Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bible readings were Saratoga's biggest thrill when "Old Smoke" Morrissey hit town in 1861. But not for long. Gambler, dandy, ex-bordello bouncer, heavyweight boxing champion (and later a U.S. Congressman), Morrissey opened Saratoga's first race track, spent $190,000 building his Club House into one of the most enticing gambling mousetraps in the Western Hemisphere. Practically overnight, high livers from around the world began beating a path to Old Smoke's door...
...season for reruns. Last fall in Chicago, it took Charles ("Sonny") Liston 2 min. 6 sec. to pluck the heavyweight crown from Floyd Patterson. Last week in Las Vegas, Liston spent 2 min. 10 sec. pounding Patterson into boxing oblivion. Like a man killing a rabbit with a stick, he clubbed the hapless challenger to the canvas-gracelessly and methodically, his sulphur-and-obsidian eyes betraying neither pleasure nor anger. "It was just something I had to do," grunted Sonny, whose mind was obviously on something else...
...Crimson teams will benefit from the influx of one of the best freshman classes in history. Last year freshman teams won 54 games and lost only nine in the Ivy League for a percentage of .846. In five sports the Yardlings were undefeated: football, tennis, outdoor track, light and heavyweight crew. Over-all Ivy Standings W. L. T. P.C. Harvard 134 71 2 .652 Princeton 117 78 0 .600 Yale 108 73 2 .595 Penn 92 82 3 .528 Cornell 80 89 2 .473 Brown 76 86 5 .470 Dartmouth 85 104 3 .450 Columbia...
Floyd Patterson predicted that he'd "do better this time" in his heavyweight title bout with Sonny Liston at Las Vegas last night, and indeed he did. The formidable Liston required a full 2:10 of-the first round to dispose of the exchamp, four seconds longer than it took him in their first encounter...
Liston flattened Patterson three times during the round, and his awesome display of power left little doubt that there is no one in the heavyweight division capable of wresting from him the throne which he took from Patterson in Chicago last September...