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...certainly knows how to fight. For all his 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...
What with the Yankee myth shattered in the dust of Chaves Ravine, Sonny Liston now stands alone. And much is gentle sportsfans might wish that Liston would meet the Bombera fate, there is no fistic Sandy Koufax around to strike out Sonny...
BOSTON, Jan. 21--Virgil Akins knocked weary Tony DeMarco into virtual fistic obscurity tonight with a 12th round technical knockout in a brutal rematch of welterweights at Boston Garden...
...came to Madison Square Garden in tough trim-sleepy-eyed Floyd Patterson, at 21 about the most exciting young fighter in the game, and wild-eyed Tommy Jackson, 24, a fistic freak whose boundless energy and impervious head have thwarted most of the best men in the heavyweight division. To prove he was ready for man's estate, young Patterson needed to knock the ears off Jackson...
...Fistic Assist. At 37, Dancer Komaki has made his troupe ("Le Ballet Komaki") the largest and best-disciplined in Japan, introduced some two dozen more or less standard Western ballets to the country, e.g., Nutcracker, Coppélia, Petrouchka, Lilac Garden, and himself partnered Visiting Star Nora Kaye...