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WESTWICK The Ottawa Journal SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1964 Page 13 Marciano Toughest Savs Ezzard Charles LA 42ARP CHARLES will probably not go down In the book a on of the great heavyweight champiom of the world. Charlea was aort of an interim champion, but he it aleo one srticulate men of the fight game and. after all, a wan that beat Joe Walcott and the great Joe Louit. I We could be corrected but Charlea, who waa In Ottawa yeaterday for a TV program likely could lay claim to a' couple of recorda along the heavyweightvail He mutt have been the lightest heavyweight that ever 'took a heavyweight championship title from the time Canadian Tommy Burn fought for the diadem. On top of that he must have been the last heavyweight champion.

whose title bout went 13 rounds. Charles was a good boxer and one of the types nice to meet. By the same token it's reassuring to hear from him a few words about an often under-rated heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. DID ALL THAT WAS ASKED didn't hold the heavyweight title too long. He beat Jersey Joe Walcott for the championship and won recognition by the NBA.

He beat Joe Louis to gain New I A EZZARD CHARLES I York States recognition. He did all that was asked of him by beating Louis, and Gua Lesnevitch in the meantime. Yet of all the men Charles met, and of all the fighters be mixed with or knew of before his "time." he atill rates Rocky Marciano the toughest heavyweight he ever emet pr knew. Marciano doesn't always get this rating though nobody ever beat him. But Charlea gave Marciano top rating.

"I fmiohi Louis and I foufht I I I Walcott who were tops." Er-' i I zard said, "I don't know about I jM ih hMwwlihf ham Dions I before that. I didn't know them and I never fought them, so I can't say. But 1 fought Marciano and my own impression is that he was about the toughest man among heavyweights that I ever knew. "I could throw a pretty good punch with my right hand If I got a man teed up for it. I hit Marciano with every good 'punch I ever had and he'd just shake it off and keep corning In and throwing good punches of his own.

He arsi tough and fearless a hitter as I ever saw in my Ume CLAY'S WIN SURPRISE Charles saw the Uston-CJayflght and saw it from rather different angle fropfr-fnost of ut. Liston had once been" a apamng partner oMt, and he confesses that he wasn't too surprised to see Clay outbox Sdnny In their set-to at Miami Beach. "From my days with him as a sparring partner. Sonny was a real good puncher but he always seemed to me to be slow. He could hook you and hurt you In doe quarters but I have to say that there waa nothing smelly about the.

fight with Clay. Clay borrowed something from the wrestlers in my book in making his buildup. He fought Liston the way man would have to, to beat hire. "Floyd Patterson could have boxed him that way but be didn t. in my book Patterson froze and was afraid.

Clay put tm quite an act but he boxed away from Liston. To tell you the truth 1 called Liston to beat Clay. I felt he could take jiim out of there, but when the first round was over I turned to friends of mine and Mid: 'We have a new world's "Liston reminded me of his days as a sparring partner of mine. He could hit, but a good boxer doesn't need to be hit that way." Should Liston have got off his chair and come out to fight Instead of sitting there after the sixth round? "Yes, I think so," said Charles. "He was warmed up and I don't think his arm could have been that bad.

He could have come out and boxed because he was the champion. A champion is expected to do that. I thought he should have come out and fought because there are thing you can do even with that sort of arm." Did he think Clay had harmed the boxing game with his. wild rantings. A FIGHTING MAN "I don't think so," Ezzard said.

"He borrowed a few things from the wrestling angle. He's a nice kid at heart, I think. He went through with the act, and he beat Liston because I think he got under Sonny's skin. Sonny felt he had to go out and beat him and knock him out. He couldn't follow him and do that" Charles took a long thought in going back over his own career.

He was a good boxer and perhaps the lightest heavy t' weight to ever win the titie. He thought about Che toughest 1 men he had ever fought and said again: "I can't speak about the men that were before me. 1 heard about them, and I read about them. I stiH say that farciano was the toughest man I ever knew about in the ring. I hit him with real good shots, but he'd Just shake them off and come on in.

