Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 1, 1960

¶ Sugar Ray Robinson, grown old and brittle at 39, lost his comic-opera middleweight championship of New York and Massachusetts in 15 floundering rounds at Boston Garden to a flat-nosed pug named Paul Fender from nearby Brookline, later sat with lowered head and talked quietly of the erosion of the powers that had made him the greatest fighter of his generation ("That split second that goes by when you're missing opportunities").

¶ Puffing mightily, Los Angeles' Parry O'Brien, 27, put the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 1 in. to break his own indoor world record by a whopping 11¼ in., share meet...

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