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Heavyweight Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS and CBS-TV). Joe Louis v. Ezzard Charles...
...billed as one of the big fights of the summer, but nobody was taken in. Heavyweight Challenger Freddie Beshore, less skillful than stubborn, was never a dashing performer. And pencil-mustached Ezzard Charles, though heavyweight champion of the world (National Boxing Association version, not good...
...most of the fight, Beshore hugged and tugged while broad-shouldered Ezzard Charles clouted him clumsily. At 2:53 of the 14th round, the battered and bloodied Beshore was still on his feet, but thoroughly cut up, and the referee stopped the fight. Not even Charles felt like crowing over his no-knockdown victory. Said he, reflectively: "I should have moved more. I wasn't very good...
...friends and well-wishers were of one mind: "Say it ain't so, Joe." Last week Joe Louis said it was so. Harried by income-tax debts of about $200,000, Joe announced that he would fight again in September. His probable opponent: 29-year-old Ezzard Charles...
There was a sporting British cheer for the new light-heavyweight champion. The loudest voice of all was that of Manager Kearns, who felt so good he decided he might as well claim the heavyweight championship too. He told London: "The N.B.A. calls Ezzard Charles the champion. You guys call Bruce Woodcock the champ. So why shouldn't I call my guy the champ? Let 'em all be champs...