1960-06-21 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1960,

First boxer ever to recapture world heavyweight boxing crown

PATTERSON MAKES RING HISTORY

Champion Johansson

knocked out in fifth round

New York, June 21, Floyd Patterson floored Ingemar johansson twice in the fifth round for a full-count knockout in their return bout in the jammed Polo grounds tonight and became the first man in ring history to recapture the world heavyweight champion- ship.

It was one of the greatest comebacks in boxing. Patterson, who had been floored seven times for a technical knockout in their first fight last June 26, came back tonight and carried the fight to the Swede.

However, in the second round, less tonight than last year when Johansson buckled Patterson's he registered 190. knees once.

Early in the fifth round, 25- year-old Floyd exploded a left book on Johansson's chin and Johansson fell backwards to his

haunches. He was up at the count of nine. Floyd went after him and battered him from rope to rope.

the

right to the body. Inge jabbed twice to Floyd's head and thea put a left and right to the head. Patterson started off in

his Ingo crossed a hard right to first round to make use of punching weight when he stag Floyd's forehead and shook him. gered Ingemar with a left hook Floyd backed away, Ingo, kept

and shook

him after him, measuring him with to the head several times with hooking co-labs. binations. I was in that session

Floyd continued to back up as that Ingemar got a slight cut the crowd shouted for the kill. and a bruise that gradually Again Ingemar jabbed with his swelled beneath his eye until the ere was almost closed at the led and crossed a hard right to the head. Floyd closed in and linish

Johansson, apparently unper- they exchanged body blows at turbed by the Arst-round belt-close range, Floyd ducked under left ing, began ficking with his left an overhead right. Floyd jabbed glove to Patterson's face in the to the nose and missed

then he hook. Ingo put two jabs to the round and second minutes

nase at the bell. buckled Floyd's knees with a hard right to the head.

Dimpled Johansson, whose left eye was slightly cat and badly bruised in the first round. began bleeding freely the from his mouth after knockdown in the fifth round. Out for

As Patterson forced him about the ring, Floyd landed a right to the body followed by a terrific leftbook to the head that smash- ed 27-year-old Ingemar tu the canvas where he lay flat on his back for three minutes. Referee Arthur Mercante could have counted 200 over him instead of the 10 that signalled the fight was over.

It seemed momentarily then that Patterson might be knocked out in the second round instead of in the third

as he was last year.

However, Floyd weathered the early blows and came back with a hard right near the close of that session

In the third round, Patterson took command and rocked Ingo three times with combinations of rights to the body and lefts to the head.

Return fight

Johansson's round.

2

Bimsten held, an ice pack 10

a lump showing under · Ingo's left eye.

Round three

They both missed jabs

clinched. Floyd jabbed then and then was short with a left hook. They exchanged jabs and Floyd put two hard left hooks to Ingo's body.

Floyd's left went over Ingo's head.

and They missed jabs

FLOYD PATTERSON.

champion again after a lapse of six days less than a year.

INJURIES NOT SERIOUS

ENOUGH TO STOP MOSS

FROM RACING

RACING AGAIN

London, June 20.

Mr Ken Gregory, manager of racing driver Stirling Moss, said tonight that injuries suffer- ed by the British ace in a crash in Belgium wore "most definitely not serious enough to stop him racing again."

The time of the knockout was 1:51 of the ith round.

When

tho Ingemar lay on canvas, a wild scene was being staged above

his him 1$

Ingemar's right uppercul WAS Mr Gregory made the re-up racing-but not to an extent personal physician, Dr Costa

blocked. Ingo landed an over- mark at Gatwick Airport | that would "upset our friend- Karlsson, and the ring physi-

In the fourth, Floyd battered hand right high on the head,

shortly before Moss was taken ship."-China Mail Special. cians, Dr Alexander Schiff and

brown-haired Ingo into the Samuel Swetnick, argued about

boxed cautiously in by ambulance to St Thomas's ropes with a series of combinar what to do. Meanwhile,

concluded by Lions

a right mid-ring, flicking left jabs. Hospital, borde of Patterson admirers smash to the temple, In That Floyd landed a left tab to the underwent on immediate

of serious injurie climbed over the press, stepping round, Ingo tried to exchange nose and ducked a hook. Floyd amination on hands and typewriters and blows three times but got

the threw a hard left and right to incurred during a practice run jumping into the ring to congr-warst of it. Referee Mercante the head and Ingo bounced off for the Belgian Grand Prix. tuinte him,

also warned Ingo in that session for use of the elbows M a eliact

a

First defeat

The fifth round was only a Patterson, who weighed 190 few seconds old when Floyd pounds, the heaviest of his

sent Ingemar down for his career, tagged previously un-' first trip to the canvas. beaten Johansson with the first Before the fight, Johansson's defeat of his career of 23 bouts.handlers claimed he had been

pa

They

the ropes as the round ended.