He was a fighting man and I place him that way because I fought some good ones too." Aces Square Series, Monties in Hull Sunday MORRISBURG (Special) Kingston Aces Morris- Combines 2-1 here Friday night to square, their best-of- five St. Lawrence-0 1 1 a a Senior Hockey League series at one game apiece. Morrisburg won the opening game 7-4 in Kingston so now both clubs have picked up a 'victory on foreign ice. Third 'game iro the series is scheduled night in Kingston 'with the fourth back here Tuesday night. The.

other semi-final series, best-of-seven, featuring Hull and Ottawa Montag- narda contihues after- -l-Boon i-thiIuU Areni at Z30 m. Vdlanta have, a 3 2 leadj ln games in the series snd can enter-the finals with a win Sunday. 7 The scoring in last night's close, cleanly-played contest was confined to the second period. The largest crowd of the season in Morrisburg. 1,337 fans watched the game.

Goals by Alf Treen and Dennis O'Donnell gave King ston a 2-0 lead and Weiner Brown sliced it by a goal before the period closed. A total nine penalties were called with Kingston receiving six of them. RAMS HIRE POOL "LOS ANGELES (UP!) The Los. Angeles Rams have hired former head' coach Hampton Pool and. Sewell, one of the top guards in the National Football League, as full-time scouts of college talent, it was announced Thursday, vdi ivuuvci ixii iiv i aivcb vdiiaaian i me scheduled.

1 i It wiH be Carleton and Sir By JOE DUPU1S Canadian, Press Staff Writer Young Terry Harper, the bull-rough, Regina-born de- fenceman for the Montreal Canadiens, says youth can carry the team to take the Stanley Cup this year. Harper, who turned 24 last Jan. 27, naturally includes himself, in the team's youth category. "We have a young, strong team. I think we can go all the way" The Canadiens trail the first-place Hawks by one point but have three games in hand and On Sunday, Montreal visits New York, Toronto is at Chi cago and Detroit plays in Laperriere, sidelined for one game with a throat infection, and Harper are in their first full season in the league.

Their play, and that of rookie left winger John Ferguson. 26. has sparked the Canadiens all Sitting In' the dressing; room In full uniform after a workqut. Vl (which starets at 1.00 p.m. advance Ravens to the nation) -rham- George exchanging blows this which start next Fri.

afternoon for the championship wlnolor- of the Onawa-St. Lawrence Neither team was tested- aev- Basketbal Conference. erejy. nor were they expected Their victories were decisive he. Both the Ravens and the Friday night in two sudden- i Georgians bad 13-1 records.

death aami-tma) playoff games beating each other once during at Carleton. Carleton downed If regular schedule. Maedon-fourth place Macdonald College and Bishop's were far be- 94-60 and the Georgians coasted hind. and Walter M. Hubchik.

Duluth scored four times the Fourth end and three times in the eighth on the way to the decision over Detroit. Earlier Friday, the Minnesota rink had taken an undisputed lead in the championship by overwhelming Milwaukee 154. I is the first time a Duluth rink has played in the national' Magiea veteran of 3 years of curling. In-backed up by C. Bertram Payne.

Rus- Harper oozed confidence in tha.t&ell Barber, and Payne's son. B. team, and in himself. Britton Payne. I don't let the pressure get As National champion.

Duluth to me. 1 never look behind or iwitl represent the tinned States AjkavAJk k. iikUu rtai VlC'iJkJiJr a kJkTk- Raven. i TV NEW CURLING CHAMPS With a long, hard-week of curling play in the annual Canadian curling championships at Charlotte-town behind them, the newly crowned champs display the coveted Macdonald Brier tankard. Left to right.

RAVENS TOP MACDONALD 94-60 Forward John Callahan scored 14 Little Johnny. Morgan came up with' 13. Barry Laughton, forward who has come on strong the past few weeks, scored 12. Dick Brown, a pivot who SGWU coach Al Hirsch aaid was the Raven's key performer, got 10. A slightly built forward led Macdonmld's attack.

Al Arme- Harper Claims Youth Can Carry Habs to Cup the Canadiens, in one short year, from has-beens to powerful contenders in the fast-wan ing National Hockey League season. I LAPERRIERE BACK His' ungraceful; but. hard- bump style tightened a defence weakened in recent years by the loss of such Canadian giants as Doug Harvey, Lou Fontinato and Tom Johnson. His brusque style is complemented by the smooth, cool-thinking play of Jacques La-nemert 23 the other rookie too far ahead. I've had some bad games, but I don't think about them.

I just try to think about the next game, and say to myself that this will be my best effort." Harper said that five years ago he and Laperriere "would never have made this team because they had too many sound i players." Called up at the tail-! end of last season, the two rookies impressed immediately. 'GOOD BREAK Harper is one of the amaz-' ini rookie who have chaneedl 8000 DreK Lanadiens needed defencemen. "I think both Jacques and I realized when we came up this year that they (Canadiens) needed! strengthening on defence. "For my part, I knew that I the team needed somebody who could bump a few guys around It isn't just a matter of belting somebody. 1 never liked to belt anyone too much.

