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Show He realizes he isnt as fast as he was and in the Rock he is meeting meet-ing a toughie that can pot you with one good shot. A few years back the Sugarman could have gotten ready for this one by getting get-ting a hair cut and shave. But the Turpin fights showed Ray, the old speed is slipping. Haven't read much about Rocky on this fight, but he is tough and he could always punch. Our own Rex Layne looked good in stopping Peterson in the first heat at Logan. Rex came in at a pretty trim 192 and he showed the best left hook he has ever had. Don't know what Jensen Jen-sen has lined up for him, but I look for it. to be Dale Hall, the boy that stopped Nelson. Could be in Salt Lake in the near future. fu-ture. See you next week. AL SPORTS HERE ANDTHERE (Continued from page one) Mays to the army. I understand Willie is being considered a hard ship case as he is the sole support sup-port of a large family. The Bums lost big Newcombe to the army. To offset these losses the Giants got Bob Elliott from the Braves and Brooklyn is depending on young Clem Levine to take up the slack from the Newcombe loss. But teams with the return of Simmons to the Phillies and it looks like Ennis has found the range along with the rest of the boys that have gotten over that wizz kids tag, those Phillies are goin gto be rough right down to the wire. In the American the Yankees still have the big three Lopat, Raschi and Reynolds, along with a will to win and the luckiest manager in baseball in Casey Stengel. Cleveland could walk away with the race if their so-called so-called hitters would hit. They have the pitching to match any team. Mike Garcia could be the biggest winner in the majors. The rest of the league is just so-so. It looks like the clean-up program pro-gram in the fight game has done some good all ready. Been some great fights lately. The last was the LaMotta - Hayes go in Detroit. De-troit. LaMotta won in a great scrap. Next on the list is Robert-son-Graziano in Chicago. Sugar Ray is taking this one serious. |