Patterson's round,

Round four

London, where he

ex-

Moss and Mike Taylor, au- other

British racing driver fastest injured on Europe's

B

Grand Prix track at Francor- champs, travelled together in chartered airliner 1000m- panied by a doctor and nurse, Taylor WAS taken in 1 ambulance to another

British drivers

During the test period be. tween rounds. Bimstein pressed an ice bag to Ingo's cheek second

Two

were

Brabbam of

GRIFFIN 'THROWS' AGAIN

Half capacity crowd

see quiet opening

to Wimbledon

London, June 20.

The 74th Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships opened on a quiet note today at the picturesque All-England · Club ground in south-west London.

Despite glorious sunshine and a full programme of 4 men's singles matches occupying all 16 grass courts, there were only 18,280 spec- tators by late afternoon, well below the record 30,000 for a single day.

Seats on the two main courts, by public subscription, today R. K. Wilson (GB) beat were alled, but the alleyways scratched from the singles be- R. W. Barnes (Brazil) 6-2, 6-3, around the outside courts,cause of a recent ankle injury. -3. usually choked with fans, were It was a bitter blow for the R. Becker (GB), beat A. easily negotiable for shirt-tousted-haired country girl from Segal (South Africa).11-0, 3-6, sleeved spectators today.

New South Wales, who had 6-4, 6-3. been seeded seventh.

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that

It could well Be Wimbledon, after years of enjoying unique appeal among the tennis tetrnamenia of the world, is at last feeling the general falling-off in the standard of play due to the steady exodus of stars to the professional ranks,

Opening match

If that is the reason then next month's

meeting at the International Federation, which

Results

Results of the men's singles first round matches at

the

Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Cham- plonships today included,

R. Laver (Australia) beat G. L. Ward (GB) 6-3, 6-0, 6-2..

R. Mark (Australia) beat N. Kumar (India) 6-0, 6-2, 6-1.

0. Sirola (Italy) beat I. Buding {stateless) 0-0, 8-8, 6-1, 6-1.

is almost certain to give on C. McKinley (USA) beat A. official "go ahead" for open, Udaykumar (India) 7-9, 6-0 tournaments next year, will

6-2, 6-2. give a much-needed shot in the arm to championship tennis.

Red-haired Rod Laver, tralian runner-up here a year ago, opened the programme on the centre court which looked Jush green after its year's rest and careful nursing.

M. Santana (Spain) beat S. Stockenberg (Sweden) 6-2, 6-3, Aus-16-2.

+

H. Schmidt (Sweden) beat . P. Jackson (Ireland) 6-1, 6-2,

6-2.

Kurt Nielsen (Denmark) beat R. Holmberg (USA) 4-6, 8-6, 6-3, 10-8.

N. Pietrangel (Italy) beat Budge Putty (USA) 6-3, 8-7; 0-3.

G. Mulloy (USA) leads I. Pickard (GB) 7-5, 6-4, 15-17, 4-3 (undilshed),--Reuter,

All Blacks in car accident

Jolishnesburg June 20. Bark Irwin, front-row for- ward with the bliring New All Blacks Rugby Zealand Unions team, received a head in- jury, which required stitches B. Mackay (USA) beat J. L. when a car in which he was the travading overturned on Arilla (Spain) 6-2, 6-4, 7-5,

rood Johannesburg Laver showed no sign of the W. A. Knight (GB) beat A. Pretoria - strained shoulder which troubled Palafox (Mexico) 6-3, 10-12, yesterday

im recently and he had little 6-2, 7-5.

Two other All Blacks, Tony E. Buchholz (USA) beat J. M. Davies and Ron Hemi, caped more than a work-out in beating Middlesex county player Geoff Couder (Spain) 6-3, 9-7, 2-6, injury. Reuber. | Ward 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 în 50 min- | 6-2.

W. Stuck (Germany) beat J. Drobny (Britain) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1,

utes.

R. Hewitt (Australia) beat

Mackay's ferocious serving 8-2. was his mada weapon but he has tightened up his ground B. E. Woolf (New Zealand) 6-4, stroke control considerably in 6-4, 6-4, the past 12 months and look-

R. Emerson (Australia) beat ed the complete player in bis T. 'Ulrich (Denmark) 6-1, 6-4, 8-2, 6-4 7-5 victory over | 8-4. Spain's Arilla.

