Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pickett calls the team "stronger than last year's and more balanced." The six lettermen are Ed Bursk, 123; Captain Johnnie Lee, 130; Bud Adams, 137; Icko Iben, 147; Hugh Chandler 157; and heavyweight George Bates. Several more will be out for the team after football season...
...Former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, showing unwonted aggressiveness in a new comeback drive, a slashing ten-round decision over Argentina's Cesar Brion; in Madison Square Garden. ¶Pacer Good Time, a record-equaling (2:01) performance in his last race before going to stud; at Yonkers, N.Y. The victory, worth $6,750, increased Good Time's record earnings to $318,792.86. ¶Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over...
...Heavyweight Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). Ezzard Charles v. Bernie Reynolds...
...breathless moments it looked as though Jersey Joe Walcott might finish off Rocky Marciano in the first round. With unexpected boldness, the heavyweight champion moved right in on Challenger Rocky, battered his jaw with short, hard lefts and rights, then tagged him with a left hook. The spectators at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium let out a roar of excitement and surprise as Rocky went down, for the first time in 43 pro fights...
Though Jersey Joe had put up a good battle, Marciano's victory was the logical outcome. Once Rocky had delivered his knockout punch, it was obvious that he would have done so sooner or later, in the next fight if not in this one. And the resounding title, "heavyweight champion of the world," suits Rocky Marciano (43 straight wins, 38 of them by knockouts) better than it suited old (4O-plus), often beaten (15 recorded times before last week) Jersey Joe Walcott. Marciano is too awkward and too much a fighter of one talent ever to be a Louis...