K.O PUNCH!
PART, SİX:
THE CHINA MAIL,
Elegant, legendary Sugar Ray Robinson, an eye cut, was again noar dofoat by Britain's Randolph Turgin. But then camo the dramatic moment that made it a Night of Revenge for Robinson.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1961.
A mother's heart-cry.
Sugar Ray
Ray pounced
and Sugar
A new moon hung over Harlem like a slender golden sickle. On the side-walks the black and tan throngs strutted and sauntered. It was a soft indigo evening, and from the dance-hall windows came the throbbing beat of the 12-bar blues.
...
by ALAN HOBY
soot-skinned young
Bong" Womber.
green-painted stands behind us eculd have had any idea how close Robinsta war to defest
that cruela) mugot.
THE
COMING CRICKET
SEASON IN
ENGLAND
By ARCHIE QUICK
As surely as the swallow is the harbinger of Spring the first County
Cricket press pass in my postbag-from Hampshire, of course heralds the coming of summer, if not summery weather,
Essex will duly forward No. 2 Pass, and so, in the early days of Febru- ary, drear and dank though they may be, thoughts turn to the sum- iner game with the mellow name, the game of flannelled fools.
ROBINSON ...ex.shoe- shine Boy who rose to the Jap
And then, as we watched petrified while A body of If it were not Ice the pre- burnished copper, arms punch sence of the Australians this Jug like rivet-runs," crouched i would indeca pod make of over one of lighter hus, Referee break year for counly cricket. Ruby Goldstein stepped in and Fortunately,
foes and halted the slaughter.
friends from Down Under wil spark the interest that will givė the game a reprieve for at least
other year.
Abruptly, the devil that wes Sugar Roy Robinson ceased
. just as I thought Randy was home and dry, a woman's voice, asal, hysterical, razredunching, threw his arms up to the farlem heavens in eology, man who through the hibbub.
and became a human being
gain.
In addition, there were Sugar
Suddenly, in the distance, there was the screechleed in the name of "Dang
of a siren. A few seconds later an eye- dazzling, lilac-and-rose Cadillac, its specially fitted police siren still whining, purred into
view.
On the doors, inscribed H
glistening: black letters, was the and the paints.
the pits on the pressure
Jegend "Sugar Ray."
And there, long like monarch in the back, the acme of sharp-mited elegance, was the cod hörself--Sagar Hay Itebin brown Beau Brum mell. Paris buttevarcher, dancer, musician, dollar millionaire, AND middle-weight boxing champion of the world.
THEIR HERO
As the steck ch: uiTour-driven convertible dren up, hundreds of excited coloured feik poured. from homes, bara.
In Sugar ay's corner too, as ended. The the ninth round faces of his attendants were set in grin isks of anxiety.
Ifis manager, George Gain - ford, a massive Negro, had his ps in Suppe's ear, his deen boys rumbling and booming like thunder.
And Robinson Slumped his ined he oked tired and worried.
For the st two strengths- rapping rounds he had fought Bat-footed, and it koked as if and neght the arnds were running out. bouring stets until that short, Also, there was another fae- stretch of 7th Avisane bolled, tar, as invisible an 11 was in with people eager to shake the sidians, nagging and ribbling band at durir warld champion. † his confiden
Ochres, unable to get near the | саг, were happy just to gazei proudly at their flick Prince of boxing to hail the smiling. handsome her who, only 24 hours before, at The Pato Gemande, New York. hat kick- ed cut Britain's Randolph Pur- pin t was bk the world 1.
6 lb. t.
For, shrug it off though be tried, Sugar Ray could not forget what happened when he met Randolph Turpin in
first nightmarish fight that bark 11 London only two months before.
ENTOURAGE
Then' America's greateat boxer, For all in their minds-and he had descended un England indeed the mind of ivity pent- ! from his headquarters in Paris up fan who saw it was thee, like one explic ineftain.
vast behandl He had ser up camp al Wind-
SACAR
in Dre stadium on that humid
night | ror attended by a bronze oud when; raiste entourage si fantastic as
it was bizarre.
of September 12. 1951. G1,800 people watched the re- Venge of Sugar Ray.
the
I was the beginning of 10th round and Hobinson, chat- lenging for, the crown hy had serisationally lost to Turpin
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in London cale 64 days before, was steadily falling behind on
points,
mattle
Magnificent in his youth, his muscles rippling with power, the enfe-au-lait Englishman was! beginning to
and juli Robinson's head unty Sugar's carefully-pomaded hole sletdi up like binek spikes.
