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Heisler, last year's Ohio State junior champ, turned in a 74 for his best round of the spring. Lawrenceville alumnus Purdy shot a solid 76, and Gurry, the team's only undefeated player, coasted in for his win at number three...
Mailer looks the heavy but more characteristically acts the role of the nation's thumb-wrestling champ. He used to hold the world title too, he says, but he was whipped one night by a Mexican bullfighter who had learned the sport that day. "I wonder," Mailer muses, looking off into the distance, "if he realized what he won." Because thumb-wrestling is not just a diversion for Mailer--he gives himself to it as totally as he does to his writing, his family, and his friends. "Norman is great at thumb-wrestling," says an old friend, "because...
...President of the World Boxing Association said that Clay "had defied the law of the U.S. regarding selective service and so has forfeited any protection of his recognition of his boxing title." Then he said something about how a champ should be "an example of patriotic dedication," someone who should display "exemplary and inspiring conduct." But Clay, alas, had not, so he was stripped of his title...
Howard Cossel, who made a pile verbally sparring with Clay (and losing most of the time) told the champ he liked him better this past year or so because he wasn't so loud. Somehow it's wrong to be loud and write poetry and predict the knockout round and tell off sportswriters and beat Sonny Liston so quickly and beat Ernie Terrell so brutally and become a Black Muslim and apply for exemption from the U.S. Army because you're a Muslim minister and because you object to the war in Vietnam. But it's worse, far worse...
...Keefe, tremendously improved, is aiming at Bruce LoPucki's number one match-play spot Keefe, individual champ at the Greater Boston Intercollegiates last week, has a 9-1 match record...