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Fight Nearl Stopped Because of His Bad Eye in Third Round

Graziano Scores Technical Knockout With Barrage of Blows in Sixth

By JACK CUDDY, United Press Sports Writer CHICAGO, July 17—Rocky Graziano, a desperate, dead-end guy

from the streets of New York, was middleweight champion of the world |

foday because his luck and his gameness had enabled him to turn seemfngly certain defeat<into a technical kriockout victory in the sixth round t gallant Tony Zale in their tumultuous return -title mateh before L547 at Chicago stadium last night. - “Rocky was lucky because he got . She licking of his life in at least first three rounds, after which Br. John J. Drammis, the boxing gommission physician, came into the ring to investigate whether ¢hallenger- Graziano — with the ply gashed left brow and nearly sed right eye—should be pertted to continue. “Jt seemed at the end of that third ®und, in which Graziano had been iven to one knee for.a “one count” I a terrific right to. the chin, that

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ky must lose on a technical kayo ust suffer his second. knockout | the hands of the champion from @ary, Ind, who had belted him out | for the full count at 1:43 of the sixth found in their first title .brawl at] ew York's Yankee stadium last

¢ Orders Bout Continued ! But Sheldon Clark, chairman of

“fhe Illinois boxing commission, re- THE WINNAH-Roc ky ¢eived the physician's report and! Graziano was bruised and ordered the bout to continue, beaten, but nevertheless - the + This gave Fryar. Sid. Cradiano 4 champ after his fight - with ew lease on Rls pug ¢ life in ‘ la Lab od . bo make-or- break bittle’ with 33-| Tony Zale Jost night. year-old Zale, It enabled the des- | siasts—mus st have been a blow to

perate “happy hoodlum” to continue | the New York boxing commission. the battle that might win him the It put a hot potato right in the world's 160-pound crown and might| mouth of Eddie Eagan, chairman

" #quare-shouldered New York Italian,

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get back his license to fight in his | home state of New York, where he Bad been barred last Feb. 7 because #f his fallure to report three offers o $100,000 bribes. :{ When the awkward, muscular;

with the mop of unkempt brown Bair, entered the ring a 6% to 5 underdog last night, he knew that his career was at stake; for if he Jost he had no chance of getting back his New York license. He knew he would be washed up on the big

" Rallies in Fourth Although Graziano was on- the verge of “Queer street” at the end pf the third round, he rallied to fight back with surprising strength in the fourth session—and to slow up Zale with body blows and head hooks, although he lost that round by a slim margin, Perhaps Rocky was heartened in that fourth session by the sight of the usually accurate Zale missing a punch and falling to the floor. Anyway, Rocky came storming out jn the fifth with such a barrage bf heavy hooks to the head that he had the champion staggering peveral times and bleeding from a gashed lower lip. For the many experts whe had witnessed last September's bout and had seen Zale: come back from an inhuman head-beating in the fifth round to win on a knockout in the sixth, it was still anybody's fight when it entered last night's coinciflental sixth round. Goes for the ‘Kill’ But this was a desperate grimly fletermined, blood-smeared Graziano who was fighting last night. He swung his fists like a hammer-slay-er on the loose as he went after Zale for the “kill,” He shook off Tony’s counter punches to the body and shook the champion with allout hooks to the head that had the veteran swaying this way and that, He smashed Zale into a neutral gorner, where - Tony surely would have fallen on his back, had not the helpfully angled ropes held him up when he was slumped halfdown. Zale managed to lurch out of the gorner; but Rocky was after him, | bludgeoning his head with blows that might have felled an elephant, | A succession of those punches spun Zale and sent him slithering sideways into the ropes and left him draped over the second strand of| the ropes—{ace down, while savage! Graziano continued to smash away at his body At this instant Behr of Chicago, Gloves coach, stepped in to prevent A possible recurrence of fatalities that the fight game recently experienced at Cleveland and Los | Angeles, He helped extricate Zale

Referee Johnny

from the ropes and at the samef’ time motioned Graziano back |

his corner. notifying him wah| frantic semaphores that the fight was over, and that he had ‘won| he championship on a technical Ft at 2:10 of the sixth round. Some Criticism