Murcover, Randy was doing!
it with the same teeth-jarrinh
weapon which hal bale:
anci thest!
broken Robinzon in their Aght the old-fashioned, #ectly-delivered straight left.
All around me, as 1 sat negr the ring with its grid of yellow floodlights, the watching sands seemed stunned.
-
Whether they were oil king or ticket touts, Hollywood stars or raucous-lunged prznul van- dors, they had erone, every single one of them, licking their lips in greedy anticipation of a swift Robinson victory.
And in those pantherish early rounds it lanked as if the British boy would he swamped by an ovalanche of panchés.
DANGER
It looked as if the snarling, grinacing American Negro with hia
famed punch combinations dazzling clusters of blows which landed with stunning force-could crash Topin down and out whenever he wanted.
In the second, Hobinsen,į alim, snake-hipped, jrging on dancer's feet and all fandango and flounce, hurt the world champion with a vicious right to the body; then had Turpla battering wobbling with a right cross to the Jaw, In the third this elegant block artist sent Turpin teetering backwards with another wham- ming right. but Randy, supremely strong, clinched and railled.
In the fourth, Robinson whip- ped up his famous belo upper- cut and that arching right glove || caught the deadpan Türpin off) balance.
But still the Englishman re- mained upright, frësh, caẩm, and with the brooding strength of a young bull.
And now the crowd, sniffing danger, was hushed. For, sud- denly, the brown lide of punches was rolling the other way,
Suddenly the natural rhythm, the speed and wizardry of his footwork had left Harlem's dark destroyer. Six years the sentor, he was rgcing before our gyer
As the rounds rected off, the Americans watched amazed, Tac hunter 108 breaming the hum- ed.
Turpin, despite his wide open alance and unorthodox methods, had begun to take the fight to the fasì fnding. Robinson; WES punishing him heavily with club- bing chegs and belling hooku to the body.
Onto hgin, the unbelievable Wen happening. This stering- eyed "usurper" from across the pond-The Limey from No- where," an one New York wax labelled him-was WINNING
Dar black acolyte was keeper of the satin-covered water boile front which the champion rinsed his pearly-toethed mouth.
Another character reverently held the spittoon, while his chiel spurring-partner
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"He's opened that cut. You've got to get hiä, Ray.""
The woma was Robinson's mother.
Ray's personal barber. his per- sonial secretary, His personal Whether or not he heard her chauffeur, his personal golf pre-heart-cry, Robinson's response fessional Rebinson's golf was electrifying. handicap was 12-plus 3 ft As Turpin led with his right French midget who spoke Enges, bading habitudia lish. Spanish, Italian
Ray leaped like wild Arabic.
cal.
EYE SLIT
America's aristocrat of the ring had won. From the brink defeat he of exhaustion and
had plucked back the title frem
the boxer who had humiliated him in London,
Was Goldstein right to stop
the fight with only eight recouds
remaining the round.
Or should he have waited un-) til the bell peale merelfut re- lease for Turpla, un the chance that Randy, after the minute's rest, would have come up fresher and ready for the 11th
round?
HE WAS RIGHT
IN-
A Baying right caught the Englishinan under tho heart, From Windsor, the boxer Another right hook, stupefying Parisiens calici "Le Suere in its fury, tammed home on Merveilleux," travelled
the chin. triumph to London-where a
Turpin, helpiers, eyes blurred, phlegmatic young man from mouth gaping Legan to cap. Leamington Spa, undisturbed | Then-down he went-like falling by the pre-fight rash of Robin timber. Bon ballyhoo, proceeded to For several seconds he lay
There had been a death - in knock the great Sugar Ray's on his back. Then, at the
the ring a low days before, and diadem right off his head.... count of nine, quivering and
It was possible that Goldstein No wonder as he waited for shaking, he was up. How erred on the side of discretion. the fateful 10th round in that shall never know
and the New York ring two months inter. hurrienne agulled him. the warning bells rang in Hay Robinson's brain.
'LIE DOWN' "Get him wote." Yang their
seconds message, "before ageing intacles. In those shuddering stowing reflexes and Turpin's, Sugar Ray the ring selentist be
thect body punches pet you again." come Sugar Ray
holocaust.
And so, weary and Reead of Bghter. 1 was a massacre. A arrogance, the man who cace said "Boxing is my business and enjoy my business,” shufled but for the tenth.
Trout of him, the coffee gelou. d champion from Eng long shot out his all and Sugar clinched,
Then, as they broke, a tour came from The growd. For there. streaming down Sugar
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Backing away from the storm, Turpin managed to get his back
against the rupts.
where he swayed from side to side like a rus-dewn matranome,
Hooks, upparuit, crasies! Prashed down on Turpin's head and body. la 31 seconds 25 power-laden punches were flung
the Englishman and, al- though he rode many of them, then be couldn't evold them 2017.
down,
Randy For sake,
down" blurted on anguished British vcics from his ceratr.
| Ray's face was อ rivulat or
blood, tiny at first, and widening, until it was a river.
