Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson had gone through three fight days since he arrived in Europe, winning from some of the best of Europe’s middleweights among them Dutch Jan de Bruin,

For the professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of other days. It is a time for early morning prayer, which Sugar Ray makes in…