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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY.11.

Mr Smith Had A Ministry Of Labour Permit For

THE LOSER-ROBINSON A 15-Round

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REPORT

ON THE JOB:

Job

At Earl's Court

By GEORGE WHITING

London.

Ministry of Labour Permit No. 15645, issued under the Aliens Or- der, ushered Walker Smith, Anterican citizen, off the Paris night, ferry into Victoria Station on July 8,

THE WINNER RANDOLPH TURPIN

Londont, July-10.“

·Britain's Randolph Tur Fin scored one of the most sensational lapsets in modern" ring history to night when he hammered out a décisive 15-round de». cision over "Sugar" Ray Robinson to......become tho first British Middleweight Champion of the World since Bob Fitzsimons in. 1881.

Turpin, 23-year-old slightly deaf. ́ ́ex-sailór, gave Robinson the worst beating of his long carder in the 16-round battle

Mr Walker, Smith, say the Ministry, will be allowed to work in the United Kingdom for two months. The business on hand, however, did take quite so long as that. Our visitor is better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, and he is dropping in on London only for eight or dine days-fat long enough to relleve ns of sonte £26,000 for defending his world middleweight boxing championship against Ran-staged before a sellout dolph, Turpin at Earl's Court yesterday. :

crowd.

Looking like a younger duskier' Clark Gable, unscarred by his trade, tailored

The fans wound up a soberly but expensively and bowed into his chauffeur-driven flamingo pink Cadillac

great night for British convertible by one of his entourage of nine, the immaculate Sugar will smile, and

sport singing "For He's A shake an exquisitely barbered head if you infer he is the world's richest fighter.

Jolly Good Fellow" as a Maybe he right, for the £25,000 for a bar and grill- he had to cut his purse-money tribute both to Turpin and highly polished and well-order-room businers, that a dry-clean down the middle to get oppon- Robinson, who failed to ed ruthlessness be displays Ining outit cost him £7,000; that ents

owns one of the most We had one hell of a time show his usual impressive the ring have scht scares of he possible opponents running in elaborate hairdressing establish before we caught up with La-form and fought the last fide rounde on courage all directions but the right one ments in Now York that ho Motta." for May.

gave his wife lingerie shop

But now the hard times are alone with his wife and Sul, you could put his fortune when their son was born at £250,000. Nor will be bother months ago, or that his staff over. At 30, man-about-town sister weeping bitterly at

Convenient

of a ! to deny that he owns 75,000 payroll outside of toxing comes Robinson has put aside the in- the ringside. Worth of real estate on Seventh to about £1,300 a week.

divorce at the age of 19 and the At the finish, Robinson. Avenue, New York; that he pald

trouble siirred up when during his 15 months army service he was bleeding badly from a over his left. refused to box exhibitions un-deep gash less Negro soldiers were allowed eye opened in the seventh to watch them.

when their heads collided, and from nose and mouth, Robinson is now happily mar-He was trying to avoid a ex-Cotton Club dancer knockout at the hands of

the powerfully muscled British puncher who has been fighting professionally

MR SMITH LOSES HIS SECOND FIGHT IN 130 Ex-Navy Cook Turpin Leaves "Sugar Ray" In A Sorry Mess

London, July 10.

Randolph Turpin, the coloured British and European Middleweight Boxing Champion, tonight won the World's very easily the Middleweight boxing crown by beating Champion, Sugar Ray Robinson, of the United States, at Earl's Court, London..

Turpin won at least eight of the 15 rounds and thus became the first Brilon to win the title for 60 years. It was only Robinson's second defeat in 130 contesta. This time there was no doubt whatever that he had met his match.

Bookmakers laid 4 to 1 on the dusky and. glamorous American to beat Bri- tain's hope but Turpin, an ex-Navy cook, with the true tradition of the Royal Navy, sailed in from the start and was the aggressor almost from the clang of the open- ing beli.

There was hardly a mark on the British and European Chum plost,

Henderson, a Scotsman, wamed champ away. the Briton for hitting round the

Turpin, however,

and

Jeft 6th

backs of the body and done no rounds to four with two even.

real harm and he took the open-

possibly

even;

THE PRIEST'S IDEA Detroit-born Robinson has como a long way since 1938 when as a spindly litle imp of less than Est, he was taken by a priest to have some of his street-arab devilry turned into more orthodox boxing channels by instructor George Quinford at the Salem Crescent Athletic. Club on 129th Street, New York.

