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...booking in the King tournament. One boxer, Ike Fluellen, a Bellaire, Texas, policeman who had not fought in over a year, mysteriously found himself credited with wins in two phantom bouts held in Mexico. According to Fluellen, he was advised to switch managers in exchange for ranking and a tourney invitation. In all, the records of eleven fighters were misrepresented or falsified in the 1977 Ring ratings. Ring Editor Nat Loubet's unpersuasive defense: the magazine was dependent on unverifiable information supplied by managers...
...with much hoopla last January from a ring set up on the flight deck of the Navy carrier Lexington (TIME, Jan. 31). Behind the extravaganza were Superpromoter Don King, the orchestrator of Muhammad Ali's bouts in Zaïre and Manila; Roone Arledge and ABC Sports, the tourney's bankrollers and broadcasters; Ring magazine, the "Bible of Boxing," which rated the worthiness of the tournament boxers; and New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr., who lent the championships his name. Now. four months and five elimination rounds after its dramatic inaugural, the tournament has been suspended...
Perhaps Leslie's best tourney showing came in the Inter-City Championships, in which teams from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia vie against each another. She rifled a 78 to finish as Boston's top point getter, carding five-and-a-half out of a possible six matchplay points. Right now, Greis is honing her game for the U.S. Women's Amateur, which will be played at Brae Burn, the site of yesterday's match...
Saturday, the Crimson fell 6-3 to Yale in the morning, then succumbed to Princeton 4-3 in a brutal afternoon match. Only Sunday's forfeit win over Columbia, which placed Harvard seventh in the tourney, kept the ruggers from the ranks of the Ofors...
...past two years Harvard has drawn Dartmouth in the opening round of the tourney and both times the Crimson ruggers were dumped by the Green meanies...