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...country a disservice in fostering the myth of a B-36 surefire knockout blitz. The airplane is a weapon, just like a rifle or a ship. It is not an end in itself...
Going into the 15th round, Dauthuille was well ahead on points, and coasting to the title; all he had to do was keep himself covered up through that last round. Instead, on advice from his corner, he chose to come out punching for a knockout. And Jake came out of his doze...
With less than half a minute of the fight remaining, the battered, bleeding La Motta suddenly saw an opening, fired his first good salvo of the evening. A right hook caught Dauthuille flush on the jaw, gave ringside cameramen one of the finest knockout pictures of the season (see cut). Jake's sudden come-alive finish left some sportwriters unimpressed ("manufactured melodrama," one called it), but it saved Jake's title by the barest of margins: the fight had only 13 seconds to go when Dauthuille was counted...
...their third fight and the honors were even. In their first, attacking with hand-grenade punches, Saddler had won by a fourth-round knockout. Willie had won the second, a 15-round decision, by his own superb combination of light, windmill jabs, dodging footwork and his uncanny ability to shove, nudge and push his opponent off balance. For the third go last week, the fans thought they knew pretty much what to expect; the smart money was on youth and Sandy Saddler's hand grenades...
...bell ended the round, Pep sagged into his corner, grimacing with pain in his left shoulder. A boxing-commission doctor made a quick inspection, found the shoulder dislocated. By a technical knockout, Sandy Saddler was featherweight champion of the world...