The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 121, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 26, 1965 Page: 11 of 29
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THE ORANGE LIAM*
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, IMS
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but fell the second time because counted once. First be tried to
I was off balance."
“It was a good lick," said
of the first round of the return
of women spectators were in-
and the rabbit
who was
in about four
en back on the canvas.
the
to
hysterical outbursts in Miami.
outlets in the United ’ States,
the count. I could see someone
trying to shout at me.’
knockout in a
hotly discussed first fight at Mi-
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had a microphone so he could
be heard,” said Walcott.
knocked uu uug agulg, auriuer
champion for a “12 count" in a
confused and controversial fin-
had been involved in a first-
round knockout that caused a
mighty stir-in his fighting time.
After he had lost the title to
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Clay who turned pro in 1960
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heavyweight title fight set by
Tommy Burns when he beat
Jem Roche in Dublin, 1
“Walcott was looking at the
mwd nat at me,” said
gan to ask for Floyd, 1
he calls “The Rabbit.”
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= from the United States started
i - at 3:30 a.m. — London time —
i"and drew wry comments from
Etwo other British champions.
H Tommy Farr, who lost a 15-
r round decision to then-champion
J0e Louis, said:
p “This is the blackest night in
F boxing — and I missed my
[: beauty sleep to see this shock-
ger.”
g Terry Downes former mid-
: dieweight champion, said:
| "My wife Barbara can take a
E bigger punch than Liston.”
F The cries of "fix," “fraud,”
also ex-
rent than
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have al-
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iple with
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Brock and the others did their
outstanding hitting inthe series
against the New York Yankees.
Gibson, the big righthander,
is off to his best start ever, win-
ning his first eight games this
year, or 10 straight including
the series wins. Gibson has
my secret — it was a i
punch. It was lightning and
thunder — fast as lightning and
booming as thunder from the
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Thus Clay, now calling him-
self "king of the ring" as well
as “the greatest" broke one of
the oldest records in the book.
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fans in the heavily police-guard-
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yelling “fake” and “fix.”
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Conference of Washington. It I
has an enrollment of 4,600 stu- •,
dents.
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Former champions in the ileid mall by sending check or money University of Miami of Florida
and received a Bachelor's de-
formed by the timekeeper,
Francis McDonough, that he
had counted to 12 before Lis-
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no question in my mind that
Liston was knocked out."
Russo verified that the knock-
out time was one minute.
minute sooner than I expected,"
said Clay. "I warned all you
people I had a surprise but that
if I made a prediction it would
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spected at the one entrance in
which the customers were per-
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Clay, as usual, got in the first
and last words.
Just before leaving the arena,
be said, "I told everybody I had
a secret but I couldn't reveal it.
If I told the people what I was
going to do, they wouldn't have
come to the fight.
"I knew I was going to knock
out the Big Bear in the first
round. I’m just too fast for ev-
eryone. My punches just blur.”
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BEAUMONT (AP)-A field of been termed by. many players,
including Stan Musial and Boyer
as the most consistent hard
ton got up and that Clay had
won on a knockout. Walcott
rushed back, separated the
fighters, and declared Clay the
winner on a knockout.
It was then the fans let loose
with a chorus of boos.
"It would have been different,
no confusion if the timekeeper
on my left cheekbone.
Yes, it was a fair punch.
"It made me groggy. But I
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".theaters showing the closed-cir- three game series with the
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included, the fighters each prob-
ably earned about $600,000.
As for the reported threats on
his life by avengers of the slain
Malcolm X, Clay said:
“All that talk about bombs
and guns and people going to
kill me, didn’t bother me at all.
But it had Sonny frozen stiff
with fear.” *
More than 200 police from
state, county and city, guarded
EBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS commentary when the fight was
E “The American public must rern in "low matian
..be getting fed up. Horizontal
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better than that.”
set today for the $8,500 Babe
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Ethat starts Friday.
E Mickey Wright, winner of the
[ Dallas Civitan, and ha ,
worth, who leads the money-
[winners, were installed as co-
[ favorites, especially since Ruth
, Jessen, the defending champion,
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2,000 was engrossed by Clay s the Astros to face Bob Gibson
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knockout losses. +-mtbe hTgh school hockey arena.
The fight, kicked out of Bos- First the building was searched
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This time Liston was only a 6- setup, drew 4,280 customers and '
______$201,000 according to Inter-Con-
weigh-in tinental Promotions, Inc. With
" his the television and other rights
Rocky Marciano in the 13th tried to quit after the fourth,
round in Philadelphia, Sept. 2 claiming he was blinded by Uni-
1962, he was knocked out in 2:23 ment on Liston's gloves.
' A few people asked for their The Astros will then conclude drive all the peoDle off
money back but Clay’s mouth their long homestand with Eu8 2 •
may have prevented further Bobby Bragan's Milwaukee He'll be
"ime-. Braves on Sunday at 1:30 and
; At Richmond, it was reported Monday and Tuesday at 7:30.
