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12 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridcy, September 28, 1¥02 Sonny Must Live It Down | Nottingham Forest Before He Can Live It Up GO (AP)--Sonny Liston PB to has a lot to live down before he can live it up as the world's new heavyweight boxing "a ive man of many ssive Po ne become America's most controversial athlete be- cause of his past. As Bag es to wear the crown Fa rare He has many good ties which could outweigh bad. Liston, who never made a se. rious effort to learn to read and write until about two years ago, was a victim of a squalid en vironment that made violence his forte both in and out of the ting. "For the first 13 years of my Ife I lived like a heathen on a cotton patch in Arkansas. I hated home and I hated school. My father was married twice. The first time there were 12 children and I remember none of them. I was one of 13 born in the second marriage. "My father worked me ha:¢ and whipped me hard, If he missed a day, I'd feel like say- ing: 'How come you didn't whip me today?' TO ST. LOUIS "Not long after my mother left and went to St. Louis, I followed her. I was 13 then. I was real big even then. School? That wasn't for me. The kids made fun of me because I was go big and I would start fight- mg, got a job with a construc. 3 tion gang. . . . It was a tough bunch, but they were the only friends I had and they influ- enced what I did and thought. I never knew there were other kind of people. "My first serious trouble came when I got mixed up with a bad crowd. One night we wanted to do something exciting. We stuck up a restaurant and I wound up in jail." In 1950, Liston was flattened by police on two charges of rob- bery and one of larceny. He was sent to penitentiary for five years, getting off in two on a good behavior record. "T didn't mind prison," Sonny s. "I figured I had to pay for what I did. It was the first time in my life I got three square meals a day." FOUND FRIEND In prison, Sonny found a friend in Rev. Alois Stevens, THERE'LL BE no changes made; says Sonny Liston, new world's heavyweight champion, shown here with his arm around his wife Geral- dine, as he talks to news- Roman Catholic chaplain and the institution's athletic direc- tor. Under his tutelage, Sonny became the prison boxing cham- pion. "It was the first time anyone showed any real interest in me," Liston recalls. "I liked paper reporters in Philadel- phia, on Thursday, upon his return from Chicago, where he took the title from Floyd Patterson. Listoin said he is not going to change and "I'm Monroe Harrison of St. Louis, Frank Mitchell, publisher of a St, Louis weekly Negro news- paper, and Father Stevens. Harrison, former sparring partner of Joe Louis, was a good influence on Liston but he eventually sold his share of Sonny's contract to Mitchell for sitting with Father Stevens and $600 listening to him. He told me I had no business being in jail be- cause I really wasn't a bad boy --just mixed up, searching for something secure. It made a lot of sense." Liston's parole sponsors were BEAT MARSHALL } In March, 1956, Sefny whipped Marty Marshall for the second time He had lost to him in their first bout Sept. 7, 1954, finishing the eight rounds although his Barbara Ann Scott Is Happy Housewife, Runs Beauty Salon By JACK SULLIVAN Press Sports Editor Mrs. Tom V. King of Chicago surveyed her beehive - styled platinum blonde hairdo in a wall-length mirror and casually mentioned that "'sometimes I'm brunette or brown and I've even tried to be a redhead -- that's Tom's favorite color, you know --but he didn't like it on me so I don't use red any more." She applied mascara, traced a pencil over her eyebrows and dabbed powder on her snub nose. Just over five feet tall and a well-proportioned 103 pounds, she could have been taken for the pony in a chorus line. But her eyes gave her away. The patended manner she has had since childhood of look. " ing at the world in wide-eyed amazement identified her as Barbara Ann Scott. Her one- time high - pitched voice has been modulated to a rich tone. B.A. was in Toronto to appear as a mystery guest on a tele- vision panel show. As an 18- year-old in 1948 she had daz led the figure - skating world with footwork to win the wom- en's Olympic title for Canada. Her home town, Ottawa, and the rest of the country went wild over her. HAS NO REGRETS Before that gold-medal per. formance, she had won every title in the book from Canadian and North American singles to the European and world cham- pionships. Sh eloved every minute of it. But now, it's all behind her. She hasn't skated in seven years. "I'm too old and creaky for that sort of stuff," the 32-year- old one - time golden - haired skater said in an interview, "Sure, I may have missed a lot of things the normal child has but I'm glad I went into competitive skating while I was young, strong and healthy. Now I'm a beauty salon operator and housewife. "Family? I've got a poodle and a parakeet." Her mother, Mrs. Clyde Scott who lives in Toronto, keeps Bar- bara Ann up to date about fig- ure skating in Canada. "I know all about the world champion. ships won by Don Jackson-- isn't he cute?