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SENSATIONS
OF SPORT
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1963.
Frightened to fight-because of
a dream!
THEN HIS NIGHTMARE CAME
TRUE IN THE RING
Sugar Ray Robinson, the sleek Black Prince of boxing, gazed
down in horror at the bruised, listless body on the canvas. He had finished the world title fight with a short jab to the jaw.
But his opponent still made no movement after the count of ten; the fighter had dropped dead at the champion's feet. Now they were carrying him away on a stretcher.
At that point, Sugar Ray sal
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By
FRANK WRIGHT
ang he deserkset the might
No one had been killed. It was just a ghastly Ághtmare. to havre But
the perspiration
Koaked
which
Jo his manager
Big-ight nerves", sand oct- "You've Les George Gainford
pillow. Sugar Ray's lave and raven hair was real a worrying too much abou enough. And for once there the fight
was fear in the champlon's
A bad sign?
Sugar Ray did not remember his opponen's face. Yet som how I felt errtain his imagined! victim was Janmy Doyle, 10 Las Augete welterweight, whom he was
Elk
mated
in
Cleveland Arena
The thought kept him aw zaken for the rest the nigh Next
Super-Soccer
plan is
worth
a trial
Says
STANLEY MATTHEWS
The Soccer planners are now working on a scheme to bring together the crack clubs of five European countries in a super- league competition, to be played in Haly next spring.
Tentative ideas are for the two leading teams of Eng- Jand. Scotland. Italy, Francy Spain and Ban- ury to take part in a glittering tournament
A prelude to the World Cup in Chile.
Il wounds an enterprising plan. |
but il would do Bule to revitalise the game in Britain i How could
Itugue games!
played in Italy stir up vital crowd interest here?
What
we need in Britain 1! something so glamorous, revolutionary Bhut the Tans will be forced by the very magic of the game to keep the turnstiles ulicking.
In fact, what we want is ፡፡ super European leagur, with 21 championship, pronation and relegation at
stake a league that would bring
yo umeand
glamour Somver
NO CHANCE
This is how it could be
Take 10 outstanding from England,
Ave
denn clubs
fron
Scettand and one from Wales to join up with 24 top teams the Continental coun-
from
tries. Then you would have twq pagues of 20 clubs and four-up-for-down promotion and relegation.
Can you unagine Real Madrid playing at Tottenham, Bene- fca at Everlon, Rheims at Arsenal and Eintracht Manchester United all betting for points? The grounds would bé bulging.
at
Others offered different inler
Son sa it was at men and meant that Suga: 1. Tight Ef a bad decision
ee that D WAS O Saat dreams neve The
same way
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If
No one took the nightmare seriously-expfei Sugar Ray He was reluctant to go ahead with the fight, recalling that
Doyle had this same
been taken to hospital with concus. sion after being knocked out By Artie Levine.
It
Against Artie Levine, Doyle had been well ahead on points antil the ninth round when a bad desperate blow wild. caught him flush on the chin. Twier he rosc from the canvas, only to be felled again before the referee stopped the slaughter He collapsed in his tart hospital examination a fractured skull. kraled
Passed fit
But
year ago
that was
sured that
more than
was BN
起
Sugar Ray Doyle was now opponent. He had Wom bouts in the past six months; he bød passed an official examina tion by doctors of the New York Boxing Commission.
and by brain specialist
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Admittedly, a medical expert of the Cleveland Comunisыion - Dr Arthur Hagedorn-had re- ported that in his opinion Doyle was "sluggish" since his heating by Levine
First defence
Why am I fighting the un way asked Rubinso was to be his first defence of the world wellerweight champion- slip which he had won AIX months earlier by defeating Pomy Bell But 22-year-old retire. Jimmy Doyle WBK only the sevebili ranked welterweight
In reply to his question. Suga Ray
"For tld:
25.000 WI doliurs "It was also explained that Duyle hadi beolen a batch of prominent lighters including former world lightweight chani pien Low Jenkins.
