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Harvard boxing coach Henry Lamar says that the DeMarco-Aiken fight, scheduled for the Garden on Oct. 29 should be a welterweight title bout rather than an elimination match. Yesterday, the CRIMSON erroneously reported that Lamar favored an elimination rather than a title bout...
Harvard Boxing Coach Henry Lamar yesterday claimed that the Tony De Marco-Virgil fight on Oct. 29 in the Garden should be an elimination battle rather than a welterweight title bout...
Basilio, the battle-scarred new middle-weight champ, said he was undecided to continue fighting as middleweight or welterweight and wouldn't decide for about 10 days...
...Syracuse, crag-faced Carmen Basilio, 30, the graduate onion farmer who is now welterweight champion, saw no point in waiting for the crowd. He had no time for small talk, either. Over the door of the dingy Main Street Gym where he plugs away at his own grim routine of training, a cardboard sign warns the curious that visitors are unwelcome. The only fight that Carmen is worrying about is the fight with Robinson; the only strategy he is planning is to wade in punching. Each in his own way, the welterweight brawler and the big-talking middleweight boxer...
...woozily inaccurate way the film is a biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...