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Eugene, Ore. June 1971. Meriwether, improbably garbed in gold swim trunks, a white hospital shirt and gold-and-white-striped suspenders, steps into the starting blocks for the 100-yd. dash in the A.A.U. championships. The gun sounds. Meriwether streaks for the tape with great, loping strides and wins, in...
FOUR YEARS after the Gans-Nelson bout, Tex Rickard staged and refereed the heavyweight championship contest between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries. Jeffries, who held the title from 1899 until he retired in 1904, had been persuaded to make a comeback. Dressed for his role, Jeffries entered the ring on...
Other interesting matches and contestants to watch for are: at the House 105-pound division. Winthrop's dancing Steve D'Arey, who comes complete with red paisley trunks, blue shirt, and a cigar-smoking manager, will meet Lowell's Dave Kreis. who received a bye into the finals. In the...
That is only the beginning. According to Promoter Jerry Perenchio, who approached 70 possible backers before he got Los Angeles sportsman Jack Kent Cooke to put up the bulk of the purse money, 300 million spectators in more than 26 countries will see the fight. A successful theatrical agent who...
Then, by good luck, in came an old lady of seventy, going to spend a week with her niece. She had three trunks, two carbet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some pepper-mints, a few...