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'city op hope ?ú⌠ Public Relations Dept, 208 W. Eighth St. Los Angeles, Calif. 90014 (213) 626-4611 (Hank Brown) SUGAR RAY ROBINSON (Suggested Column Material) Sugar Ray Robinson, most often called "pound for pound, the best boxer ever.'..", will be among the world?╟╓s sports immortals honored June 27, at the Sportsmen?╟╓s World Awards?╟╓ Presentations, at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. The Sportsmen?╟╓s Club for the City of Hope Medical Center, which treats the desperately ill on a free, nonsectarian basis, sponsors the annual tribute to the greatest athletes of the past. Robinson was selected as an honoree at the 1970 presentations by a National Selections Committee composed of ranking sports writers and sportscasters, on the basis of his amazing record as a championship boxer and for his exemplary conduct outside the ring. Robinson1s over-all records stands at 175 victories out of 202 fights, plus six draws, one no decision and one no contest. Of the nineteen losses he suffered, only one was by knockout, a TKO by Joey Maxim for the world?╟╓s light-heavyweight title in 1952. His illustrious career spanned 25 years, from 1940 to 1965, during which Ray provided the sports pages with colorful copy in and out of the ring. He fought 40 bouts as a pro before losing his first fight, a 10-round decision to Jake LaMotta. He then went another 95 fights without a loss. Robinson won his first championship in 1946, when Marty Servo vacated the welterweight crown and Ray decisioned Tommy Bell, A series of elimination bouts had been planned, but nobody would fight Robinson except Bell. He defended the welterweight title successfully five times, then in 1951 t retired as welterweight champion the night he took the middleweight championship from Jake LaMotta via a 13-round knockout. He defended successfully against a determined Bobo Olson in March, 1952, and a month later knocked out the formidable Rocky Graziano in 3. Perhaps Robinson?╟╓s most noble quest was for the world?╟╓s light heavyweight championship, in which he came up against Joey Maxim on an oppressively hot night in New York?╟╓s Yankee Stadium, in June, 1952. Referee Ruby Goldstein, who termed the ring a "soggy sweatbox", himself had to be replaced as the third man in the ring, as the -more-