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FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1949 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 5D LaMotta9 Guns Too Heavy as Cerdan Loses Title Sitting on Chair ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH It Was Only the Beginning Of the Finish of Cerdan jpi8EamCT jumuumm' minium JL 1 WA i-Jz L. tfr jr y. v-r i t-'A if -c- KIt- Frenchman, Injured, Fails to Come Up for Tenth in Middle Bout By W.

J. McGoogan Of the Post-Dispatch Sports Staff. DETROIT, June 17 Jake La Motta, after another upset victory in the ranks of the middleweights, holds the 160-pound championship today, after scoring a "technical knockout over Marcel Cerdan, of Casablanca, Morroco, in the tenth round of their scheduled 15-round contest at Briggs Stadium, last night. It marked the fourth consecutive, time that the title in the division:) changed hands on the very first) FINANCIAL FACTS Associated Press Wirephotos. This action in the middleweight championship fight in Detroit in which, JAKE LaMOTTA of New York wrested the middleweight in the first round of the scheduled 15-round bout.

The methodical LaMotta shoots (right) a right to the Frenchman's midriff down, more from a shove than anything else, in the next photo, and is on his back in the other picture. The Frenchman claimed awarded the decision on a technical knockout when Cerdan could not answer the bell championship from MARCEL CERDAN of Casablanca occurred and the second photo shows him wincing. Cerdan begins to go he injured his shoulder shortly before he fell. LaMotta was in the tenth round. FIGHT RESULTS lour Fo Nl Ai LaMotta to Be Recognized As Champion by N.Y.

Board DETROIT, June 17 Eddie Eagan, chairman of the New York Athletic Commission, removed all doubt that he would recognize Jake La Motta as middleweight champion of the world after his victory over Marcel Cerdan last night, when he congratulated La Motta in his dressing room. defense by the champion. Cerdan "resigned" after th ninth round when he complained of an injury to his left shoulder. His handlers signaled Dr. Joseph Cahalan, physician for the Michigan Commission, to enter the ring for an examination.

Dr. Cahalan said he could dis- ouiuiuiij examination and said he would; not stop the bout. Whereupon, Joe Longman, French manager off Cerdan, said 'very well, then I will." He told Referee Johnnv Webber to end it. As the bell rang to start the tenth round, Cerdan sat on a stool in his corner and Vebber lifted Lamotta's right hand in token of victory. Both Fighters Injured.

Later it was discovered that the Frenchman did have a rather serious muscle injury in his left shoulder and it was reported that it would be a month before he could start training again. But LaMotta, too, suffered an injury to his left hand, which was badly! bruised and swollen. He kept it in, ice as he talked with rpnnrtpr ini his dressing room. The two have a signed agree ment for a return match within sixty days and LaMotta said he would be glad to accommodate Cerdan any time he's ready, "the quicker the better." The fight itself was all LaMotta after the third round and Cerdan showed remarkable courage and ability to take it as round after round, La Motta slugged him with left hands to the body and head and rights to the head. It didn't appear possible for a man to take the punishment which Cerdan absorbed and remain on his feet.

He showed little effects of it, however, although he was cut over the right eye. At the end of the eighth round, he staggered along the ropes to his corner and after the ninth he could hardly make it to the comfort of the seat provided for him. LaMotta Opens With Rush. La Motta. trained to fine condition at 1584 pounds to 159V4 for Cerdan.

started with a rush. He took the play away from the champion at the outset as he rushed at Cerdan and drove a left to his body and another to his head. La Motta proved the stronger, too, as he threw the French- beating he gave Cerdan. He put a marcel wave in his face as well as in his hair. Referee Johnny Webber of Detroit, who handled the championship bout, said that he had never had an easier assignment.

"I could have watched it from a seat in the corner," he said. "I never had to break the men once, nor did I ever have to step between them." As to Cerdan's injury( he said he heard a crack in the second round and another in the fourth and that he heard Cerdan moan several times during the contest. Not His Toughest Bout. LaMotta, stretched out on his bed in his hotel room, showed the effects of the match with a bruised nose, a slight cut over the left eye, in addition to his puffed and swollen left hand. Asked if it was his toughest fight, he asked "on the record or off?" He was told to answer anyway he wanted to and he said: "I've had dozens of tougher fights.

I knew I had him after the sixth round and suspected in the fourth that there was something wrong with his left hand." By the Associated Press. DETROIT Jake Lamotta, 158V4. York, knocked out Marcel Cerdan, 1594, Caiablanra. 10 (title). NEW YORK Queensnoro Arena) Alfredo Prada, 137, Argentina, outpointed Willie Keltram, ISfiai.

New York, 10. BROOKLYN (Fort Himiltonl Johnny Dell, 137, Brooklyn, outpointed Jimmy Warren. 134, Brooklyn. 10. PORTLAND, Me.

