Boxing WORLD TITLE BOUT

Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 4

Boxing WORLD TITLE BOUT

Heavy-Weights To Meet

(NZ Press Aasoetation— Copvnpht) . NEW YORK, June 20. Floyd Patterson, with the odds and tradition against him, will try to recapture the world heavyweight boxing championship tonight from the unbeaten Ingemar Johansson, of Sweden, in their international” return fight at the New York Polo Grounds. An expected crowd of 40.000 in the former baseball park will watch as 23-year-old Patterson, of Rockville Centre, New York, attempts to become the first man

in ring history to win back the heavy-weight crown—end the first to defeat Johansson in a professional bout. None of the eight who previously tried to recover the title were able to do it. The betting

is 8 to 5 that Patterson will not do so either. The 15-round bout Is scheduled to start at 10.30 p.m. local time <2.30 p.m. New Zealand time).

with only closed circuit television coverage. It will be beamed into approximately 230 locations, including baseball parks, theatres, arenas and private showings in 160 cities. The potential theatre television capacity is 700.000 seats, at prices ranging from three to 10 dollars.

For the 27-year-old unbeaten champion from Goteborg. Sweden, this is his big chance to prove it was no fluke when he knocked Patterson down seven times on June 26 last year and beat him in the third round.