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Terrell was willing until Ali, known by his local draft board as Cassius Clay, was re-classified 1-A in February. It dawned on the challenger that Ali, who can't go on to graduate school or join the Peace Corps, was headed for boot camp and the title would be up for grabs...
...were the champion, I'd lie down in the first round. That would give boxing the glorious reputation it enjoyed before Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston, and give the world a champion it can appreciate...
...only thing that stood between Chicago Black Hawk Bobby Hull and goal No. 51 was the entire National Hockey League. By rights, even that should not have been enough. Hull, 27, has muscles (biceps: 171 in.) bigger than Cassius Clay's, a top speed of 23 m.p.h. and a lefthanded slap shot that is quicker (118 m.p.h.) than Sandy Koufax's fastball. By early this month he had used all three to easily tie the N.H.L.'s season record of 50 goals scored-but then the drought...
Even though he looks militant enough in the dress blues of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslims' Special Forces, Boxer Cassius Clay, 24, is a peaceful sort-as he loudly announced to the U.S. Selective Service when it reclassified him 1-A. "I don't have no quarrel with those Viet Congs," blared the Greatest. So the Illinois Boxing Commission canceled his March 29 title bout with Ernie Terrell in Chicago. Louisville didn't want him either, nor did Pittsburgh or Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only...
...Cassius Clay will defend his title in Toronto, March 29; but it will probably be against George Chuvalo instead of Ernie Terrell...