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INJURY TKO'S Champ Lis- ton !--Sonny Liston displays a ewollen arm at a hospital af- ter his TKO loss to Cassius Clay in Miami Beach, Fia., EX-CHAMP LOOKS GLUM BUT YON CASSIUS HAS GLEEFUL LOOK last night. After 34% hours, a team of doctors reported that Liston suffered an injury to the biceps tendon of the left shoulder which resulted in separation and tear of mus- cle, The former heavyweight wears a bandage over a deep gash under his left eye. ---(AP Wirephoto) Cassius Clay New Worlds Champ ---- But How? Or Why? MIAMI BEACH (AP) -- Cas- elus Clay, the fascinating Louis- ville blowhard, has stunned the boxing world by blowing down heavyweight champion Sonny Liston, the man who cou'dn't jose. When he says "I'm the greatest" now, nobody inughs, The bull-strong, tiger-mean Liston yielded his crown Tues- day while slumped ingloriously in his corner between the sixth and seventh rounds, blood gush- ing from a gash under his left eye and his left shoulder in. se- vere pain It went into the books as a eeventh round technical knock- out--one of the most astounding cing upsets of all time but one that left the millions of fans pondering unanswered ques- tions. Hov did it happen? When did it happen? Why didn't Liston, the awesome ring killer, demol- ish the loquacious Kentuckian as he had his other rivals in the last three years? Liston was taken to St. Fran- cis Hospital where eight physi- clans subjected him to a 3%- hour series of x-rays and other examinations. SHOULDER INJURED The group issued a statement that said the champion had suf- fered an injury of the left shoul- der which prevented him from defending himself. The statement said there' was a "separation and a tear. of muscle fibers" with some bleeding, but gave no other de- tails. _ Liston, dressed in a red shirt and slacks, pushed his way out of the hospital without com- ment. His aides said he planned to go to his Miami Beach tem- porary home and would make no statement immediately. His purse from the gate at- tendance had been ordered held up by the Miami Beach boxing commission pending outcome of the doctors' examination. Jack Nilon, the ex - cham- pion's adviser, said Liston wrenched his shoulder in train- but that the two of them de- cidec to try to bluff their way through "'because - we thought we could get away with it." Nilon pointed out that Liston stopped boxing six days before the fight but others recalled that Sonny showed no signs of an ail- ment in other phrases of train- ing and even declared aimself "in the best shape ever." 18 FLOP AT GATE This was just one of the many contradictory aspects of the bout, which was a financial flop at the gate with. 8,000 paying only $400,000 for the privilege o! watching--half of the figure needed to break even Clay, the exultant, hysterical and almost berserk new cham- pion, sought to erase any that rocked the arena, he screamed to all within earshot: "This no fix, I closed both of his eyes. He didn't touch me. I didn't stop the fight. The doc- tors did," Boxing writers, accustomed to weird occurrences in this some- times sordid sport, were seek- ing answers to questions which left them befuddled. THEY ASK 'WHY?' Why wasn't Liston, the sullen destroyer who twice put away former champion Floyd Patter- son in the first round, able to unleash the same devastating punching power on the fast but supposedly vulnerable Clay? In the fifth round, when Clay came out at the bell blinking a groping his way around the ring, as if half-blinded, why wasn't the deposed champion able to nail him with his fist- ful of dynamite? Even if his shoulder was pain- ful, why didn't Liston try to bull his way through, waiting for perhaps a lucky punch, against a fighter renowned as a pow- der-puf! hitter? Doesn't this amazing develop- ment set the stage for a return bout, which might set financial records yet undreamed of in the sport? Even this fight, a turkey at the gate,' wac made an astound- ing success financially by a closed television network that broke the old record of 560,000 viewers and more than $3,200,- 000 receipts at the box office. A second Clay-Liston battle conceivably could gross $10,- 000,000 over-all. The fifth round of the fight was indeed a mockery. Clay, blinking and stumbling from one end of the ring to the other, looked like an easy tar- get. But the massive Liston, weighing 218 pounds to the chal- lenger's 210%, merely pawed at his back-pedalling and appar. ently helpless prey. Once during the round, Clay stopped flat on his heels' and reached out and patted Liston gently on the nose with his left glove, Liston made no effort to reply. Tt looked as if he might have swung and knocked the chal- lenger into the $250 ringside seats, "That man put liniment on his gloves and almost blinded me," Clay said afterwards in the press Interview room, "'It made no difference. He still couldn't hit me, I was too fast. IT am too beautiful." Clay, a 22-year-old descend- and of a Kentucky slave who has skyrocketed to boxing's highest prize in only four years on the strength of fast legs and a glib tongue, became almost tb sterical after his hands were raised at 10:33 p.m. EST. "I am the king--I am _ the greatest; I float like a butter. fly and esting