Word: gened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play on the streets of Bingham and West Jordan. Last week's fight had hardly started before the broken-nosed, beetle-browed young brawler was sure he could win. After mixing it up in Madison Square Garden for six rounds with Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, Challenger Gene Fullmer, 25, walked back to his corner and said, "I can knock him out, Marv. Lemme open up and knock...
...when a minor comedian named Gene Baylos successively plugged a vodka, a brand of rainboots and a bourbon on a five-minute, five-a-week local show called Punch Line last week, NBC's Manhattan station WRCA clamped down, announced that it would dock Baylos' $1,000 salary by $675-the price of three ten-second advertising spots. "It was a flagrant violation of policy," explained NBC. "We hope to teach him a lesson." Cried Baylos: "It was only a joke. Why do they pick on a broke little guy like me and never bother the big boys...
...Apparently convinced that Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson really means to tangle with Utah's Gene Fullmer, International Boxing Club publicists set about proving that, come Jan. 2, paying customers will really see a fist fight. Fullmer's right cross, they announced after subjecting the punch to split-second electronic analysis, travels at 30.4 m.p.h., packs a 1,260-lb. wallop. Robinson's right loafs along at 15.2 m.p.h., but it lands with the weight of 1,500 lbs. Robinson, for one, was unimpressed by the revelation. "Don't care how fast it goes," said...
...Mischner was second for the Crimson, and Dick Duane was third for Tech. Hammond's :58.6 in the 100-yard butterfly was two-tenths of a second better than the record set by now Olympic swimmer Dave Hawkns in 1954. Bob Jaffe was second for the Crimson, with Gene Getchell taking third for M.I.T...
Middleweight Championship (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Sugar Ray Robinson v. Gene Fullmer from Madison Square Garden...