Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recovering his title. The victory made "Le Sucre Merveilleux" a European hero overnight. It also marked the distance the combination of Sugar Ray and Big George Gainford had come since the day an unknown 14-year-old dropped into Gainford's hole-in-the-wall Harlem gym, begging for a chance to fight...
...youngster in Detroit, Robinson may well have gawked admiringly at a 17-year-old boxer named Joe Louis Barrow, who lived in the same block. But the relationship never got much closer than that. When Ray was eleven, his mother packed the kids (two sisters) off to Harlem, leaving their father for good, and set about supporting her children as a seamstress on $14 a week. "Ray learned early you don't get nothing for nothing," Mrs. Smith says. He never forgot it. Traveling with a rowdy street gang, shooting crap in Harlem gutters, dancing for dimes on Broadway...
...canvas, the championship was on its way, too. After a fagged and beaten Ike had hit the canvas for the fourth time in Round 14, the fight was stopped. Little Jimmy Carter, who had seemed doomed to the life of a ham-&-egger, went home to his third-floor Harlem walkup to tell his wife and two-year-old son how, in his first fight in the Garden, he had become lightweight champion of the world...
...Runyon Cancer Fund, Good-Will Ambassador Sugar Ray Robinson lost his way in Paris traffic, kept the crowd (including at least one duchess and the wives of three cabinet ministers) waiting 30 minutes before he arrived in his fuchsia Cadillac convertible. All was forgiven when the middleweight champ from Harlem made a little speech in French, then topped it off with: "Hey, now I get to kiss Missus President!" With a gay blush, France's First Lady, Mme. Vincent Auriol, stood up for a kiss on each cheek...
...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 and Gavilan fought it out for the right to put the 48-state...