' ince this was Chicago’ biggest betting fight since the “Yong count” heavyweight title batfle between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey ‘In 1027, there naturally was some priticism of ‘Behr's merciful action, | But the cool-hé%4ded and correct Yeferee explained, “I should have ptopped the bout when. Zale was slumped in the. corner in the’ sixth und because his eyes had ceased focus. But, because he was champion, 'T let him continue until he was a completely helpless target— With absolutely no hope of recuperating.” It was a thrilling fight—perhaps | ¢ven more thrilling than their first ncounter last September. It was e ‘big fight” of richest ind fn any di

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of the New York commission, who had announced thé revocation of Rocky's license last Feb. 7, after a three-day hearing. : It seemed virtually certain today that Eagan and his two fellow commissioners would be virtually forced to give back Graziano's license and recognize him as champion. In the dressing room, the managers of the new champion and the

vanquished ex-champ disclosed to

reporters that there. had been a private contract between the two fighters that guaranteed Zale a rematch within 90 days, in case of a Graziano victory. No site was designated in the contract. Zale lost the world title in -his second defense. He had won the N. B. A. crown by knocking out Al Hostak on July 19, 1940; and he had become undisputed champion by goutpointing Georgie Abrams at New York on Nov. 28, 1941. The war and three and a half years in the navy had prevented a defense before last September's first encounter with Graziano, Lucadello to Blues CLEVELAND, 0, July 17 (U, P.). ~—8econd Baseman John Lucadello prepared today to join the Kansas City Blues after being optioned to the American association club by the New. York Yankees, who had to release a man to make room for Pite her Bobo Newsom,

Canadian Open Field Pursues Dixie Golfer

TORONTO, July 17 Johnny Palmer was the méan to catch but Bobby Locke was the man to beat today as the 146 golfers in the $10,000 Canadian Open golf meet squared off for sezond-round play over the sprawling Scarboro course

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Palmer, '& "Dixie “Pixis"" from Badin, N. C., hexed Ahe rest of the field yesterday when he finished

early with a five under par 66 and left the others, practically breaking their backs—or fheir clubs—trying to match him,

Three .other AJ. 8. players, Clay-

ton Heafner, & fellow North Carolina golfer from Charlotte; Ellsworth Vines, the ex-tennis pro

from Los: Angeles, and Nick Wis-

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12 Nines to Play In Kokomo Meet

KOKOMO, Ind, July 17 (U. P) -An entry list of 12 teams has : en, announced for the Indiana!

seral-pro baseball championship | togernament starting here - tomorrqw Arrow Service, Kokomo, plays Steve's All-Americans, Marion, in

the first game of the opening dou- | ble-header, The Batesville nine

plays the Club Cars, Gary, in the|

nightcap.

Softball Notes

Softball night will be held Saturday | night at Beech Grove stadium, ‘There | will w three-game pro, ram and all pr Se, ill go to the Arion county | softball association Qbenin the program at 7 p. m., Moose ge Will meet Paper Package. The sec et and third games will bring together! four of the strongest soltbait tegma in Indianapolis. At 8:15 p Tires a clash with and

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p. m, L. G. 8. Spring Ar horns with the pel Packers. Last nighi's scores in the Senior C. Y. | O. league at Beech Grove stadium: H Rosary 9, St. Patricks 0; St. 12, Yoly Trinity 1; Heart 0

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JUST BEFORE THE END <~Referee John Behr pulls Rocky Cravitne. away from Tony Zalé just before the fight ¥ was stopped aftér 2 minutes and 10 seconds in the sixth round.. Graziano was 3s Sivan credit for a technical knockout.

Unknowns Push /|Rocky Not Certain What Links Favorites *_|Punch Started Him" Off

CHICAGO, July 17 (U. PJ). =| “I hurt my right in the first and DES MOINES, Ia, July, 17 (U.| Rocky Graziano, a tousle-headed my left in the second,” he said, P.) —Defending champion Prank | slugger from Manhattan's lower “but after we finished the fourth Stranahan of . Toledo and medalist | po side, held the world’s middle- round I knew I had him. That's

