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...groin. The U.S. Olympic Committee had waived a sound rule, but on sound sentiment, to allow Sime to compete in the 200 meters after the same pulled muscle kept him from qualifying at the N.C.A.A. trials. But Sime could not even finish the 100, and slamming his fist against a locker-room door later, he moaned: "What shall I do now? What?" Abilene Christian's Bobby Morrow, perhaps a faster man anyway, won both dashes, breaking Jesse Owens' 0:20.7-sec. Olympic record in the 200 with 0:20.6, and tying Owens' 100-meter world record...
...Last week Jesuit Boschi danced out of his corner with a long article citing authorities from St. Thomas to Joe Louis, and quoting past Osservatore comments against the prize ring: " Boxing makes a beast of man . . . the most brutal sport ever conceived . . . adoration of brute strength, of the fist which can pulverize the brain." Then he called on the Pope himself to referee. Though the decision may be several centuries in coming, it looked, from the newspapers' letters columns, as if all Europe were taking sides...
...best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs...
...knight in skillfully molded armor, elegant in its burnished, plain surfaces, and so meticulously fitted that it followed the play of each muscle, the hinging of each joint. Viewed simply as objects of beauty, the massive helms are symbolic of the knight's dauntless courage, as the mailed fist is of his might...
Riesel's banter gave way to a fist-clenched plea for a congressional investigation of mobsters in organized labor, and he repledged himself to the crusade. "I have no sensitivity about being blind," he said. "They haven't scared me. I can't see, but that doesn't mean I can't write the same kind of copy." In writing it, he can already touch-type and, for note-taking, will learn Braille "or anything else that will help me." Riesel said that he would leave the hospital this week-still with a police bodyguard...