Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1952 — Page 29

24, 1952

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1952 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES 2 - — PAGE 29

Marciano Hailed As ‘Another Dempsey’

SRNR Comoe to ko PATTY

J] Canvas to KO Aged Walcott

By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24—Rocky Mareciano, the brand new heavyweight champion, was hailed as “another Dempsey” today because of his slashing attack that blasted gallant old Jersey Joe Walcott into retirement.

Fighting in this same Municipal Stadium where Jack Dempsey lost his

crown to Gene Tunney 26 Fans Jam

years ago last night, unbeat-| en Marciano of Brockton, Mass, Th } F wrested the crown from 38-year- ea er or old Walcott on a knockout at 43 ° seconds of the 13th round. TV Showing

An explosive left hook that followed a setting -up right, : a smashed dusky Joe to the canvas By JIM HEYROCK and made Rocky the first white] IT MIGHT have been the heavyweight champion in 15] 4 : years, By winning his 43d con- lobby of Madi Son Square secutive professional victory, the Garden or Chicago Stadium swarthy, muscular son of a _ the people who crowded Brockton shoemaker became the around nd pe achi d first perfect-record king of his|® bopcorn machines an division. the orangeade stands were the “The left hook did it,” de-/same fans you would find in clared the jubilant winner in his| either of those dressing room. , places. - A crowd of 40,379 saw Mar-| But the scene a ciano rise from the canvas in|was the Indiana the first round, after the first Theater and knockdown of his career, and there were 3000-

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ROCKY MARCIANO—A left hook helps send Jersey Joe Walcott down and out. come on through a thrilling fight plus sports en- od : JERSEY JOE WALCOTT—His head on the floor the dethroned champion takes the count.

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1 r to victory. thusiasts out to ° : novels o I ® I oN #8 prove Theater ; S Lhe © i n in | IT WAS a tragic defeat for Television is ; ’ Walcott in his second defense of here to stay.

at {the crown, for he was leading on|Some had waited the score sheets of the three of-|for two hours to

Pandemonium Reigns

By United Press By JIMMIE ANGELOPOLOUS

ies CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 24—"“I hope my husband does retire. I want ficials when the knockout blow|get into the Hevrock Tile) Or rt : : him home.” \felled him, He had made a game | theater to dash eyroc | PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24—The culprit who stole.a new $22 pair of ? . : {defense of the title he won from/|¢ choice seat at the Jersey . : . . That was the comment last night of Mrs. Lydia Cream, wife of Jer-|Ezzard Charles on a somewhat | Joe * Walcott - Rocky Marciano Pants Rocco Marchegiano borrowed to keep warm going into the ring mies, sey Joe Walcott, in her home here when she was told of his defeat and his|1s 1o51 He made 4 ores | orld's heavyweight champlon- might like to know the trousers didn’t belong to the New Heavyweight m= {18 . ssful {ship fight. . . y ' manager's announcement on defense against Charles last July | Within minutes after the doors Boxing Champion of the world. - [4.3 . ) {18 here in the Stadium. d at 7:15 p. m., all seats . . 1 i Mi S M 5 {his retirement. Walcott's real {opened p . The trousers belong to one . i mEmam | ah - Walcott was bleeding from a [were filled and the aisles were ; : : . | 3 [Wise Y on, Y on, {name is Cream. | badly gashed lett brow and his beginning to fill. Another mob of the Brockton, Mass., block-{Rock was hoisted in mid Ping, jemy and Narechune Na ifeine,

