The injury to Armstrong was indirectly the fault of reporters.
Henry had planned to stage his final limbering-üp exercises in his own gymnasium, but had been induced press photographers to visit the Hip-"drome in order to have his pictures ken alongside Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis.
Mats, hastily and somewhat carelessly placed on the glistening Hai-Alai courts in the Hippodrome, slipped while Armstrong danced about shadow-boxing, h the result that Henry fell and dislocated a joint of the spine. while not serious, is extremely painful, and any attempts o go on with the fight may have pelled disaster for Armstrong, especi-if he had been knocked down. now scheduled for United Press.
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