Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from some minor unpleasantness involving Ray Bell, Northeastern defenseman who was penalized three times for slashing and interference, there was little else of interest in the Garden late last night. The Harvard Band, consisting of cymbals, a xylophone, a snare drum, a bass drum, a trumpet, a bag of popcorn and a pint of Ballantine's Scotch, seemed to be in evidence, and number eight of Northeastern, a vigorous little forward, appeared to have a bald head...
...Harlem's hero began to cheer the spectacle of a champ going down. "Hit him in his pink Cadillac," screamed a ringsider. Fullmer rained leather just about every place else. In the seventh he clubbed Robinson toward the canvas and then body-pushed him through the ropes. Sugar Ray was up at the count of six. For a brief flurry in the ninth, the champ looked like the destroyer of old. Still. Fullmer just kept coming...
...offense was a barrage of punches from everywhere. In the 14th round his slashing gloves split open old scar tissue, and the champion's left eye leaked blood. "Rip 'at eye wide open, Gene, rip it open," pleaded an ex-Robinson rooter in the 19th row. Sugar Ray fought back with a tired, sometimes frenzied grace, but he was punched out. No one could quarrel with the judges' unanimous decision that Gene Fullmer was winner of at least eight of the 15 rounds and the new middleweight champion of the world...
Jensen's Gym. Afterward came the expected promise that Sugar Ray will try again in a return match with Fullmer. But only stubborn pride can suggest that he will ever do any better against the tireless young elder of the Mormon Church who, true to his faith, has never touched tobacco or whisky. Gene Fullmer was named for his parents' idol, gentleman Gene Tunney (whose real name is James Joseph), but he grew up to admire a different type of heavyweight, man-eater Jack Dempsey. At the age of eight he decided he wanted to become a prizefighter...
Just getting a crack at Sugar Ray was the toughest scrap of all. Jenson had to settle for 12½% of the gate, or $20.915. Robinson pocketed $78,190 of the gate receipts, plus $60,000 of the TV and radio income, of which Fullmer got none...