i : ’ . |W i b 11 cap. ® x | “We're all proud of him,” said] right cheek was bruised. and milled outside the theater and in buster’s buddies who showed “*""€ 8 pein cap on |champions. ries Rock % Mothe his wife. “There’re a lot more| swollen. His white boxing [the outer lobby. Jeveryone in Brockton would give] thee tered ut smiling Murs | niin things I'd like to say, but T want| trunks were stained with blood, | The big Indiana Theater SCteetithe shirt off his back and his| iano. It had its significance. | ROCKY SAID, “The punch that : : |to say them only to him.” like a butcher's apron. Some came to life with a color guard cxiry pair of pants for their mod-| Rocky's No. 1 love was base- knocked me down was the one By United Press : Mrs. Cream said, however, she of that gore came from a deep |and the announcer in the center est soft - spoken g | ball. He failed to make his [that hurt me most.” That was BROCKTON, Mass., Sept. 24. — Mama Marchegiano thought Joe would win a return | sot on top of Matlagoy bend of the Hing Jirnegiateld: ie he idol second tryout with Chicago |in the first minute of the first : : : aq y 2 i if! an rom a gash a e inside | > § Ue 3 o prayed nervously last night while her friends took the “evil ath won Rocky Marciano if} A a 5 ks wight row, |cheered Iustily as celebrities were aN demnonii Cubs farm team in 1948 as a round, the first time Rocky had eye” off her son to help him become heavyweight cham-| : | almost on the bridge of his |introduced. Sugar Ray Robinson | = ately after

3 . All of Jersey Joe's children | . . : Chuck Dave pion of the world. | uk onc 15genr-old Arnaid Jr, | POE: and up-and-coming Chuc Yithe steel- like arms of Rocky

When it was over and Rocky were sitting anxiously around Walcott, 10 years older than | 0% hi Minh Jeteption from Marciano had triumphed, his the living room of the modest oe alge 2 L puns . . . ‘Marciano were gray-haired 50-year-old mother two-story dwelling when word er, Rocky for aj 'raised in victory, could only say: fhrew back her hands and wept came that he had lost. Arnold (count of three with a left hook| IT WAS a crowd that would erupting from the main {force

catcher because of a so-called hit the canvas in 43 professional “dead” arm. fights. So the lad who failed to become| The Rock was stunned for half a catcher because of a dead arm a minute in the 11th round when turned to boxing where he be- Walcott’s hard right to the side |came a pitcher who could hit. [doubled up the Brockton bruiser 8 = {into a crouch.

ROCKY'S SUPPOSED to catch! But Rocky's explosive right

When the verdict was in, she |

in relief. | y |in the first round and had him in! laddened the heart of any “My son. My Son.” Se is in Richmond, Va., where he | have gladdene e heart o ) Scores of friends and neigh- y Tni groggyland in the 11th, boxin romoter. The fans Taghan ihe sishh be? Bois poured iuig She house, o1- renting Virgil; Yoon T ae we ' oy Da time Jersey Joe or 91 - 5000 Brock : lof ia Radaien in ion Work in wy ast plied A Marchegiano sat in a kitch fering handshakes and con- Ea BUT IT was Rocky, scaling| po yy landed a good blow, And, ton delegates Angle |day, bu 8 _Zushe ove a, ame as the di Ravywe rocking chair in the modest 5-| gratulatory kisses ahd shout- SOME OF THE children had 184 pounds to Walcott's 196, who | 0 at every fight, they shouted and hundreds of slashed nose bridge, and pu ed, champion to win all his pro room house bought by her son's. ing exuberantly over the tri- SOM “th : eS forced the fighting in every instructions to their favorite others who stormed. through left eye ‘won't fit into a catchers fights and the first Americanfistic powers and prayed silently.| umph of the one-time Brockton teatsin Walcott admitted «pm ound and finally took the crown As at regular fights, the police police-guards to reach their hero mask without nature's assistance’ born son of Italian parents to

She paid little attention to her | meat-packer and ditch-digger. | ,iher upset.” ja} Which he has Site during his |, problems. Shortly after the in the ring. this week. become. heavyweight champion, friends in the same room who 8.8 2 In addition to Mrs. Cream, ie career of four years in the .., 4 moved in, a ‘bluecoat was| The riotous bedlam trampled| Today Brockton od letting the | But Rocky didn't achieve his were performing the ancient | “WHEN I'M READY,” Mrs. Elva, 16; Doris, 15; Ruth, 13; Vin- "8 forced to eject two slightly in-lover typewriters, telegraph in-| Poxing world know its belter victory like a barricuda searching

