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Cockell Down Three
Times; Wins Praise
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United PrM Spoils Writer
San Francisco U.R) Pro
moter Jim Norrii said today he
hoped to re-match Rocky Mar
ciano and Don Cockell of Eng
land "in the not too distant fu
ture," but, meanwhile, Marciano
"certainly will defend again in
September" against some other
contender.
Norris added, "Cockell won
American hearts last night with
his game stand against xne
thamn."
Unbeaten Rocky, while mak-
inir his fifth defense of the world
hMwweieht crown, used his
brand new left uppercut effec
tively against the champion 01
AAotorcycle
Field Meet
On Sunday
An "open" field meet on Sun
.day, May 22, at Copper camp
ground will inaugurate the rid
ing season for the Rogue River
Ramblers Motorcycle club.
The camp is on the upper Ap
plegate river.
This "open" get-together will
b the first of its type for the
Ramblers. Previously the field
meet has been for local mem
bers. All cyclists are invited.
Affiliation with a club is not
necessary for participation. A
number of riders are expected
from Myrtle Point. Roseburg
and Klamath Falls districts.
Contestants will be judged on
ooint svstem of five, three
and one for first, second and j
third Tronmes will so to tne
top three places on the point
basis.
Equipment Considered
Competition committeemen,
in planning a full afternoon
program, have taken into con
sideration the type of equip
ment which may appear. Ramb
lers stated that each rider will
be given an equal chance and
winners will be judged on rid
ing ability. Events for broad
sliding artists will be held under
separate rulea with ' aeparate
points.
Field meet events will start
at 1:30 p.m. The public is in
vited. The meet will give cyclists of
the various localities a chance
to become acquainted and to do
a little "bench-racing."
Cards Trip
Bucs, 6-0
St. Louis (U.R) Rookie
southpaw Luis Arroyo hurled
the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-0
triumph over the Pittsburgh Pir
ates here yesterday in the only
game scheduled - in the major
leagues.
The win gave the Cards a
sweep of their three-game set
with the Pirates. During the
three games, the Redbirds lim
ited Pittsburgh to a grand total
of one run and 13 hits.
Arroyo, who pitched last year
for Columbus, Ga., in the Sally
league and Houston in the Tex
as league, limited the Pirates
to six hits in scoring his third
win without a loss.
Bill Virdon, a strong candi
date for rookie of the year hon
ors this season, and Wally Moon,
who won last year's award, each
hit his fifth homer to pace the
Cardinals' 11-hit attack. Catcher
Bill Sarni weighed in with four
hits and scored the Cardinals'
first run in the second inning.
The Pirates threatened only
once in the fifth when Jack
Shepard singled and George
Freese doubled with none out,
but Arroyo retired the next
three batters on easy chances.
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Game Administration
Expert Slates Study
Portland (U.R) One of the
nation's top authorities on fish
and game administration is com
ing to Oregon to study opera
tions of the State Game Com
mission. He jis Ira N. Gabrielson. presi
dent of the Wildlife Management
Institute of Washington, D. C,
and former director of the U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service. Phil
Schneider, state game director,
said the commission, in bringing
him to Oregon, is soliciting an
"outside, unbiased review of our
entire program in order to sup
plement our own thinking on all
matters."
K- said Gabrielson would sub
mit a report after a study of
from one week to 10 days.
MAIL TRIBUNE
the British Empire and scored a
technical knockout over him at
54 seconds of the ninth round in
Kezar Stadium.
"I did most of my damage with
the left uppercut," said the un
marked champion today. "It's a
new punch I've been practicing
a lot. Of course I worked on his
body too."
The combined head and body
attack before 35,000 fans in the
chilly stadium hammered chunky
Cockell into bloody helplessness,
floored him three times and
stopped him in the ninth round.
Rocky, fresh from his 48th
straight victory as a professional,
praised lavishly the brown-haired
hog farmer of Horam, Eng.
The swarthy "Rock" from Brock
ton, Mass., declared, "I've fought
a lot of brave men in my time,
but this fellow was tops."
Cockell Wants Rematch
The courageous 26-year-old
challenger disclosed today that
John Simpson, his manager, had
wanted to stop the fight in the
sixth round. "But I wouldn't let
him," said the brown-haired
husky with the inch-long plaster
high on his forehead. "I was
bound I'd beat him, and I'm sor
ry I didn't. But I'd like to fight
him again."
According to promoter Norris
of the International Boxing Club,
Don will get another shot at the
title "just as soon as he goes out
and gets himself two or three
good wins."
