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...managed to outpoint Jersey Joe Walcott in a dull fight this summer (TIME, July 4). That made him heavyweight champion of the world in the eyes of the National Boxing Association (a title good in 47 states). Last week, as he squared off against tired old (34) Gus Lesnevich in Yankee Stadium, he was out to impress the big holdout: the powerful New York State Boxing Commission, whose chairman, Eddie Eagan, thought that Charles ought to prove himself further...
...form. In the near 100° heat of the stadium, Charles fought his usual earnest, crafty and intelligent fight. He beat game old Gus about the head and body, danced out of range when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human virtues which...
...skimpy $75,832, as it turned out, of which Charles and Lesnevich got $18,598 apiece...
Married. Freddie Mills, 29, British boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world since he defeated New Jersey's Gus Lesnevich last July; and Chrissie Broadribb, 36, his manager's daughter; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
Boxing Doubleheader (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Tony Zale v. Marcel Cerdan and Gus Lesnevich v. Jersey Joe Walcott...