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...skeptical Lauricella suspected the Dominicans of foul play on this right before we played," the pensive Launcella stated yesterday. "I think it was a conscious plot to get us tired...
With his boxing days on the wane, Wepner, 35, needed no coaxing. For the first time in his career, he could afford to train full time. He spent eight weeks near the Catskill Mountains under the watchful eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free...
...born in 1926 in a suburb of Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went to the provinces and summoned Walter...
...defense tightened up in the second half and teamwork and aggressiveness began to pay off. But the tea, ran into foul trouble, as two players fouled out of the game, and four others wound up with four fouls apiece...
With Harvard this winter, it apparently didn't, as the Crimson for the most part was unable to motivate itself. The players thought hustle to be the equivalent of a technical foul, and they could often be seen loafing during games. This should have been expected, however, because as one player said, "when you loaf during practices, you loaf during the game...