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Sbf Dethroned Sugar Ray Demands Rematch S'PORTS While Fullmer Warns Try Kayo CLASSIFIED ADS Hell for THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1957 *? New Champion C **‘i;* •' Planning to Be V mm ¦ H jg) Twice as Mean WIN, LOSE OR By MURRAY ROSE Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK. Jan. 3 Ray Robinson, the \ vw DRAW By FRANCIS STANN dethroned world middleweight king, passed the 'ft word along today H| JgSgjk Jm that he wants |N| Bh. a return bout with champion Gene Fullmer at the earliest Death of a Champion possible date. NEW YORK, JAN. 3. This was not the Sugar Ray Fullmer, the tough mauler Robinson whose skill and artistry captivated the country and from West Jordan, Utah, who much Europe. was a guy, still lithe lifted the crown from Robinson of the continent of This night Square bell, who begun last at Madison and eye-catching as he awaited the but had 'Garden, had said earlier he his professional boxing career 17 years ago. And he showed would be “twice as mean” and it as the rounds stretched to eternity. out for a knockout the next time they Gene Fullmer, Mormon Church elder and welder from I meet. West Jordan, Utah, never saw nor will see the day he could Robinson failed to show up ¥ for scheduled Robinson when Ray good. Even Sugar of a news conference have beaten was WiBM this morning, but one of his ago, admitting he was slowing up, could t seven ysars that Hi i 1 advisers and former manager. have taken out Fullmer with ease. The Utahan may be the George Gainford, did the talk- new middleweight champion of the world but his reign is not v ing. certain of being lengthy, possibly not even distinctive. ¦ “Ray wants a rematch at the earliest possible date, whenever He is a club-fighter, a short-armed young man with a Fullmer is ready,” Gainford de- craggy and near-indestructible body. He has fine courage but clared. in other respects he can be faulted. Fullmer can’t punch, nor There is a contract for a re- has he any style or deception. match between the pair within 90 days. As the capacity crowd of 18,134 inched out of the exits of Madison Square Garden last night a man may have i Cut Takes Several Stitches summed it up pretty good when he said: i Gainford said Robinson was “I hate to see a real good fighter, maybe the best of his all right physically and mental- ly, only like But we all get old.' Full- and had suffered a cut era, get all gored up Robinson. his left eye which required took shots Sugar’s got over mer—and I grant you he the best left—- five or six stitches. isn’t much of a champion. He won't draw peanuts. Tonight’s Fullmer, the 25-year-old bat- crowd was strictly Robinson’s.” y*' tler, said he would be all busi- ** * * ness in another meeting with FIFTEEN MINUTES BEFORE the fight Cus D’Amato, Robinson, who is 36. BOXING OR WRESTLlNG?—Challenger weight title fight last night in Madison ruled a "I fought manager Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, was Goldstein it knockdown and later for nothing this of Gene Fullmer hooks his right foot behind Square through fight—if Robinson,” he said, "but Garden. Robinson falls said ne tolled off a six-count. Fullmer time. The next Rob- talking in the lobby. “I got to like Champion Sugar Ray Robinson’s left foot the ropes, just manages to save himself took a unanimous inson wants it—l’llbe out there fighter birthday coming decision to lift the you never know when a has his 37th and rakes Robinson’s face with a left-hand from going over the ring apron and kicks title.—AP Wirephoto. for the big money and to keep up.” shot in the seventh round of their middle- his heels high in the air. Referee Ruby the title. I’ll be twice as mean “Afterwhat your 21-year-old did to Archie Moore/’ a man and I’llbe out for a knockout. said, “I should think you'd be a Fullmer man.” “I wanted to go for the kayo “It’s not the same situation at all,” D'Amato replied. Shaw to Undergo in this one but Marv (Manager My Fullmer's Home Marv Jenson) said I had the "Patterson’s potential is so much greater than Fullmer's. Town Takes Win Big Colonials Meet Operation pn title wrapped up in the late kid has remarkably fast hands. He is shifty. Fullmer leads Knee WEST JORDAN. Utah. Jan. 3 : cars formed and toured West Mrs. Fullmer, who says she rounds and — not to open up.” ought BALTIMORE, Jan. 3 <>7»). (P). —They took it big here in nearby 1 with his face. If Robinson has anything left lie to take i Jordan and the Salt Lake ' didn’t know or care much about The fading Robinson, making Quarterback George Shaw of the Gene Fullmer’s hometown when City suburbs of him out. After all, he hand-picked Fullmer as his challenger, South Jordan boxing until she the second defense of his third Tough Baltimore Colts will undergo a the word flashed that Utah’s ; and Midvale, honking horns and started dating Deacons J reign as middleweight champion, mainly for Gene prior this reason. knee operation tomorrow at pride had won the middleweight loaded with fans who shouted I to their marriage in October, 1955, says lost on a unanimous decision in “But most of all,” Cus went on, “Patterson can punch. Johns Hopkins Hospital, championship. and whistled. she’s mainly j spokesman Perhaps interested in getting him home 15 rounds after being floored for Iknow Archie Moore very well. I studied him for a long time A Colts said Shaw taking it biggest of all Many in the left his Portland, Oreg., Dolores, cars caravan 1 now for their delayed Christmas. a short count in the seventh before I made the title match for Floyd. I realized that Tonight home was his w'ife 25, who ended their impromptu parade Here last night Except for brief visit before round, cut and soundly whacked and arrived here to- says she “shouted so loud the a Moore could drop any opponent with either hand. But I in front of Fullmer’s Home, where Christmas, to the body throughout. College returns day. Dr. Edmund J. McDonnell 1 baby started to cry” when the Gene has been in Ray weighed the last two weeks basketball to they cheered Dolores and mem- eye Floyd’s speed, plus his punch. For will perform the operation. i came over on training in New York since was gashed over the left in except The this area tonight as George; decision television. bers of her family. of training we worked on nothing defense. Shaw, playing his second year “Iwas just so happy at the de- November. the seventh and it was widened Washington, of only “I’d rather the in the offense we were certain of.” winner one with the Colts, was injured Oc- ' cision I burst into tears.” Mrs. watch fight in She says she's gone along with 14th. “Moore looked good in training.” the other said, “but in of its first eight games but en- tober 21 in a game against the Fullmer said. She usually ac- person because then I’m able to 1 his interest in boxing even Referee Ruby Goldstein, a talk to him quicker and find target of by the ring he looked fat in the midsection. Or maybe that was tertaining hopes of considerable Bears in Chicago. He did not re- companies1 Gene when he leaves) ) though it meant staying home Heated criticism turn to action until the final town for a fight, but this time)! out and see just how Gene is,” on Wednesday and Friday nights . Robinson's advisors, voted for because we were seeing a 40 or 42-year-old guy standing up improvement, takes on tough . game of the she had to stay home to for Mrs. Fullmer said after talking : to watch boxing on television Fullmer by eight rounds to five 21-year-old season against ; care to a kid.” Wake Forest in the Fort Myer Washington. December 23. He is : five-months-old Kaye Fullmer. | to Gene via long distance. She when she might prefer going out. with two even. Judge Frank said his first words to her this 1 “I’lljust say this much,” D’Amato retorted. “Right near gym. Game time is 8:30. believed to have a damaged car- In West Jordan, the spontan- ' That’s "because it’s been his own. Forbes had Gene ahead. 10-5, “he Judge the end of training in Chicago almost all the fighters used The Deacons knocked off the tilage in his right knee, eous celebration was like nothing time was that didn't have a 1 lifelong ambition to be a while Harold Barnes had the same scales. They would take a shower and step on the “seen since the end of World War mark on him and he really felt ; champ,” she explains. it a shade closer, 9-6. The Colonials, 79-66, in the season j ; i good.” Associated Press scales. As soon as the bar would steady and give the weight 11. Within minutes after the "Everybody’s been telling me i ¦ card had Full- opener and later went on a fight, many of the 2,100 towns- “He easily and I[ I’d be a wife, [ mer in front, 9-6.

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