Show Tommy Primo-Tommy rimo Tommy Fight Pronounced Greatest of All Boxing Flops Flops' X Tilt Ci Cited d as ris One ne Th That t Did Nobody Any Good OnI Only Chiselers and Moochers l Stand in Line I. I I By PAUL GALLICO MIAMI Fla Pla March 3 If If one were were looking for a n name me t thang to hang on on- on onto to the late and lamented heavyweight hea championship struggle held under a a full moon and the bending palms of Miami one might c call 1 1 it J the e fight that di did noo nobody y any good TO Lo list some oi ot the me calamities the calamities the Madison Square Garden corporation lost money moncy and prestige Camera Carnera lost all his prestige what prestige what remained after the Paulino Uzcudun fight fight and and gota got a little I In exchange f for forit r it Ix Loughran acq acquired a little glory but abad mauling nOm to speak of and he failed in iri his quest for the thel heavyweight championship I Experts Were Wrong No matter h how w game he was I i Loughran did not do what he said he Would do which was to beat Carnera Carnera Carnera Car- Car nera so the fight did him no good Miami got a black eye for its weather with plenty of bad publicity The referee even didn't look like much ofa of ofa a barg bargain in And all the experts who Mid aid th that t Tom wouldn't l last t six rounds looked cven even worse My te on this trip back to where winter Is winter is Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick the president of New Yorks York's Madison Square G Gar Car r- r den whose heart is a sore ore and heavy His first adventure as leader of at the foremost sports promotion corpora tion in the world has has' not been 2 a happy one The sole purpose of at operating a fIght light In M Miami was to make a few pennies to pay the bill for tor keeping the w wooden oden crater there In repair An ate gate would have pUshed this Instead the gross re- re were bar barely ly over vcr Miami the weather the parsimonious visitors visitors all all let Jet the colonel down In all that vast crowd of rest and vacation seekers planted on our s southeastern peninsula no more than O could be found willing to see Loughran and Camera Carnera box one another an an- other Bad as the match looked on paper it was still a heavy heavyweight championship affair and should have drawn more A couple of at good non champion lightweights will do that Thai much business In the Garden It was the most amazing failure in tho his tory of at boxing Line Up Unquestionably t the h e miserable K weather V for 5 S three days before belore th the fight rUIn ruined d it The sale sate was pro pro peo greis 4 h briskly L the fight was steam UJ 6 up P a tropical hurricane burr hurri- cane cazie and rainstorm broke over Ml Miami ml and the beach palm trees tree bent double ft theY the VS rain roared r Z ared d and sluiced d front from the u black Mack J jhc h heavens For the next two days day there was constant wind and driving rain and the fight tight just curled up and died Almost nobody came from out of j r. r town At 4 in the afternoon there w were e no more than 30 people outside 1 the box office Twenty eight of them z were chiselers and ticket moochers 4 Iti after aUer a pair of skulls f t i Rogers Hornsby had not seen more than a hall half ball dozen American league e er r d games in his life bet before rc taking over i g management ement of the St. St Louis Browns last ear jear 1 |