Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-05-18
WIN, LOSE OR
DRAW By FRANCIS ,7Aup
Build Up, Knock Down

THE FORMAL FOR THE Ingemar Johansson- Floyd
Patterson hoedown next month apparently set Belte
lingo and build up the ex-champon year ago it
the reverse.
The carefree Swede needed all the help he could get
last May and June publicitywise Twice minute
the clock the film clips of his oneround kayo of Eddie
Machen in Sweden shown the Hotel ASors biggest
window on Broadway. Presumably punchy from being
knocked out approximately 5000 times day, Machen
sued
In training camp at GrossngerS lingo surrounded
by beautiful dollS-ncudng his fance, Brgit-and his
family. He lolled about the swimming pool played golf
and when he appeared in the ring for workout he acted
as if the right hand punch physical weapon strin
gently outawed.
Now that the promoterS-one punster has termed
them Roy COINS Crew CutS-are faced with the problem
of selling Patterson to the public After ALL knock
downs in the third round.
FLOYD HAD BEEN SUSPECT before the Johansson
fight, both to ability and durability but possibly
because little known of the Swede-aside from
saffron recoections by old Olympic boxers-PatterSon
was made the solid favore.
All of sudden became apparent that Floyd didn't
take punch to the jaw any better than the next guy
testimony which has been borne in recent months by
some of the Ss on which he had feasted including Roy
Harris, Pete Rademacher and Brian London.
The matches arranged by Pattersons defrocked man
ager Gus DAmato looked phony in the beginning and
in retrospect they from the comic to the prepos
ferrous Now of sudden, it that Patterson heavy
weight champion since he unaccountaby stopped Archie
Moore in the fifth round November 80 1856 in Chicago
and dethroned last June 25 requires the dup
The wheels already in motion. On three success
Sive days JohanSSon has % been hit in the mouth by
sparring partner quitting the ring in huff; (2 been
draped the ropes by another sparmate and 90
decided to go horseback riding and gofng instead of
fexing his important boxing muscles.
INGO is A HORRIBLE fighter to watch-provided
you catch HMM training camp There's always
something else he's doing, people tell you when you
knock at his plush cottage at GroSngers You wonder
what kind of fighter is this fellow Yet he conquered
Patterson with ridiculous by throwing the first
straight right of the fight Then, later you remember
that Harry Greb and Mickey Walker weren't much for
that pre-fght grind. And they didn't lose many.
There is little the Crew Cuts-the promoters-can
do about Johanssons training habits This is the Prince
of the Smorgasbord, the impish Viking who today
year ago, claims there is toonder and lightning in his
right hand The Roy Coins obviously have got to build
up Patterson, the abject, fallen hero
Now they've rung Joe Louis into the act big, fat
Joe who is only 46 and trying to climb out from
under the Internal Revenue people Louis is PatterSon
adviser" it develops Once joe like Dempsey and Brad
dock and Lesnevich and few others who held titles,
used to Shl on mnor-league grade whenever big
fight up.
Could be desperation? Louis started yesterday
Patersons adviser He gave with the routine: 81 think
Floyd has much better chance in this fight than the
last one"
LOUIS, AS A TRAINER-ADVIsER, doesn't seem to
fit in the picture. He has been shll in the past, not
very successfully and the press agents would have
you know that he's revising Patterson. Joe can't.
Louis, himself, not fighter much as a
machine. He made his quick awleSS by instinct
When he got knocked down. he knew how to get up.
These and other tricks of the trade he's expected
impart to Patterson.