The exciting brawl attracted a

Italian ceremony of “Mal Oc- {Marchegiano said, “we'll havé a cent, 12, and Carol, 7, heard the! ebriated gentlemen from the press struments, photographers their has answered all questions con- hungrily for its bloody prey. The

chio” which according to tradi- (big mass—a mass to St. An- fateful news. (gross gate of $504,645, second @ 4 radio section. (They were not cameras and newsmen, defyin | cerning Rocky's meteoric as- Rock, strictly unfamiliar with the tion will remove the “evil eye” [thony.” | The children appeared tooflargest in Philadelphia's history. , o yere of press or radio.) lthe police cordon's Swi cendency up the fistic ladder hook of boxing etigftette, had to which might bring disaster to | Then she threw a coat over her choked to say anything. They It ranked next to the $1,804,733 SP 7 clubs. | of success. plod all the way. loved ones. shoulders and walked into the pushed Ruth forward to do the attracted by Dempsey and Tun-| AND THEN, high in the top| v thaw 20 minutes the! The Rock withstood the fusi-| He had to go more than 10 24 crowd of some 500 well-wishers talking for them. ney. A guarantee of $120,000 {.. For mors (han minutes the ;,4e of blows rained on him by rounds for the first time in his

balcony a fist fight broke out.inynicipal Stadium’s rin uiv-| , ] CRSONS who had gathered outside her| Ruth had little comment, how- brought the total receipts (be-| ’ Pp 8 qQUuiV-ithe amazing Jersey Joe Walcott, pro career because of Walcott's SOME 30 PERSONS, including g Police moved in and stopped ered under the impact of the un-|ipe iar or the ve. Hing catng donoiive cratiingss

i home. lever, on the announcement her fore results of the movie take is blood was shed relatives, friends and a dozen|™™" _______ father would retire. known) to $624,645. That would Pefore any blood was sted. = restrained celebrants. Then the|whose raw courage, borne of pov-/and unbelievable fortitude. tewsmen Wa tthed af ‘several “I don’t know, it's up to him,” amount to a net of approximately , & "8% FEO ROIS AACE AT Soe > elderly women silently went Game Change she said. “But Td like him to $467,200, and a purse of $186916 Jo CUAL ME BOYCE BEE Fl . through the ceremony which in-| The Sacred Heart-Lebanon|take another shot at the title.” |for Walcott and $93,458 for Mar-| ‘= "© ies. The odds, just be-| : volved dropping oil into a dish of | football game, originally sched-| The other Walcott children .Ciano. \fore fight time, went to 9 to 5. MEN water. juled for the CYO field Friday, scurried tearfully and silently | In the dressing room, Man- | favoring Marciano. Mrs. Marchegiano kept her head has been changed to the Manual| upstairs. They went to bed with- | ager Felix Boecchicchio an- | The crowd was pleased. After

bowed over her prayer book, re- High School Field at 8 p. m. | out comment. | nounced that Walcott must |wajcott dropped to the canvas . : fusing to listen to the periodic re-| £ 2.8 | retire or “fight without my |3nq was counted out, the fans] ports brought in on the progress Fi h R It WHEN JERSEY JOE won the| management.” Walcott finally {remained seated and didn’t start C4 REN? of the fight | Hg t Results [title from Ezzard Charles and| said, “I'll have to go along with |t, move out until television was! 8 | By United Press captured his first defense against] my manager. He brought me |t{,rned off.

: BrILADELPHIA- Rocky, Marciano, 184 Charles, the streets outside the| this far. Now we'll go into aa ; NINN Walcott, 196, Camden, N.°J. 3)" Won|little house were jammed With| business.” TOMMY KING, International ® H $ : V e é 8 v 1 : | . \ SAN ANTONIO, Tex Bobby Dykes, 152,/ Cheering admirers. | Going into the 13th round, the Boxing Club publicist, had to fore- WW i Fone in f TAT Phoenie’ Aviocked out Cisco Saenz] “It's all quiet outside tonight,” it} ree ring officials favored Wal-|go the trip to “Philadelphia to / sch a fuss NEWARK. N. J—Tony Cimmino, 145. the ex-champion’s wife comment-|. ++ on rounds as follows. Referee come to Indianapolis for the

Bayonne, N. J., outpointed Leroy Tate, ed. “We didn’t win.”

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