Sport: Camera v. Sharkey

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Defending his world's heavyweight championship for the first time, against gargantuan Primo Camera, Jack Sharkey last week made a mistake in the sixth round. Before that Camera, lumbering about the ring in the uncomfortable manner of an elephant on a barrel, had tried to obey his manager's instructions to behave like a boxer. Consequently, Sharkey (201 Ib.) had completely outmaneuvered Carnera (260 Ib.) by jumping or standing on his toes' to reach Camera's chin with left jabs. Thinking that now the time had come to knock Camera down, as he did when...

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