Dan: Created page with "23426 Ray Robinson, boxing’s Sugar Cookie, bounced Jimmy Tygh, too game for his good, off the floor five times, and technically knocked him out after just one minute and 51 seconds of winging. There’s no quit in Tygh, an Irish curly top from Elkins Park. He might still be trying to get up from the boards if Referee Matt Adgie had terminated the fifth toll, and grasping the gallant but groggy youth in his brawny arms to avert a slight case of murder. Ro..."

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Created page with "<Fight>23426</fight> Ray Robinson, boxing’s Sugar Cookie, bounced Jimmy Tygh, too game for his good, off the floor five times, and technically knocked him out after just one minute and 51 seconds of winging. There’s no quit in Tygh, an Irish curly top from Elkins Park. He might still be trying to get up from the boards if Referee Matt Adgie had terminated the fifth toll, and grasping the gallant but groggy youth in his brawny arms to avert a slight case of murder. Ro..."

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Ray Robinson, boxing’s Sugar Cookie, bounced Jimmy Tygh, too game for his good, off the floor five times, and technically knocked him out after just one minute and 51 seconds of winging. There’s no quit in Tygh, an Irish curly top from Elkins Park. He might still be trying to get up from the boards if Referee Matt Adgie had terminated the fifth toll, and grasping the gallant but groggy youth in his brawny arms to avert a slight case of murder. Robinson, unbeaten Harlem youth, tipped over Tygh for counts of seven, six, seven, four and three. As he completed his chores slightly before the cool of the evening, he gained his 13th straight triumph.

Always audacious, Tygh charged out looking for trouble at the bell. The Sugar Cookie, set Tygh back on his heels, and then went to gunning. Robinson’s right hand played the major part in his swift triumph. The left helped on the first two floorings; he felled the Philadelphian on the last three occasions with long rights that fairly cracked as they exploded on Jimmy’s jaw. Unconcerned at the lefts which Robinson prodded to the face, Jimmy attempted to dig into the body in their first exchanges. Then the sharpshooting Ray hooked his left to the button, brought up the fist as an uppercut and threw the right. Tygh went reeling back on his heels. In swift manner, the knockdown followed. Left and right to the jaw dumped Tygh. He was on his knees, striving to arise. He got halfway up, changed his mind and took “seven.” In a flash, Robinson’s left-right salvo spilled him again. This time it was “six,” although corner-men and many of the 7,000 fight fans were begging Jimmy to take the full nine seconds. Daffy but determined, Tygh never had a chance so quickly did Robinson lash out next time. He drilled a long right to the ear, and Jimmy fell, drooling at the mouth. That was a seven-second flooring, followed by another resin excursion for “four” as Robinson trapped Tygh near his own corner. When the Irishman, his wits now completely scattered, arose only to fall under a crunching right, Adgie decided upon an immediate withdrawal for the vanished youngster. It’s certain plucky Jim would never have concurred in that decision. [Philadelphia Inquirer]

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