Empire Stadium should be jammed Jane 9 with football fans when Ss Everton meets Aber- deen of the Scottish A division. Photo shows Peter Farrell, Everton right half and Irish : International, demonstrating his kicking form. Sugar Ray rolls along as__ ~ Rocky hangs up gloves _ Hard on the heels of Rocky Marciano’s decision to hang up his gloves and retire undefeated came Sugar Ray Robinson’s thrilling four-round knockout of Bobo Olson. In retaining his middleweight title at the age of 25, Robinson looked almost as sharp as when he was in his prime six or seven years ago, and served notice that he will be a serious con- tender for the lightheavyweight title vacated by Archie Moore, who is after the heavy- weight crown relinquished by Marciano. ‘Comebacks are rare in the box- ing world — old Ezzard Charles reached the end of the trail this week when he was beaten by an unknown — and Robinson’s first title victory .over Olson some months back.was regarded as a fluke. Sugar showed it wasn’t when he sank Bobo a _ second time. = ~As for Marciano, there is some doubt as to whether he will stay retired. Coming on the scene in the era of heavy taxes, Rocky never. made the king of money that Tunney and Dempsey did. A careful spender, the Brockton boy. salted away his earnings, however, and is fairly well fixed financially. ; The record books show that yx Bert Thomas, first swimmer to conquer the Strait of Juan de Fuca, added to his laurels last week when he became the first to complete the 18-mile swim across Puget Sound from ‘Tacoma to Seattle. three heavyweight champions retired but only one, Gene Tunney, managed to make it stick. a Big Jim Jeffries quit the ring in 1904 and handed over his title to Marvin Hart, who lost it to Tommy Burns. When Jack John- son kayoed Burns the white chauvinists of the Gay — includ- ing the writer Jack London, a progressive who got all mixed up on this issue — persuaded Jef- fries to try and beat Johnson and win back the belt “for the honor of the white race.” Jeff tried, but Johnson beat him badly. Joe Louis retired in 1949, but income tax men began to bother him and he tried a comeback which ended disastrously when Rocky Marciano knocked him Outi, ‘Mar¢jano is only 31, four years younger than Sugar Ray Robin- son, and experts think he still has a couple of good fights left in him. But Rocky says he wants to enjoy a normal family life, and is through for good. Let’s hope he sticks to his decision. Best looking heavyweight in sight is young Floyd Patterson of Brooklyn, a former Olympic middleweight champ. Patter- son is a skilful boxer, a fine puncher, and appears to be headed for the heavyweight throne. Gert Whyte's | SPORTLIGHT Gant Apo. MANTLE is hitting home runs at a clip that suggests he may beat Babe Ruth’s all-time mark, but that’s not what I’m going to comment on first in this column. No sir, the opening item on the menu concerns cricket. That’s right, cricket. Seems that at the Oval in London last week Jim Laker, the Surrey spinner, ‘did what no other bowler in a country side Had done before — take all 10 Australian wickets. Laker’s figures were 46-18- 88-10. Only one bowler has ever achieved the feat before. He was a chappie named Barrett, also of Surrey, playing in a representative fixture against the tourists at the Oval in 1878. In the 1950 Test trials at Brad- ford (writes Eric Butler in the London Daily Worker) Laker took eight wickets for two runs. ——generally recognized as the best bowling feat of all time. In last week’s match he took five wickets in the first 35 minutes after tea. Tea, they say, is SO relaxing. It was the batters who relaxed. Maybe Laker had some stout (Guinness is good for you). * * * That crunching noise you heard. Monday was just me, grinding my teeth down to the gums after the eighth race at Exhibition Park. : You see, four of. us bigtime spenders formed a “syndicate” to bet on the quinella, threw in a buck apiece and purchased two tickets. Then, as the horses neared the starting gate, I hada hunch on Color Wash and Man of Spirit (1-10) and tried to persuade the other members of the “syndicate” to invest another four bits each. But nobody liked my choice. “Tf 1-10 come in, Pll be look- ing for a razor to cut my throat,” I warned. Well, you know what hap- pened. Color Wash sprinted to the front from the start, was soon joined by Man of Spirit, and they breezed home neck and neck to pay a cool $229.60 for » ~ Lucky I shave with a safety razor. x * x Jimmy Dunn of Winnipeg, president of the Canadian Am- ateur Hockey Association, has suggested using eight members of the Allan Cup senior champs, plus all-stars from other teams; to represent Canada in the world hockey championships at Moscow next year. Nota bad idea, at that. Cer- ‘tainly better.than the proposal to whip up an all-star aggrega- tion of players who have never worked together as a team. Once selected, the team should have a fairly long training period, during which they would play other Canadian teams under Olympic rules, according tc. Dunn. “The time is past,” he sayS “when we can take a team 10 its entirety and hope to win the Olympic or world tourna- ment title. Usually the team has one weak link. Also, the substitute goalie is not always good.” What all this means, of cours? is that our hockey moguls yealize that the Russian brand of amateur hockey in now equ to our best. And perhaps eve? a bit better. * x * Since the British Empire Games were held here two years ago, interest in cycling has bee? growing, due largely to the building of the fine cycle bow! on Broadway. rae But we’ve never staged a race in this country comparable to the annual Peace Cycle Race 1 Europe, won this year by Stan- islav Krolak, a 25-year-old Pole.’ This tough, rough amateur race stretches 1,300 miles through three countries. Surprise of the race was the team victory of the Russians, 4 fairly new cycling nation. x * * Sports Mlustrated features 4 fine human interest yarn abou John Landy. Our only regret —that West Santee wasn’t run- ring against Landy in his two American appearances. It might have shut Santee’s mouth for- ever. “1 — John Landy, *” Australia’s superb miler, ran two four- minute miles in two appearances in the United States, and now has a string of six “miracle miles” to his credit. He iS favored to capture the 1,500 metres in the Olympic Games al Melbourne this fall. . : May 25, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 10