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JIM MURRAYFighttimeOn 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 on 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 Maciv en 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 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 $13 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.Monficello entries'■ifylembers of the Stroud gathering at the Penn £ senior; Bill Heitler, III, assistant for the State G Donald Heller, senior arKauai KinITriple CroNEW 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.raraat11ICihi]odtnei i Fi pochhedechwiRichest 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 will 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 hissitJoHiFtAcVimithpeth;KcineaofwilerDeru;lerBrBeShtej3RecordPleasant Valleyedges Pocono IKNTKIES FOH TONIGHTU. Hailey Pick W. Pop finder 11-2T tt'l I I! .1 I 1BRODHEADSVILLE -Pleas-
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Stroudsburg Pocono Record
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jun 04, 1966
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