxing and his weakness for embellishing his announcements ments with extemporaneous oratory oraton He is 15 such an American institution institution in in- n and is so well beloved by boxing fans that he lie is given full leeway leeway lee lee- way in making his announcements To impute a sinister significance to Joe Joes Joe's s innocuous oratory is a a silly wil- wil of which only a minded literal Briton is capable Alter After describing the first two knockdowns knockdowns-jn in the first round Rose writes Maxie whose nose had been driven Into his dial by left glove and his ribs battered in the clinches with fierce rights sic charged at the felled Goliath and him good and hard while he le was on tho floor Rose must have been looking at atone atone atone one of Jimmy Cagney's pictures in iii which he beats up lip his moll Those who saw the fight know that in his excitement at having floored Primo and having him ready for the kayo wallop llop Boer rushed in iii and was about to him him as he was down when Donovan stepped in and waved him to his corner Max didn't come within a yard of hitting g Camera and there was no proof that he would have hit him had not Donovan inter inter- Throughout his article Rose makes it appear as if II Camera Carnera received a araw araw araw raw deal rom from Referee Donovan and that Baer was favored Rose probably probably proba proba- bly never heard that Donovan was appointed referee of the bout over Baers Baer's loud protest Camera was satisfied satisfied sat sat- with Donovan Certainly Donovan Donovan Don Don- ovan no partiality to Baer and Rose has no grounds for making making mak make ing such a charge unless it be the good old fashioned one so popular among British boxing writers of oC twisting Uncle Sams Sam's coat tails for forI forthe forthe the amusement of oC their Yankee hat I ing int readers