Johnny Pevrrada. 1 Portland. utopped Roger Why-nott, 1S5, Halifax, 3. Another Exam for Walcott and Charles KANKAKEE, 111., June 17 (AP) Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles, who will meet for the N.B.A. heavyweight crown in Chicago's Comiskey Park next Wednesday night, are due for an inspection today.

Although both scrappers had been examined previously by Illinois Athletic Commission physicians, another preliminary checkup of the fighters' physical condition was scheduled. Walcott and Charles, their managers, trainers and others in their camps also were to be briefed on the rules governing the 15-round bout by Joe Triner, chairman of the Illinois Athletic Commission, and his aides. Walcott, weighing 195, boxed five rounds with sparmates in a big hayloft yesterday as rain pelted his Peaceful Valley training camp. He will wind up heavy training- Sunday. At Charles' training camp, 12 miles from here, the Cincinnati contender skipped boxing drill yesterday.

Juicy Odds TOIT MTMnTniM TcA lima 17 (AP) A new pari-mutuel payoff recora ior ueiaware rars was sei yesterday as ueraDon reiurnea $403.20 for a $2 win ticket in the third race. Ridden by Pete Sheridan, the four-year-old son of Gerald, owned by J. P. Mazza, finished the six furlongs three-fourths of a length ahead of Little Shrew. Gerabon returned $112.10 to place and $51.50 to show.

He was the rank outsider in a field of 13. fVT URRAY HMOTORS BODY and FENDER REPAIRS PAINT JOBS Stop tm far FRf Esrimof 870 Natural Irida CO Was 3307" ilVsBBa i IIETKOIT, June 17 (AP) Financial facts and figures on last night's Jake Iuiiotta-Marcrl erdan middleweight title bout at Briggs stadium. raid attendance. 22.183. Gross gate, -Net gate, 12 7.8 10.

J2rdan' share (approximate), l-arootta's share (approximate), (approximate), 14.059. Promoters' thare and promotional man to the floor during the round ana pounded home a right which spun Cerdan back into the ropes with a puzzled expression on his ace. Cerdan was not fighting the way he did when he took the title from Tony Zale last Sept. 21 when he kept his arms close to his body and fought out of a half crouch. He stood straight up and shot straight punches at La Motta.

The first round was so one-sided, that you had to score it 7 to 3 for La Motta, figures usually re- is a cApan fnr Mnnt Cerdan Punches to Head. Cerdan's handlers apparently noticed that La Motta's head was open for a right hand, for at the start of the second round, he started punching for the head with his right and got in some good smashes before La Motta solved the attack and managed to evade th" blows. The round was Cerdan's, however, and, as it proved, was the only one he was to win during the fight which was remarkably clean and free from clinching and holding. The men traded blows endlessly throughout. Cerdan kept up his right-handed attack in the third round, but took a lot of solid left-hand shots from La Motta which reddened the champion's ribs.

They stood head to head during the round and punched, giving and taking about equally so that the round appeared even. After that, however, it was all La Motta. He kept his left hand flicking constantly in Cerdan's face and scored repeatedly with jabs to the body and to the head. Cerdan managed again in the fourth round to land some rights, but usually La Motta was turning with the blows, reducing their effectiveness. He never lifted his head as the bell rang to start the tenth round, but when it was all over he got up to congratulate La Motta, throw ing his arm over Jake shoulders.

La Motta stood quietly listening to the applause and accepting a belt emblematic of the middleweight championship presented by Joe Louis, retired heavyweight champion of the world. It is called the Hickok Belt and said to be very valuable. The bout was started at 9:15 because of the threat of rain. In fact, there was a slight sprinkle as the men climbed through the ropes and there were heavy black cloudy hanging over Briggs Stadium as the bell rang. There was thunder, and ringsiders believed that the bout, if finished at all, would be fought in the rain.

But the few drops stopped and there was no more rain during the bout. Some 20,000 concentrated on the spectacle in front of them of another champion being de feated. After the war Tony Zale suc cessfully defended his title against Rocky Graziano in Yankee Sta dium, New York. Then Graziano won the crown from Zale in Chicago. Zale regained it from Grazi ano, then lost it to Cerdan, and now Cerdan has lost it to LaMotta.

In each case the ultimate winner was the underdog before the fight, with Cerdan being favored over the Bronx Bulldog at 5 to 8. There was little betting reported, however, as it was said the LaMotta money was scarce after- the postponement Wednesday night. They weighed in again yester day morning at the insistence of Cerdan, and it was shown that Marcel, who weighed 158 Wednes Left Hand Gone, Right Blocked, Cerdan Just Stands and Takes It "You're now welcome everywhere," Eagan told LaMotta. "You won it the way a championship should be won, in the ring." LaMotta smiled as he looked up. He was holding his injured left hand in ice.

