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The Augusta News-Review February 18,1984
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Olympic fighters
promotional work but
resides in Chicagoe.
Sugar Ray Leonard,
who became the darling
of the Olympic crowd in
Montreal where he won a
gold medal in the light
weight division, turned
pro several years later
and quickly moved into
the big-time class. He
gained millionaire status
when he fought Tommy
Hearns in a match that
was hailed as the “richest
purse” in fieht history.
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Leonard’s pro career
came to a brilliant height
with the 14th round
technical knockout of
Hearns.
Five world
heavyweight champions
have been graduates of
the Olympic experience:
Muhammad All (Cassius
Clay as an Olympian),
1960; Joe Frazier, 1964;
George Foreman, 1968;
Leon Spinks, 1976; and
Floyd Patterson, 1952
who won an Olympic,
championship as a mid
dleweight but moved into
the heavyweight class
when he turned pro.
Since Frazier’s
retirement he has been ac
ting as trainer for his son,
Marvis Frazier. Marvis
seeking to emulate his
father’s ring prowess,
was stopped by Larry
Holmes in his first bid for
the heavyweight title in
Nov. 1983.
Muhammad Ali
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have cashed in
Patterson is retired and
residing in New York
while George Foreman,
also retired from the ring,
is a preacher in Houston,
Texas.
The Spinks Brothers
are still battling for
the cash in the pro ranks
while, for the most part
the others have retired of
just called it quits after a
brief stint as a
professional.
Ray Seales, who won a
gold medal in the 1972
Olympics and attained
the North American
Boxing Federation mid
dieweight title in 1981,
has had probably the
worst luck of any ex-
Olympic boxer. A former
middleweight champion,
he is now legally blind
with no vision in his left
eye and only 10 percent
in his right eye, according
to his opthamologist in
Tacoma, Wash. Only
thirty, Seales announced
his retirement early last
year because of his vision
problems. He had three
operations for detached
retinas before making the
decision to call it quits.
Robert (Pappy) Gault,
now 61, who coached the
U.S. Olympic Boxing
Team in 1968 at Mexico,
declares all Olympic
fighters “try to get the
gold (medal) because it is
the path to the real
gold.” Boxers, as Gualt
sees it, have learned this
is the way to make big
mondy fast so if they are
fortunate enough to win
in the Olympics, they in
variably seek the “big
payoff” in pro ranks.
This has been the trend
for most of the ring
champions since
television scaled the pro
purses for title fights to
such lofty heights.
Gault, who now
operates a training gym
on Georgia Avenue in
Northwest Washington,
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Sgt. Edward Crook
D.C., known as “The
House of Champions,”
recalls that the 1968 team
of 11 members won nine
medals in Mexico. The
1976 team at Montreal,
highlighted by Sugar Ray
Leonard’s victory, won
more gold medals but the
’6B team set a team mark.
Pappy Gault also
recalls the exciting
episode in Mexico City
when Foreman won the
heavyweight Olympic
title and he handed
George a tiny American
flag to hold over his head
on the victory stand.
The incident came
several days after Tom
mie Smith and John
Carlos, medal winners in
the 200 meters, had used
black-gloved, clenched
fists to give a Black
Power salute as the Star-
Spangled Banner was
played and they stood on
the victory stand.
Gault said he simply
felt that “That was not
the time or place to wash
our dirty linen...l had
compassion for Smith’s
and Carlos’ feelings, and
they understood it, but it
was just the wrong
place.”
Carlos, who is now
working in Los Angeles
as a member of the
Olympic Organizing
Committee for the 1984
games, is still a friend and
frequently calls him,
Gault says.
The first Black Olym
pic competitor to win the
light-heavyweight cham
pionship did not cas in on
his boxing talent. He is
Washingtonian, Norvell
Lee, former Howard
University boxer, who
captured the light
heavyweight Olympic
crown at Helsinki,
Finland in 1952.
Significantly, Lee was
awarded the Vai Barker
Trophy, as the outstan
ding performer in boxing
division, winning over
such fighters as Davey
Moore, Floyd Patterson
and Sweden’s Ingemar
Johansson, who later
became world
heavyweight champion.
Prior to his Olympic
triumph, Lee had been
CIAA champion in 1949,
and scored big wins in the
Golden Gloves in 1950-52
and the National AAU
tournaments in 1950-51.
Lee did keep up with
boxing activities,
however, as he served as
a member of Columbia
Boxing Commission for
14 years, and utilized his
spare time to serve as
coach of several com
munity teams in the
amateur ranks.
Currently Lee is em
ployed in the Radiology
Defense Office of the
District of Columbia and
resides in Northwest
Washington.
Another Washingtonian
was on the team with Lee.
He was James (Jim)
Braddock, who competed
in the weightlifting class,
winning a runner-up
medal. Braddock works
at the Library of
Congress.
Other Olympic gold
medal winners in the
boxing competition in
clude Nat Brooks,
flyweight, 1952; Leon
Randolph, flyweight,
1976; Rody Harris,
lightweight, 1969;
Howard Davis, light
weight 1976; Chuck
Atkins, 1952; Ray Seals,
1972, welterweight; and
the Spinks brothers, Leon
and Mike, 4976.
While boxing and track
and field have produced
the bulk of Black Olym
pic gold medalists, other
sports, especially basket
ball, have produced some
of the more popular
athletes who have signed
lucrative professional
basketball contracts.
Perhaps the best
known is Bill Russell, the
great Boston Celtics
player and coach.
Russell, now 49, last year
completed a four-year
run with CBS-TV during
which he was a regular
announcer with Dick
Stockton covering NBA
games.
Russell, who was the
standout member of the
Olympic winning U.S.
basketball team in 1956,
dominated pro basketball
after his collegiate days
and Olympic experience.
He starred as a player and
coach for the Boston
Celtics and was known as
a student of the game as
well as a teacher. He
proved to be both a coach
and an outstanding spor
tscaster. He led Boston to
13 World Championships
as a player/coach, and
now devotes his time to a
variety of business inter
ests.
Also on that victorious
Olympic team as a team
mate of Bill Russell was
K.C. Jones, the current
coach of the Boston
Celtics. Jones, who
played in the NBA with
the Celtics had a previous
coaching experience with
the Washington Bullets
for three seasons begin
ning in 1974. K.C. Jones
carried the Bullets to the
finals of the NBA against
Golden State after a 60-
22 season, compiling a
47- mark in his initial
coaching year. He had a
48- record the year the
Bullets let him go. He had
been an assistant coach
with the Celtics before he
was elevated to his
present post.
There are scores of
other Olympic basketball
stars now playing in the
NBA, others who have
played are now retired
(Oscar Robertson for in
stance), but only a few of
them were gold medal
winners.
Robertson, the three
time All-American, who
see Olympics, page 7