By taking out Liston for the
second straight time — this ---—,—— m
Laswn aruse, j- -x-- — time in 60 seconds — he wiped tight, which .was telecast to 258 Tuesday compared
Liston’s glove and champion aside I couldn’t hear out the record time of 1:28 for a -a- 5 4 "3•----- hvetarieal n"hurete
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Clay weighed a surprisingly
and Liston
ami Beach 13 months ago.
That was the strange Nu
which Liston, a prohibitive 7-1
favorite, quit on his siuxi «"
the sixth round. claiming anumu uu *«U Ul IV viay, nw nas a
injured left shoulder. Clay had 35-3 record, including the two
Afterward in the dressing-
room interview Clay said: “Just
as soon as we sign the contracts
I’ll give The Rabbit a chance."
Clay called the knockout blow
his anchor punch, something he
had worked out in secret with a
camp follower, former movie
comedian Step’n’Fetchit, who
borrowed it from former cham-
pion Jack Johnson.
Clay actually had brought up
the anchor punch in his pre-
hernia rantings last October
between workouts at. the Boston
Arena.
“It's a punch you can’t see,”
Clay said. "Liston hit me with
punches that would have
knocked out Patterson.”
"I never saw the punch." ad-
mitted retired former heavy
king Rocky Marciano. “I kept
my eyes on Liston and didn't
see what hit him.”
“Sonny went down a half a
in Chicago May 15, 1963.
Thus the return Clay-Liston almost reserved at
stool after straight over a nine-year span
until ne ran into Clay, now has a
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Sonny Liston in the record time Patterson the two-time ’former
of one minute for a heavyweight heavyweight king
title fight, hollered for “the rab- Clay wants next______
bit”—Floyd Patterson today months. “He really hit him. I’m
while the boxing world buzzed---- '
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poor now. I'll try to
comfort him. I’m going to take
him aside and give him some
lessons."
When he got back and peered to trying to keep the fighter (Clay)
the knockdown timekeeper away and move him into a neu-
across the ring, Liston had fall- tral
But the undefeated Clay, un-
perturbed over reported threats
on his life, shouted, “That was
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Escreamed still heavyweight
Echampion Cassius Clay, maligned.
[•“Where's Floyd Patterson?" __________r__
5 “Why did thousands of people right hand I only 'partly' saw,”
[-.work nine months and spend so said an unruffled Liston. “I
[.'much money for a fight which didn’t want to jump right up.
blasted only 60 seconds and The referee never started the
count. I didn’t know when to get
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steer Clay to a neutral corner, hand," said Walcott. “I was
trying to keep the fighter (Clay)
Ethe field was expected to tune fielders such as Curt Flood,
flip today. r "'--n,
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________________ “It was really a 12-count," Jem Roche in Dublin, b
lusso, With the referee gone, Clay and said McDonough. "When it got 1906. Clay's quick kayo
State Liston started slugging away, to 12 I clicked the stop-watch. 12th first-round knockc
By then Walcott had been in- Walcttww assuPposd trpiku hearrweis).
____finish to a rematch of a fight
come from?” asked Sonny Lis- that ended with Liston on his
2t9 of the knockout blow. ,“I stool in Miami 15 months ago
"anlu ‛nartlu‛ sawu it •• an(j which since was postponed
by a hernia operation, banned u
in Boston and frequently landed
squawk. I have to fight any- a
body." I
Clay has been mentioning I
Patterson, two-time former I
champion, as his next opponent I
since the fight was rescheduled |
last winter. He shouted it all 1
over the closed-circuit television 4
circuit the night Patterson beat .
George Chuvalo. . !
The moment the knockout was I
official Tuesday night Clay
came to the ' ''
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A short right hand to the jaw There was nothing suspi- again Then he left the fighters
nocked out the aging, former clous about it as far as I’m con- to go over to the timekeeper,
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have been hit harder.
"The lead right surprised me.
“I've never been knocked
down before. I got up to my
knees but fell the second time
because I was off balance.
"I will fight again. I’m in a
position now where I can't
Nothing much had happened
in the early moments as Clay,
>u« was hands down, danced and circled
phantom from the plodding former cham-
line and pion, out 10 nail Clay with one
punch. Then the 23-year-old
Flazt caught Liston with the
The stocky, heavy-set Liston
.„u , . .. fell on his back in a delayed
punch,” said the unmarked, 31- fall. Sonny rolled over, got to
year-old Liston. “No, I didn't his right knee and then fell on
quit. The blow landed on my left his back again.
cheekbone. I’ve never been ' In the meantime, referee Jer- crowd, not at
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Tuesday. It produced a surprise the fight was still on. Didn't you j
....." see us start to fight again? I
When Walcott stepped In I I
thought the bell had rung.
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said, barely audible. “The blow I
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