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REPORTING on the tense training days of Boxers Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali for this week's cover story required a generous amount of footwork and feinting by Correspondents Robert Anson and Joseph Kane. Both men nearly suffered technical knockouts in the first round...
...Where were you two years ago?" demanded Frazier when Anson first approached him. "You go on now. I ain't going to talk to you." But he did talk eventually, for many hours and in many places. Anson found him "impossible to dislike. He's a warm, genuine human being who deserves better than to make his living by having his head knocked in." Anson at one point asked Frazier's manager, Yancey Durham, for permission to spar with the fighter. Informed that the last journalist to do so had been an ex-fighter who emerged from...
Kennedy, who boxed in college, ventured a prediction on the outcome: "Ali will win in the 13th round." Kennedy's colleagues also offered their individual prophecies. Elson: "Ali will win by decision"; Kane: "Ali, by a decision"; Anson: "Frazier will score a knockout in the 8th round"; Mezey: "Frazier will win-it's my female intuition...
That battling hard, Muhammad All, treated the TV audience of the Flip Wilson Show to a poetic version of his March 8 fight with World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier: "Now he lands a right./What a beautiful swing!/And the punch throws Frazier/clean out of the ring./Now Frazier disappears from view./The crowd is getting frantic./ But our radars have picked him up./ He's somewheres over the Atlantic./ Who would have thought/when they came to the fight/that they would witness the launching of a black satellite...
...points before the Knicks eked out a 117-113 win. Murphy ended the evening with 23 points (his .625 shooting average topped all the Knick scorers), four assists and, remarkably, seven rebounds-more than any Knick except 6-ft. 10-in. Willis Reed and 6-ft. 4-in. Walt Frazier. Said Frazier: "We were doing the things we always do, but that little Murphy damn near...