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Of the $500,000 which he has earned in the last two years, Baer has nothing left. Of the $40,000 which he made from last week's fight, he owes most to his first manager. To newshawks who interviewed him after his victory, Baer last week revealed his plans: "I want to get a dark coat and a checked pair of pants, you know, Hollywood style. ... I want to end up with a little trust fund. ... I don't want to end up with the toy balloon concession in some insane asylum or other. . . . The only sweetheart I have now is my mother. . . . She won't sue me. . . ."
Taken to a hospital after his defeat, Carnera was found to be suffering from a chipped ankle bone. His $125.000 purse was attached by creditors including the U. S. Government to which he owes $33,000 for income taxes. Wrote Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "He comes to the end of his career a bankrupt, fleeced by thieves of the American underworld and picked clean by litigants and lawyers, an unfortunate stranger in a puzzling country, with only his hurts to show for his years of striving."