1 prefer to steer my man into the boards. or into a corner. But we needed somebody who could bump, and so I bumped." Harper seemed surprised that his play has astonished some of the critics. "Anyone who saw either Jacques or I in the minor leagues would know we're not doing anything too different now. The only difference is that now we're playing to our full potential whereas in the minors we tended to be a little lazy because the competition wasn quite as rough.

Duluth Clinches U.S. Curling Title defenceman playmg like an! UTICA. NY (AP) Duiurh. 'in the World Championship later NHL veteran. 1 clinched the tit.e of the this month in Calgary.

Other Laperriere, incidentally S. Men's National I i entries in the World Bonspiei be back in the lineup tonight by defeat- wi be from Scotland. Sweden, when the Canadiens try to DeIroit in the 10th round i Norway, Switzerland and Cut-overtake the idleXhicago Black I01 the 'x-dy bonspiei. ada. Hawks.

Montreal, hosts New I Wllh iust one 'e't. th I The curlers took Friday nih: York and Toronto entertains rink skipped by Robert. from the ice. The final Detroit in the only two games Magie. had a "record of nine round will be played this morn- vnuHirs anu uiie ueieai.

rive ing rinks, including Detroit, werej Tenth-round results (tourna-tied. in second place with 7-3 re- men, records in parentheses): Grafton. ND (7-3) Win- the Leafs are just two points! cnampions irom Ue-. Chester. Mass.

(3-7) 4 ahead ofPetroit in their battle non three former Fairbanks. Alaska (55) 13, for third place. tooans. ivuxe ana tmest STvzrun.Sitver Springs. Md.

(3-8) 4 I Torrance. CaHf. (1-9) 8. Omaha. Neb.

tl-9) Seattle. Wash. (7-3) 12. Milwaukee. Wis.

(7-3) Duluth (9-1) Detroit (7-3) 6 Chicago (7-3) II, Ardsley, NY. (4-) I. BELFAST. Northern Ireland (UPI) johnny Caldwell won the "vacant British and Empire bantamweight boxiqg title by scoring a seventh technical knockout over George Bowes referee Ike Powell stopped the fight because of a bad cut over Bowes' left eye. lead Barry Naimark, second F.

Britton, third L. Hebert and skip Lyall Dagg were the happiest boys in town Friday night. The BC Team captured the title by defeating PEI in the final round. 9-7 in extra end. (Journal-cp WtraphoWi Cdrleton Battles Sir George In College Cage Finals Today By WAYNE CLARK The Jeurnal on difficult tip in shots to ead! night's high man with 31, to a 00-tt victory over third With tremendous play on the late, who constantly seemed to pace Bishop's University.

(offensive boards, big Tommy 'move Into shooting position un- 1 victory in today's game Gorman scored IS points, many; noticed and unguarded was the coming in the second half. Peter Marshall, a former Raven, sank IS and Jim Dickie, a good outside shooter, scored 14. Bishop's play Macdonald in a 1.00 p.m. game this afternoon at Carleton. Sir George had little trouble with Bishop's.

Big Warren Sutton, who averages over 33 points a game and has often been caJed the best college player in the nation, took it relatively easy in the first naif and didn't play the latter part of the final 20 minutes. Although not shooting too much he scored IS points. Gord CoKyer. a forward, played a consistent game and finished with 17 points. Guard Igaz ac counted for 15.

Cornwall, Primrose Play Tonight Ottawa sweep ther Ottawa Hockey Primrose can semi-final Hull- and District Junior League series from Cornwall Royals tonight at the Auditorium. Primrose hold a 2-4 lead in the best-of-flve series. If Royals win, the fourth game wiH be played Sunday afternoon Cornwall Face-off time tonight Is scheduled for 8 pjh. Brno Tops Winnipeg BRNO. Czechoslovakia CP A Brno team containing eight of Czechoslovakia's hockey team players, beat Winnipeg Maroons 4-3 in an exhibition game Friday night.

It was the first defeat in five starts for the touring Canadian club. Terrell Bombs Zech in Debut NEWYORK Ifl- Tall Ernie Terrell administered -a fierce riphl-handed beating to Gerhard Zech Friday night and knocked the big German heavyweight champion down twice en route to a unanimous 10-round decision. Zech, a crude six-foot-seven one-time Berlin butcher boy, weighed 214 for his televised Madison Square arden debut. Terrell, the No. 3 ranked heavyweight from Chicago, came in at 206ft.

