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...California's Eddie Machen, a stylish, stand-up heavyweight with no more imagination than a windup toy, took less than one round to prove that Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson is still the durable but inept clown who was all but separated from his senses by World Champion Floyd Patterson. But having put Jackson on the deck, Machen couldn't keep him there. Half-blinded, hardly able to manage the ludicrous war dance he likes to use to "unlazy his legs," Tommy kept coming back to tag his tormentor with occasional punches. After ten rounds, Tommy's manager, Lippy...
Cool autumn winds off the River Plate stirred fitfully through Buenos Aires this week, fluttering bright political posters on the walls, wafting a rich aroma from the stand-up coffee bars, riffling the leaves of the acacia trees. Steamers hooted in the harbor, cattle bawled in the stockyards, streetcars clanged and creaked. In the restaurants, solid citizens, their appetites renewed by the crisp air, tucked napkins into collars and turned with sober and fastidious attention to platter-size steaks and tall bottles of red wine. At night, in the tango palaces, unsmiling couples danced as black-suited singers mourned...
Fighting from a stand-up position which has lured a whole generation of young boxers away from Joe Louis' shuffling, deadpan approach, versatile Ray Robinson varies his style to suit his opponent. Against France's Robert Villemain last year, he solved Villemain's famed defensive shell by shucking him like an oyster, ramming uppercuts between the Frenchman's gloves. With hustling leather-thrower Kid Gavilan, Robinson danced nimbly out of range, picking the punches off with his gloves, then took his man with a fancy exhibition of counterpunching...
Bratton, 23, a stand-up boxer with a stabbing left, a rough right and some of the fanciest footwork in the business, was up against a wily, hit & run boxer who attacks in flurries, shifts into a weaving defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with...
...champions; he handled both Jack Dempsey* and Mickey Walker. He dismisses all the big fellows fighting today with one word-"Bums"-but adds quickly that he is handling "the best bum of the lot." His bum is Light Heavyweight Joey Maxim (real name: Joseph Antonio Berardinelli), 26, a clever, stand-up boxer from Cleveland with a machine-gun left and an accurate right...