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...Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...
...title by scoring a technical knockout over Jake La Motta in the 13th round of their scheduled 15 rounder in Chicago last night. Robinson vacates the Welterweight title by winning the Middleweight championship...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS Radio & TV). Jake La Motta v. Sugar Ray Robinson, for the middleweight championship...
...still rules her clan with the same firm but pliant hand that stirs the big pots forever simmering on her stove. She never runs out of soup for the neighbors, malapropisms for the audience, or schemes for rearranging other people's lives. This time, almost wrecking her husband Jake (Philip Loeb) in the process, she regroups a romantic quadrangle involving an overage suitor and his pink-cheeked fiancee, a middle-aged widow and an eligible young...
...Bruins began their League schedule Saturday, beating Yale, 4 to 1. Goalie Don Whiston excelled against the Elis, aided by the fine defensive work of Jake Murphy and John Gilbert. Whiston, who allowed only 2.9 goals per League game last year, will be Brown's game captain tonight. The Bruins have won four, lost two. They beat the Windsor Club, Northeastern twice, lost to B.C. and the New York...