Bud Ward of Spokane, led their| od Irv Cohen. Kos respective brackets ints the second | ¥¢i8ht boxing championship today, When 1 ¢ n (Rocky’

of h ~but:he wasn’t sure how he won it. manager) that I was going to get RR Me iets lay a he West “I don't know what punch/him in the same round he said he'd Both were finding the going! started me off,” he said -in the|get me. tough against an ‘ambitious field dressing room after the brawl. “I| The jubilation in Rocky's dressof competitors. Nevertheless, ex-(hit him with a left and then with ing room was absent in Zale's. perts still predicted that Strana-|® right and then it was a lot of| ‘Tony sat on a dressing table with han and Ward would go into the|both. TI guess all of them had his arms down and his head finals against efich other in a re-|Something to do with it." dropped. peat performace of 1046 when| He waved both fists in the air,| “I thought She referee stopped Stranahan fipally downed Ward blew Kisses at the photographers,ithe bout too soon,” he said, and after 38 hole, |and wiped the perspiration from | ‘his manager, Sam Pian and Art The second round, played this | his prow. | Winch, agreed with him. morning, Was for 18 holes. The Rocky was interviewed in his| “I was in much worse shape in! winners vill head into the third|dressing room, a hot box even that first fight with "Graziano in round off play iomediately after warmer than the ring in which he| September,” Tony went on, “but the| lunch, {won the title. A mob of camera- heat got me in this one. I began|

‘of the 32 first round men, reporters and well-wishersito feel it in the fifth round, and I!

THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1949

Luck Bring Middleweight Title To Roc!

10'Neal-Ellis

Match Tops Semi-Finals

Bloomington

Golfer Surprises

SOUTH BEND, Ind. July 17 (U. P).~Indianapolis’ two top women golfers—Alice O'Neal of Woodstock and Dorotliy Ellis of Meridian Hills —met today in fhe semi-final feature of the state golf tournament at the Chain O'Lakes course. The other match pitted Mrs. J. Calvert Shorb, South Bend veteran, against Miss Geraldine Bariani of BI ngton, who won the 1945 women’s title in Colorado. O'Neal-Ellis matches have becgme perenniel” contests of both Indiana and Indianapolis title golf, although the two shotmakers usually tangle in the finals. Last year Miss O'Neal won both city and state crowns by defeating Miss Ellis in the finals. Miss Bariani pulled the upset of yesterday's quarter-final matches when she won a 2-and-1 victory over Mrs. Jim Wagner of Richmond whose qualifying score of 82 tied Miss O'Neal's for medalist honors and made the Richmond golfer a dark horse contender for Miss O'Neal's title. : Beats Evansville Golfer Miss Ellis beat Mrs. Prancis Pleming, Evansville, 2-up; Miss O'Neal won 2-up over "South Bend City Champion Dorothy Gustafson, and Mrs. Shorb easily defeated Mrs. Lester Emmons, also of South Bend, 6 and 5. Miss Bariani took a two-up lead midway in her 18-hole match with Mrs. Wagner, going out in 43. But Mrs. Wagner, wife of a Richmond pro, squared the match at the 11th hole. Then Miss Bariarl moved in front and clinched victory on the 17th green. Each had an eéven-par 39 on the back nine, and Miss Bariani's 82 was as good as the best qualifying

scores in Monday's first-day activity. Racing Schedule TONIGHT

At Indianapolis Midget Speedway, W. 16th st,

TOMORROW NIGHT

At Indianapolis Speedrome, U. S. 52 at Kitley ave.

SATURDAY NIGHT At Greenfield Midgetdrome, At New Castle, fairgrounds, stock cars, :

SUNDAY NIGHT

At Alexandria, Armscamp, midget | cars.

Threatens Record STATE COLLEGE, Pa. July 17. | —Coach Chick Werner is convinced that Penn State’s Gerry Karver will

ion went to extra holes yes- | Chased him to the sub-basementjust couldn't pull myself together | threaten Glenn Cunningham's mile

terdag. Stranahan himself needed | Quarters where he hung his clothes. after that.” 3 22 loles, to defeat frail Milt. Beal The room was so .crowded he had : of Cllinton, Ia., 1 up. [to take refuge in & shower “room. ‘Ward had an easier time than|It was so hot a photographer

record of 4:06.7 before he is finished.

