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lusi. xiiuy weitr ntruvj weigiu.Pricked Liston BubbleWhen Eddie first came up, press row enthusiastically hailed him as the new “Tan Tunney.” After the Folley fights, they began to revise him as “The Chocolate Soldier.” He got profit without honor.But it was Eddie, after all, who stuck the first pin in the Liston bubble. At a time when it was thought to be a job for a company of aimed Marines or small standing army, Eddie climbed in the ring to fight Sonny. He cracked his shoulder in an early round but easily stood off the lumbering, glowering Liston with one hand for 12 deft rounds. Cassius Clay re-ran those films for 48 solid hours before his first fight with Liston in Miami. Later, wonderingly, he told Eddie: “You know, the funny thing, you could have beaten Liston that night?!”But Eddie's toughest career opponent was Eddie Machen. Fast cars, loud clothes, double mortgages, overlooked income taxes put him in a borrowed car on the freeway between San Francisco and Sacramento one night three years ago. They were going to shut off the lights in his home for an unpaid $1S bill and Eddie had a gun in his hand and it fired three test shots preparatory to putting a fourth one in his head when a highway patrolman found him. “I’m Eddie Machen, Number One Contender,” Eddie mumbled to the cop. The joke rumbled along Cauliflower Alley, “Eddie Machen was going to kill himself—but he was waiting for an opening.”Violent Ward ChampThey say the only fight in which Eddie threw caution to the winds was in the corridors of the Napa State Hospital. He was undisputed champion of the violent ward there working on a string of thirteen stright K.O.s when they finally lowered him into shock treatment.Eddie came to terms with himself in those two weeks in Napa, psychiatrists say, posting his usual lopsided win, comfortably ahead on all cards. He's no longer the “Tan Tunney” but from where Eddie sits, the way the camel-back king of the heavies is running through bleeding opponents, he’ll soon be down to Amos ’n Andy. Eddie figures to dispose of young Manuel Ramos Friday night on the Pajarito More-no-Raul Rojas card, and then he’ll give old Aladdin Whozis a chance to repay him for all that good advice he gave him on film for the fight that made him famous.ManIimIIh ontriacNEW YORK (AP) — Kauai King, with only V/j miles of Aqueduct’s fast racing strip and 10 other 3-year*olds remaining between him and the coveted Triple Crown, was made the outstanding favorite Friday to capture the 98th running of the Belmont Stakes Saturday.Only eight horses in the long history of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont have won all three of the classics. Kauai King is two-thirds of the way and is 4-5, with a strong possibility of shorter odds by post time, he’ll be No. 9 and the first since Citation in 1948.Post time is 5:15 p.m., EDT. The race will be televised nationally by CBS from 5-5:30 p.m., EDT.Richest purseAlso at stake will be the richest Belmont purse ever. With 11 starters, twice as many as were expected after Kauai King whipped the best of the division in the Derby and Preakness, the Belmont will be worth $161,450.The winner wilt get $117,700. Kauai King, with a record of eight victories and one second in 10 starts this year, already has a 1966 bank account of $369,027. The Maryland-bred son of Native Dancer is by far the richest horse in the race.There was one surprise as entries were made Friday morning. Trainer Prank Whitely called from Delaware Park with the entry of Raymond Guest’s Jolly Jet.No rider was listed but Nick Shuk has been astride the son of Jet Action in all three of hisraces. Jolly Jet, who did not race as a 2-year-old, is unbeaten at distances from six furlongs to 11-16 miles. But the track hand* icapper lost no time in making him an outsider in the pre-race odds.Kauai King, who wound up his training by blowing out three-eighths of a mile in 36 seconds Friday morning, drew No. 6 post position.That’s fine, said owner Michael Ford after disclosing that he had caught the King in 36 3-5.Don Brumfield, who has ridden the $42,000 yearling purchase in his last 10 races, again will be in the saddle.Others entered, with post positions, were: 1, Rehabilitate; 2, Jolly Jet; 3, Fleet Shoe; 4, Highest Honors; 5, Amberoid; 7, Fast Count; 8, Stupendous; 9, Advocator; 10, Buffle, and 11, Valam.Kauai King stands out so much in pre-race calculations that the second choice. Stupendous, was rated no better than 4-1. Stupendous has tried Kauai King for size three times in the last six weeks and failed each time.Baeza upThe Eddie Neloy-trained son of Bold Ruler was second in Bowie’s Gold Cup, beaten three lengths; fourth in the Kentucky Derby, beaten 1% lengths, and runner-up in the Preakness, 1% length back. He’ll be ridden by Braulio Baeza, who won the Belmont with lightly regarded Sherluek in 1961 and with Cha-teaugay in 1963.Four other members of theRecord SportsPleasant Valley rally edges Pocono MountainBelmont field foi too tough to hanlt; Derby or Preal They are Amtx f rom-behind plt;turned in a sizz workout Wedneslt; from California gaited Rehabilita tor, runner-up in 11 lengths back ness.The track odd Amberoid as the with the swift r Honors next in 1 rated the others 15-1, including Bi 85-year-old Max ' saddled four BellWISHyour fortune. lt;ber of letters than 6, add 3. upper left-hanlt; of your key r the letters uncCROSSW12.312)51
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Stroudsburg Pocono Record
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jun 04, 1966
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