Powerpacked left hook lifts Frazier to undisputed heavyweight champion
NEW YORK (UPI)—The gesture took only a second.
Jimmy Eilis made it so quickly in his dressing room after the fight that it was easy to miss.
Angelo Dundee, his manager, was busy talking but he didn't miss the gesture because he's much sharper and much more understanding than most fight managers.
He felt Jimmy Ellis tap him on the right elbow. Ellis was saying thank you, Angelo Dundee, for what you did out there tonight and thank you for making it possible for me to fight another day.
Ellis' failure to answer the bell for the fifth round against the murderous, brain-scrambling punches of Smokin' Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden Monday night wasn't his idea at all. It was entirely Dundee's.
Ellis Wouldn't Surrender
Benumbed and befogged as he was, Ellis wanted to keep placing his head in front of that Frazier
buzz-saw, but Dundee wouldn't permit it.
"Why?" Dundee asked, repeating a question put to him. "Because he wasn't doing his thing, that's why. The other guy was cookin' on him and it was too much one way. Look at Jimmy now! I have a fighter, not a cripple. That's the way I work."
"I tested him with 20 questions," Dundee said. "I was banging him on the knees, throwing cold water, rubbing the back of his head, everything, I asked him 'Why aren't you boxing:' He didn't give me an answer I liked. So I just said, 'Forget it!'."
What did he say?
"He said 'No, no, no, no.' I said, 'Not no, ye, yeh, yeh'
Loser Won $250,000
And so the fight was terminated and despite Jimmy Ellis' protestations, he should be glad it was. If ever a fighter graphically personified that movie now showing—"Take the Money and
Run”—Ellis did between the fourth and fifth rounds Monday although, of course, the $250,000 or so he'll probably end up with for the licking he took was the last thing on his mind at that point.
Ellis, clubbed to the floor twice by the bone-jarring Frazier, could only remember being knocked down once when it was all over. Moreover, he walked into the wrong dressing room—Frazier's instead of his own—following the post-fight interview.
"I still remember everything," the loser insisted when he got back to his own room. But then he showed he really didn't by saying, "I didn't know I was down twice, I thought once."
Ellis, unmarked except for a tiny mouse under his left eye, sighed softly as his trainer, Luis Sarria, applied alcohol to his face.
a pretty good fighter," he said of Frazier. "I ain't going to put him down."
"After all the talk, the guy is
Neither did Angelo Dundee in front of all the newsmen when he said, "this Joe Frazier would have licked anyone in front of him."
Later, though, Dundee said his old fighter, Cassius Clay, "would've slapped him all over the joint but what am I gonna do? Cop out by saying that in front of everybody right after he beat Jimmy Ellis?"
As Sarria worked on him, Ellis talked about the fight and about the way Dundee had ended it.
"He says it's a good move. He's my manager and he looks out for me. I'm not going to criticize him. He took me to the championship. So if you ask me whether I think he shoulda stopped it. I say I think he made the right move for me."
Sarria was just about finished. Jimmy Ellis put on his bathrobe again and walked out of the shower enclosure into the main part of his dressing room.
It was at that point he touched Dundee on the elbow and said what he felt inside. Thank you, Angelo Dundee.
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Bruins still No.1
NEW YORK (UPI) — UCLA,
unbeaten in 20 games, remains
the nation's No.1 college basketball
team, but the battle for No.
2 has turned into a real dogfight.
UCLA, which beat Washington State twice and Washington once last week, received 33 of the 34 first-place votes cast by the 35-member United Press International board of coaches today. One coach did not vote.
Less than 100 points separated the next four teams in the balloting. Kentucky moved up into second with 272 points, 67 less than UCLA, and South Carolina slipped to third with 239.
St. Bonaventure remained fourth at 237 while New Mexico State held fifth with 188.
Jacksonville (122) was sixth followed by Pennsylvania, North Carolina State, Iowa and Davidson.
Florida State moved up to 11th, followed by Drake, North Carolina, Houston and Marquette, Notre Dame and Utah tied for 16th, Western Kentucky took 18th, Utah State captured 19th and Columbia took the final spot in the top 20.
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UCLA, which edged Washington State 72-70 in its first meeting of the week, bounced back with a 95-61 drubbing in their second meeting. The Bruins clubbed Washington 101-85 to run their record to 20-0.
Kentucky had little trouble boosting its record to 19-1 with easy victories over Mississippi State (86-57) and Florida (110-66). The Wildcats received the only first-place vote UCLA did not capture.
South Carolina sandwiched an 81-54 victory over Wake Forest and an 82-65 conquest of Duke around a 68-62 upset at the hands of Davidson, which moved up to 10th with the triumph. The Gamecocks are now 19-2.
St. Bonaventure beat Seton Hall 103-83 and Providence 68-52 to run its record to 17-1 while New Mexico State trounced Montana State 97-73 and Air Force 99-86 to stretch its record to 20-2. Jacksonville walloped Oklahoma City 103-83 and Loyola (La.) 96-75 to advance to a 19-1 mark.
Five coaches from each of the seven geographical areas of the nation comprise the UPI ratings board. Each week they select the top 10 teams in the nation with points awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis on votes from first through 10th.
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