Word: ezzard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prizefights, had something to cheer about. The Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight (see SPORT), put on without commercial radio or TV, drew to Madison Square Garden a crowd of more than 18,000 fans, a gate of $94,684. Contrast: last month's televised heavyweight championship bout between Ezzard Charles and Joey Maxim in Chicago drew only...
...Robinson is already looking past Turpin to another title-the light heavyweight championship now held by Joey Maxim. Robinson says he will not fight Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles under any circumstances. But Maxim is something else again. Though Robinson is too politic to mention it, the light heavyweight crown is the only major world title not held by a Negro. Besides, says Good Businessman Ray Robinson, "it's a good money match...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Heavyweight championship: Ezzard Charles v. Joey Maxim...
Marriage Revealed. Ezzard Charles, 29, world heavyweight boxing champion; and his longtime friend, Gladys ("Gee Gee") Gartrell, 22, onetime elevator operator; on Dec. 30, 1949; in New Kensington, Pa. Also revealed: the birth (on Feb. 13) of their first child, a daughter. Name: Deborah. Weight...
...title fight was recognized in 47 states (New York excepted) by the National Boxing Association. *The champions: Heavyweight Ezzard Charles, Light-Heavyweight Maxim, Middleweight Robinson, Welterweight Bratton, Lightweight Ike Williams, Featherweight Sandy Saddler. South Africa's Vic Toweel, a white man, holds the bantamweight title, and Hawaii's Dada Marino the flyweight...