The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 196

THE SUNDAY OfttAHOAlAN Socfion A Fobruary 28, 1971 17 New Heavyweight KO's Past 1 1 1 1 1 1 hNI mm DENVER (AP) Hon Lyle's only interest in hish school was basketball. So when tho coaches at Denver Mnnual told him he couldn't make the team, he quit school. He was 17, a dropout on the streets of predominantly black Northeast Denver. Lylc, tho third ot 19 children of a part-time minister, worked as a rug cleaner and, at G-3, landed a starting forward spot with a semi-pro basketball team. He was still on the streets when, on May Hi.

1961, Ron Lyle shot a man to death in an alley near the high school. Lyle said he fired in self defense in the climax of it day-long street fight, but witnesses testified otherwise and Lyle was sentenced to serve 15 to 25 years in tho Colorado Slate Penitentiary for second degree murder. He was 21. Last Wednesday, Lyle, now 29, signed a professional boxing contract with Bill Daniels, a cable television executive and owner ot the Denver Rocks of the International i League and the Utah Stars q.f the American Basketball Association. The signing followed seven and a half years behind prison walls nnd a 14- month motcorid rise through the ranks of amateur boxing.

"They had fight cards in prison," Lyle said. "I sat around watching them for a while and finally said to myself, 'I can do that. In fact, he could do it very well. During tho remainder of his sentence, he lost only one of 20 to 25 bouts. "Boxing's the only thing that got me through the joint," ho said.

"I knew it would give me a chance if I ever got out." He was released from prison on a Sunday in November 19G9. The next day ho showed up at the Rocks' gym in Denver. "I asked around about the Rocks. They told me they already had a heavyweight. I figured I could whip him so I stuck around." Loss than a month later, Lyle made his debut with the amateur team, avenged an earlier Rocks' heavyweight loss and became the team's heavy weight at 215 pounds.

He had asked Daniels for a chance to prove himself. Daniels, a former New Mexico Golden Gloves welterweight champ, opened the door, got him a job, and told him what was expected. "I was Impressed by five things about the boy," Daniels said. "He doesn't drink; he doesn't smoke; he doesn't use narcotics; ho has a tremendous love for his family, and he's one of the nicest, sweetest guys you want to meet." Daniels, 50, said it took a while to gain Ron's confi- A weekly column prepared by The Oklahomon ond Times Display Advern5 Department (or The Wholesale and Retail Trade in Oklohoma. donee, but Lyle explained that "when you, just got out of prison you don't go out of your way to socialize, you don't know anybody in the gym so you don't rap with them." Articulate but shy, and lacking the flash of some athletes outside the ring, Lyle proceeded to wade through the amateur ranks, winning 25 of 29 bouts enroutc to becoming 1970 AAU, 1BL, and North American champion.

He scored 17 knockouts. Last January. Lyle climaxed his amateur career in a match with Russian heavyweight Kamo Saroy-an in -Las Vegas. "Daniels told mc 'Vou fight this Russian in January and we'll turn you Lyle recalled. "This was tho door that had to bo opened, whup-pin' the Russian.

So I quit my job and trained for six months. I wasn't going to get beat because I wasn't in shape." Lyle did the door opening this time, scoring a second round knockout. Now, at 29. he's headed for his first pro test sometime in April under the direction of trainer Bobby Lewis of New York. SPRING IS ALMOST HERE CAN SWIMSUIT SEASON BE FAR BEHIND? The new beoch fashions are sensational this summer and women will want to slim before Ihey swim with the help of AYDS.

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It's bacon at its Sunday best. See the full-color od Sunday, March 7 in Orbit Magazine. Ron Lyle, 29-year-old parolee from the Colorado State Penitent ary on a murder conviction, has achieved success as an amateur, be (AP) LEMONS HOLD NATURE'S SECRET FOR A LOVELIER SKIN March 8,1971 Court Decision May Save Glover River The. cosmetologicol research by Oil of Ulay Company reveals a remarkable lemon beauty discovery that leads a woman's skin into a lairer, lovelier existence. It is called LEMON JELVYN.

See the LEMON JELVYN collection in a full-page color ad in Orbit Magazine Sunday, March 7. OCU Neffers-Win, Eye 5th CORPUS CHRISTI -Oklahoma City University defeated Southern Methodist, 4-3, Friday in the annual Corpus Christi Invitational college tennis tournament, leaving the Chiefs with a shot at fifth place. Corpus Christi meets Trinity for first place Saturday, Rico plays Brigh-am Young for third and OCU langles with the winner of the North Texas-Texas match for fifth. OCU SMU 1 A WOMAN WANTS BEAUTIFULLY TEXTURED HAIR Ali's Brother To Fight Prelim NEW YORK (AP) The undercard to the Joe Frazier-Muhammad A 1 i heavyweight championship fight at Madison Square. Garden March will feature four six-rounders between heavyweight hopefuls.

Den McAlinden of England, will fight All's; brother, Rahaman Ali, unbeaten in six pro fights; former all-service champion Jim Elder of Lcvelland. Texas, will meet Bunny Akins of Fresno, Kenny Norton of San Diego will take on Roosevelt Eddie Jr. of New York, and former AAU champion Dave Matthews of Akron, Ohio, will fight Rufus Brassell of Lima, Ohio. Baseball Signings Ballimore Oullloldor Frank Robin- WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP There will be one champion and only one champion JOE FRAZIER MUHAMMAD AU Closed circuit television live from Madison Square Garden NO LIVE OR DELAYED HOME TEtEVISION Mon. Mor.

