Show SPORT LIGHT Turpin-Robinson Turpin Bout Tops List GRANTLAND RICE RICE- By THE HE fight game has bas run from famine to overflow from rags to riches at the fastest pace anyone anyone anyone any any- one can recall The startling defeat of ot Ray Robinson Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson by Randy Turpin has left the September situation badly over- over jammed Jim Norris naturally wants a Turpin Robinson-Turpin return match for September with the prospect of a show He also wants to give Joe Louis his shot at the lost title in the same month He has plans for or the younger heavyweights who have been moving forward Certainly of all the September parties the Turpin Robinson Turpin-Robinson Robinson meeting meeting meet- meet ing jig heads the list in the way of general general general gen gen- gen gen- eral interest Robinsons Robinson's defeat is old stu stuff now but it is still an almost almost almost al al- al- al most unbelievable episode The reason for this is plain British fighting men have been so bad through so many years that one takes akes British defeat for granted before before be- be fore ore a glove glo is thrown There are many still who want to see what happened to Robinson since he crossed the purling Atlan Atlan- tic Slumps in fighting form are not uncommon but it is difficult to see how howIt It Robinson 0 bin son could a have gone b back a e k ir that far i One answer is p I that Rand Randy Tar Turpin in 1 must be a much better fighter thanN than 4 N he was rated Even Evena a slipping Robinson a skidding Robinn Robine Robin- Robin son n is still SU S something some some- me e Gotland Grantland ran U an d RI Rite ce thing to beat f So everyone in any way interested interested interested inter inter- ested in the boxing game or the career of a champion wants to know what the true answer is What has Turpin in his system that was overlooked Why has Robinson Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson gone back Or how far has Robinson gone back Ray bestrode his field like a towering towering towering tow tow- ering up to the Turpin moment It must have been a rude shock after so many years to find himself and by a considerable margin There are many reasons why a Turpin Robinson Turpin-Robinson Robinson return will attract the biggest crowd of many years plus one of the richest harvests This could be true in England or over here With the fading days of Joe Louis upon us us Robinson had become the sole survivor of the rings ring's greater days when Dempsey Tunney Henry Armstrong and a afew afew afew few others were around The Long Long Trail Joe Louis is now more obsessed than ever that he will be heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champion again before September September September Sep Sep- passes on He will tell you he had a different feeling in his match a feeling of deeper confidence of greater speed of his ability to hit and hurt I have seen champions before who were keen enough to regain their lost titles Jim Corbett was one back in the years when he trained so desperately for the Jeffries fight Corbett astonished J Jeffries and the world at large by his amazing condition con con- Dempsey lost no time in facing a along along long hard training campaign for his second meeting with Tunney He worked for many hours a day for forthe forthe forthe the better part of a year jear ear to be ready for this meeting The fact is is I think he overdid it He had a close call in the early part of his Sharkey bout and might have left the scene that night a badly beaten man But the keen desire to get another crack at Tunney helped Jack along But Louis has a burning blistering blistering blistering blister blister- ing desire possibly unequalled in ring history to put the old crown back upon the Louis knob It will also help cover the expanding bald spot The Last Big Charge A year ago Mrs Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable dropped famous Calumet from first place as the top money winner of the year It isn't likely that Calumet will lead the financial parade this busy season of 1951 It may be Brookmeade Brookmeade Brookmeade Brook Brook- meade again or Greentree or Sonny Sonny Sonny Son Son- ny Whitney or George Widener Or some other stable But the Jones boys Ben and Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my plus Mrs Warren Wright are giving Calumet one big final whirl whatever happens later Their two major performers are Citation and Bewitch Last winter at Santa Anita Ben Jones told me that 1952 would Write White the big story for Calumet We uWe have seven colts by B Bull ll Lea and six fillies he said We will have little for 1951 outside of my old But we we may have plenty for 1952 We may get another another another an- an other Citation or another Coaltown or another The Big Stew Marciano Louis Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Dip em all into the stew and stir the steaming dough Pour the gravy thick and brown and watch the suckers throb Isn't that a pretty dish to set before before before be be- fore the mob Marciano Louis Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Every Everyone one went to duck the winning blow |