Russian's fine win

G. Merlo (Italy) bent J, Brichant (Belgium) 6-3, 6-4, 5-3.

M. G. Davies (GB) beat P. Moys (GB) 6-4, 8-9, 6-4, 6-2.

H. Flam (USA) beat N, B Nette (Australia) 6-3, 6-4, 2-6, |

Arilla's own service had plenty of sting-he once broke a string and had to change rackets. He aced the big Day- 64 ton, Ohio, man on several N. A. Fraser (Austraila) beat Southampton. June 26.

occasions. The Spaniard showed F. Heinke (Austria) 6-2, 6- 1 South African fast bowler Geoff up best in the third set, holding 6-4.

Griffin was no-balled iwler his own until he served two L. Ayala (Chile) beat R. F. for throwing and once for double faults to lose the 12th Sanders (South Africa) 9-7, dragging on the second day game and the match.

7-2, 8-6.-Reuter. of the Springbok cricketers' three-day match Hampshire here today.

A rare

breach of the rules aadust occurred in the fourth game,

Johansson, weighing 194 lbs floored but once before in his again. They both were short |London hospital entered the ring with a string of entire career,

"Johansson was re- with jobs. four straight knockouts.

A return-bout contract pro-treating as Patterson advanced. killed on Sunday in the race Pallerson, an underdog at vides that Patterson will defend Fallerson come in behind a left won by Jack

Australia. 734 to 5, #deceeded tonight the crown against Johansson in jab but Ingo clinched, where eight previous ex- a "rubber match" within 90 days Patterson landed three left champions had tried and fail- if Swedish Ingemar wants to jabs to the face. Floyd drove a

Out for this year to recapture the heavy-fight,

hard left hook to Ingo's

It was a day in which Hamp- Mackay chased up court to weight title.

It was their Tonight's promotion by the stomach, and was warned 0

Referring to Moss's injuries of shire folded badly, following reach a stop-volley, could not failures that gave birth to the new firm, Feature Sports, Inc., keep his blows higher. Ingo two broken legs, a broken nose on 312 behind on the first check his run and jumped the the heavyweight was a great success from the threw a high right, and Patter and a cracked vertebra in his Innings after South Africa had net. This broke rule 18 which division: "They never come standpoint of finances and son jolled Ingo with right as spine, Mr Gregory sild: "They improved their overnight 412 for says player loses the point if

are not matter of gravity-seven by 95 rung.

he touches his opponent's court, but a question of inconvenience.

The crowd roared as Arilla and He may be in plaster for two In doing so, the Springboks Mackay stood - side by side or three months."

scored the Arst 500 of the watching the Spaniard's lob fall Describing the weekend season, and beat their tour's into the empty court. crashes

axiom In

back."

crowds but press arrangements they came out of a clinch. Those who tried and failed and ringside protection

a

was

were James J. Corbett (twice), handled in somewhat amateurish Again Patterson came in be- Bob Fitzsimmons, James J. fashion.

hind two jabs, and they clinch Jeftrics, Jack Dempsey, Max

ed. They mauled each other Ezzard Here Schmeling, Joe Louis,

is round-by-round around the

Bs ring, ineffectually, Charles (three times) and Jer- accoum of the Johansson Patterson scored a light left jab sey Joe Walcoti.

Patterson championship fight: to the chin and took a right to Those eight failed but all of

the head at the bell them lacked what Patterson Patterson wore black frunks,

Patterson's round. · had tonight youth. He was Ingemar white,

Referce

knock-

the first ex-champion who was Mercante introduced both men less than 30 years old to try to at approximately 8.43 p.m. win back the crown. The others (0243 GMT). He told both ranged in age from 30 10 40. men that the mandatory "eight

In tagging Johansson with his count" and the three Arst defeat, Patterson also ended down rule

were not in effect his reign as champion in days less than a year, the third shortest In history. Marvin Hart had held for months and 20 days and Prime Carnera wore the crown 15

days less than a year.

six tonight.

seven

Round one

►

Johansson jabbed lightly, missing the first and scoring the

$800,000 gate second blow to the nose. Ingo

Round five

Both men appeared fresh, al- was breathing though Ingu somewhat heavily. Patterson missed a jab, and Ingo was short with a right.

Patterson was on Ingo from one side of the ring to the other. Patterson floored Ingo again. Johansson remained floor, unconscious,

the

"an unfortunate prèvious best of 481 for three series of coincidences," mir against Northamptonshire. Gregory said he did not think Moss would be competing again in this year's World Champion- ship races.

