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JIM MURRAYFight timeOn Friday night in the L.A. Sports Arena, there will be a tremendous prize fight. This will be followed shortly thereafter by an Eddie Machen fight.Eddie Machen fights come highly recommended by the Peace Corps, the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, the Quakers, Pacifists, and the Council on Safety of the American Medical Assn., and the Council 011 Dental Hygiene of the American Dental Assn. They are pugilism's version of dropping leaflets. Eddie and his opponent become prime candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize. Choreography by Johann Strauss. Victor Herbert should referee.Caution is a useful habit to cultivate if you are A (A Steeplejack; B (!A wire or wing-walker; C (working on atomic ordnance. For a prizefighter, it’s as fatal a failing as leading with your right. No one ever questioned Eddie Maehen’s courage, just his spirit of adventure. No one could climb into a ring in one lifetime with Sonny Liston, Mike DeJohn, Cleveland Williams, Nino Valdez, Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson without outstanding courage.Oddly, it was not the one-round knockout by Ingemar Johansson— the only time in his career Eddie Mac lien was even down—that ruined Eddie’s career. It was two fights with the only heavyweight in the game more prudent than he—Zora Folley. They were at such long range all night they looked like two guys doing the Wa-tusi. They were heavyweight.Pricked Liston Bubble
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Stroudsburg Pocono Record
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jun 04, 1966
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