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...Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...great fighter," her sportswriter friend tells Laine Brendan. "I'm going to take you to see one tonight." That night, in Madison Square Garden, Laine Brendan sees Middleweight Paris ("Baby") James for the first time. For Baby, the fight is just a routine affair, won by a knockout. But Laine's emotions come to life as she watches the Negro boxer "fighting his fight with a savage grace . . . like the black angel of death himself." After the fight, Laine can't get the black angel out of her mind; she gets his phone number and invites...
...only knockout of the evening was a TKO in the second round scored by Geoffrey Ball of Dunster, at 155, over Frank Wehmeier of Eliot. Also in the 155 George Humphrey of Kirkland topped Harry Manoogian of Winthrop...
...interim" world featherweight (126 Ibs.) championship was settled last week in Paris. With the champion, Pvt. Sandy Saddler, as a ringside spectator, Philadelphia Negro Percy Bassett pounded France's Ray Famechon into submission with a fourth-round technical knockout. Famechon was not the only loser. French bookies, who backed their favorite against the weight of the money bet at the fight, lost an estimated 800 million francs ($2,288,000) on the fight...
POLITICAL NOTES Not a Knockout...