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Hawaii's Carl ("Bobo") Olson and England's Randy Turpin have much in common. Both are 25-year-old middleweights who learned their fighting in slum streets, both have been boxing since their early teens, and both have suffered stinging defeats at the fists of Sugar Ray Robinson, now retired. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, a sellout crowd of 18,869 turned out to watch Olson and Turpin fight for Robinson's old crown...
...Turpin, a hard-punching, unrefined sort of fighter, started strong. He dashed out throwing punches, carried the fight to Olson for the first three rounds. Bobo, a clever boxer without a killing punch, backtracked nimbly, protected his head with his arms, and bided his time. As Turpin began to run out of steam-he had boxed less than 30 rounds in training -Bobo began his own offensive: a rat-tat-tat of light lefts and rights with just enough poke to them to keep Turpin off balance...
...ninth round, Bobo's spray of pokes had begun to slow Randy's reflexes. Turpin let himself get trapped against the ropes, and there, while Bobo poured hooks and jabs to the head and body, Turpin unaccountably covered up only his midsection. Randy went down for a short count at the end of that round, for a nine-count in the next...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Randy Turpin v. Bobo Olson for the middleweight title...
Beaudine learned his trade in the silent days with such oldtimers as Marie Prevost and Ben Turpin. Says he: "We'd write 'em, shoot 'em and print 'em in a week." Nowadays, most Hollywood directors are apt to shoot one scene scores of times; but a lot of TV programs have happily reversed progress and gone back to the old slapdash days. Today, Beaudine has a budget of $25,000 a film, and it costs $10,000 a day to shoot. Beaudine seldom takes more than 2½ days to get a film...