Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-23
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To Beat Sugar
tuesday Night

CHICAGO, Mar. % Dr.
Sugar Ray Robinson will try
to win the middleweight boxing
title for the fifth time Tuesday
night in a rematch with Cham
pion Carmen Basilio. :.
Chicago Stadium will provide
a dramatic setting for the fight.
Basilio never has won here.
Robinson won the champion
ship, successfully defended it,
and regained 1t twice in the big
West Side arena. Basilio is an
8-to-5 favorite in the latest
odds.
The scheduled hereunder
will be on theater television in
SO States. the District of Co
lumbia and Canada. Chicago
and q l00-mile radius will be
BACKED out, but will be in on
the national radio broadcast by
CHS. Fight time is IL pm.
washington time).
To Use 5-POint System
Scoring will be on the 5-point
must system. meaning the win
ner of a round receives S points,
the loser any lesser number,
and there are 5 points each for
a draw.
1eieprompter Corp. has guar
anteed $275, 900 from its closed
circuit TV and the Interna-
tional Boxing Club expects the
figure to hit 100000. Radio
rights are $4,000.
A standing room crowd Of
81 900 is anticipated, contrib
uting to a record indoor gate
of about $435,000. The rec
ord is $422,918 for the Tony
Yale Rocky Graziano battle in
Chicago Stadium in 1947. The
biggest indoor crowd was more
than $4,000 for Robinson's de-
Tense of the 16o-pound title
against Graziano in Chicago
Stadium April IS, 1852.
Each Gets 30 Per Cent
Robinson and Basilio each
will receive 80 per cent of
everything. including movie
rights which have not yet been
estimated. Their shares figure
to be we'll over 100000.
The panther-like grace of
Robinson. who will be 80 May
8. and his chilling punches in
either fist have made him one
of boxing's all-time greats. In
149 bouts he has scored 140.
victories. 81 by knockouts.
He can be considered the
most remarkable middleweight
Of all-time on his ability to win
rematches to regain the title.
Robinson stepped from well
terweight champion to the
middleweight title on February
IA, 1851. by stopping Jake La
Motta in the 18th round of a
brutal fight in Chicago Sta
dunn. A year later, in the
same ring, he knocked out
Graziano in the third round in
defense of the crown.
In July. 1851. Robinson lost
the title by decision to Randy
Turpin in London. Two months
later in New York. he pounded
Turpin into submission in 10
rounds to regain it.
Retired MomentarilS
Six months after a futile at
tempt to winNthe light heavy
weight championship from Joe
Maxim. Robinson retired in De-
cember. 1852, for a fling as a
song-and-dance man.
Two years later. he started a
comeback. climaxing it by fiat
tening Bobo Olson. then cham
Ipion. in two in Chicago Sta
dium. On January 2. 1857. Gene
Fullmer mauled his way to a
15-round decision over Robin
son in New York. Four months
later in a rematch in Chicago
Stadium, Robinson knocked out
Fullmer in the fifth with a
classic left hook.
The rugged Basilio became
the third fighter to lift the
crown from Sugar Ray. taking
a split l5-round decision in
Yankee Stadium last Septem-
Der %. That fight proved the
aging Robinson could go full
blast for Is rounds.
Carmen No Mystery
"The thing aon,t under