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...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/21/1951 | See Source »

...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...

Author: By Winthrop Knowlton, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...Jake LaMotta, whom Robinson later beat five times. *Remarked one Briton: "I hear Cadillac has agreed never to paint another like that." His friend, after a thoughtful pause: "No, really? But still, I shouldn't think there'd be many chaps who'd want that color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sugar's Lumps | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...Sailor Bob Murphy wades into a fight with the free-swinging enthusiasm of a shore-leave sailor for a barroom brawl. Last week, facing Jake LaMotta at Yankee Stadium, Murphy was right in his element, throwing punches with the thumping regularity of a piston-if not with a piston's precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Fights Who | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...first round, Murphy's wild uppercuts, jabs and crosses chopped a cut in LaMotta's chin. LaMotta, whose own style is modeled on an alley-fighter's slugging tactics, never had a chance. By the end of Round Seven, bleeding from seven cuts, his eyes puffed almost to closing, and gagging on his own blood, durable Jake LaMotta, whose proudest boast is that he has never been knocked down, had had enough. Too weak to rise from his corner for Round Eight, LaMotta called it quits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Fights Who | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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