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NEW YORK DAILY COLUMN AND KNICKERBOCKER NJLW-YORK.'N. Y. I 0. 150,000 JUL 2 1969 I Well, it s nice to have a heavyweight champion named ?╟ ?╟ Joe"?╟╓ again. It?╟╓ll be nice to have a fight you don?╟╓t have tc go to Divinity School to cover. But, because champion Frazier is a regular Joe, how does that rate him in the hierarchy of past and present champions, including the Flower of Islam, the Aga of Louisville, the Emperor of Saudi Chicago, Cassius Marcell us Abdullah Skivinsky Skavar? There are three living retired heavyweight champi- ons who never lost while they held the title to whom to go for a line. But I figured Gene Tunney wouldn?╟╓t have seen the Jerry Quarry-Frazier fight if ?╟úTannhau- ser?╟Ñ were playing in town that night. Or even if it wer- en?╟╓t. I can never remember what to address Cassius Clay as?╟÷?╟úSahib?╟Ñ or, simply, ?╟úExcellency,?╟Ñ or ?╟úEf- fendi,?╟Ñ or what. So I rang up Rocky Marciano. ?╟úFrazier remind you of anyone Rock??╟Ñ i asked him. It was like I was in the ring,?╟Ñ The Rock said, de- 1 ightedly. ?╟úI made every move with him.?╟Ñ Like to see that other fellow come out winging the way Quarry did, would you??╟Ñ I asked. Yes, said Rock. ?╟úUsually, I had to chase them. They were playirig to my strength when they made a phone booth out of the ring.?╟Ñ ?╟úQuarry made a mistake then? He should have engineered the fight??╟Ñ ?╟úWell,?╟Ñ said Rock, ?╟úyou have to remember, Jim, that you can hurt a ^cean. Rocky Sees Image Jim punch as hard as Jerry can. I don?╟╓t think he made a mistake. 1 think he went out there and bet the whole pot on one roll, one card. When Frazier didn?╟╓t fold and then came up with the stronger hand, Quarry?╟╓s gamble had failed, I think THAT?╟╓S when he should have changed styles. You know, Archie Moore could change styles in the MIDDLE of a round. When he saw one thing wasn?╟╓t going to work, he would shuffle the cards again. Jerry stuck to his plan even though it showed he was playing to Frazier?╟╓s strength. Quarry should have gone back to his old style of fighting in flurries and stalling. But he stuck to the ground game.?╟Ñ ?╟úWould it have changed the outcome??╟Ñ ?╟úOnly to the Extent Jerry would have lost the deci^ sion, not the knockout, I think. Frazier?╟╓s style had to . tell on Jerry sooner or later. This way, it was sooner.?╟Ñ ?╟úYou say, ?╟ Jerry?╟╓s style,?╟╓ Rocky? Isn?╟╓t his ?╟ style?╟╓ the same as yours? You just fight the other guy as if you were trying to get out of a burning building and he was in your way??╟Ñ ?╟úIt looks that wqy, Jim. But mystyle?╟÷OUR style takes away so much of his ability. It is more effec- tive than it looks. You see, when I started to fight, A1 Weill would never have bothered with me if the ring weren t only 16-to-20 feet square. Of course, Frazier has to stay in absolutely first-class condition. Chasing somebody is hard work~~harder than fighting him.?╟Ñ So you think Jimmy Ellis will have gone to school on this light? Frazier-ElliS will be partpugilism, part track meet??╟Ñ Ellis can make Frazier look very bad, very ama- teurish at some stages of the fight. But you can?╟╓t wor- ry about clumsiness. You slow the fellow down any way you can, awkward, missing a lot, getting tied up. Ellis has to be slowed down. When he does, he?╟╓s -beat.?╟Ñ ?╟úWhat about Cassius Clay-Muharpmad Ali??╟Ñ Cassius had the greatest depth perception I?╟╓ve ever seen to go with his speed. He could gauge to a quarter of an inch where he would make you miss the punch. However, I don?╟╓t think he will ever fight again. Also, the kind of skills he had cannot be helped by a 2-year layoff. When your strength is dodging punches, you need lots of practice at it.?╟Ñ The Rock is one of 11 athletes getting a City of Hope Victor?╟Ñ award at Las Vegas Saturday at the annual Sportsmen s World Award banquet at the- Sands Hotel. Now that we have a ?╟úJoe?╟Ñ back, maybe somebody should scout up around the shoe factory in Brockton for a young fellow with ?╟úRacco?╟Ñ tattooed on his arm who?╟╓s busy loosening a brick wall with left hooks.