Gainford, KLOW Robinson's large, opulent and expansive. manager, was not too impressed.

"I told Smilly he was too young," says Gainford, "Besides, he said his ma would kill him if he got mixed up with the fight game. So I chused him away from the gym-back to deliver- ing groceries and dancing for dimes on the street corner...

Tuemories

NOW HE'S SMOOTH

ried to

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Fight Broadcast Over Radio HK This Evening 'A' recording of the BBC commentary

the Turpin-Robinson fight for the World Middleweight Championship at Earl's Court last night will be broadcast this evening by Radio Hongkong from 6.50 to 8 p.m«

Edna Mae Holly and has an 18- month-old son, Ray back in Miami.

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his

for only four years.

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In the very first round Turpin took one of Ray's stiff!rights without wincing and came crowding in to handle the American with startling ease in clinches. He scored frequently in this reimd with a hard | left to the head a punch | Robinson was never able to fathom throughout the fight.

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"SUGAR" JOKED

ABOUT THIS DATE

WITH TURPIN

By

PETER WILSON

"How do I feel about fighting Randolph Tarpin? Well, I'm told they regard me as a real champion in England. I hope to fight like a real champion when I get there.”

round,

bc's

"But he turned up again with my", Hodhaw, Warren Jones. I took him into my home, taught

The speaker "Regal" Ray Robinson, The, place--- him a few tricks, and let him letey around with me when I

his dressing-room (or should it be undressing-room?). 200%

of amateur my team

"Comes the second fighters round the clubs.

Robinson, who got £30,- I ask Robinson it he'd care) 000 which is the largest to be quoted on how long he and boom Levine, there was "Mischievous little guy he

to ever paid

thought his fight against Turpina puncher for you--has hit him

·I think with a fight. was. One of his tricks was to

would last. The rough-edged fighter with purse have a duplicate key of my par

fighter in Britain, was him- chip on

He took a deep breath, rather never going to get up in time. D sebwl and a made and hijacks the car for joy rides, I smacked him down more shoulder is gone. In his place self only in the 12th round like the kind of amateur pianist But somehow he does, and he is the smooth, smiling man of when he scored with a who always expresses the pro-gets back to the corner at the thon orde

12-handicap. golfer, "But

deserves

beautifully Smitty

synchronised fourdest astonishinent at being end of the round." his affairs.

the employer

er of labour, the

(or this Robinson said: "? breaks. In those days he haue

the "Sugar Ray's body and head attach that asked to play bub who always,

by the strangest coincidence, saw him start this-right, and I York with his mother and swe baskeball team, the idol of the momentarily had Turpin has the music with him. He reach for to block it with my nothing. He had come to New owner of

on the verge of trouble,

right. The last thing I know committeeman with but the Briton jumpedWell, I'd like le to be just haven't blocked it. Then young sisters when his parents Paris boulevards, and the were divorced in Detroit. His pasiduous

the I hear £10,000 to distribute on behal

referee saying still works there at the Ford

of the Damon Runyon Cancer into frequent clinches, tirone round. But they tell me

that Turpin won't co-operate Four, and I wonder why he plani.

Robinson by hanging so...I guess it won't go more started counting that far ahead. Fund in England, Scotland and ing Ireland,

limp on his arms.

than 15 rounds,"

Nover dl hear the Arst three Everyone laughed .at this.

'seconds")kag the "king" taking Turpin, who got £9,000, example of

a ring micro- | over the role of Court Jester. said into phone after hir victory,

A LEVER

- United Press. af will keep the title in my country às long as I can.”

· IT'S 'BALONEY,

In later, lusher days Robinson has encouraged a belief that he bogan boxing as a Worshipper of and bag-carrier to Joe Louis In Detroit That is

Ray Robinson is costing us £20,000 the biggest purse ever paid to a boxer in this country, I can Having seen him dight, man is world-champion-and pombe you the is worth it. The emrnestly trying to be a world citizen.

