Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 7
Liston Favored To Defeat Clay By KO Tonight
MIAMI BEACH—(UPI)—At last the bell sounds for "the moment of truth" tonight when Cassius Clay tries to fulfill his boasts and wrest the world heavyweight crown from Sonny Liston.
They were scheduled for 15 rounds in the red-roped ring of Convention Hall but practically no one expects the bout to go that distance.
A poll of 58 U.S. and foreign sports writers covering the fight disclosed 55 picking Liston, all by a knockout.
Of the three who favored the pretentious, 22-year-old challenger from Louisville, only one said he would score a knockout over the 30-year-old champion from Denver, Colo.
Colo.
Sonny, with long, muscular arms,
tumbling in 15½ inch fists,
is favored at 7-1 to win. It's even
money that he scores a knockout
within five rounds and 2-1 that he
achieves a kayo within 10.
Another man who is practically certain to take a licking in this fight is Bill MacDonald, financial backer of the "live" fight here and co-promoter with Chris Dundee.
MacDonald, a wealthy retired auto-trailer manufacturer, "bought" the fight from Intercontinental Promotions, Inc., for $625,000. But in an attempt to draw $1,100,000 in the 16,448-seat Convention Hall, he priced the tickets from $20 to $250, a record anywhere for fight seats.
Because of the seat prices and Clay's amateurish showing in his late workouts and his reported connections with the Black Muslims, the advance sale here has been a "bust." Friends estimate MacDonald may lose $500,000 because the original cost and promotional expenses will top $800,000.
The crowd is expected to approximate 10,000.
Conversely, Nathan L. Halpern president of Theatre Network television reported today a "landslide" sale of tickets at many of the 271 locations for closed circuit television of the fight in the United States and Canada.
Halpern did not expect all of the available 1,103,451 seats to be sold but he said:
"We'll beat the attendance record of 559,000 set by the Liston-Floyd Patterson first title fight at Chicago in 1962, and we'll also beat the $2.8 million closed circuit gate record established by that fight. We have a good chance of grossing more than $4 million."
The theatre exhibitors would take approximately half that $4 million and give the rest to TNT, which would keep 15 per cent plus $100,000 for line charges and other costs. Then TNT would give the remainder to intercontinental promotions, whose president is Liston.
Clay, Olympic light heavyweight champion in 1960, seeks his 20th straight victory since he turned professional in 1960 and his 16th knockout. Despite his professional victory string, Cassius made but few changes in the style he used as an amateur—pulling away from straight punches and hooks instead of slipping the straight ones and bobbing beneath the head hooks.
Clay is very fast on his feet; also speedy with jabs and with combinations. However, most of his punches are thrown with comparatively loose arms that do not deliver his body weight to the target.
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The challenger is $1\frac{1}{2}$ inches taller than Liston's 6-1. But the champion is a solid, muscular man who shuffles persistently forward and who is cat-quick when he steps in for a punch. He has an 84-inch reach compared to Clay's 79.
GEORGE SHAW, WHO GAINED his greatest fame as a passer for the University of Oregon and the Baltimore Colts, holds the major college single-season record for pass interceptions with 13 during the 1951 season.
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Injuries Fail to Stop Player
As a senior in high school, Dave Schichtle, Coffeyville, senior, received more football scholarship offers than basketball tenders. One reason he turned down the football offers was because he thought his lank, 6-2, 165-pound physique couldn't stand the bumps and jolts of college competition.
Now Schichtle must be glad he passed up the football offers. His KU basketball career this year has been twice interrupted by injury. Against UCLA on the second night of the Sunflower double-header at Manhattan, he lost two front teeth. That limited his activities for a few days. Two weeks later, he broke a finger in the Big Eight opener at Oklahoma. He was out of competition for a month.
"And here, I thought I was too small for Big Eight football and might have a run of injuries," Schichte laughed.
Oddly enough, Schichtle has performed with more effectiveness since his two injuries than he ever did when he was physically sound.
Drawing his first starting assignment of the current season against Oklahoma State in the semifinals of the preseason Big Eight Tournament, he went all the way in a tough
He followed that with two more good efforts against Missouri and Oklahoma before being sidelined with the broken finger.
58-65 loss. After the game, Coach Dick Harp called his performance "by far David's best game."
Coming back in a starting role against Missouri here, he put on his best show yet. Had it not been for George Flamank's last-second set-up which lifted the Tigers to a 59-58 win. Schichtle would have been the hero of the game.
Schiehtle will draw his eighth consecutive starting assignment Saturday night in Allen Field House against K-State, as the Jayhawks try to upset the high-riding Wildcats.
It is no wonder that Schichtle (pronounced shee-stull) was in demand as a prep football prospect. His two older brothers cut impressive marks in the game. Casper was a quarterback three years at Hawaii U.S. then captained Drake in his final year—1961.
Henry was impressive as a quarterback at Coffeyville Junior College then captained Wichita last year. He finished ninth in the national individual total offense race on 1609 net yards.
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