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Traditionally held in Boston Garden, the show usually features a fight between the best boxer from South Boston and a pugilist from some other ethnic background. But this year's locale was the Boston Arena--a building so decrepit that its rats should strike for better living conditions--and the feature fight matched two black men: "Marvelous Marvin Hagler," The North American Middleweight Champion, and Guyana's Reggie Ford, the 1972 Pan-American Games champion...
...with the German Red Cross to receive contributions. Thousands responded. Within eight days, $208,333 was collected from those who remembered. Said a 31-year-old engineer: "It is our way of saying 'Thank you' for what you have done for us." Germany's most famous boxer, former Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, now 71, donated $400. A war widow of 75 added: "We Berliners haven't forgotten the help you Americans gave...
...Shadow Boxer...
During his last two months of life, Gary Mark Gilmore was engaged in a strange and increasingly emotional correspondence with a girl named Amber Edwina Hunt and nicknamed Amber Jim. The daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...
Amber Jim asked Gilmore what his favorite animal was. The tiger, he answered, because "they're so powerful, so beautiful, so fearless." He quoted her William Blake's "Tiger, tiger, burning bright ..." then added his judgment: "Neat, huh?" He asked her who her favorite boxer was, adding that his was Rocky Marciano...