The Bismarck Tribune

Canzoneri: For Title

CARNERA WINS

PAULINO BU

Victory Failed to Increase Champion's Prestige in Native Land

Rome, Oct. 23.-(AP)-Primo Carnera's first heavyweight title defense, successful though it was, added little to the mammoth Italian's prestige in his native land Monday.

A crowd of 70,000 strongly predisposed in Carnera's favor, watched the huge champion punch out a decisive 15-round victory over Paulino Uzcudun Sunday, cheered him for a while and then booed him just as heartily in the last two rounds for his failure to stop the 34-year-old Spanish veteran of more than 10 years' warfare against the world's best heavyweights.

There was no question whatever as to the ultimate winner after the first couple of rounds. Carnera smashed the Basque woodchopper all over the ring with a zipping left and ponderous rights, yet never could floor a rival whose courage alone carried him through the full 15-round limit.

Of the attributes that once made him feared throughout the heavyweight division, Paulino took with him into this fight only a rock-ribbed chin and the constitution of an ox. He was on the receiving end from the start, his rushes were smothered in the Italian's mighty arms, he was bleeding from the fifth round on, yet he never quit trying, never stopped coming into his bulky opponent, never was floored. At the finish, bloody and bruised, Paulino still was carrying on as aggressively as ever, taking the ripest Carnera could offer.