like a bee," he yelled, repeating an old refrain, Surrounded by his chanting admirers, he held up his, hand and said, "I have been talking le wpteme T know the only NEW YORK (CP) -- One of the proudest sports writers around today is Leonard Shec- ter, the walrus - moustached. columnist of the New York Post. He picked Cassius Clay to win the world heavyweight title from Sonny Liston via a technical knockout. Shecter said it would happen in the 14th round, Clay won on a TKO in the seventh. Schecter was the only one of the leading sports writers to pick Clay the winner via HERE'S A SPORTS SCRIBE WHO HAS CRYSTAL BALL the TKO route, and onlyt wo other writers polled before the fight by The Associated Press chose Clay to win the title. Shecter was not included in the AP poll, It showed a 30- to-2 margin in favor of a Lis- ton victory, Bob Waters of Newsday, Garden City, N.Y., and Leon- ard Koppett of the New York Times, a baseball expert dou- dling on the fight during spring training also picked Clay. py!--Sugar Ray Robinson, the dressing room after Clay's EDMONTON (CP)--A climb- ing Saskatchewan rink knocked column Tuesday and loomed as a chief roadblock to British Co- jumbia's threatened runaway in the Canadian. women's curling championships, Ina Hansen's Kimberley, B.C. foursome, the last undefeated entry in the round-robin com- petition, ran its string of vic- tories in the third and fourth round, Saskatchewan, Alberta and New Brunswick were tied for second place with 3-1 won- lost records, Ontario, Manitoba and Nova Scotia were next at 2-2, Prince Edward Island had one victory in four tries and Quebec and Newfoundland were still win- less, ' Mrs, Hansen's veteran rink, which hasn't won by less than a' six-point margin since play began Monday, breezed past Nova Scotia 16-8 and Ontario 11-2 Tuesday, Barring a re sounding fifth-round upset at the hands of Prince Edward Island, the leaders should face their sternest test in sixth-round play against Janet Perkin's rugged Regina crew, Second-round losers to Mani- toba, the Prairie foursome shat- tered Ontario 13-1, starting He- len. Hanright's Ottawa entry onto the downgrade after two straight victories, and manhan- dled New Brunswick 14-6, The Maritimers had stayed with the leaders by edging Quebec 10-8 in the third round, Alberta, upset Tuesday by Nova Scotia, stayed in the lead- Hockey Player Dies Of Injury TORONTO (CP) -- Harvey Clarke, 33, an amateur hockey player whose jugular vein was severed by a skate during a game at Varsity Arena nine jdays ago, died in hospital Tues- day After arriving at the hospital by ambulance, Clarke's heart stopped beating, A team of five doctors restored the heartbeat by external cardiac massage and an injection into the heart. KINSMEN i} COMMUNITY CENTRE 109 COLBORNE ST. W, OSHAWA A Good Place For I} BANQUETS--DANCES RECEPTIONS --MEETINGS For further information | PHONE 728-7691 two 'rivals out of the unbeaten|9-6 in Newfoundland fought a cou- Edward Island, katchewan tangling with Al- Besides the B.C.-P,E.I, clash, the round also paired New Brunswick with Nova Scotia and Manitoba with Ontario, The sixth ~ round draw had Newfoundland against Nova Scotio, Quebec against Ontario and New Brunswick against Al- berta as well as the B.C.-Sas- katchewan match, In the sev- enth, the pairings were Saskat- chewan vs, Prince Edward Is- land, Nova Scotia vs. Quebec, Alberta vs, B.C., New Bruns- wick vs. Manitoba and New: foundland vs, Ontario ' "ARD Mrs, Perkin's ceginans showed little respect for their unbeaten opponents Tuesday, blanking Ontario for seven ends and wrapping up the match with a three and a four after conceding the losers their only point, Against Joan Callaghan's Bathurst, N.B., entry, they ran up a 7-0 lead in four ends and made it 12-2 after eight. Nova Scotia, which has upset! two Prairie rinks, never had a look-in against Mrs, Hansen's B.C, crew, which built up an 11-0 lead before letting in the Remember When? ... By THE CANADIAN PRESS Babe Ruth signed a con- tract as player, assistant manager and second vice- prseident of his old team, Boston Braves, 29 years ago today, after playing 15 years with New York Yan- kees in the American League. Ruth played only 28 game for Boston, but three years later returned to baseball as a coach of Brooklyn Dodgers. He died in 1948 at age 53. losers for their first score in) Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, British Columbia Is Only Unbeaten Rink In Diamond 'D' Play group by whipping Prince,the ninth end, The Kimberley Edward Island 12-4 and Quebec/foursome pressive in handing Ontario its : second straight lopsided defeat. ple of losing battles, failing 18-9} Anne Phillips of Mount Royal, to Manitoba and 10-7 to Prince/Que,, made a game bid for her first victory in the fourth round Three rounds of competition|but missed a last-rock takeout were scheduled today with Sas-|that would have tied the score against Alberta in the 10th end, berta in the feature of the fifth,|= ee looked equally im- THE CLAY CAMP Is Hap- gesture like champs on way to over heavyweight champion tre, an emotional Clay hand- ler, Drew Brown, left, and Cassius Clay, right, technical knockout victory Fila., Tuesday night. 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