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...biggest sales resistance when he tried to peddle last year's Open Champion Jack Fleck. "They say he's on the stick again," said the anxious auctioneer, but the bidding stalled at $5,000. "Where's your gambling blood, fellows? He's the national champ." Fleck fell for a meager...
...Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life. In a return bout, it took him only one round to stop Jersey...
...Bother. There was no one around to bother the new champ. Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles and Don Cockell, challengers of minor talents, tried, and they all came to pieces under Rocky's ham-handed macing. Last year Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore managed to put Rocky on the canvas for the second time in his pro career, but the champ righted himself as solidly as a hogshead of ale, and in the ninth round knocked Moore out. He was 31, and he still couldn't box, but there was still no one around to bother...
...Patton, who led the field to the halfway mark two years ago, Venturi did everything right. His drives were true, his irons crisp and sure. Not once did he take more than two putts a hole. But he was being pushed hard by some tough pros: the defending champ, Dentist Cary Middlecoff (with a 67), Shelly Mayfield and Tommy Bolt (68) and the great Ben Hogan (69). It was about time for Amateur Venturi to crack...
...best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with disc brakes. Both British teams were superbly organized in the pits. The Aston crew came complete with a practical physicist. Working with his slide rule, so the impressed pitmen said, the visiting scientist could calculate within...