- Page 8, The Herald, Monday, June 11, 1970

ESSEN, West German’
(AP) — Muhammed Ali
battered west Germany's

vyweight champion
Saturday night in his
farewell boxing ap-
pearance, He plans to quit
the Eng for good next
month

“I hope to announce my
retirement in California
in about four weeks,” the
worldheavyweight
champion told the crowd
who paid $10 to $125 for
tickets for the last stop on
‘his European tour.

“Pm $7 years old; 1
don’t need you to tell me
it’s time to quit; I know
that,” All teld a German
interviewer in the ring,
delighting with his arm-
waving antics a crowd
half-filling Essen’s
Fairgrounds Arena.

-“I¢ makes me happy to
see sa many fans here
tonight,” Ali told the fans
by microphone. “If any of
you ever come to Los
Angeles, you're all in-
vited to come by my
house.”

MUHAMMED ALI

Ali cancelled a final
sparring session in Paris
on Monday night because ~
he was upset by West
German and Belgian
press reports of his
exhibition tour, which is
sponsored by a West
German soda pop com-

pany. .

Only 1,000 spectators
showed up at West
Berlin’s 6,000-seat
Deutschlandhalle last
Monday night to see All's
other German ap-
pearance. And the champ
hardly bothered to throw
punches for a meager-
crowd he attributed to
excessively high ticket
prices.

Ticket prices were just
as high in this Ruhr steel
town, but the fans were at
least treated to flashes of
Ali’s old punching power,’
if only for ‘six minutes.

Wearing a white T-shirt
to disguise in his ample
girth, Ali went three fast
rounds with German
champion Georg But-

A goodbye beating?

zbach, hammering the
blond boxer ina mial-bout
carried live.on West
German television.

“I'm about 10 years
older and 3 pounds.
heavier, but I still Paidn't
do too bad for an old
man,’” All said after
opening a cut on Butz-
bach’s' left eye and
bloodying his nese while
never taking a solid
punch irom the Gernion.

“This young boxer has
a great chance to become
world champ if he is
handled properly,” Ali
added politely.

The -champ also
clowned for three rounds
with Karl Mildenberger,
whom he whi ‘in 12
rounds in Frankfurt, Weat
Germany, in 1966.

“] felt had when some
of you boved Milden-
berger tonight,’’ Ali
lectured ‘the spectators.
“He's much older than
me and he shouldu’t even
be boxing.”

All’s sparring match

_ Jimmy Ellis had to be

light

. against Joe Frazier in

with former champion

calledoff because of what
the ringside announcer
said wae Ellis’ eye

crowd was |
estimated at between
2,50) and 4,000 by security
guards at thé arena.

The '2%-hour program
included rock

two unskilled European
heavyweights,
which ended in a craw,
and film highlights of

All's long career,

Ali told the crowd his
four most important
victories were wi
the light heavyweight
gold medal at the 1960
Rome Olympiea, his 1964
upset of Sonny Liston for
the world heavyweight
title, his third fight.

Manila in 1075 and
beating Leon Spinks last
year in New Orleans to |
recapture the {tte for a
record third tim ;

ONE OF THE GREATS — | |
‘Cyclone’ Taylor gone now

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Hockey great Fred
(Cyclone) Taylor died in his
Sleep early Saturday at a
private nursing home in
Vancouver two weeks short
of his 94th birthday,

Taylor was admitted to the
Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947
— the first living member to
be admitted.

He was one of the last 60-
minute players in
professional hockey and was
described by many ob-
Servers during his career ag
the greatest of all players.

Eddie Shore of Boston
Bruins said there was no
comparison between Taylor
and players of Shore's day,
Lester Patrick, at that time

manager of New York
Rangers, said Taylor was
ie Pest hockey player of all

Taylor ended his 18-year
pro career in 1923 with more
than 500 points at a time
when assists were rarely
counted

In seven seasons with the
Vancouver Millionaires —
from 1913 to 1919 —he scored
245. points, including 148
goals, in 126 games, He was
league scoring champion for
five of those seasons. In the

1918-19 season, Taylor had 32
goals in 16 games. ©

’ Taylor led the Millionaires
to a Stanley Cup victor in
1915,

saying he was paid to play
hockey and not sit in the
penalty box. Taylor sald he
didn't think he averaged
more than four penalties a
season.

He ascribed his amazing
skating ability and speed as
a gift from God.

