Empire Stadium should be jammed Jane 9 with football fans when

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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.

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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