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...former Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis squeaked by with a close decision. Last week, in San Francisco, aging (37) Joe Louis looked a little more like the old Brown Bomber. His left jab cut rugged Cesar Brion's face to ribbons, twice had him on the verge of a knockout before Louis won a unanimous decision at the final bell...
...Rounds Nine and Eleven he banged Turpin around, but there was no stopping power in the punches. Muttered a British sportwriter: "I still haven't seen any of that dynamite I've been writing about." By Round Twelve, it was obvious that only a lucky knockout punch could save Robinson's title. Cried Edna Mae: "Hold on, Sugar! Hold on!" By Round 15, Turpin was pummeling the tired champion almost at will. "Don't let him hit you!" screamed Edna Mae. "Take care of yourself!" The uproarious crowd began chanting "For He's a Jolly...
...Detroit. ¶British Miler Roger Bannister, Britain's Amateur Athletic Association championship, with his best time ever, and best in the world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over clumsy Rex Layne, with a crushing sixth-round knockout; in New York. Marciano's showing put him in line to take on the winner of September's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis. ¶Tony Trabert, the National clay court tennis title, in an upset over U.S. Champion Art Larsen...
...Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the fifth victory in his current European tour, a third-round knockout of Belgium's Cyrille Delannoit; in Turin, Italy...
...Blows thrown with almost the same motion as that used by a softball pitcher. More spectacular-looking than the shorter, deadlier uppercut, the bolo is telegraphed by its windup, hence is not normally effective as a knockout punch...