Three decades after en-
ding his playing career,
Taylor weighed only three
pounds over his playing
weight of 165 pounds,

He earned the nickname
Cyclone while playing with
Ottawa Senators in 190.
Taylor scored five goals in
his first game and an Ottawa
sports’ writer wrote: ‘‘He
may have been known as the
whirlwind of the Inter-
national League but he cer-
tainly is the cyclone of the

Eastern Canada Senior’

Hockey League."
Former hockey great
Newsy Lalonde said . few

players today can skate as .

fast forward as Cyclone did
backwards,

In 1916, while with Ren-
frew Millionaires in Ontario,

Real life drama
at Le Mans race

LE MANS, France (AP) —
Brothers Don and Bill
Whittington of the United
States, with German Klaus
Ludwig, scored a tension-
wracked victory in the 47th
Le Mans 24-hour road racing
classic Sunday.

Film star Paul Newman,
racing here for the first time
at 54, finished second with
Californian Dick Barbour
and German Rolf Stom-
melen in a similar Porsche
935 twin turbo coupe.

The real drama of the last
two hours outgripped any
film script. Newman’s team
first looked like winners as
the Whittington car broke
down, then seemed to have
second place snatched when
its own car crawled painfully
to the finian with a dying
engine.

Mobbed by reporters and
photographers, Newman
was tense and terse before
and during the race, His first
smile came when he heard of
the leader’s problems.

Later, he said he might not
race here again.

“I’m getting a bit long in
the tooth for this,” he said.
“AS my mother said, “You're
no longer a spring chicken.’
And my racing hve places
an unfortunate emphasis on
the team — it fakes it away
rom e who rea
do the work? y

It also tock the emphasis
off the achievement of the
Whittington brothers. Don,
43, and Bill, 20, of Fort
Lauderdale, Fia., are in only
thelr second season of auto
racing, although both have
impressive records as air-
craft racers.

They took the lead alter
seven hours, losing it only
briefly to a rival Porsche
which eventually retired.

Both gave fullest credit to
Ludwig, 29, a professional
driver with 11 years’ racing
behind him, and to the
private German Kremer
team which prepared and
pit-crewed the Porsche,

10 NUMBERS

He despised rough play, -

he skated backwards
throngh the entire opposing
team, circled the goal, and
scored, still skating back-
wards.

Taylor played every
position except goal, He
became the highest paid
player of his day and made
all-star each season, A
rushing defenceman, Taylor
played on two Stanley Cup
championship teams and
twice led the playoffs in
scoring.

Taylor was born in Tara,
Ont. June 23, 1885, one of five
children. The family later

‘moved to Listowel, Ont.

His first sport interests
were soccer and lacrosse. In

1002 and 1904 he played on’
Ontario

championship
hockey teams and was &
lacrosse star with Listowel,
Ottawa and Vancouver.

The first hockey team to
pay Taylor was Portage La
Prairie of the Manitoba
Senior League, From there,
he went to Houghton,
Michigan, and Portage

Lakes of the International
Hockey League.
In 1609 he went to Ottawa

laying out pages.

after noon.

for $1,000 a season, He was
signed . Renfrew
Millionaires in 1910 and was

paid $5,250 for‘a 12-game -

season — the highest salary
ever paid a hockey player at
that time. °

Taylor returned to Ottawa
‘two seasons later.

He joined Vancouver
Millionaires for the 1912-1913
season and was with them
for seven seasons during
which time the team
dominated the Paclfle Coast
League and won the Stanley
Cup in 1915.

He returned to hockey in
1937 as president of the P
league in 1937, and quit in
1941. He then. became im-

. Migration commissioner for

British Columbia and the

Yukon, retiring in 1950.
Taylor flew to the USSR

with' Kelowna on a

NEW YORK (AP) ~- Class
was the’ foundation of
Coastal’s upset victory in the
Belmont Stakes, says trainer
David Whiteley, while

‘trainer Buddy Delp thinks

Spectacular Bid’s downfall
might have been caused bya
safety pin. -

“He was never trained to
run 1% miles,”” the 34-year-

"|. old Whiteley said Sunday of

Coastal, who before the Bel-
mont had raced only three
times this yedr — winning at
six furlongs, seven furlongs
and 1% miles.

“He won on class ... and
the jockey rade a fine race."

Shortly after the running
of the 1%-mile Belmont
Saturday, Delp said: ‘'The
beat horse won the race, We
have no excuses,"

But Sunday morning at

’ Pimlico in Baltimore, Delp

told pel tana Bid had
step; on a safe
before the race and he tnd
owners Harry, Teresa and
Tom Meyerhoff had dis-
cussed scratching the colt
from the race.

The trainer said when
groom Mo Hall ‘removed
bandages from Bid, an open
safety pin had fallen into the
straw and the colt, in pawing
around, got it lodged in his
left front foot. The pin went
in about ‘an inch. and drew
blood, Delp said. .