; Manager Simpson, who staged
a frenzied scene in the dressing
room, had quieted down today,
and he, too, wanted a return
bout with Rocky, "but this time
in England under English rules."
Monday night Simpson tried
0 nave all sports writers thrown
out of the dressing room as he
shrieked. "You've done every
thing to my kid, including try
ing to murder him with a bloody
sledge hammer." Apparently he
was referreing to Rocky as the'
"hammer."
Simpson charged that referee
Frankie Brown had permitted
the bobbing and weaving Rocky
to "butt him, use elbows and
wrists, hit twice after the bell
and hit low."
Although Cockell proved a
comparatively poor drawing
card Monday night, Norris said,
"He will be a great attraction in
the future."
Possible Contenders
Norris said the September
challenger for Rocky would
probably be the winner of next
month's light heavyweight title
fight between Archie Moore, the
175-pound king, and middle-1
weight champion Bobo Olson, or
big Bob Baker of Pittsburgh.
Rocky, who scaled 189 pounds
to Cockell's 205, is a compara
tively small heavyweight. "He
would not be too big for either
Moore or Olson," Norris said,
"and he would be much smaller
than Baker."
Thirty-year-old Marciano, who
hadn't fought since he suffered
an inch-long nose split against
Ezzard Charles last September,
gashed Cockell's forehead with a
left uppercut in the fourth
round.
The first of the three knock
downs came at the end of the
eighth round. Cockell, who suf
fered an awesome battering from
the second round on, was struck
in the back of the neck with an
overhand right and knocked
half way through the ropes onto
the ring apron. When the count
reached "three," the bell rang.
His handlers helped Don back
to his stool.
In the ninth, a left hook stag
gered Don, a right knocked him
half to the canvas, and a left
hook dropped him completely to
his knees for the count of seven.
Battered Across Ring
When the groggy challenger
lurched to his feet, he was bat
tered across the ring into the
ropes and pitched forward and
fell to his. knees. There he took
the count of "five." Again hei
rose gamely. Marciano was bat
tering him mercilessly when the
referee heeded the pleas of fans
and sports writers and stopped
the fight.
The sixth knockout in Cock
ell's career snapped his winning
streak at 10 straight, and gave
Marciano his 42nd kayo triumph
in 60 straight victories.
Cockell's best round was the
second. In that session, the
chunky challenger outclassed
Marciano with left jabs and
straight rights and landed only
one good punch near the end of
the round. That was the only
frame given Don by a ring of
ficial. Judge Jack Downey and
Referee Frank Brown favored
him 6-5 on points and Judge
John Basenelli had it even, 5V
to 5Vi.
Under the California scoring
system, 11 points are divided be
tween the two fighters in each
round.
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Big Don Gains
Courageous Battle in Bout
San Francisco (U.R) Rocky
Marciano still is heavyweight
champion of the world, but the
man who may be world champ
ion for pure courage is Don
Cockell, the British lad who was
beaten into near insensibility
Monday night.
Cockell lost but he gained
all the friends as he took a ter
rific pasting from the champ
ion. Tops In Courago
"I've fought a lot of brave
men in my time," said Marciano
after the battle, "but for sheer
courage, Cockell is tops."
Marciano is known as the
"blockbuster" and he let loose
some of his heaviest bombs on
Cockell, but the British boy kept
coming back for more.
Asked if he didn't feel sorry
for the challenger when Cockell
was in no condition to defend
himself in the late rounds, Mar
ciano replied:
"He still had his hands up
and he was coming to me. I had
to keep Tutting him. What else
could I do?"
The fight was finally stopped
after 54 seconds of the ninth
round. At that time Cockell was
in such bad condition that re
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porters didn't expect him to be
able to speak in the dressing
room.
But within 10 minutes after
the fight, "Our Don," as the
British writers refer to him, was
speaking with a cultured accent
and in full possession of his fa
culties. Caldwell Leads
Eagles7 Victory
Eagle Point Bill Caldwell's
combined pitching and hitting
sparked Eagle Pint to a 9 to 1
victory over Ashland in a base
ball game here yesterday.
Caldwell, who allowed only
three scratch singles, collected
two hits in three trips" to the
plate, one of them a triple in the
third inning which scored two
runs. Bob Stewart also hit two
for three for Eagle Poin. One of
Sewart's hits was a double in the
sixth frame.
Caldwell struck out eight and
walked four, while Fitch and
Moore for Ashland gave up six
hits, fanned 10 and issued four
bases on balls.
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By Al Weill
San Francisco (U.R) Al
Weill, manager of Rocky Marci
ano, replied heatedly today to
the charges that the champion
had used roughhouse tactics in
beating English challenger Don
Cockell last night.
