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Clay Heavily Favored
In Fight With Folley
R* JACK WILKINSON
WPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPI)
vyweight champion
Clay, whose battle to stay out
the Army has eclipsed
boxing successes, rates
prohibitive favorite tonight
Zora Folley in a title bout
expect to go the full 15 rounds.
Clay is expected to weigh
at about 205 pounds, some
pounds heavier than the
old challenger.
The champion, who says
may be his last fight unless
can get his ordered April
Army induction set aside,
simply has too much speed,
youth and talent for the fight
be figured close, in the experts'
opinion, Folley, oldest man
has fought, waited 10 years
a crack at the title and
observers believe he is past
prime.
Ninth Defense
Clay, making his
defense of a title he won
Sonny Liston in 1964, says lie
does not intend to go for a
knockout—he even denies
has a knockout punch
22 of his 28 victims have been
Kayoed. But his ever-moving
tyle often wears his foes out,
etting them up for a possible
quick finish.
Folley has been a pro for
years and has won 74 bouts, lost
seven and had four draws. He
has scored an impressive 40
knockouts, but has
knocked out himself five times.
Liston, whom Clay dropped
the count twice, knocked Folley
out back in 1960. Zora also lost
a 10-round decision to Ernie
Terrell in 1963, the man
beat last month.
Clay has advantages all the
way over Folley. He’s nine
years younger than the
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PITY THE POOR GOALIE who has to endure quite a bit each night in the National
Hockey League. Top left, Roger Crozier of Detroit fails to stop a Bobby Hull shot,
center Chico Maki of Chicago closes in on Boston’s Bernie Parent, right, Ed Giacomin
drops quickly to his knees to stop this shot. And below, Johnny Bower of Toronto
winds up on the ice as the Rangers and his teammates skate perilously close.
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i ger from Chandler, Ariz., Is
three inches taller and has a
three-inch edge in reach.
Different Styles
The two men have contrasting
styles, Clay the shifty dancer
who moves quickly on attack
when he spots an opening—and
Folley, the stalker, the puncher.
Clay employs left-right combin
ations with far more verve than
any single punch, while Folley
is particularly deadly with a
right to the head.
Folley likely will try for a kill
early in the fight. Historically,
he has appeared to lose some of
his fire if his opening attack
fails to do damage. Clay
taunted Terrell in their fight
and he likely will do the same
tonight, taking the offensive In
the middle rounds.
Outwardly they’re dissimilar,
too. Clay lives up to bis
knickname “fastest Mouth in
the West,” although he has
calmed down a bit from his
early historinics. He glares
clown his interviewers and
boxing foes alike; he takes
charge of any situation. Folley
is quiet, almost timid in
appearance, an unassuming
individual easily lost in the
crowd.
Fatherly Type
Folley is the father of eight
children and started boxing
when Clay was only 12. He was
ripe for a title fight when Floyd
Patterson was champ, but was
passed over. Now, in his 13tn
year as a pro, he has that
chance.
A crowd of 16,000 fans is
expected to pay about $400,000
to watch Clay and Folley go at
it. Clay will get 50 per cent of
the live gate and $150,000 from
the ancillary rights, while
Folley will receive 15 per cent
of the gate and $25,000 from the
broadcast rights.
Wednesday, Mar. 22, 1967
Clay Appeals
Draft To
Federal Courts
CINCINNATI (UPI) — Hea
vyweight Champion Cassius
Clay has again challenged the
federal government to another
round in his long and involved
attempts to stay out of the
Army.
Clay has exhausted all the
appeal routes provided by
Selective Service law and has
now gone to the federal courts.
He asked the U.S. Sixth
Circuit Court of Appeals here
Tuesday to issue a restraining
order, delaying his induction
into the Army which is
scheduled for April 11.
Clay last week asked U.S.
District Court Judge James F.
Gordon in Owensboro, Ky., for a
temporary restraining order, a
permanent Injunction and ap
pointment of a three-judge
panel to study the case.
Gordon turned down the
request for the temporary
restraining order and set March
29 for a hearing on the other
two matters.
“We have to have time for
this case and if we can’t get a
delay then the champ will be a
dead duck,” Hayden Covington,
Clay’s attorney, said.
Clay is basing his latest
maneuvering on the fact there
were no Negroes on his local
draft board In Louisville or on
the Kentucky appeals board
when his case was before them,
Covington contends because r
this he was not given a fair
hearing on his request for a
draft exemption on the grounds
he is a Black Muslim minister.
It was disclosed Tuesday that
a Negro was appointed to Clay’s
board Jan. 27.
Falcons Sign
Frank Walker
ATLANTA (UPI) Line
backer Frank Walker of Jack
son (Miss.) State College signed
a contract Tuesday with the At
lanta Falcons.
Walker, 6-2 and 230 pounds,
was the Falcons 11th round
draft choice.
SHAW RESIGNS
TORONTO (UPI) Bob
Shaw, manager-coach of the
Canadian Football League’s
Toronto Argonauts, resigned
Tuesday. After calling his
position “intolerable” because
the team’s Board of Governors
refused to extend his contract
another two years.
