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Fred Moseley rowed in the seven seat of the winning boat, with Link Boyden at six, George Walcott five, Clem Despard four, Nick Brown three, Lee Henderson two, John McLeod bow, and Al Lefkowits cox. Reuben Richards' boat came in second in 4:03, with Larry Brownell's eight third three seconds later. Bob Terry's boat was fourth and Tom Adams' last...
...private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
Nobody was more surprised than Walcott himself. Back in his corner, Jersey Joe was so choked with emotion that at first he could hardly utter a word. He slid to his knees, and only his bustling, happy handlers kept him from collapsing to the canvas. But at the TV mike he recovered and delivered a muscularly religious sermon. As he later told reporters: "I've worked for 21 years for this night. I read my Bible before the fight I prayed between every round. I asked God to help...
...Wanna See the Boy." Then Jersey Joe Walcott, ex-longshoreman, ex-hod carrier, who spent a bitter year and a half on home relief and who lost 15 of his 64 listed fights because "hunger was my house guest," went home to Camden, N.J. to his wife and six children, the oldest man in history to win the World Heavyweight Championship...
...also went home to a triumph. Camden's mayor decreed an official Joe Walcott day, joined 100,000 Jerseyites in front of city hall, flaunting banners: "Welcome Home Champ," "Good Job, Joe." In the jostling crowd, one fan straight-armed a policeman in his effort to get near his idol, shouting: "Wanna see the boy. Close-up like. Not way back here...