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...fistic prowess, however, Muhammad Ali, né Cassius Clay, has twice been TKO'd by U.S. Army intelligence tests. Last week the Army pulled him off the floor. In line with recently lowered standards for draftees, Louisville Selective Service Board 47 announced that the heavyweight-boxing champ and other candidates previously classified 1-Y are now eligible for military service and likely candidates for the March call-up. Said Board Chairman J. Allen Sherman: "Clay's 24 years old and single, so that puts him right up there...
...Niederhoffer never won the national squash championship while at Harvard, though he reached the semi-finals twice. In the 1963 nationals, he upset former champ Sam Howe in the second round, 15-14, 15-14, 15-14. In each game, Howe reached 14 points, Niederhoffer tied the game. Howe called for one point rather than three, and Niederhoffer won. But in the semis Niederhoffer was outclassed by the eventual tournament winner, Ben Heckscher...
...Niederhoffer, captain of the 1964 Harvard squash team, won the USSRA Championship in New York yesterday, defeating former champ Sam Howe in the finals...
Niederhoffer had earlier downed Ralphe Howe, Sam Howe's younger brother and another former champ, in semi-finals, 3-2. In the past three years, Niederhoffer has reached the semi-finals twice and the finals once, he had never won the title...
Though the Harvard varsity has no one entered in the individual competition. one freshman, will be playing, along with Terry Robertson '63, who is now at the Harvard Law School. Two of the most likely candidates to dethrone defending champ Steve Vehlslaghe are Vic Niederholfer '64 and Bob Netherington, a third-year student in the Episcopal Theological Seminary...