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College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 24, 1969
THE BATTALION
Frazier To Defend Title Against Quarry June 23
By DENNE H. FREEMAN
Associated Press Sports Writer
HOUSTON, Tex. <A>) — Un
beaten Joe Frazier of Philadel
phia signed a contract for a
guaranteed $250,000 Wednesday
to defend his share of the world
heavyweight title against Jerry
Quarry of Los Angeles in Madi
son Square Garden on June 23.
Harry Markson, director of
Madison Square Garden Boxing,
Inc., said the 24-year-old Fra
zier, who only Tuesday night
knocked out Dave Zyglewiez in
the first round in his third title
defense, will receive 35 per cent
of the net gate receipts and 40
per cent of the ancillaries.
Quarry signed for 25 per cent
of the net receipts and ancillar
ies.
“This is the fight everyone
wants to see,” said Markson.
The bout will be blacked out
in New York, but will be seen
nationally on closed circuit tele-
Arnie Picked
In Dallas Golf
DALLAS, Tex. (A*) — Muscu
lar Arnold Palmer, golf’s most
dynamic attraction, ranked as the
man to beat going into Thurs
day’s first round of the $100,000
Byron Nelson Classic.
“Anytime that man tees up the
ball, he’s the one to beat,” color
ful Chi Chi Rodriguez said.
But he’ll have to share the
popularity with a new folk hero,
Lee Trevino, the U. S. open
champion and a Dallas native
who drew a sizable gallery,
dubbed “Lee’s fleas,” in Wed
nesday’s pro-am.
The dominance of Palmer, the
popular Trevino and defending
champion Miller Barber was
heightened by the absence of
many of the game’s top names.
In fact, the field of 144 which
opened the first round over the
gently rolling, 7,086 yard, par 70
Preston Trail Golf Club course
includes only two of the season’s
top 10 leading money winners —
Trevino, No. 2, and Barber, No.
4.
Gary Player, winner of Sun
day’s rich Tournament of Cham
pions, is home in South Africa
for a brief vacation. Masters
Champion George Archer has a
commitment in Brazil. Two-time
U. S. Open champion Billy Cas
per has an allergy problem.
Bunky Henry also has a health
problem. Gene Littler, Jack Nick-
laus, Dave Stockton and Tommy
Aaron simply are taking a week
off.
Palmer, the game’s all-time
leading money winner who had
been in a mild slump, appeared
to have his game back in shape
and was loose and relaxed after
his first practice round in the
warm, windy weather.
Aggie Car Club
Wins Two Firsts
Drivers from the Texas A&M
Sports Car Club took first place
in two classes at the third an
nual Pylon Python Slalom held
in Pasadena last weekend. The
event was put on by the Clear
Lakes Sports Car Club and it
was a tight course with many
switch backs and slaloms.
Mike Bozart drove his Mini
Cooper S to a win in the small
sedan class with a time of 1.11.5.
It took Mike five months to de
velop his Mini and it must have
been time well spent, he has tak
en a second and a first at the
two events he has entered.
Class IV for G and H produc
tion cars was won by George
Martin in his Sprite. His time
of 1.09.3 was eight tenths of a
second better than the Triumph
Spitfire which took second place.
The Sprite was the smallest car
to break the 1.10.0 barrier and
joined such distinguished com
pany as a fully race prepared
MGB, a mid engined, Corvair
powered autocross special, a 427
Corvette, a Lotus, SE and a
Lotus Europa.
Other TAMSCC drivers pres
ent were Roy Rice, who turned
a 1.09.5 in his MGA but was
charged with an extra five sec
onds for hitting a pylon. Alan
Weckerling was driving the A&M
Imports sponsored Datsun Fair-
lady and he took fourth in class
IV. Dick Goss, driving in his
first event, was a contender in
class III and his TR-3 held to
gether well in its autocross debut.
If you are interested in sports
car activities and would like to
become affiliated with the Aggie
club call president Alan Wecker
ling, at 845-3005 or vice presi
dent Emil Pela at 845-1984.
vision and also will be beamed
to each continent.
Frazier, who has 20 knockouts
in his 23 victories, is champion
in New York, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois, Massachusetts, Maine and
Texas and in Mexico and Argen
tina.
Quarry is 31-2-4 with 18 ko’s.
The 1965 Golden Gloves heavy
weight champion scored an im
pressive March 24 victory over
Buster Mathis in New York City.
Quarry is ranked No. 2 by the
World Boxing Association.
Frazier said “I’m going to
spend the rest of the week relax
ing and then I’m going right back
into training. I know Quarry
is tough, so I have to be ready.
I saw him against Mathis and he
was mean, man, mean.”
Yancey “Yank” Durham, Fra
zier’s manager, said “Quarry has
a lot of endurance. His back
away style can be dangerous.
You have to go after him and
any man can be dangerous when
you have to come into his house.”
Quarry said “I’ve been running
and keeping myself in shape.
There’s too much at stake for
me to get out of condition. I’ll
have the same determination for
this one as I did for Mathis.”
Quarry said he sparred some
with Frazier about three years
ago and said he noted “some
weaknesses although I don’t
want to give anything away.”
Markson said tickets will be
scaled from $10 for mezzanine
seats to $100 for ringside. He
said a capacity house would draw
in excess of $750,000.
Both fighters will arrive in
New York about five weeks be
fore the fight. Frazier will train
at the Concord Hotel at Kiame-
sha Lake, N.Y., and Quarry will
set up his training quarters at
the Grossinger Country Club in
Grossinger, N.Y., where he train
ed for the Mathis bout.
Since winning the title on
March 4, 1968, with an 11-round
knockout over Mathis, Frazier
has successfully defended his
crown against Manuel Ramos,
Oscar Bonavena and Zyglewiez.
His payday against Zyglewiez
Tuesday night was $48,000 — or
roughly $500 a second for the
96-second knockout.
Durham was asked if he would
like Frazier to meet WBA champ
Jimmy Ellis if Quarry can be
hurdled.
“We’d love to fight Ellis if the
money is right,” he said.
“It could even be right here in
the Astrodome.”
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