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Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...champion's corner, only Basilio himself seemed unconcerned. The one-time onion farmer from Canastota, N.Y. had taken the title away from DeMarco with a twelfth-round technical knockout last June; he saw no reason why he could not do as well again...
...converted into anything but boxers. From the start they hardly bothered with anything so effete as an old-fashioned left jab. Free-swinging hooks to head and gut were what they threw. Nor was either of them beyond trying incautious righthand leads. It made a fine, bloody brawl. And DeMarco came close to finishing it in the seventh, when he clobbered the champ with a left hook to the jaw. Basilio's legs began a limber, loose-kneed dance of their own; his eyes emptied and his seconds screamed for him to go down, to take a count...
Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). A 15-round bout for the welterweight championship of the world: Tony DeMarco v. Carmen Basilio...
...Liotta, a brawler out of Boston's North End who fights under the name of Tony DeMarco, delighted a home-town crowd with a 14-round assault that knocked Welterweight Champion Johnny Saxton senseless and separated him from his tainted title (TIME...