--and Otto and Maria Jelinek and I was mighty proud for them. Those kids sure can skate." HAIR MUST BE RIGHT Now, she has two careers. She makes daily trips to her beauty salon in suburbah Glen- coe where she has a staff of 25, and keeps house for her hus. band. He was her press agent when she was a pro in the Ar- Vue and now is assistant gen- eral manager of the Merchan- dise- Mart in Chicago. Pointing to her hairdo, she said: "When you're in the beauty | salon business, you've got to look the part. I must keep up to date." Her favorite topic is Tom. "He takes a month's holiday every year and we all go to Arizona--Tom, my mother and myself, He plays golf every day and I swim and go horseback riding. Tom is. a real good golfer, Me? I shoot in the hun- dreds." Their home is an apartment on the 14th floor of a building on Chicago's near north side. "Tom loves fireplaces and so do I. We've got four of them, "Pretentious? No, it's just an old-fashioned place," she said in wide-eyed wonder, FREE Call 725-6566 > going to be the same guy and do the same things'. This is a little different from what he predicted for himself, im- mediately after his victory. --(AP Wirephoto) jaw had been broken. It's the only defeat on his record. It looked as if Sonny was |really starting his climb as a prize fighter. Then one night he tangled with a policeman, Lis- ton said he was trying to defend himself after the policeman pulled 4 revolver, made an in sulting remark about his face and threatened to kill him, The policeman went to hospital with |a broken leg and a seven-stitch |gash above one eye. Liston went to the house of correction for nine months. When Sonny got out, he went nearly a year without a fight. Promoters seemed to give him a cold shoulder. Mitchell's con- tract eventually wound up with Joseph (Pep) Barone in Phila. delphia in 1958, It was about this time--ac- cording to testimony before the Senate subcommittee headed by Senator Estes Kefauver -- that th shadow of the underworld was cast. Sonny was getting fights but not much money. OLD COUNTRY SOCCER New Surprise Team By M. McINTYRE HOOD Special London, England LONDON -- A new and un- expected challenge to the first division leaders in the English League is seen in the surpris- ing rise of Nottingham Forest. Last season, Forest finished fourth from the bottom of the league and narrowly escaped relegation. Now they are lying in third place in the league table, three points behind the Rangers and Hearts, each with four wins and no defeats, are tied at the top of the Scot- tish first division and look, on form, like staying there. One point behind them, and still un- defeated in the league, are Aber- deen, who sprung a real sur- prise by beating Celtic at Park- head to hold on to third place, Last season, Aberdeen had a hard battle to escape going down to the second division, but they are having a very good ini- tial run this year. At the other end of the table are Hibernians and Raith Rovers, with the dis- mal record of only one point from their first four gamés. PLAYER TRANSFERS George Eastham, Arsenal's unwanted star, because his style of play does manager Billy W: auction block, may go to Fulham if that club's chairman, Tommy Trinder, can scrape up -" hoggied needed to buy him le rying to arrange bank overdratt for the deal, Arsenal may make the sale an instalment plan basis. while, Eastham relegated to trick against 's ll, while rhage a ov eee was gling to ho ices- ter Fe i draw. The reserve team led by Eastham won by 7-0. Perhaps this may make Billy Wright change his about se! Eastham. Danny Clapton, another Arsenal England international, has been sold to Luton Town, for $18,000. Norwich City have paid Scot- tish team, St. Mirren, $60,000 for Tommy Bryceland, their in- ternational inside forward. Ted Bates, manager of tom - of - the - table Southamp- ton, has spent $90,000 on two players to help improve that position, They are "George Kirby, Plymouth Argyle centre forward, and Stuart Williams, West Bromwich Albion's inter- national full back. Mike Harrison, Chelsea out- side 1 has been transferred to Blackburn Rovers for $51,000, but made quite a mediocre firs' reserves, scored a brilliant hat' leading Wolves and only one behind Everton. They are one point up on Tottenham Hot- spur, who slipped badly in los- ing to Sheffield United and are now four points behind Wolves. The remarkable come-back of Wolverhampton Wanderers, however, is the sensation of the season. Last season they finish- ed fifth from the bottom, one spot above Nottingham. Today they are perched on top of the league, still unbeaten, and two points ahead of Everton. Stan Cullis, Wolves' manager, is making his youth policy pay dividends in points. 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