Do All Fighters Die Broke
Boxing talk at Jack Dempsey's Restaurant centers on fighters' post career finances. Carmen Basilio Joey Giardello and others discuss greed managers and Uncle Sam, noting most boxers do not die rich and some squander wealth chasing glamour. The World Team Boxing League plan aims for 10 boxers per team across 48 cities on a 30 week schedule with hopes of TV coverage and a pension fund.
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Milton Richman
UPI
New York
Jack Dempsey
Basilio
Joey Giardello
Sam
Charlie Fusari
Irvington N.J. Milkman
Tony Janico
Youngstown
Ohio
Jersey Joe Walcott
Tony Zale
Ike Williams
Willie Pep
Joe Frazier
WBT
Unitas Retires After 18 Seasons With Record Touchdowns
John Unitas, 41, announces retirement citing leg injuries after 18 NFL seasons. He leaves with a record 290 touchdown passes and 47 straight games with a TD, plans to stay near Baltimore with six children and may pursue media work. Chargers owner Gene Klein praises him as the best quarterback in game history. The retirement dispute with the Colts is headed to court.
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Ray
San Diego
Calif
UPI
John Unitas
National Football League
San Diego Chargers
Gene Klein
Unitas
Baltimore
Joe DiMaggio
All Star Bore Ends as Pennant Races Resume
The major league pennant races restart with 17 games on the schedule and two managerial debuts Clyde King with the Atlanta Braves and Jim Marshall with the Chicago Cubs. Rod Carew seeks to be the first .400 hitter since Ted Williams in 1941 as Twins press toward the stretch.
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Fred Down
UPI Sports Wrnter
Clyde King
Eddie Mathews
Atlanta Braves
Jim Marshall
Whitey Lockman
Chicago Cubs
Braves
Cubs
Rod Carew
Ted Williams
Boston Red Sox
Minnesota Twins
City Slow Pitch Teams Prep for Elyria Industrial Tourney
Norwalk Furniture squads dominate City League play as John Francisco leads the No. 2 Furniture with two homers and 14 hits combined in a 11 5 win. No. 1 Furniture beats Culligan Soft Water 14 1 on a seven run seventh. Bennett Electric tops Norwalk Merchants 18 9 with five run fifth. Mesenburg and Ringholz pace Huron County champs with multiple hits.
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Don Hohler
Norwalk Furniture
Elyria
Reineck’s
Skein
Culligan Soft Water
Bennett Electric
Norwalk Merchants
John Francisco
No. 2
Furniture Club
Francisco
Juris Kangars
Reineck
Jack Brady
Jeff Brandts
Paul Mannes
Dick Nickols
Denny Jaeckin
Culligan
Bill Palmer
Nickols
Dick Libbee
Tom Buckingham
Larry Smith
Jaeckin
Denny Schild
Tank Rogers
Palmer
Mike Finch
Tom Young
Bill Mesenburg
Electricians
Finch
Bob Sommers
Jeff Clark
Merchants
Mike Reitzel
Mesenburg
Chuck Ringholz
Willard Beaten In Legion Play
Oak Harbor rallied for a 7-6 win over Willard in the American League tournament action. Tim Laderach hit the game’s only extra-base hit with a triple as Oak Harbor pulled away in the bottom of the seventh after Willard took a 6-5 lead. South Central defeated Bellevue 5-0 behind Guy Ebinger’s pitching as eight innings opened with no runs until a five-run eighth.
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South Central
Guy Ebinger
Bellevue
Bill Orwig
Orwig
Ric Willoughby
Larry Hale
Ebinger
Hale
Steve Hester
Hester
Roger Osborn
Osborn
Joe Jacobs
Jeff Marsh
Ed Traveny
Mike McConkey
Fred Rogers
Oak Harbor
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Norwalk
Carmen Basilio
Canastota
N.Y
UPI Telephoto
Richman
Tees
New York Mets
Wickes Lumber
Wickes and Save
the Wickes Corp At
Say
Toy
Wickes
A.C
Bum
Oan
Schwinn Collegiate
E. Main
Willard
Legion
Lake Erie
Don’s Coffee Corner Restaurant
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