Sport: Fights

In Chicago. Young Stribling, sluggish Georgia heavyweight famed for his ferocity when fighting mediocre opponents and for his ability to cling to the arms, ribs and elbows of those whom he respects, amazed a crowd of 20,000 by poking several long lefts into the sallow face of Otto Von Porat, lanky Norwegian. Before the first round ended Stribling suddenly lashed a left hook against Von Porat’s jaw. The Norwegian fell flat on his back, was counted out.

In Philadelphia. Primo Carnera, Italian behemoth, stood up straight as his first dangerous U. S. opponent, George Godfrey, 249 Ib. Leiperville, Pa., Negro, wove toward him with a yellow smile, shuffling his feet and feinting in a manner to which he had been tutored by onetime Negro heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Carnera was puzzled in the first round but thereafter held Godfrey’s neck immovably in the clinches, jolted him with short rights, stung him with long lefts. In the fifth round Godfrey suddenly and apparently with deliberation hit Carnera low, followed the first bad blow with a long left below the groin. Carnera, writhing in agony, was declared winner on a foul.