Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-10-20
WIN, LOSE OR
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To Hotcho and Back

THESE THEN, ARE days for retirement Ralph Kiner
to his threat to quit playing ball when he became
Amateur tennis lost Doris Hart who henceforth win teach
at so much per half hour And now Randy Turpin has
decided (again) that he's had it as fst-hghter
Turpn one-tme booth fighter in Britain, did announce
one retirement in 1858 after Bobo Olson beat him in
Madison Square Garden with the mddleweight title at
stake Because punch Olson couldn't knock Randy
out but he beat him much that Turpin sitting IN his
dressing room later, said:
aIm ready to quit ! can't fight with the problems
my mind" The problems to which he referred Of
domestic nature which apparently we're resolved because
he returned to the ring.
All Of which brings up the possibility OF another retire.
ment in the near futureNovember to be specihcaer
Middeweight Champ Olson and Ex-middleweight Champ
Ray Robinson meet for the title in Chicago
ROBINSON Is ONE UP on Olson in the retirement dodge
After tried to dehrone Joey Maxim heavyweight
champion falling to the heat after piling up lead
Sugar Ray vacated 16opound title He claimed he had
nobody highland indeed, he had beaten Olson twice
but another was that Robinson song
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He performed in night clubs and organized his own
band That his idea Of the good life far away from
training camp grnds But Sugar Ray learned to his dmay
that it money when the customers didn't share his own
enthusiasm for his talents So presumably pressed for
scratch, he began comeback in the ring
Robinsons return not exactly spectacular. Tiger
Jones' journeyman who wouldn't have mussed his marcel
in the old days. beat him. But then he got Rocky castean
in the ring in San Francisco who can't hit lick
and on Bobo's foremost challenger Robinson
earned" his shot at Olson and his old crown.
Nobody certain II Sugar Ray still can fight
1t may not even be established he beats Olson who may
be over the hill himself
BoBo WAS DOING all right as king Of the middIe-
weights until like Robinson before him. he stepped out Of
his class Olson and his Sid Flaherty may have
big mistake last June when Bobo tried to lift Archie
Moore's 175-pound title 1t was contest
Those guns packed by Moore we're too heavy for Olson
and the mddeweght got knocked cold that reporters
in state Of shock" spokesman tartly explained Let
him alone"
Olson has fought since but not with such zest rngsders
noted the kayo lot Of people giving
Sugar RAY good chance provided his legs and he
trains like title contender should The latter is something
that Robinson in the last few years OF his
reign as middleweight king.
Which brings the back to Turpn, washed up at
the age OF ~ after his fourhround knockout in London
the other night by Gordon Wallace, an unknown from
Canada.
THIS WAS TO HAVE been prep for Turpin before his
January fight England with Moore who In turn was to
Randy prep for return with Rocky Marcano. But
Wallace eliminated Turpn for keeps flooring him twice IN
the second round and after getting knocked down himself
in the third batterng the onetime world champion so
badly that Randy said
Il am retiring NY refexes are not there anymore
When that happens, it is the end"
That he England'S first world middleWeight
champ years partly because Of Robinson who
touring Europe in 1851 with encourage that included
valet personal barber physician manager trainer and
dwarf for laughs In Paris Brussels and Berlin Sugar Ray
awinning despite the carefree nights and mornings
At the end booked meet the unknown Trpin in
London, Ray in the worst possible shape
warned Ray he'd get licked by serious fighter"
Dr. Vincent Nardielo his physician said later but he
wouldn't listen until Turpin took his title"
hectic days nights later at the Polo
Ray reganed his then fought Maxim
and finally vacated his throne for the hotcha circuit
where he also took leave Of spending stun to which
he has been accustomed