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...Floyd Patterson, 29: an eighth-round technical knockout over unranked Italian Heavyweight Sante Amonti, at Stockholm, Sweden. Hoping to make a comeback after his two one-round disasters against Sonny Liston, ex-Champion Patterson floored Amonti three times before the Italian gave up the fight. > Mickey Wright, 28: election to the Ladies Golf Hall of Fame, after winning a record 13 tournaments and $31,269 on the 1963 pro tour. > Veikko Kankkonen: the international Four Hills ski-jumping tournament, a grueling nine-day test over four separate hills in West Germany and Austria, beating Austria's Baldur Preiml...
...night last week, Ernie climbed into the ring at the Baltimore Coliseum to fight New York's Wayne Bethea, 31. A hulking 205-pounder, Bethea had fought Sonny Liston and Ezzard Charles, had a record of 32-19-3. Ernie weighed 184 Ibs. on the boxing commission's scales, and he had not fought in nearly a year. "You have to prove yourself," shrugged his manager. "You have to be ready to take a chance...
After every act, Oleg Popov, the famous clown, puts on his own show. Popov is very appealing, but I did not find him very humorous. Liston probably would not think much of Heifetz, either...
...would pay much attention if Sonny Liston reported that a Bach concerto failed to excite him; similarly, no one should pay much attention when I report that the Moscow Circus failed to excite me. Even as a small boy, I was too stodgy to be captured by the romance of Ringling Brothers or the neighborhood carnival. But one can be impressed without being excited. I certainly...
...Also, Liston is not a full-time physical fitness type. So far he has always been in condition for fights, but he lives well in-between. If Liston believes, like most of the boxing public, that his challengers are beneath contempt, what is the rationale for running ten miles...