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Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Fifteen rounds in Madison Square Garden for the world's welterweight championship between Champion Marty Servo and Challenger Ray ("Sugar") Robinson...
Mickey Walker, welterweight-&-mid-dleweight -champion -turned-easel-painter, tried his luck as a Broadway actor. The show, Walk Hard, hit the canvas after seven performances. But critics found Walker "believable," applauded his "naturalness." His role: a prizefighter...
Thirty hungry fight managers (including ex-featherweight, lightweight, welterweight champion Henry Armstrong) have been twisting Foxworth's arm to get him to sign up. But Sailor Bob, who earns a piddling $30 a week as a janitor in an East St. Louis nightclub, wasn't buying any just yet. He intends to go back to studying physical education at the University of Wisconsin, put more weight on his rawboned frame, and turn pro when he is good & ready. Says Foxworth, who never seems to be in much of a hurry: "My family matures rather late in life...
Divorced. Mickey Walker, 44, world's middle and welterweight champ of the '20s, today a self-taught, persevering painter; by Wife No. 3 Eleanor Marvil Walker; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Newark, N.J. Said she: "Art is now Mickey's only love...
...making of Rocky. He pulled it out of center field last March, knocked his opponent groggy. The confidence gained from that wallop gave him the same killer instinct that made Stanley Ketchel famous. He promptly made bells ring in the noggins of the late Bummy Davis, fading Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane, drew $100,000 gates...