Show B s sy a Bob Bounds Back BackAs As No 2 Contender By JACK CUDDY CLEVELAND Feb 25 Bob UP-Bob UP Bob Pastor New Yorks York's mercurial mauler is back on the heavyweight heights today officially recognized as the worlds world's No 2 contender by virtue of f f his his' brilliant knockout victory over Cleveland's colored coffee-colored r gayo yo artist Lem Franklin t Fred Sady of Milwaukee chair chair- of the National Boxing a asso- asso wan clatl committee tion's ns n's s rating committee announced an- an the e Nox No 2 designation r x right lit after the count 10 ended over Franklin in the eighth round last lat night before a crowd of fans fans in m the arena arena arena-a a record indoor Cleveland sports crowd that eso established es- es a new indoor gate figure o of bash 4 I Only Billy Conn now stands be be- beLeen Leen teen black haired black haired skinned fair-skinned pastor and a third tilt with Champion Cham- Cham pion joe Louis because of Bobs Bob's rand and nd performance in which he het not 5 t only upset the 5 13 betting odds but actually belted out the big we shouldered broad negro who wag vas supposed to flatten Pastor in inan inan inan an early round First Full Count Count Loss LossI I It was the first full-count full kayo I ever CIer ver registered against Franklin outweighed the New York whO ho use veteran 1971 4 you pounds ds to and Kho entered the ring riding a String of 19 straight victories including including in- in luding 17 t I Referee Joe Sedley counted out I Franklin at 2 08 of the eighth round after Pastor had given a memorable demonstration of the superiority of boxing skill over the sheer heer power of a slugger 1 Franklin who had knocked out Tony Musto and big Abe Simon SimonI fin In less time than it took tool Joe Louis destined to turn the same I trick rick on Pastor in the first two rounds when he exploded thunder- thunder ng punches on the smaller mans man's head bead and body I He had bobbing Bob in such trouble rouble several times that Pastors Pastor's manager little Jimmy Johnston was screaming from beneath the corner corner orner Keep moving Bob keep Bob keep moving And Bob kept moving moving- frantically like a distraught mon- mon with goose joose with flying feet and flick- flick flickering ring ering body I Pastor went to the canvas once In ilL n the second round It wasn't a knockdown because Bob slipped before dropping to one knee while bouncing away from froma a 8 hard right smash to the heart Bob ob also suffered a g gashed shed left ey eye ye in that frame Pa Pastor astor tor Comes Back Pastor who had gone 21 rounds with ith Louis again displayed his remarkable recuperative powers and nd then took command in the third which he never relinquished y this time he had studied Frankin's Franklins Franklin's Franklins Franklin's Frank- Frank lins lin's awkward maneuvers and earned the big fellows fellow's weakness So o he went about giving Lem em a boxing lesson He had Franklin missing like a drunken dive ive bomber meanwhile smothering smother- smother ing ng exasperated Lem with jolting leather eather Pastors Pastor's killing pace and body blows tows had Franklin slowed to a walk in the fifth and the New Nework NewYork Fork York ork veteran sensing veteran sensing c certain vic- vic was tory ory was winking over the negros negro's nero's neros ne- ne gros gro's ro's ros shoulder to Manager Johnston Johnson Johns Johns- ton on in the clinches Franklin rallied rallied ral- ral lied desperately in the sixth though hough he lost the round That Was his last stand Busy Bob barraged him unmercifully unmercifully in the seventh and nd continued contin- contin ed the attack in the eighth Inthe In Inthe the lie latter session a left hook to the jaw buckled Franklins Franklin's knees Then Pastor forced him into the ropes and rained leather to the head until a hard right hook brought Lem lurching off the ropes Into nto a nose dive to the canvas He k lay stretched out on the canvas half supported by his elbows then staggered to his feet just after the count of 10 had been reached Fight Results By the Associated Press f Cleveland Cleveland Bob Bob Pastor New York slopped PP I Lem Lim Franklin Cleve Cleve- nfl gt Hartford Conn Willie Willie Pep Hart Hart- t ord d Willie Roach Wll Wll- Del Co 8 E New v York York T Mauriello New sM r udd k bUlt stopped Buddy Knox 3 Coton Co Co- f 1 ton Ohio ia 1 Brooklyn N N. Y Lander li I koul o Terry Try Young Y Youn U R- R W Yo York rk 81 walte Plain Plains N N. Y Geor George a Kochan 15 j of Akron Ohio and Augle AuRie Arellano Mexico City drew 6 Ic i e Jackie a Wilson n. n t 4 ULos Los LosI Anelee e C ferino Garcia 1 erel I I 10 y ed |