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Gainford continued: He goes down again in the ninth. But this time he's all right only first blazing mad, He said: long Gimme gum-shield.

my the one of us has to .by

win and

knock-out

NOW,

A typical Robinson "royal levee this was. For the fow, minutes there were swatches of silence while champion sat thinking sweating. Some of the time

No the Ray Robinson engs-to- THIS IS MR WALKER SMITH was just wanting

It was Robinson, not Turpin, who was looking for the end of the fight to come. He was in a sorry mess, was the Champion, for his left eye was a bloody sight.

defence of the crown he won 29 of bis 44 fights by knockouts, can be forgotten on the au from Jake La Motta in Chicago was worned in the first round thority of his mother, Mrs Leila now has her own 6mith, punch which is for kidney

Who on February 14,

He rattled Ray's house, car and maid in New The youth of the challenger, Robinson bad not lost a light a foul here, for he was seven years younger in over eight years. He was teeth with a hard left to the York. Mrs Smith dismisses the than his rival, stood him in good outpointed by La Motta in a chin and again hammered a left Louis story as "baloney."

head with Ray Robinson's rounder in Detroit, to stead. Both boxers were fil but | ten

no saga began with unable to avoid the riches apparently Turpin was the fitter.

February 5, 1943.

romantic nonsense about hero LEFT HOOK "SPECIALS" The cocky, aggressive Briton, punch.

They both were warned for worship. He was just one of Turpin started off as it he who holds the British meant butiness. He was bot in Eiropun Middleweight cham holding in the third, but Turpin thousands of colousted American the least perturbed by the great pionship, walked in on the 31- had the better of what nighting kids who had to dight for self-

the himself, in Se-cuted district. to, look like reputation of the World Cham-year-old champion without any there was and Hey only began expression in a tough, cuff-or-

ow fear. plon and il only needed a low

SO SWEET He battered the champion fourth round when he scored seconds of the first round for the

the back in

His first public dight as dis- Turpin pulled Champion's beautifully pomad with every punch in the book harder and cleaner punches,

but Robisonnet from gutter scuffles took el crinkly black hair to be and opened a deep slash under Afth round

ot placo.at: Kingston, New York, ruffled by one of Turpin's left Ray's left eye in the seventh

body in the whare, despite being under age hook "pecials".

round. In the twelfth, he drew saught him with a series

punches to the the delight of the blood from the champion's nose

sixth to take the round.

he persuaded Gainford to let him Turpin, 10

Robinson won only the 4th, give two years and a beating to crowd, started to attack in ear-and in the fourteenth he stag- nest.

and 11th rounds. by any another young grechi-us-grass gered Robinson with a

The crowd There were boos from the hook to the Jaw."

Turpin was difflesity, Gainford borrowed the crowd as the referee, Eugene yalled for Turpin to put the sort of margin with two others amateur. To get round the ago name of an older boxer called The Associated Press score well ahead in the other 10:

Smith. What amazed the crowd was Ray Robinson--and no mora has card had Turpin ahead, nine

Robinson's lack of fire and the been heard of Walker

The nickname "Sumg came tired was obviously Robinson weighed 154, Tur-way he

after a butting incident in the a year later, when Gainford turned to a ringside reporter at pin 1584.

seventh round. RETURN BOUT COMING

Watertown, New York, and des- Robinson has been guaranteed Ho did not appear in a ribed his by now promising a-return bout in September in thing like the physical con- fedgling as "sweet as sugar."

dition that kept him from either New York or London.

For his loss Robinson recely defeat in all but one of his 130 'Having' won all tile 60 amateur when he flashed outed $84,000, the largest purse of professional: fights inti tonight bouls with stvaral Endok-out career. Turpin received In the crowded dressing records on the way Robinson said Turpin turned profitotdat de a light- The gross gate was room, Robinson head which shook $20,000.

was a "terrific puncher." Weight in 1940, beat up the Briton badly

$224,000.

Echeverrin In two rounds-and Turpin rallied after going into There was no doubt about

SUGAR'S "RIBUTĖ-

Has been repealing the formula ever, since, with commensurate RobinsoTI, seconded by

rises' in the pay packet, d professionally since referee stopped the match Aghting

the Champion 1946 and he record of 45 planugur George Gainsford, skid again to warn forholding the challenger's victorios, two defeats and one he would like to fight Turpin HE ATE, THEM UP

were draw, waded right in at the again, possibly in New York and NK, PUNJENA Briton dominates the champion from

ron was not talking, much Hol of 128 wins, two draw and only reat of the 15 rounds and gate bellum the opening possibly in September. Rubino dito, his adoreshiteet tois a superb display of ringetaft He rough-fiðuson wild Baker would only say that Turpis was onegdotcar by Jake LaMotta, of the FB: fhok fightere ALEVALA KHmesedly. TerAMENTO APNeedya. tough from whom he looko»tim Tiddle with tenacity and Ray dad both combloed Come finer The Champion warned by roforce Chand

defeat was 'n schandonaldiny of resourcelaine" «trong"rališka | Henderson for rules violations)

to what her becil the frost successfulwing around never den tho came after being the bout,duter preven

