Title fight yields secret weapon
HOUSTON —(UPI)— Cassius Clay's jolting left jabs and right crosses bloodied and blunted Cleveland (Big Cat) Williams' title challenge Monday night in less than three rounds, but the Muslim minister seemed to be pouder of his new secret weapon, the "Ali shuffle."
Regardless of which weapon was the most deadly, Clay proved to a record indoor fight crowd of 35,460 at 1:08 of the third that he had the tools to back up the boasts that he is "the greatest."
The gate was an indoor record $461,290, of which Clay gets $235,-645 and Williams $92,258.
CLAY'S BATTERING left to the body, followed lightning fast by the same jab to the chin and augmented with right crosses to the face and head sent the 33-year-old hometown challenger sprawling to the canvas four times—three of them in an action-packed second round when the bell found Williams flat on his back and dazed.
"I used the Ali shuffle twice, before each good combination," Clay recalled later in his dressing room while admitting that although power puncher Williams did not hurt him he did feel a couple of the challenger's lefts.
Those were about the only blows the 210 $ \frac{1}{2} $ lb. Williams landed on the back-pedaling, circling, shuffling champion, who weighed in at 212 3/4 lbs., the second heaviest since he won the title in a seven round knockout of Sonny Liston Feb. 24, 1964 in Miami Beach and defended six times prior to Monday night.
THE ALI SHUFFLE, named in honor of Clay's Muslim sect name of Muhammad Ali, is nothing more than a quick soft shoe routine. Clay does with his feet.
Clay had said before the fight the shuffle would confuse Williams and leave him open for attack.
That precise question remains unanswered since no one thought to ask the downcast challenger if it affected him.
BUT, THERE was no question that after each shuffle, Clay unloaded both barrels, bloodied Williams' nose and mouth, glazed
Skin-diver starts club
Since his hair-rasing scuba-diving experience three miles off the coast of Miami, Fla., last spring, Joe Goodman, Salisbury, Md., freshman, appreciates life more.
"There were six of us and we were on our way back to the boat when it happened," Goodman said. "Suddenly out of nowhere there was a pack of about 40 barracuda. They started circling us, and one of our group panicked and made the mistake of shooting at one of the barracuda.
"That excited the pack and they came-at us from all directions. We used our spearguns to ward the barracuda off.
That experience didn't discourage Goodman, however. An ardent scuba-diving fan, he is organizing the KU Underwater Sports Club which will hold its first meeting tonight at 8 in Room 306A in the Kansas Union.
"Anyone that has ever skin-
dived, scuba-dived, spear fished,
gotten wet or just wanted to is
welcome." Goodman said.
his eyes, flattened him four times and left him stumbling dazed about the ring.
Williams, who had won 51 of 65 victories over a 15-year career by knockouts, wasn't sure afterwards that the referee should have stopped the fight.
At the first meeting the fundamentals of using the scuba gear and the dangers involved will be covered.
"I wasn't hurt . . . just shook up." Williams said, adding that the referee "thought I was hurt and thought he was doing the right thing."
Asked if he wasn't indeed hurt,
Williams replied, "I don't know
... not much."
"He just got me before I got him," Williams added. "I dropped my left hand when I shouldn't have. It was just one of those things. You can't win 'em all."
Runners to sixth place at Chicago
KU's cross-country team finished sixth at the Central Collegeate Cross Country Meet Friday in Chicago with 163 points.
Defending NCAA champion Western Michigan won with 48 points. Olympic runner Oscar Moore of Southern Illinois was the individual winner in 24:38.
MOORE RAN the 5,000 meter race in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and was second in the KU Invitational this year, four seconds behind John Lawson.
Tom Yergovich, Kansas City senior team captain, was tops for the Jayhawks with a 16th place finish.
Other Jayhawk results: Mike Petterson, 23rd; Mike Sheahon, 45th: Gene McClaim, 46th; Dave Mansfield, 49th; Mike Kearns, 54th; and Curt Grindal, 56th.
UPI national college football ratings
4 Daily Kansan Tuesday, November 15, 1966
NEW YORK - (UPI) - The United Press International major college football ratings with first-place votes and won-lost records in parentheses:
1. Notre Dame (26) (8-0) ... 338
2. Michigan State (5) (9-0) 316
3. Alabama (2) (8-0) ... 275
4. Nebraska (2) (9-0) ... 223
5. Georgia Tech (9-0) ... 206
6. Arkansas (8-1) ... 135
7. Southern California (7-1) 116
8. UCLA (8-1) ... 99
9. Georgia (8-1) ... 84
10. Florida (8-1) ... 46