Friday, February 26, 197 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, February 26, 197 i THE MICHIGAN DAILY Rick Cornfeld Marquette foils Fordham in A comeback for At and all of boxing 1N A WEEK and a half, Muhammed Ali gets another chance. But more importantly, so does all of boxing. Like most sports, boxing has been hindered by mismanage- ment. Like few sports, throughout its history it has been saddled by crookedness. Like almost no other sport, it has been in decline in the midst of an incredible sports growth. The Ali-Joe Frazier championship fight will gross an almost unbelievable $10,000,000. Each fighter will earn two and a half million dollars for less than an hour's work-a sum that simply boggles the imagination. There is more interest in this fight than in any fight in decades and, according to experts, the interest is justifiable. The two undefeated world champions will present live and closed circuit viewers with the greatest matchup ever. Frazier is a devastating puncher, Ali a nimble boxer-and they are touted as the best representatives of their styles the ring has ever seen. The fight is almost sure to produce ten million dollars worth of satisfied customers. Interest is so great, in fact, that the combatants have already become shrouded in legend, much of it untrue. Frazier is sup- posed to be a cold, unemotional slugging machine. He doesn't think; he doesn't do anything-just point him in the right direc- tion and he'll silently knock out the first person he sees. Actually, however, when Frazier destroyed Jimmy Ellis a year ago, he stole a page from Ali's book and taunted his opponent in the ring. "You acan't hit, sissy," Frazier screamed at Ellis. "I took your best right han. You ain't got nothing." Moreover, those who have made Ali the number one public villain must have been startled last summer when he assisted on the television commentary of an amateur tournament between American and Russian fighters, a meet the Russians won. The way Ali made excuses for the Americans would have warmed the hearts of Melvin Laird and George Foreman, the Olympic champ who waved the stars and stripes while accepting his medal. In fact, Ali's outside activities have been a major factor in building interest in this fight, to say nothing of the boxing game in general. Until Ali came along there was nothing to keep the sport from suffering an unmourned death. Ali's rie was accompanied by a boxing revival, and when he was stripped of his title, the game went into eclipse. Again boxing is reviving and if you think it's not because of Ali, just consider the Frazier-Bob Foster bout last fall in Detroit. It was also a match between two champs-Foster holds the light-heavyweight crown-but only 6000 people turned out to see the Ali-less fight. Ali is simply the most colorful, dramatic and exciting figure in sports, as well as the most controversial. He earned a shot at Sonny Liston's titlewith his mouth, and people turned out not so much to watch a great fighter but to see if Ali was as good as he claimed. He was. Prombters love Ali because he means money, and politicians hate him because he corrupts little children. It is strange how closely related some people think a man's athletic ability is to y his political beliefs, but most of the boxing and sports establish- ment strongly feel that that Ali's refusal to serve in the army dis- qualifies him from fistic glory. Had it been revealed that Ali beat his wife purple every night, instead of holding fast to his religious beliefs, the outrage could not have been stronger. If Ali loses to Frazier, boxing will undoubtedly suffer. Even worse it will mean that we will have been deprived of one more example of color in a sporting world that is becom- ing increasingly gray. The oddsmakers rate the fight even, which shows the awe Ali inspires since, juging from his fight with Oscar Bonavena, he is still suffering from his three-year layoff. Ali is probably past his prime, and Frazier is at the peak of his powers. Ali predicted the fight will go the distance since he is too fast to be decked early, and Frazier is too strong. Ali's prediction showed that he is not so confident this time. Perhaps he knows something the oddsmakers don't. This Weekend in Sports TODAY HOCKEY-at Minnesota GYMNASTICS-Michigan State, at Crisler Arena, 8:00 p.m. TOMORROW BASKETBALL-Ohio State, at Crisler Arena, 2:00 p.m. HOCKEY-at Minnesota FRESHMAN BASKETBALL-Central Michigan, at Crisler Arena, noon Scoring leaders 41 }424 JS g fg ft pts, avgj1 ::mRpgtrgjC7 By The Associated Press NEW YORK-Lanky Jim Chones scored 22 points, seven in a thrill- second ranked Marquette to an 85- 80 college basketball victory over teialfn a adsnSqae ports No. 11 Fordham before 19,500 hys- ter ical fans at Madison Square Garden last night. NIGHT EDITOR: In the opener of the double- ELLIOT LEGOW header, Manhattan got 30 points from Brian Mahoney and defeat- ed Connecticut 86-83. tended