Clay sounds off, to quit when beat
HOUSTON—(UPI)—His blood cooled, his mind changed and his hair combed, an unusually contrite Cassius Clay stood there quietly and bared his soul. He didn't stand there quietly long, though.
Before he was through, he talked for more than an hour and touched such ordinarily delicate subjects as his overall financial condition; his awareness of one fighter he is ducking; his personal vanity and his tendency to lose his head sometimes and say things he doesn't mean.
ALL THIS CAME about at a post-fight news conference in which he was supposed to explain how he took apart Ernie Terrell Monday night but which started out more like a piano recital when he blithely sat down at one he happened to stumble on and turned in a right smart job on "chop sticks."
After a good night's sleep, Clay said, he had changed his mind about the opponent he had goaded and beaten into submission in the bright glare of the Astrodome ring only 12 hours before.
"Terrell is a nice fella personally," said Clay. He has a lotta determination, a lotta guts and he shook my hand right after the fight. If he keeps worthy and gets himself ranked high, I'll give him a return bout.
"I KNOW I said some things last night, but I get a little hot and angry after fights. My blood has colled now. I have a tendency to lose my head after a fight. He's a gentleman, though. I hope he's all right and not hurt internally."
Clay subsequently pointed out Terrell fouled him and not the other way around as the loser claimed.
"If Terrell won last night, I'd be retired today," Clay declared in a manner which left no doubt whatsoever he was in dead earnest.
"ILL QUIT the first time I ever lose. I could afford to retire right now. Easy: I don't smoke; I don't drink; I eat only one meal a day; I sleep in only one bed; I drive only one car. How can I waste my money?"
Back on the subject of boxing, Clay said he felt he was gradually winning public acceptance because he is fighting so often.
For his lopsided victory over Terrell, Clay will pick up a check of about $600,000. That's before taxes. Way before.
Pierson, Dixon lead gymnasts to dual at OU
Kansas gymnast Robert Pierson will perform in four events whence the Jayhawks meet Oklahoma and New Mexico in a double-dual competition Friday night in Norman, Okla.
The Lawrence sophomore, recovering from a shoulder injury, will see action in the floor exercise, side horse, long horse, and parallel bars but will leave his usual event, the all-around competition, to teammate Wayne Dixon, Olathe junior.
Dixon, ranked sixth nationally in the horizontal bar by the National Association of Collegiate
Gymnastic Coaches, is entered in his specialty as well.
"This is a building year for Oklahoma." Kansas coach Lob Lockwood said, "but New Mexico is one of the top teams in the Midwest Region.
"Since Dixon will go the all-around, we won't have a back-up in other events," Lockwood said. "Depth will be important and the third place man will decde the winner."
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Due to the Kansas State High School Activities Association swim meet this weekend, the following swimming dates have been canceled:
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Friday, faculty swim, 12:30 p.m.; Friday, student free swim, 7 o'clock; Saturday, free swim from 2-4.
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Ratings recently released by the A. C. Nielsen Company showed CBS the winner over NBC in the network battle for viewers in last month's Super Bowl game.
CBS drew a 23.0 rating or an estimated 56 per cent of the 65 million viewer audience, largest ever to watch a sporting event, while NBC had a 17.8 rating or 44 per cent.
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Majia, who gained recognition after winning the 5,000 and 10,000 meter events at the Little Olympics in Mexico City last year, joins Great Britain's Alan Simpson and Derek Graham, two sub four-minute milers, and Fam Piercey, who took fourth in the women's European 800-yard championships, for the 1567 indoor season.
Columbian distance runner Alvaro Majia and a trio of top British runners have accepted invitations to compete in the current U.S. indoor track campaign, the Amateur Athletic Union announced.
Ernie Terrell, former World Boxing Association champion, planned to check into a Washington. D.C., hospital today to undergo tests to determine if he suffered permanent eye damage to his left eye during his title fight with Cassius Clay.
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Sam Solomon, Terrell's trainer, said Clay deliberately rubbed Terrell's face along the top strand of the ring ropes in the third round of Monday's championship fight. Clay has denied that he did it on purpose.
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