8, 9:30 p.m. Center Theatre All Seats Reserved 12.50 EACH! Buy Tickets Now! C.nl.r Ih.atr. Sax Offlc 1pm And now she can have it with BRECK BASIC TEXTURIZING SHAMPOO. She will lind it also answers a need for smoothness A recent landmark decision in an Arkansas district court relating to tho Cos-satot River has sparked added hope among Oklahoma conservationists fighting to save the Glover River. The permanent injunction issued by Judge G.

Thomas Eisele of the U. S.Dis-irict Court in Little Rock was like a stay of execution after the gallows were over half built. The (Ji'lham Dam pro'evt under construction on the Cossatot Itivor by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is over half completed.

However, Judge Eisele ruled that the corps of engineers had not complied with th National Environmental Act of 1969. This act requires agencies constructing projects that alter the environment to determine what environmental changes will ond manageability. Look ior the irfj lull-page color ad running loday in Orbit Magazine. The man to contact is Robert Godau with John H. Breck Co.

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Fla. (AP) Brothers Jay and Lionel Hebert withdrew from the PGA National Championship Friday when they were informed of tho death of their mother in Lafavettc, La. The veterans are both former PGA champions. 1969 environmental act and it may well be an important landmark decision, particularly if it is appealed and upheld by a higher court. The corps has until March 10 to file an appeal on the decision and is expected to do so.

Col. Vernon Pinkey, Tulsa district engineers, said they thought they had complied with the environmental act. Two of the alternatives they will take a look at, is to leave the stream alone or make a dry reservoir which would be used only to catch flood waters which would be released as the flood danger downstream subsides. Pinkey said he did not see any reason why the Cossatot decision would have any effect on the fate of the Glover River. The Glover and tho Cossatot are the last free flowing rivers in the Ouachita Mountains, one in Oklahoma and one in Arkansas, and reservoirs on both rivers re authorized by the same act 13 years lo start construction of tho project on the Glover has been appropriated and will be released when the environmental impact statement on the project has been submitted bv the corps and accepted by the Presidents Council on Environmental Quality, Pinkey said.

Scenic Rivers President David Strickland of Muskogee sees the Cossatot decision as real encouragement to conservationists working to save the Glover. "This will force the corps to take into account elements that haven't heretofore been considered," Strickland said. Since the decision on the CossiUot. an upsurge in Scenic Rivers memberships have also orcti red, Strickland added. Oklahoma Wildlife Federation President Dr.

liulsey of Norman, said, tins ruling confirms suspicions manv conservationists have had for a lone tune, thai in spite of environmental lip service paid by political candidates and government agencies, significant progress will have to bo gained through the courts. "Because of tho marginal values of the Lukfata project I don't believe the corps can stand the close scrutiny of an environmental impact report. "However, the day ,) first shovel of EN TEN YEARS WILL YOU BE ABLE TO TELL YOUR CHILDREN WHAT HAPPENED IN 1970? NEW, RICH FILTERS A king-sized filter cigarette with a rich new blend ond fantastic flavor. See the full-color ad in Orbit Magazine, Sunday, March 7. OKLAHOMA CITY MAN IS AWARDED HEARING AID CERTIFICATION "Why was there a war in Bialra?" "Why were Ihere student disorders on campus?" Children ask questions.

That's how they learn. Help them learn correctly with this up-to-the-minute volume, THE WORLD IN 1970. Ten years from now you will be glad to have it lor reference when your child asks questions. Obtain a copy through this newspaper at the special price of $4.50. Fill out the enclosed coupon and order it now! occur, evaluate the effect and consider alternatives to the proposed project that would be less detrimental to the environment.

With the injunction came a 24-page list of instructions of things the corps must ln to comply with the environmental act before construction may resume. ronsrrvntinnists believe thru when the corps of engineers complies with these in.st run inns the reservoir theCossatot winnot be justified. The four conservation organizations that filed the suit are the Ozark Society, Arkansas Ecology Society, Arkansas Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund, a national organization of scientists and lawyers specializing in environmental legal action. Prime mover behind the action is Wellborn Jack Jr. of Shreveport, an attorney who has fought to save the Cossatot for many years.

The conservationists' attorney in the George T. Metcalfe, 2828 N.W. 50lh has been awarded certification as a Hearing Aid Audiologist, according to an announcement by the National Board for Certification of the National Hearing Aid Society, Detroit, Michigan. When you shop miller's sp for your THE WORLD IN 1970 The Ollahomjn and Times Reprint Desk I P.O. Box 25125 Oklahoma Cily, Okla.

73125 Certified Hearing Aid Audiologists are qualified lo Please send copies of action, Richard S. Arnold of Toxarkana, The World in 1970 al lo ujr.c inc ncuiiiiy unuiysis ana non-meaical recommendations. They hove the practical experience to furnish the individual with the hearing oid most suitable lor him ond his particular type and degree of hearing loss. iinm-u on inc LAJKIala tid this is the first injunction under the will see them Hulsey sjiid. Russian Skaters Keep 'Dance' Title Pff.Wfp to Pro.

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Jip.m.. Regional Site Set KANSAS CITY (AP) -Huffalo State was named host Friday of the East Regional College Division Basketball Tournament by the NCAA. Baseball Signings Mr. Melcolle has been actively associated with the Beltone Hearing Aid service for three years. The company has two offices in Oklahoma Cily, downtown and Mayfair Shopping Center, with additional branch offices in Shawnee and Lawton, Oklahoma and Amor-illo, Texas.

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