With one punch Turpin had | Heaven's klit the old eye wound he first opened in London—and H looked The flash for Suger
New! the tall. i
Ray.
Indeed, few of thors Yerkers packed into
NOW, TAKE THE
RANMAKER TO THE WHITE MAJOR
AND LIKE
DEMONSTRATE.
MAN
FERDINAND
NANCY
BONG
SURE
WILL
IS THAT YOUR NEW DOG, IRMA ?
BRICK BRADFORD
YOU ARE GONT "TO PUT ME AND THE BALNOMENT. ON AN ISLAND · WE'RE ON DRY
· LAND]
THAT'O WHAT
I'M GONG TO' po- CIRCUS YOU
TH
A WIDE PATH OF
DRY DUBTI
But Randy Just slood there, as empty site. eyes vacant deaf to every appeal, a help- less punchbag,"
GEE
BUSY DOWNING/ HIS GIN FIZZ
But he seemed sincere enough when he said niterwards: "A few years from now Turpin will be glad I stopped the fight. He didn't know what he was doing at the end."
I agreed with Goldstein then. I still do.
After the Dght, which grossed £302,438-Robinson got 481.- 773, Turpin £68,145 The brave loser sailed home to fight again, and eventually to retire.
And Sugar Ray Robinson? Now 39, he is s1 at the top. and ex- The ex-world weller middleweight champion, he has won the letter title FIVE tunes -a record.
Smooth and assured, there never has been
cnyons quite like this ex-shoeshine boy, who tore from hunger and hard times to riches and world se- clalm.
THAT IS, IF HE AIN'T 100
THE MAJOR IS HOGGING HIS GIN WHEN
JONES ARRIVES
GAD LOCK UP
MAG PIZZ, IT IS
HE BACK AGAIN,
YES---ISN'T HE CUTE?
Joa MOVES THE EQUIPMENT AND PLACES
SHADY ON GUARD.c
"I GST IT) IN 1
SED A FOOTPRINT
IN THÁT PATI
ZORAWAY!
UGHT
THE END
(London Express Service).
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
I THINK HE'S TRYING TO”
TELL YOU SOMETHING
By Paul Norris
BUT, JOU, THESE THINGS WE ARE UD AGAINST ARE INVISIBLE GRAYBE THEY DON'T
LEAVE FOOTPRINTS)
OR, SHADY,NDU) RADE 150 MANY DONETA MORE THAT THEY
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the rule rather than the excep“ tion, and the crowds loved it. The West Indians in Australia have shown that it can silly be clone, and it is now up to County Committees and county | captains to see that more enter prise is shown in the batting.
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What happens thereafter is Away with averages rightful bir, direct in the line
the!
in the jap of the gods, MCC wělí know. Their aware- Ross of a critical situation is underlined by their recent formation of o committed to
popularity for the county game up and down the country,
the
the opening role he Ans: co dletasteful. I do not agree that he should be superseded by the bright Ted Dexter. The Sussex man should be left to get on with his balting. I do not want to Eco this gay young man stullied by captaincy cares, und, anyhow, Cowdrey is the
ot succession for a task he has Farrled out quite satisfactorily I would also like to see the Press stop publishing the bat-
in May's absence. ing and bowling averages. Professionals, unconsciously" or
Chinks in
Australian armour have been revealed by the West these when they go on the field.
Indians, weaknesses In thuir attack have been ruth- Fubile enthusiasm still pre- | lessly" "exposed, but when you
hnd the other day Secretary perfch 'one's head for Engilsh Ronnie Poulton was telling and howlers after you have put how diesppointed the locals are down the name of Freddle at not being awarded an Aus-
Trueron and Brian Statham. tralian Test Match this sum- Our spin attack may give cause mer. It has gone to Warwick- for concern. shire, and it must be confessed that the Birmingham organ- nisallon has converted the Kround into Jusi Edgbaston
enquire into how best to revive lice keep one of their eyes on
One simple remedy valls in Nitingham, however, corn to think of it one has to
Of course,
If the
profes. sionals would only realise that (krie Jobs are in feopardy they would discover there 19 one simple remedy to cure all ilishi, the ball härder and more often.
This should be allied, of course to lesa negative bowling.
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New York, Feb. R. Joey Lopez of Secrements, California, left for Manila today
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