#Robinson just to them. LONGEST JOURNEYBO Leveral stands for king, six nights in 40 Got itin monace of the Robinson Antika ohd onth over the United The Britha Negro, who had warned Turpin for butt and distance, The tour was marbu

only by

demonstration in states saya: Gainfand, or never gone more than eight warna

Berlin when Birotoros ruled in 9403us 3 was dosah getting him 11⁄241 [clinch¤ND BE BOUND SE

Botha man, pro, nosed body, fouledkihe Germain Champion; him. Ever die be boommy was making the writ, punchers and Arpino kgd wat United

Ing

Thound

comfortably.

next round was spent in sixlis up dach other pretty carefully

by both boxers

In the third round, for the first time

real Obe saw the

Robinson

In a

of Turning left to the right. his

A clincir for wish he was Nobinson's low. Tho, Rid from warted by the referee. Then Leamington,

the

who has, berh

attempted but faded to overcome his co- Turpin was warned for a Kids finish

ponent's, masterly handling of panelr krýthe fire roundssoni | Europe, for RobinION12:20? Won!! Laison apart, by the polished |

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Henderson Warned

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So be goes out for the tenth and after two minuteg

utes and 50 seconds there's Then the latent cherky which that Loving fat as a mat, and

cat-and-mouse

Ray has won by n kayo.. browni

,white r

mouse fight

sind you. I'm not sajing ing hadn't released I had to come Ray's come sort of superman. out. It camo out in words. Ile's been

other on the floor classic Sometimes, like another

times figure, Robinson

Gainford repeated himself: cated with the exuberance of "Ha ain't no superman. He's

verbosity. OWN

older than Turpin but he's not back to got

The Fight and so old as the books say, I'vo pointed out to Robinson that had him since he was 14′ and Turpin was certainly one of the Inow. Books gay ho's 31. hardest punching middleweights

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becomes

intoxt-

·Ain't· so...'s:

ho has ever been called upon "He's only 20, The mix-up to meet. He became serious came when He took another

and

"Don't I know about pun- Bahter's name, the one that chers! I've certainly met some stuck to my Robinson.

His real

is Walker Bel- in my

::name That Slavo

Smith," one. If he hit you I mentioned to Gainford

"that's well, you just stayed hit, that

loise

y tima.

all His accent thichons that George Middleton; Tur- that exported the night to be over.

the

laughs,

remindest Robinson'

less than two years ago

Bellois In

Agniri ho

pin's manager, had to me he

Ke

In six rounds.

seven Gainford said: "He's "ker-azy. Liko 1 mild, Robinson's no *tie commo very, very modent. Superman. It ain't that certain

for hirty ye

Moribus and ve

He said:

I was just lucky, that's all.

I don't like to point out! that

He didn't hit me solid. No Middleton hadn't meant it was Id going to end with Robinson of good having a big punch you don't land It, Lucky, that top at alle lavtu me was me.?

"FAIR BREAK' ELEVEN YEARS Rodillion himself eded up

In the face, of such disil- a good note. I malted him génuous: candour, It's dimeult if in view of the trouble To be rude enough to point about kidney punches and cer- out that it couldn't all have tain other creticlans of his beon fute Ho Has boxed pro-body

fessiónnily for nearly 11 years,

comprising some. 130

with only one defcht -

fd werd" "wor-

disquall

bla

Wagen Työ ""Komed

that avenged five times over all about England from lot

“. Then a conversation

with of other guys who've come nager, Georgsdainford Book them here. Choy all say

break... thero comes back. Geurge muscate is

right with me.; They * you talk abouba, punchers, think 14ji, a rool chainglon in The worst time Hay ever had mind, and, that's this way! X In the ring, was against Arlie want it to be, and that's the Levine, sway back in Noven way I want to fight ag ber1040fdy) was outweigh=||