Terrell bombed, -the willing. awkward German with right hands almost at will through i the early- going. He dropped fights-from a left-handed stance, for two nine-counts with rights to the Jaw in the first. Make Clutch Shots In Key Matches By MARVEN MOSS CHARLOTTETOWN CP) A veteran Vancouver" rink that found the clutch shots when It needed them has captured- British Columbia's first Canadian curling title in 16 years. Lyall Dagg, a 34-year-old account executive, and his 30-year-old partners had the fight of their lives Friday before they nailed down the title with a 9-7 victory over underdog Prince Edward Island in an extra end in which their opponents had last rock.

Watching from the side lines at the finish were Ernie Richardson and his four-time champions from Regina. whom Dagg had beaten 8-3 in a tie-breaking showdown earlier in the day and who would have met BC in a playoff if Art Burke's youth ful Charlottetown quartet had succeeded in pulling off the. upset. KNEW WE WERE IN Their bid foundered when Burke's last rock sailed through the house, leaving his opponents counting two. 'I looked at Lyall when he let it go and I knew we were in," said Barry Nai mark.

the BC lead, who skipped his province's championship entry of 1959. The new champions, averaging 17' years curling experience, got together two years later. Its other members are Fred Britton, second, and Leo Hebert. Naimark was relegated to lead, says Dagg. because "I beat him one more game than he beat me before we combined." The 1 1 rounds drew a total paid attendance of 13.573 to the 2.000 Charlottetown Forum.

The Richardsons, seeking their "fifth championship in six years they missed it the last time in 1962 had one of their rare off-days in the showdown match against Dagg. Things started to go wrong for Saskatchewan when they conceded a point to BC irv. the fifth and despite last-rock advantage. Dagg stole single points in the seventh and eighth ends to go ahead 5- 1 as the usually impeccable Ernie Richardson was consistently heavy with his last shots. The killer came in the 10th end as Dagg curled past a guard for a takeout that gave him a count of three and an unbeatable 8-2 lead.

MORE DRAMA But there was more drama to come in the 11th round. "Saskatchewan, needing a victory to stay alive, barely got past Nova Scotia 7-6. And the BC-PEI contest was a seesaw battle all the way. Trailing 2-0 after four ends, the Islanders forged ahead 5-2 after seven, trailed 6- 5 after nine after Dagg's superb takeout had tied it in the eighth and moved ahead again with single counts on the next two ends. BC sent it into the extra end with a single in the 12th, setting the stage for TO FIGHT FOLLEY NEW YORK (UP!) Heavy, weight contenders 'Zora Folley Chandler; and south paw rvari mnaenoerger oi iier-many were matched Thursday for a 10-round fight at Frankfurt, April .17.

Burke's unsuccessful last-rock effort. In matches not involving the leaders Friday, Quebec downed Nova Scotia 1M. New Brunswick thrashed PEI 13-6. Ontario whipped Newfoundland 12-5 and Alberta topped Northern Ontario 11-7 in the 10th round. In the 1 1th it was Manitoba 11-5 over Quebec, Alberta 13-8 over' New Brunswick and Ontario 10-9 over Northern Ontario.

Standings By The Canadian Press Final standing in the II-round round-robin Canadian curling championship: British Columbia 10 Saskatchewan 10 Manitoba 10 Quebec 10 Prince Edward Island 10 Alberta 10 10 Northern Ontario 10 Nova Scotia 10 9 8 7 6 5 5 4 3 New BrunSw1ck-rrT-10J7 Newfoundland 10 010 Linescores CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) Eleventh-round results in. the CmnmAimn ruriintf rtiamninniTn Friday: Saskatchewan Nova Scotia loioieaao too oio too 101 on pei ooo on loo no A Br. Columbia 010100 091 01 I Manitoba 004 010040 001 It 100 101 001 010 Now Brunswick eso loo sno aoe a Aibotist los sos ess eia is Ontario Nor. Ontario 10 Ml Oil 110110 ioi too sot toi a rerai bound Satkatchrwan 001 000 001 001 Brit. Colombia 10011011000 Novo Scotia Qutboc ooo eso ioi ooj a 001101 020 01011 New Brunswick 040 020 los Oil is pei ioi ooa oio too a Ontario I13 0101O1O01 11 Newfoundland 000 010 101 001 North.

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