Friday, March 15, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Floyd Reveals He Expected Liston To Win
MIAMI —(UPI)— A calm and fatalistic Fatterson today disclosed the full "tale of the beard" for the first time, revealing that he had carried a disguise for defeat into three previous bouts before he lost the heavyweight title to Sonny Liston.
But, said Patterson, it was not a preparation for anticipated losing merely a bulwark against the shame of possibly being beaten.
LAST SEPTEMBER, after he was knocked out by Liston, it was revealed subsequently that Patterson had driven alone out of Chicago disguised with false mustache and beard. The inference was that he had expected to lose.
"It made it seem that way, I suppose," he said as he relaxed in his quarters at Tropical Park Race Track while training for his April 10 return bout with Listen. "But that's absolutely untrue. Never have I anticipated losing. Yet the thought was with me always, that if I did happen to lose, there would be a certain amount of shame.
"So," he added in his gentle voice, "I had my disguise against personal shame with me long before I fought Liston. I had it ready for the second fight against Ingemar Johansson, when I regained the title. I had it with me for the third fight with Johansson, when I beat him again. And I even had it with me when I fought Mc TomeNeeley, although I was a six or eight to one favorite. I just couldn't put it out of my mind that I'd have to get away if anything did happen."
PATTERSON doesn't have it with him this time. He knows now, and accepts it, that there is no real shame in losing.
"I wasn't scared," he asserted. "I've heard it, and I've read it. But I wasn't afraid then and I'm not afraid now. The most Liston can do is beat me again. Being knocked out isn't so bad. If I'm afraid at all, it's only that I'm afraid of losing."
Patterson, who weighed 189 when he lost to Liston but will be 195 this time "because I've grown," also observed:
1. That the first bout with Liston, when he was kayoed at 2:06 of the first round, wasn't a fight "but will be this time because I have to prove to myself and the fans that I can go down and get up like a true champion."
2. Win or lose he will continue fighting for two or three more years "if I didn't get a dime" because of "what I owe to boxing."
3. That he has enough money now to make him and his wife and four children "comfortable" for life.
4. That he hasn't seen Cus D'Amato since the night he lost to Liston but that he still receive his managerial one-third "because I can't forget what he did for me in the beginning."
5. That he lost to Listen because "I bobbed when I should have been weaving."
This bout, he allows, won't make him any money because he already is in the 90 per cent tax bracket, or will be when it is over.
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NCAA Mid-West Regionals In Allen Field House Tonight
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Cincinnati begins its battle for an unprecedented third consecutive national collegiate basketball championship tonight in Allen Field House.
Cincinnati, however, has consistently been the favorite team in the NCAA Mid-west Regional tournament, which opens here tonight. The Bearcats have lived up to that role admirably, winning the past four. By Saturday night, they are expected to have won five.
For the first time, the Bearcats are entering the tournament as the nation's top-ranked team and as the tournament favorite.
IN THE PREVIOUS two years, once-mighty Ohio State held those distinctions and Cincinnati was rated second. But on both occasions Cincinnati won the national championship, by beating Ohio State.
The Bearcats open the Mid-west regional—in essence, the regionals are the national quarterfinals—against Southwest Conference champion Texas at 7:30 p.m.
NINTH-RANKED Colorado. the Big Eight
Conference co-champion, and independent Oklahoma City University meet in the other first-round game at 9:30 p.m. Winners of the two games will meet Saturday night for the regional title and a berth in the NCAA championships next week in Louisville, Ky.
With All-Americas Ron Bonham and Tony Yates, plus the guidance of coach-of-the-year Ed Jucker, Cincinnati is expected to have little trouble in making Texas its 24th victim in 25 games this season.
Oklahoma City, with a starting lineup averaging 6-foot-7 in height and an 80.6-point game scoring average, was rated the only potential threat to Cincinnati in the regional, but the Chiefs must get past Colorado first.
Cincinnati, which has compiled a 79-6 record in three seasons under Jucker, has an ambitious goal in seeking a third NCAA championship in a row. Only three other outstanding collegiate teams ever managed back-to-back titles, Oklahoma A&M in 1945-1946, Kentucky in 1948-49, and San Francisco in 1955-56.
All of them failed in the quest for the elusive third.
Chicago To Lose Pro Cage Team
CHICAGO —(UPI)— The Chicago Zephyr will move to another city for the 1963-64 National Basketball Association season, deciding on the new site in about 10 days, it has been announced.
The board of directors voted unanimously to move out of Chicago at a prolonged session Wednesday, but deferred action on picking the site.
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Clay Admits He's 'Human'
An unbeaten, but slightly bowed Cassius Clay has reluctantly admitted that he's "only human."
The startling revelation from the brash young heavyweight came Wednesday night in the shadow of a unanimous, but somewhat tainted ten-round decision over Doug Jones. It was the 18th straight victory for Clay . . . but the 18,000 fans who filled New York's Madison Square Garden booed for more than five minutes.
Clay—who had won his fame by successfully predicting the rounds for a number of knockouts—had predicted that he would put Jones away in four.
Instead he found the toughest fight of his professional career and the smaller Jones pushed the fight for much of the ten-round distance.
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