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111.11111111, ,11 11,1111 I | mi ,1 1,1,1,1, , miii,, ,ii ... i ■ , ■ ■■-■ SUGAR RAY ROBINSON , _A , _ Sugar Ray Robinsons Return To Ring This Summer Likely * IBC Head Believes Former Champ Will Give Up Stage; Other Big Bouts Outlined 0 i By JACK CUDDY | United Press Sports Writer c NEW YORK, N. Y., May 5.— Interesting t competition during the approaching warm I season in boxing may be sparked by Sugar Ray Robinsons return to the ring. j Just when everyone was convinced that £ the former middleweight and welterweight J champion had hung up his gloves for good, j promoter Jim Norris said today: j "I believe Robinson will come back. I t have a hunch he will." * Big Jim made that statement while dis- I cussing the line-up of coming fights. He c emphasized that his hunch was not based j on any word from Sugar Ray. s Robinson, who retired and gave up the j middleweight crown last December, should j. have discovered by now that he cant make money as fast in the role of song-and- l dance man as he could with his fists, Nor- * ris explained. Taxes and traveling ex- penses leave a performer with little profit £ nowadays, he said. i "Because of the great interest in middle- j weight competition aroused by Bobo Olson, ] Paddy Young, Randy Turpin and Charles Humez, I believe Sugar Ray will come back this summer and shoot for a big chunk of j dough," he declared. | First of the warm-season title fights is j slated for Chicago, May 15, when Jersey Joe Walcott will try to recapture the heavyweight crown from Rocky Marciano. Norris smiled contentedly today when he said: "Ticket sales for the big fight is going • swell." Also on the night of May 15, the smallest of champions — flyweight Yoshio Shirai of * Japan — is slated to defend his 112-pound crown against Tanny Campo of the Philippines J * at Tokyo. k Araujo Tricky, Tough Within the next three months all other champions except featherweight Sandy , Saddler will defend their bonnets. Saddler , of New York is in the U. S. Army in Germany. He will return to civvies next year. On June 12, lightweight champion James Carter will risk his 135-pound chapeau against Georgie Araujo of Providence, R. I., ; at Madison Square Garden. Tricky, tough Araujo should give him a hard fight. Kid Gavilan will put his welterweight tiara on the line at Los Angeles against Art Aragon of that city on July 1, if nearly completed negotiations are closed. Norris said today, "That match isnt made yet, , but we expect it to be soon." Meanwhile, negotations are progressing [ for light-heavyweight champion Archie j Moore to defend against ex-champ Joey Maxim in Utah in June or July. The bout . would be staged at Salt Lake City or Og-, den. [ Bantamweight champion Jimmy Car-i ruthers from Australia has offered to de-f fend his 118-pound derby against Robert - Cohen of France at Johannesburg, South Africa, in mid-June. Cohen is the No. 1 contender, but his handlers may figure the youngster too inexperienced to tackle the . explosive Aussie. Promoter Norris hopes to stage a Sep-? tember heavyweight title fight between • the winner of the Marciano -Walcott 1 bout and either Roland LaStarza or Ez-i zard Charles, he said. s Meanwhile an occupant for the vacant middleweight throne will be found by a J September fight between the American and European middleweight champions. Bobo * s Olson and Paddy Young fight for the i American title at the Garden, June 19; and 7 Randy Turpin of England and Charles e Humez of France battle for the European 1 - crown at London, June 9. s n
