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...soon began to smooth off some of the rough edges. The reform of Sugar Ray Robinson reached some sort of climax when he phoned Walter Winchell a year ago and offered to give the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund his cut of the gate in the championship fight with Charley Fusari...
Pride of Cuba By trouncing Charley Fusari in March, Chicago's Johnny Bratton inherited Sugar Ray Robinson's world welterweight (147 lb.) title in the 47 states ruled by the National Boxing Association. But the New York State Athletic Commission figured it had a strong candidate for the title right in its own backyard: Cuba's (and Harlem's) Kid Gavilan, 25, winner of eight straight fights and one of the few boxers who ever stood up to Sugar Ray for a full 15 rounds. Last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Bratton...
...graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson for 15 rounds...
...good, hard, remarkably even fight. Bratton had the best of Round One; his sharp left jabs opened a cut over Fusari's eye. Round Two was Fusari's; his rights had Bratton bouncing groggily off the ropes. In the fourth, it was Fusari who did the bouncing. A whistling Bratton right knocked him to the canvas for a three-count. In the tenth, Fusari ran into another right and went down again, this time for nine, and only staggered to his feet by clutching the referee's shirt sleeve. But when he wasn't in trouble...
...Jersey City, N.J., Sugar Ray Robinson outdanced Challenger Charley Fusari in a defense of his world welterweight championship. The real winner: the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund, which got $44,785. Robinson's purse: $1. Fusari's purse...