There was one year remain
ing on 8haw’s original three
year contract. During his first
two years, Toronto finished last
twice in the CFL, winning a
total of eight games.
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SOLDIERS IN THE DUGOUT, heavily armed, were a new experience for Hannon
Killebrew, left, and Bob Castiglione of the Minnesota Twins. The intruders were
planted to protect the Twins and Kansas City Athletics from sometimes overzeal
ous fans during a four-game exhibition series in Venezuela.
Around Grapefruit
Yanks Aren’t Acting
Like 2nd Divisioners
By VITO STELLINO
UPI Sports Writer
Like a ghost out of baseball’s
past, the New York Yankees
may be coming back to haunt
the American League.
The Yankee dynasty finally
seemed toppled last year when
the club tumbled into the cellar
—ending a 45-year reign of
terror that produced 29 pen
nants anc j 20 world champion
s jjips.
But the Yankees aren’t acting
like a second division club this
spring. They recorded their
eighth victory in 12 Barnes with
a 5-4 triumph over the Detroit
Tigers Tuesday.
It was produced in typical
Yankee fashion, too—on a two
run ninth-inning rally. The
winning hit was banged out by
rookie outfielder Bill Robinson,
who’s already being touted as
the next possible Yankee
superstar. It was also the fifth
one-run viotory for the Yanks,
who lost 38 games by one run
last season.
All that—and Whitsy Ford,
too. Whitey showed there’s a
Ford in the Yankee future when
the 37-year-old lefthander signed
a 1967 contract after coming to
spring training as a free agent.
Hope For Better
Since the Yanks finished
second in spring training last
years before collapsing during
the regular season, the club
hopes that this successful start
In Florida doesn’t mean the
club will slump once the season
starts.
In the order nine exhibition
games, Cincinnati beat Houston
9-4, Minnesota topped Los
Angeles 7-4, the New York Mets
shut out the world champion
Baltimore Orioles 2-0, Philadel
phia drubbed Boston 10-5,
nipped St. Louis 5-4,
Washington turned back Atlanta
9-8, the Chicago White Sox
tripped Kansas City 5-4, San
Francisco beat the Chicago
Cubs, 8-4 and California
whipped Cleveland 10-4.
Grand Slam
Jim Northrup’s grand slam
homer in the third gave Detroit
its 4-3 margin going into the
ninth. But a walk, Jake Gibbs’
single and and infield out scored
one run and Robinson, obtained
from Atlanta in the Clete Boyer
deal, then rapped the winning
hit with two out for New York.
Ageless pinch-hitter Smoky
Burgess collected a single
leading off the 10th inning and
his pinch-runner, Bud Bradford,
later scored from third on
Tommie Agee’s sacrifice fly to
give the Sox the win over
Kansas City. six
Gaylord Perry went
Innings for the Giants to get
credit for the victory over the
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Greg Goossen hit a pinch
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Rookie Blues
The Reds jumped on rookie
Don Wilson for four runs and
jolted Bo Belinsky for five more
Computer To Determine
Soccer Loop Standings
NEW YORK (UPI)—The
National Professional Soccer
League will begin its first seas
on next month with a free
wheeling scoring system to
compute team standings.
Under what League Commis
sioner Ken Macker calls the
"weighted point system,” teams
get six points in the standings
for a win, three for a tie and
none for a loss. In addition,
each team gets a point for each ,
goal scored, up to three per
game.
Thus a team which wins 6-3
gets nine points —six for win
ning and three for scoring three
or more goals. The losing team
adds three points to its total In
the standings by scoring three
goals.
In a tie game each team re
ceives a point for each goal up
to three, besides the regular
three points each team Is a
warded for the tie. Thus in a
2-2 game the teams would each
receive five points.
The new point system was
worked out by two Britons who
will coach NPSL teams, Phil
Woosnam of Atlanta and Fred
Goodwin of New York.
The United States Soccer As
sociation, rival to the 10-team
NPSL, has Indicated it will use
the standard system, awarding
two points for a win, one for a
tie, none for a loss and none
for goals.
Macker noted the weighted
point system will not affect the
rules of the game and said the
new scoring method would “en
attack-
ing game that American fans
will want to see.”
Sport Briefs
EXTRA TIME
ROME (UPI) — European
middleweight champion Nino
Benvenuti of Italy Tuesday was
given until July 17 by the
European Boxing Union to
defend his title against Spain’s
Luis Folledo.
Benvenuti was granted extra
time for defense of his
European crown because he
meets Emile Griffith in New
York April 17 for the world
middleweight title.
★
LISTON IN SWEDEN
GOTEBORG, Sweden (UPI)
—Former heavyweight cham
pion Sonny Liston arrived here
Tuesday night to begin final
preparations for his fight
against Dave Bailey of Philadel
P hia > March 30,
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COWBOY SIGNINGS
DALLAS (UPI) —The Dallas
Cowboys of the National Foot
ball League announced Tuesday
the signing of offensive end
Sims Stokes of Northern Arizo
na, their sixth round draft
choice. s *°
The 6 - 1. 198 * P ou *~
caught 37 passes for y
season.