"You know, commissioner, if anybody had told me that I could box before, I would never have believed him," LaMotta said, "but I felt I had to box because I simply couldn't keep throwing punches the way I was." Eagan told LaMotta that maybe that was the secret, that he should practice more on his boxing and depend less on his punching power. LaMotta had been in trpuble in New York recently because of the sour victory which he gained over Robert Villemain of France in Madison Square Garden, which resulted in the indefinite suspension of the referee and a judge, who voted for LaMotta. Record Is Spotty. Previously Jake had suffered a suspension in New York when he was stopped by Billy Fox. He declared later that he was suffering from an abdominal pain which he had not reported at the examination.

LaMotta has been boxing a long time and his record is spotty. He has long been considered one of the outstanding middleweights but had never been given consideration for a title bout because he was usually on the outs with the powers that be in boxing. But he has been a hero in Detroit, where he has won 15 out of 16 fights, losing only to Welterweight Champion Ray Robinson in 12 rounds after previously having defeated Robinson in 15, the only defeat Robinson has suffered in his long career. Just what LaMotta's program will be in the futifre is problematical. There's hardly a doubt but that there'll be a return match with Cerdan first on the list if the Frenchman can get in condition for it.

After all, he's 32 years of age to 26 for LaMotta, and perhaps the injured shoulder is just an indication that Cerdan is about washed up. Cerdan to Make Movie. Cerdan was scheduled to fly to Italy to make a motion picture. But if he is supposed to do ft real soon, LaMotta didn't help his appearance any with the savage HIT THIS SPOT FOR SATISFACTION Over 50 clean, worth-while used cars to select from. Every car at Chris Christen- is thoroughly checked, reconditioned and GUARANTEED! dependable transportation GO TO 4171 Natural Bridge Road Where customers send fiefr frtendt 3UUU.

Dj a The New Champ swap Assoc'ated Press Wirephoto. JAKE LaMOTTA after winning the world middleweight championship from Marcel Cerdan. day morning, tipped the beam at 15914 and LaMotta, who had weighed 159Vi the first time, came in at 158 U. About the only one confident of a LaMotta victory was Jake himself. He declared that he had wagered $5000 that he would win and he argued with sports writers he knew had picked Cerdan, telling them that he couldn't understand their judgment.

Clay Van Reen Named Grade School Head Clay Van Reen, Normandy High School and Bradley Tech graduate and one of the outstanding- coaches and officials in the district, has been appointed principal of the Longfellow-Nottingham School. Van Reen, former member of the Post-Dispatch Ail-Star Football and Basketball Board, coached Roosevelt High School to eight championships in six years as track and field coach there. The titles included three Public High League crowns, only state championship in the school's his tory and two Maplewood invitational honors. Van Reen is the fifth coach in recent years to be named grade school principal. Others are Leo P.

Granger, Van Reen's predecessor at Roosevelt; Otto Rost, Clair Houston and Don fngerson. AT NORTH SIDE PARK Crosstown 7, Americans 0 (jlrls) Striker-Smith 2, Ogllvy 1 (men). AT RT. LOl'IS PARK Kutls Hoff-melsters (girls); Werners 17, Sutton 3 (men). AT OVERLAND Ferguson Legion Post No.

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AT OVERLAND Reds. vs. Wabash Blues, men, 7:30: St. Gregory vs. Bridge-ton Knights, men, 9 p.m.

Tonight's Wrestling. Lou Thess, St. Louis (238) vs. Wild Bill Longson, Salt Lake City, Utah (243). One fall to a finish.

Sandor Siabo. Santa Monica, Calif. (236) vs. Cowboy (Dutch) Hefner, Sherman, Tex. (237).

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20-mlnnte time limit. Starttnc time, 8:30. Place Kiel Andltnrium. Peoria, tll SOFTBALL on ir I. to By Dick JAKE LaMOTTA is the new middleweight boxing champion.

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Yesterday's Stars. By the Associated Press. BATTING Eddie Joost. Athletira. smashed his fifteenth borne run, drove in two runs, and mo red three to lead the Athletics to a 7-3 triumph over Hal w-honsrr and the Detroit Titters.

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One judge voted two rounds even, two for Cerdan and five for La Motta. The other voted two rounds for Cerdan, three even and four for La Motta. The writer scored it seven rounds for La Mottan, one for Cerdan (the second) and one even (the third). W. J.

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With the fear of the left removed, La Motta waded in and punished Cerdan severely with his own left and frequently crossed his right to the head. At the start of the seventh round, Cerdan retreated for the first time. La Motta, however, would give him no rest and kept on top, of Marcel all the time showering him with lefts and rights until the crowd wondered how Cerdan managed to remain on his feet He just took the blows, being unable to start an offensive of his own. His left was gone, his right was blocked and all he had was a middle into which La Motta was pouring a murderous fire of left hand shots. Cerdan, champion that he was, swung wildly with his right during the eighth round, but hardly landed a blow, just taking every thing which came his way.

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