It was just the rest Robinson needed before faring tops chal-
lengers
But what aboul the present
League
these set-up in all countries? Would they be pushed out of business?
Certainly not. They could
go
on, without their star chubs, as before, and there would be the add
lebgyn.
enchantment
of
a
to reach the super The four bottom teams of the would be Eutogeen League automatically relegated at the end of each season to their own country's prorater league. Promotion candidates would the then be selected from loading national league clubs. So every team would have the chance of reaching the top. It's worth a tripl. anyway.
Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS
HERE WE GO AGAIN
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Several sports writers had also written that Doyle should now BLET such opinions Bre the boxing
often world.
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The fight was a natural" and if drought met 11,271, fans to ChArlund Areni. 15 Bre they w 1947
THE FLUTTERS
PITY WE HAD TO
GO, BERT-THAT ROW
WAS JUST GETTIN'
INTERESTIN'
Doyle seemed
to be in
a
consciousness
into and
the
state of Bemi-
rushed ring
Dr
Hagedom.....
and be started as though he boxing brain aimed to achieve it in the first mained round.
Whirlwind start
He launched a furious, round attack,
Brx1-
Inly to run into
a steady strea: if left jabs and hooks But at close range Duyle was more dangerous The bout! soon developed into a fierce. close contest as in Suger Røy's dreain
Robinson learned to treat his Apponent with cautious respect. and after a few rounds there many who rated Doyle Abeac no points The
crowd was screaming encouragement In him.
With
Dark-haired Doyle who had Once been coarbed by the
Doyle came out for the eightit was legendary Jack Johnson.
red looking such the fitter and full of eager. ambitious
Ha bounded from self-conAdence. He was sure chair, carrying the fight to the
maa
bly
he rould win the world title, champion all the way. Still the
AH, I RECKON SMRECHY WAS DEAD RIGISAN'I HOPE HE KEEPS IT UP TOMORROW
MORNIN'...
BRICK BRADFORD
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of Robinson re- Jee-cool and although he threw far fewer punches, he picked and timed them well.
Cine
Halfway through the eighth Sugar Ray's big chance For a fraction of a second Doyle
The dropped his right hand. champion flashed home with short bullet-like tell hook.
Saved by the bell
A
1 rocked Doyle back on his heels and he fell like a sliced- down tree to the CANVAS. He WRS unconscious before his head thudded hard against the floor
When referee Jackie Davis reached the count of six, Doyfe Bad raised himself up on his elbow's. Then he stumped backwards, only
of dimplex
Was
But Doyle was in no condition to fight another round. His manager signalled that he finished and the referee raised the champion's arm. And all the time. Sugar Ray looked anxiously to his opponent's cor-
ner
Doyle seemed in a state of semi-consciousness and into the ring rushed Dr Hagedorn, who had attended the baxer in much the same condition over a year before. He ordered Doyle to be taken to hospital as quickly possible.
as
At. St Vincent's Charity Hos pita), brain specialist Dr Spencer Braden operated but in vain. Jimmy Doyle died next after- noon from a cerebral haemor. rhage.
Manslaughter charge
It was only the second time that a baxer had died from injuries in a world title boat. The last had been in London, In 1897, when Walter Croot died of a brain injury after his bantamweight bont with Junny Barry.
So Robinson's nightmare hud come true. And it went further. He was indicted on a technicel there charge of manslaughter:
were malicious suggestions that he had known Doyle to be medically unfit to fight.
Though he was acquitted.
felt Sugar Ray
like never fighting again. But his friends that he was not to blame ape that he could do more for Doyle by fighting on than by quilting.
argued
knock-
Roblason won his next two fighla with first-round outs and earned thousands of Doyle's for Jimmy dollars mother. After his third fight, in which
he knocked out Jackie Wilson in the seventh round, he gave hot the entire 6,500-dollar purse.
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