Fared badly

An indication that Soviet tennis is becoming more aggrES- sive and a stage nearer to Davis Cup play came with the straight

The throwing "calls" came, sets win of young Thomas Lėjus Earlier, the British driver's once in each Hampshire innings, over the Polish Davis Cup father said he would try once the first from umpire Harry player. Welzlaw Gasiorek. again to persuade his son to give Elliott and the second from

Elorde-Gomes bout on Aug. 17

umpire Jim Parks. On both occasions Griffin was taken off at orice by skipper Jackie McGlew.

their downfall

Except for a bright innings of 70 by Denis Baldry, who San Francisco, June 20. hit two sixes and ten fours World junior lightweight Hampshire fared badly in the champion Flash Elorde of the face of the Springboks' for- Philippines will defend his title midable score. here on missed a job and Floyd moved

August 17 against On-spinner Hughle Tayfield Patterson's victory brought in but did not land.

Two ring doctors moved in to Harold Gomes of Providence, contributed to Floyd the title back to the United leaped in with a brisk left-hooks side. Patterson dropped to Rhode Island, matchmaker taking five wickets for 66. States after the brief tenure by to Ingo's head and followed his knees behind Ingo.

Bennie Ford announced today, Hampshire faded out for. 195 Johansson, who was the Arst

Elorde stopped Gomes in and when they followed on Swede ever to hold the cham-with a left and right to head

Two minutes elapsed and seven rounds in their last fight scored 31 without loss by the and body. pionship and the first foreigner

Ingo was still out.--UPI.

in Manila.-AFP,

close. to take it from the United Again Floyd drove Ingo to States since Carnera lost the the ropes with a left and right. erown to Max Beer in 1934. but Ingo came off in good

Their widely publicised shape. Floyd blocked a fight return bout tonight drew with his lets and then drove crowd estimated at more thán home a left and right to Ingo's 40,000, and a gate belleved to face. be more than US$200,000. Ingo was short with a series Out of their four and a trac- lot left jube. Floyd was circling tion rounds of action, each to Ingo's right. Again Floyd fighter is expected to receive came in but his left went over approximately US$500,000 from Iago's head.

tonight's live gate and from Ingo had a small cut at the theatre-television, available to side of his left eye at the boil. more than 700,000 seats in 123 The gut was on fils cheek bone, ditles of the United States and directly unids the eye.

Ryan ve the round. 16

Canada and from more than

US$300,000 worth of other, re-Patterson.

ceipts from movie guarantees,

radio and other outleta:

Patterson explained, before

the fight that he had come in at

190 pounds in order to boost his

Round two-

They clinched as both men

bunching power. He scaled case in with attempted body only 182 for their fight last punches. Floyd jabbed twice to June, Johansson, scaled slightly the bead. He then crossed his

THE GAMBOLS.

I'M TOO EXCITED

TO GO TO BEO

WELL, I'M NOT SITTING

UP TO LISTEN TO

„TAE FIGHT.

A year ago, Lejus won the Junior event here. In the first round of the senior competition today the sturdy blond youngster showed all round qualities in winning 6-2, 6-3, and 6-4.

By tonight the men's singles will have been reduced to 64

The ladies bays their tradi tisual opening tomorrow, but already, one of the seeded players among their ranks is a casualty

Eighteen-year-old Australian star Jan Lelang making her first trip to Wimbledon aided

by Barry Appleby

...AND JOHANSSON

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A. Gimeno

(Spain)

beat

A. B. Kirkorian (USA) 6-3, 6-3, 8-6,

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London Tzprem Service

Peter Thomson adds another first prize

of £350 to winnings

Sunningdale, June 20. Peter Thomson, 30-year-old Australian wonder golfer, took first prize in yet another British tournament today and within a few hours was on his way to Ireland to represent his country in next week's Canada Cup matches there.

Thomson's latest prize was, Tournament, which he won with 2330 in the £3,000 amateur a total of 132 strokes (67, 66). professional 36-holes Bowinaker In the last twenty days, the Australian has picked up prizes totalling £2,400 in Britain,

Cooking Problems Solved

WITH GAS

Fantastic score

In his second round today he had a fantastic outward haid of 29 strokes with figures of 3.4,9,3,3,9,4,3,3. He seemed to have the course record of B2 well within his grasp, but he' lost some of his earlier magin on the second nine tubles, taking his only five of the round at the 12th and three-putting at the short 15th for a four.

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Bernard Hunt, who will be

one of England's two represen- tatives in the Canada Cup, was runner-up with 138 (68, 61), and England's other Canada Cup golfer, Harry Weetman, Thared third place on 135 with fellow- countryman P. 3. Butler Reu