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...Johnny's week for charming judges. In the ring with Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan just the night before, he had butted, bunny-hugged and bulled his way through a feeble 15-round imitation of a fist fight, walked off with a unanimous decision and the Kid's title. A loud majority of the fans agreed that no performance had raised such a stink in Convention Hall since the Progressive Party Convention...
...title by knocking over a series of stumblebums. Now he was managed by Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia hoodlum unable to get a license in New York. To make matters worse, Blinky was friendly with Frank Carbo, the underworld boss of boxing. And Carbo owned a piece of Kid Gavilan...
...possible explanation of the putrid affair," wrote Parker, "is that Signer Carbo ... saw that the Keed not only was getting balky but also was slipping rapidly, and, to keep control of the title, arranged with Blinky -to pass it along to Saxton. Gavilan apparently was suspicious from the start...
...Gavilan had indeed suspected a fix, he had delayed the inevitable by some strange stratagems: first by breaking his hand, next by coming down with the mumps. In the ring, however, there was no doubt that he was reluctant to fight. "There were long, painful intervals," wrote Parker, "in which the two warriors stood and regarded each other like querulous old hens. Then, without a 'shall we dawnce?' cue, they would embrace and waltz a measure...
TELEVISION Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Kid Gavilan v. Johnny Saxton, for the world's welterweight championship...