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...plungers who risked $250 for a single share of Cloverlay stock in 1965 have since received splits and dividends that have boosted the value of each original share to $3,600. And that was two weeks ago. Last week in Manhattan, an ex-slaughterhouse laborer from Philadelphia named Joe Frazier stamped himself as the No. 1 contender for Cassius Clay's vacant heavyweight title by stopping Canada's durable George Chuvalo in the fourth round -and Cloverlay Inc. started talking about another dividend...
...Frazier, 23, is Cloverlay Inc.'s only asset; the corporation pays his manager and all training expenses, gives Joe $100 a week plus bonuses. A 5-ft. 11½-in. 204-pounder with a crushing left hook, a swarming attack and basic notions of strategy ("I just want to put the other guy away as fast as I can"), Frazier hardly compares to Clay either in size or ability. But there are certain similarities. Like Cassius, Joe is an Olympic champion; he won the heavyweight title at Tokyo in 1964. Like Cassius, he is undefeated...
With credentials like those, Frazier can afford to give himself a bye by refusing to fight in the World Boxing Association's elimination tournament that begins in Houston next week. Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and six other so-called contenders can go ahead and battle it out for the W.B.A.'s heavyweight title. None of them was able even to dent George Chuvalo. And none will be able to call himself champion of anything until he fights Joe Frazier...
...more exciting was Saturday afternoon's NIT final, in which Southern Illinois beat Marquette, 71-56. The Salukis are probably the best team east of the Mississippi and play the brand of ball that can make college basketball second to nothing for excitement. Led by Walt Frazier, as complete a ballplayer as you will find, the Southern Illinois jumping jacks exhibit the "Big D" defense that makes every pass a challenge...
...white plywood box, tilted up from the floor. The box is empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise a hard-edge painter of interest, displays an L-shaped item that dully fulfills its title, Blue White Angle. Paul Frazier, 44, represents himself with Space Manifold #5, an irregular cruciform abstraction that would kiss Rodin off as a sentimentalist...