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Their rivalry goes back a long way, covering more than 100 contests. The most recent was two months ago, a nontide boar in which the challenger knocked the champ down several times and hung for the decision. Tonight, at Boston Garden, the bell rings for Round...
...Fade-In. Ragtime piano, please. Former Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney has long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
...divers describe Walker as easy-going, flexible and enjoyable. "He doesn't want it to be work, work, work without enjoying the sport," Jeff Mule, Eastern champ at three-meters and second on the low board, notes. Pam Stone, winner of the 1979 AIAW Small College Nationals and reigning Ivy three-meter champ, describes Walker as "the typical father/coach figure...
Sharing a coach and training time builds cameraderie, the divers say. "Having the men around adds a lighter atmosphere to workout--a time when things can get pretty intense," Holy, the Ivy one-meter champ, says...
Still missing, however, was the fire-power of last year's Ivy scoring champ and team captain Donald Fleming, who has not started since the December break. Fleming scored four points against Columbia and sat out the entire second half...