Weill said, "I am very sur
prised in one way that Simpson
has been accusing Rocky of us
ing rough stuff against Cockell,
but in another way I'm not be
cause he started to yell about
fouls two weeks ago.
Fought Clean Fight
"Actually Rocky fought a very
clean fight. He wasn't warned
once by the referee. The cut on
Cockell's forehead was not
caused b ya butt. It came from
a left uppercut that hit Cockell
when he was bending sideways
in the fourth round.
"I've offered Cockell a return
bout sometime in the future but
if he keeps making those charges
that are completely the bunk I
may have to reconsider my of
fer." Allie Columbo, Rocky's boy
hood friend and assistant trainer
who worked in the corner, said,
"That was one of his cleanest
fights. As a matter 'of fact, if
there was any rough stuff in the
bout, it was Cockell who was
doing it, pushing the Rock
around half the time when they
came to close quarters."
NAIA TRACK MEET
Portland (U.R) Top track
snd field performers from North
west Conference and Oregon
Collegiate Conference schools
are expected here May 28 for the
first annual NAIA district 2
track meet, Director Eldon Fix
said today.
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San Francisco: Rocky Marciano. 189.
Brockton, Mass., stopped Don Co
ckell. 205. England. (9) retained his
world heavyweight tiUe.
New York (St. Nicholas Arena):
Paddy De Marco. 140, Brooklyn, out
pointed Libby Manzo. 138, New York
(10).
Brooklyn (Eastern Parkway): Hardy
Smallwood. 155?i, Brooklyn, out
pointed Bob Provissi, 160. Freeland,
Pa. (10).
Champ Gets
$120,000 in
Title Fight
San Francisco (U.R) Of
ficials of the International Box
ing club estimated today that
Rocky Marciano will receive
approximately $120,000 for last
night's fight with Don Cockel,
without taking into considera
tion possible returns from the
movies.
Other Receipts
In addition to the $196,720
gross gate, other income includ
ed $35,800 for the broadcast in
the United States and $2800 for
the shortwave cast to the Brit
ish Isles, and an estimated
$100,000 from theater television.
A total receipts without the
movies should approximate
$335,320, they said. Of this,
Rocky's 40 per cent would ap
proach $120,000 and Cockell's
20 per cent would be near
$60,000.
Managing Director Harry
Markson of the IBC saK the dis
appointing gate was certainly
no proof, or even indication,
that San Francisco was not a
"big gate city."
Bad Publicity
He stressed that even before
Marciano and Cockell had arriv-
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Tommy Farr Criticizes All
Squawks by British Writers
Hove, England (U.R) For
mer British and Empire heavy
weight boxing champion Tom
my Farr criticized his country
men today for "squawking" that
Rocky Marciano defeated Don
Cockell by fighting unfairly.
"Cockell let neither himself
nor his country down," Farr said.
"It was a good fight, but there
was too much squawking be
forehand. "When I went to America to
meet Joe Louis, I had every
thing arranged previously at
Eastbourne. I said I wanted this
and that, and they abided by it
100 per cent.
"Why didn't they arrange
these things before they left
here. It's' no good squawking
7000 miles away."
Farr criticized British sports
writers' charges that Marciano
butted Cockell.
"I think too much emphasis
has been laid on an accidental
butt," he said.
ed in the San Francisco area to
train the fight had received al
most unsurmountable bad pub
licity from the East.
The fighters' purses are taken
from the net receipts. AH of the
figures in today's calculations
are net except the $196,720
gross gate. That would provide
a net gate of approximately
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"It's obvious that Cockell
slowed down half way through
and Marciano thought 'At last
I've cut him down to size'."
Will Cockell get another
crack at the world heavyweight
crown?
"No, not a hope," replied
Farr.
Meg Cops Derby
Laurels at KF
Meg of Hillcrest, a labrador
female, owned and handled by
William M. McAllister, 2615
Hillcrest rd., Medford, was win
ner of the, derby stake Sunday
in a picnic trial near Klamath
Falls sponsored, by the . Shasta
Cascade Retriever club.
There were nine dogs entered
in the stake.
Bracken's Flash," labrador
male, owned and handled by C.
Weldon Kline, 18 South Grove
land ave., Medford, was third
in open ' all-age competition.
There were 11 entries.
BOUT SET
New Orleans (U.R) Ralph
Dupas, 19-year-old master of the
jab and dazzling footwork, meets
his old conqueror, Frankie Ryff
of Brooklyn, in a 10-round light
weight bout here tonight and it
"could be" that the winner will
get a shot at champion Jimmy '
Carter sometime after June.
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