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...while, Lavern Roach seemed to be a fighter who knew when to quit. A husky, young ex-marine and Ring magazine's Rookie-of-the-Year in 1947, he had learned a dreadful lesson when he climbed into the ring against the late ex-Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan. That night two years ago, he crawled around the ring on his hands & knees as Cerdan's sledgehammer blows smashed him to the floor seven times in eight rounds. After that beating, handsome Lavern Roach, a good fighter who had been brought along too fast, went back home to Plainview...
...most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...
Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Motta-Cerdan (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Middleweight championship fight...
...Frenchman named Laurent Dauthuille. A cloud of suspicion still hung over La Motta's fight with Philadelphia's Billy Fox two years ago, which the referee stopped in the fourth because of Jake's feeble performance. About all last week's fight proved was that Cerdan could not whip La Motta with one hand...