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...Floored twice in the first round by the surprise attack of Ingemar Johansson, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson rallied to deck the Swedish challenger in the same wild round, nailed like a frantic amateur until he finally knocked out his man in the sixth to win their rubber match and retain the title at Miami Beach. ¶ New York police began uncovering another major college basketball scandal by arresting two smalltime operators named Aaron Wagman and Joseph Hacken for paying $1,500 to a player for the University of Connecticut and $1,000 each to two players for Seton Hall...
...March 10 The Jackie Gleason Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson trade punch lines with Superweight Gleason, watch films of their two earlier bouts...
Sweden's Johansson is breezy and confident. Despite his drubbing in the second fight-he was still groggy an hour after the finish-Ingo still talks at times as if Patterson were just a preliminary boy. "I have no more respect for him as a boxer than I had in the first fight," he says. Ingo even stayed unruffled last week when the U.S. Internal Revenue Service socked him with a suit for $598,000 in back taxes. He would, he said, willingly fight even if his third-fight purse were tied up. "If I didn't fight...
...Message. For the first time, Playboy Johansson was all business in the training ring. He was trying to develop a left hand to complement his crashing right-but there were doubts that his left would ever be very dangerous. Moreover, Johansson still has not corrected the basic mistake of dropping his right hand, which last time left him open to Patterson's left hook. But the way Ingo explains his defeat, he tried to lean back from Patterson's left instead of ducking under it. This time, he says, he will duck...
After one rugged session with Patterson, a battered sparring partner last week emerged from the ring to say: "He sends a very sincere message." In the betting on next week's fight, the odds are that Johansson will be on the receiving end of that message...