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When I was 14, I would go over to pop's gym and work out. "But all that time my dad was trying to discourage me from fighting. He made me go seven months before he would let me even spar. Once we were boxing each other and he caught me with a left. I started to fall, but he held me.

It was just an accident" "The boy's right I was against It," said Joe. "Then I saw that he had the ability and desire. Lots of guys won't work at it. As for Marvis I have to force him to take a day off. I tell him, 'You can't keep taking gas out of the tank without putting some more Marvis' mother is not as agreeable.

"She tells me, 'My husband is one thing, but it's another for my baby. I don't want you Marvis promises there will be no pro career. "If I can get that Olympic medal, that's it," he says. "I'm going to college and then get in business tat t- if-. i i ainiMiinVf'- MODEL 20700 NEUYORK-(AP)-If you're an enterprising photographer wanting to pose a former heavyweight boxing champion with his fighting son, you have to get something different.

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He can punch with It, too." Marvis Frazier, 18, Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion of the United States and aspirant to a gold medal in the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, beamed. THE FRAZIERS rode one of the family Cadillacs up from Philadelphia to appear on NBC's Today show, promoting the' Olympathon, a grass roots fund-raising drive for next year's U.S. Olympic effort. If his budding career follows its natural course, Marvis Frazier, eldest of the brood of seven Frazier kids, will be representing Uncle Sam in the ring Just as his dad, the Philadelphia did in the 1964 Gaines in Tokyo. Conceivably, he could NAROWARl LUMIIR TELAWARREN A a ai mm i Bk a.

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I am taller than most of the people I fight. It up to them to adjust." Boxing two years Marvis has piled up a 30-0 amateur record, with 17 kayoes. He recently won the National Golden Gloves title that qualk fies him for the Pan Am Games in Puerto Rico In July. MARVIS was at ringside for all of his father's fights after the second Oscar Bonav-ena bout in December 1968, including the great battles with Muhammad All. He HOMELITE CHAINSAWS "ON SALE" ii hardware, inc.

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