its nation-leading winning Chones' superlative perform- streak to 34. The Warriors are 22-0 ance capped a thrill-a-minute game this year. that was tied 14 times including Charlie Yelverton had 25 and 68-68 at the end of regulation play. Ken Charles 21forFordham, which The teams were no more than six lost only its second game in 22 points apart in the bruising con- starts. test before Marquette's 6-11 center * * * broke it open. Billikens edge Shockers Chones fired in a short .jumperBilk sedeSo er with ten seconds gone in the over- WICHITA, Kan. - St. Louis time to give the Warriors a 70-68 University defeated Wichita State lead. Then Hugh McMahon put in 73-72 in overtime last night to two foul shots and Chones made a move into second place in t h e killing three-point play with a little Missouri Valley Conference. more than three minutes left t, give The Billikens blew two big leads Marquette a five-point lead that in the game, a 10-point first half virtually sewed it up. advantage and a 15-point second Fordham's giant - killing Rams second half margin, but managed matched Marquette in a bruising to come back from the brink of first half as several players were defeat on a jump shot by Jim decked underneath the basket. Al- Irving with 15 seconds remaining * lie McGuire, son of the Marquette's in regulation time to tie 67-67. coach, had to leave the game at St. Louis went on to score six one point with blood streaming points in the overtime, four on down his face. free throws and the other a field Dean Meminger, playing with goal by Harry Rogers, who led all three fouls most of the game, put scorers with 19 points. Benton led Marquette into a 41-40 half-time Wichita with 17 points and 18 re- lead with two fouls at the last sec- bounds. ond before intermission. Meminger finished wit h 20 points for Marquette, which ex- Scores -Associated Press CARLBREWER, (2) of the St. Louis Blues skates past a Red Wing defender in the Blues' 3-1 win over Detroit last night. Brewer, a former Red Wing who came out of retirement recently to join the Blues was booed by his old Detroit fans. BRUINS WIN AGAIN Blues clip Red By The Associated Press Kenzie, Bucyk's teammates, and) DETROIT -- Christian Borde- leau jammed in one goal a n d neatly set up another to lead St. Louis to a 3-1 National Hockey League victory over the Detroit Red Wings last night. Bordeleau, banged in ex-Red Wing Wayne Connelley's rebound from the corner of the cage at 13:15 of the second period for the opening goal. Frank St. Marseille made it 2-0 just 42 seconds into the final per- iod. Red Berenson dropped the puck for linemate Nick Libett and then screened Hall less than two min- utes later to get Detroit on the board, but Bordeleau and Craig Camberon wrapped it up at 15:23 when Cameron snapped in Borde- leau's pass out for his 11th goal. Canucks creamed BOSTON - Johnny Bucyk trig- gered a personal hat trick and launched Boston to a record out- burst of three goals within 20 sec- onds last night as the Bruins ral- lied for an 8-3 National Hockey League Victory over the Vancouver Canucks. Bucyk snapped a 2-2 tie on his 39th goal during a power play at 4:50 of the? third period. Then the aroused Bruins, setting a flock of NHL records this season, scored twice more. Eddie Westfall con- nected at 5:02 and Teddy Green at 5:10. Vancouver took a 2-0 first period lead on goals by Rosaire Paiment and Murray Hall in~ a rematch. However, Boston came back to tie the count on second period goals by Fred Stanfield and Johnny Mc- then erupted in the finale. * * * Flyers fly PHILADELPHIA - A close-in goal in the second period by Jim- my Johnson enabled the Phila- delphia Flyers to beat the Buffalo Sabers 3-2 last night and move into a third-place tie in the Na- tional Hockey League's West Di- vision. The Flyers led 2-1 when Barry Ashbee carried the puck into the Buffalo zone and passed to John- son who beat goalie Joe Daley. Buffalo's Gerry Meehan slam- med a six-footer past Philadelphia goalie Doug Favell on a power play a few moments later. Philadelphia took a 2-0 lead in the first period on a 20-foot goal by Cliff Schmautz and a power play score by Andre Lacroix. The Sabers' first goal came at 5:56 of the second period as rookie Gil Perreault scored his 31st of the season. - - ------------ For the student body: FLARES rWings Stars knot Leafs TORONTO - Buster Harvey's goal with less than three minutes remaining gave the Minnesota North Stars a 1-1 tie with the Toronto Maple Leafs in their Na- tional Hockey encounter last night. Defenseman Jim Dorey got the Leafs' goal in the second period of a hard-hitting, close-checking contest. Toronto outshot the N o r t h Stars 33-27 througout the game. But goalie Gump Worsley h e 1 d Minnesota in the game long enough to get, the tying goal on a power play. Leaf goalie Bernie Parent had little chance to stop Harvey's shot. Marquette 85, Fordham 80, o.t. 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