Spode Has

record of 13 victories and only three defeats without their help. When Spahn first was headed for stardom as a big leaguer, he had tromble with his control and it was only when his sisters took

Iturns at “sharing the big mitt in

their back-yard at Buffalo, that he was able to work long hours in getting his delivery perfected. Spahn said there was “nothing sissy’ about the way he threw to them either and that they could handle any pitch in his repertoire without flinching in just as efficient a manner as Braves’ catcher Hank Camelli did in Spahn's 3-t0-0 shutout over .the Cardinals last night. Spahn’s shutout was his second in a row and his fourth of the season and he ran his string of scoreless innines to 25. He also made two of Boston's 11 hits off Murry Dickson, who had pitched a one-hitfer against the Giants his last time out.

The Dodgers ended & three-game losing streak and stayed 2% games ahead of the Braves in first place by drubbing the Pirates” at Brooklyn, 10 to 6, on the strength of a six-run sixth ining in which Carl Furillo sent pitcher Ernie Bonham to the showers with: a two-run triple. Hank Behrman scored his first “win of the season. Jackie Robinson. boosted his average to 310, fifth highest in the league, when: he got‘ two ‘doubles and a single to bring his hit total for the season to 100. Jimmy Bloodworth hit a Pirate homer,

Kennedy Tops Cubs The Giants got another well pitched game,” their fourth in a row, as Montia Kennedy tdpped the Cubs, 6 to 3, at New York although he weakened in the ‘ninth when he gave! up all of Chicago's runs and lost a. shutout. Bobby Thomson: drove in four runs with a two-run homer and a double with the bases loaded.

three hits to register his 10th victory against four defeats as the Phils took a 4-to-1 decision from Cincinnati at Philadelphia. The Yankees scored their 17th straight victory, an 8-to-2 decision over the Indians at Cleveland which put them within two of an all-time American league mark of 19 set by the White Sox of 1906. It also

enabled them to top their all-time team mark of 16, set in 1926. Tom-

my Henrich gave Charley Wensloff

Four Pretty For Pitching Control

Braves’ Hurler Registers His 4th Shutout; Dodgers End 3-Game Losing Streak

NEW YORK, July 17 (U. P.).—It was time today to give credit to four prety girls from Buffalo—Marjorie, June, Gertrude and Eleanor Spahn—for their’ part in making the.Boston Braves the red-hot pennant ‘contenders they. have been all season’ in the National league. . They are sisters of Lefty Warren Spahn and while they aren't going to challenge any big league catchers for their jobs, the ace of the Braves’ pitching staff insists that he wouldn't have his great winning

Aging Emil Leonard gave up only

to Thank Sisters

Major Leaders NATIONAL Sragve

R BR Walker, Philadelphia 78 380 8 09 343° Gustine, Pittsburgh.. 82 316 89 101 .320 Haas, Cincinnati 71 300 5 317 Kiner Pittsburgh .. 79 308 95 31 Robinson, Brooklyn 83 100 31 A 1ICAN LEAGUE

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the working margin he needed with a two-run homer in the first inning and Larry Berra added another homer later. The Tigers dropped 11% games behind the Yankees by splitting a double-bill with the Senators, wine ning 9 to 8, then losing 10 to 1. Dick Wakefield drove in five runs with a homer, double and single in the opening slugfest in which Mark Christman got a Washington homer. The Red Sox ruined the comeback debut of Charley (Red) Ruf fing, 42-year-oli dean of major league hurlers at Chicago, topping him, 7 to 2, in his first appearance since May 4 after recovery from a knee injury. Ted Williams: led the 11-hit attack with a homer and two singles. Rookie Bill McCahdn held the Browns to four hits as the A’s won, 4 to, 1, after losing the opener, 5 to°4, In 11 innings, when Jeff Heath and Paul Lehner hit successive homers.

Americans Win PARIS, July 17 (U. P.).— Doris Hart of Miami and Mrs, Patricia Canning Todd of La Jolla, Cal. led the field into the semi-final rund of the French lawn tennis championships today. Miss Hart defeated Magda Rurac of Romania, 6-3, 6-4, while Mrs. Todd eliminated Lucia Manfredi of Italy, 6-1, 6-4

anahan -but was forced nearly | fainted while waiting for Rocky to | & ie limit in a 2 and 1 win over {Come out from under the water. | The new champion had no comeinen. | PlAINLS Whatsoever about the scrap, even ‘though he took the title home with two injured hands.

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