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Arnold Raymond Cream, who fights under the name of Jersey Joe Walcott, is a first-rate boxer, and he can hit. Many a fan who saw him fight Joe Louis in 1947 (he knocked Louis down in the first round, nearly knocked him out in the fourth) thought Jersey Joe got a raw decision then. In the 21 years he has been bouncing around the fight game, Jersey Joe has had a lot of tough breaks. In all, Joe tried four times against Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles. Last week in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field before the largest fight...
Round One was just like the 30 others that Champion Charles and Jersey Joe had fought: undistinguished Charles won it from overcautious Walcott. After that, everything was different. Walcott, known as a "cutie" (a hit & run fighter who upsets an opponent's timing with flurries of punches, then dances away), switched his style and went after his man. Only once did he revert to his crablike defense...
Rapid Fire. By the fifth round old Jersey Joe, 37, conserving his energy and making every blow count, had slowed down his younger (30) rival. Walcott's sneak right-the one that caught Louis-opened a gash in Charles's lip. A left cut Charles under his right eye. Another right to the jaw staggered Charles just as the bell rang. Not until the sixth round did Walcott effectively use his new trick: a head-snapping left hook. Four of them, rapid-fire, stung Charles into the bout's first real excitement, an explosive, counterpunching flurry which...
...Round Seven, with both fighters sparring cautiously in mid-ring, Walcott suddenly shot his left hook again. Neither Charles, nor 25 million televiewers, saw the blow coming. The punch caught the champion flush on the jaw, felled him like a poled ox. As the referee tolled "seven," Charles tried to get up, sank back, and at "ten" was out cold...
Cave replaced Charles F. Walcott '26, assistant in Medicine, as Wilder's physician last week. He expects the professor to miss at least two more meetings of his Humanities II course...