Sport: Carnera v. Peterson

In Madison Square Garden, full to the rafters, Primo Camera, Italian monster (6 ft. 6 in.), strode toward the ring, grinning. He wore a bright green cap and a sleeveless sweater from which protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was...

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