“We cleaned and ‘tubbed
the wound, and it appeared
OK,” Delp said. “Besides,

youcan’t win in the Belmont by o

staying in the barn."
Jockey Ronnle Franklin,
said: Tt really didn’t get Into
the horse. I didn't want to
abuse him because I knew he

.was really h

However, films showed
Franklin had Bid in a drive
down the backstretch and
whipped him . left-handed
through the final eighth of a

Bid left Sunday morning
for Baltimore without the
jewel most people felt he was
a cinch to add to his already
glittering record. He came
north with 12 straight stakes
victories, seven of them this
year. They included the
Kentucky Derby and
Preakness. .

For much of the 14-mile

_ Belmont it looked as though

1958"

hockey tour, and when he ©

returned, predicted the
Soviet Union would, within a

decade, rival and Canadian:

hockey league.

His last public appearance
was two weeks ago at the
B.C. Sports, Hall of Fame
‘banquet.

the dark grey would become

thoroughbred racing’s third
consecutive Triple Crown
winner. Then, as the crowd
of 59,180 urged Bid on,
Coastal, ridden by Ruben
Hernandez, shot through the
stretch along the rail to turn
the Triple Crown dream into
a nightmare.

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“I felt sorry for him;” said
Lucien Laurin, in whose
barn Bid stayed. “You hate
to see a good horse lose.”

Before the race, Laurin,
who trained, 1973 Triple.
Crown champion
Secretariat, warned that
Constal “was going to be
awfully tough to beat,”

“I told you," Laurin said

Sunday. “Boy, those fresh -

horses are tough."

Coastal wasn't nominated ;

for the Belmont, and the

decision to‘ run him “wasn't

made until a few days before

the race.

' “Two days after.the Peter

Pan (May 27) we had no’
thoughts of the Belmont,”

Whiteley said. -

Then Whiteley talked it
over with owner William

Haggin Perry. It coat P ;
"$5,000 to enter Coastal and

another $15,-000 to start him.
For a while Saturday,
Whiteley thought it was

Losers out

of history
books

NEW YORK (AP) —
Horses who won the Ken-
tucky Derby and Preakness -
but missed the Triple Crown

by losing the Belmont:

1944 — Pensive. Second in
Belmont. Winner Bounding
Home.

1958 — Tim Tam. Second in
Belmont. Winner Cavan.

191. — Carry Back.
Seventh in Belmont. Winner
Sherluck.

1964 — Northern Dancer.
Third in Belmont. Winner
Quadrangle.

1966 — Kauai King. Fourth”

in Belmont. Winner Am-
beroid,

1968 — Forward Pass.
Second in Belmont. Winner
Stage Door Johnny.

1989 — Majestic Prince.
Second in Belmont. Winner
Arts and Letters.

1971-—Canonero lL Fourth .
in Belmont. Winner Pass |

tare pie

Third in Spdcact reins
Coastal,

$20,000 wasted. “J thought he
was dead at the five-eighths
pele, but I was hoping he
could make it up in the next
three-elghths or half-mile,” -
said the trainer.

"David: asked me if I
thought he could go a mile
and a half, and I sald I
thoughf he could,” Her-
nandez said after Coastal
ran the distance in 2:285-5 for
his winning 3% -length

margin.

“I'm very happy. This Is
very important to me,"”

There was some criticism
of Franklin’s ride — that he
moved Bid. into the lead too
soon, Bid reached the three-
quarter mie mark In 1:111-5
and was timed in 1:36 for the
mile and 2:022-5 for 1%
miles, |

But Delp found no-fault
with the 16-year-old jockey’s
performance. -

- Whiteley said he had 0
idea what Coastal’s next”
race would be, but Delp’s
plans for Spectacular. Bid
were tosend him to Saratoga
in August for possibly the

So og

Upset in he Belmont.

Jim Dandy and then te
Travers. Plans then call for
Spectacular Bid to run in the
Marlboro Stakes and the
Woodward in the fall.

The tough Golden Act, w
finished neck ahead of B nd
under Sandy Hawley to adda
Belmont second to his third
in the Derby and second‘ in
the Prealiness, was headed...
home te California for a reat. .

The complete order of
finish after Spectacular Bid
was Screen King, King
Celebrity, Gallant Best, -
General Assembly and
Mystic Era, we

Coastal, who. -enrneg:
$161,400 from a purse of
$269,000, pald $10.90, 4.0
and $2.10. Golden: Att .
returned $5.40 and $2. +10, and:
Bid, the: 1-5: favorite, re- _
turned $2.10 in becoming {the -
ninth three-year-old to. win
the Derby and Preakness:

only to lose the Belmont, ‘'"

There have been 11 Triple
Crown champions, three ‘in,,
this decade — Secretariat,::
1973, Seattle Slew, 1977, "a
Aititmed, 1978.

Sunday june 1

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