TUESDSY, I SPTEMBER 25. 1962
Liskin Remains Solid 3-2 ravorite
To. Dethrone Patterson ins Title Fight
.CHICAGO (P) Sonny Liston, the hostile challenger with the big left hand punch, re
main e 4 a 32 favorite over Floyd Patterson yesterday as intereit mounted in tonight's l-
round 1 / 4 vorld 'heavyweight title fight at Comiskey Park.
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Prospects of fair, cool weather encouraged the promoters to expect a crowd of 35,000
paying about $750,000 with a $lOO top for the "live show at the ball park of the Chicago
White Sox.'' l, '
However,' the ball park was
only the stinlin for a vast audi
ence to seq the bout on closed
Circuit teleNiision, which had over
one million seats available at I
prices ranging from $4 to $lO.
Ring time is ; 9:30 p.m. EST and I
the fight will go on,.even'if there
is a drizzl/..
If the promoters' forecasts hold
up, the total gate will be close
to $5 million, counting ticket sale,
theater; TV, radio receipts of ,
about $400,000 and movie rights of
$200,000. Chicago and a 100-mile '
area is blacked out on theater TV. I
The' nation will hear the radio
ABC account. . ,
Patterson may receive the rich
est purse of any fighter in history
With a chance of pocketing $1.7
million to Liston's $400,000. The
old record is the $990,445 that
Gene Tunney was paid for beating
Jack Dempsey. in the famous
count". fight in Soldier
Field, Chicago, Sept. 22, 1927. • •
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By The Assciciated Press Icago!koguiqe the fortunes of the
Grizzly, old Casey Stengel and
soft-spoken Al Lopez, familiar fig
ures on the baseball scene for
many years, signed contracts yes-
terday to manage their respec
tive clubs again in 1963.
Stengel, 72, agreed in New York
to return as skipper of the defeat
ridden New York Mets, who made
their debut in the National League
only this season.
Lopez, 54, signed an unprece
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Salary terms. were not disclosed
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in other case,
The announcement of Stengers
return came from club President
George Weiss in this last week of
the current campaign with the
Mets wallowing in the league's
basement 60 1 / 2 games behind the
front-running Los Angeles Dod
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