Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1974, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free press wednesday october 30, 1974 Ali is Back on top continued sat at the ringside in the vast stadium of the 20th of May to watch the bizarre spectacle in the eerie hours of the Rit fan morning. He should never have let Ali play him on the ropes said Frazier. I have Learned a lot. I want an other shot at him. I m ready when he is. I am sure i can win the next Foreman 25, a massive and sullen but pleasant Man with fists that in five years of pro fighting have made 37 knockouts insists that he also is waiting in line. The next time and i is a next time 1 Hope to fight a smarter . I Hope to follow manager Dick instructions the 220-Pound Foreman sought to demolish Ali the Way he had crushed 37 of his pro foes most of them Al most before they had finished tying on their gloves. But Ali beat him at his own game and was convincing in doing it. And now it is Frazier who appears to have the next crack in this game of musical chairs among three Black american fighters Ali Frazier and Foreman. Their Only potential threats on the horizon Are Teofilo Steven son a cuban giant whom Fidel Castro May not permit to leave Home and Daric Bobick an american olympian such As Ali and Foreman who is now unbeaten As a pro. I told you he was no Good. I showed a said afterwards in the dressing room showing no humility in he s slow and awkward. I m not sure he de serves to fight me again. He would have no Foreman never before beaten and never before knocked out and his associates sat in gloom. Can t badmouth a Man who beats fore Man said solemnly his voice hoarse and almost a Whis per. He is a True Champion. He deserves everybody s re Spect. He is a credit to his family his race and to Box Foreman More or less agreed with Frazier and Ali that he fought a stupid fight. But he won the fight but i cannot admit he beat me. Nobody loses in a fight like each of the fighters received a record million. It was a Good fight two muscled men hammering away at each other As if they were swinging Telephone poles. But the cunning Ali was the smarter and the better Man and from the fifth round on it became a matter of when Foreman s trunk like legs would fold. Ali taunted Foreman during the playing of both the american and Zaire National anthems and he continued to. Spit insult at the Champion in the fast paced Early rounds. Ali met the in Boring Foreman wit i two Quick the head As they answered the hell. Foreman pursued him. Ali played i Foreman s vicious swings and struck Back. In the second and third rounds Foreman landed some Good shots powerful blasts that seemed to Rock the fragile ring but Ali blinked and kept hitting Back. In the second round Foreman hit Ali with a crunch ing blow to the head and Ali momentarily blinked. For a moment it appeared to ring siders that a scared look came into the challenger s eyes. But by the fifth round Ali s strategy of holding lying on the ropes and letting Foreman flail away at a darting ghost began paying dividends. One could almost see the Power Drain from George s massive arms and the. Steel from his legs. He became the Corner Foreman s manager Dick Sadler and an aide Archie Moore looked concerned. Then in the eighth the inevitable happened. Already staggering and unsure of his footing and merely swinging at air Foreman got caught by an Ali right Asah slipped out of a Clinch. Foreman veered unsteadily. Ali sensing the kill added a left and with a vicious right. Foreman seemingly dazed went Down and took the count of 10 from referee Zack Clayton before he could re gain his feet. I did t hear the count i never listen to the Foreman said i Dic gave me a signal to stay Down. Then lie crossed his arms. Then he motioned for me to get up i guess i was too Price Rise seen Nyji Neaves Canadian Consumers could face an. Increase in the Price of bread in the future if the crows nest agreement which has provided rates on rail movement of Grain during the last 78. Years is abolished Agri culture Industry spokesmen said tuesday. When Otto Lang minister responsible for Board suggested Mon Day at the Semi annual meet ing of the Canada grains coun cil that the rate should be abandoned he emphasized that producers must be protected in some form against the higher costs of shipping their Grain. He did not indicate if the government would move to protect Millers against higher freight rates on the Grain they use to Mill flour. Industry spokesmen attend ing the Semi annual meeting of the grains Council which ended tuesday were hesitant to comment because the rate abolition was Only one Sugges Tion among Many being pro posed the country a deteriorating Grain handling and transportation system. J. H. Easton of Ottawa an advisor with the grains group of the Industry Trade and com Merce department said thai with the Hulk of milling now done in Eastern Canada he assumed that removal of the crows nest or statutory rate would have an Impact on the Price of flour. He emphasized the govern m e n t has implemented the two Price system under which Domestic wheat Sells at a cheaper Price than that for Export and that any increase in transportation costs on Grain for milling would exert a Small amount of but i Don t think transportation costs would have a terrific Impact on the Price of Gordon Allan of Toronto chairman of the grains Council and vice president of the flour division of Maple Leaf Mills ltd., said he was confident the government would move to protect Consumers As Well As Grain growers. He said a Federal Cabinet order has set the Price of Grain for milling at the Lakehead at per Hundred pounds and similar legislation is before parliament. If the Grain gets to Thunder Bay under the same Price of it is currently then there s no . But if the freight rate on the Grain is changed from the statutory Rale to a mileage rate similar to hint used for other commodities it would affect the Millers j. W. Madill of Calgary Gen eral manager of the Alberta wheat Pool told the closing session that the complexity of the problem of modernizing the Grain handling and transportation system is a real Chal Lenge to the Industry. One problem was to find out where the massive amounts of capital needed to revitalize the system were to come from. Or. Don of Winnipeg the Council s Secretary general said in an interview the Council was concerned about labor problems in the Industry. .1 i think we will be. Making a major presentation to govern ment on this situation . Fire. At 2nd Church continued minister at Augustine United said wednesday no accurate estimate of the damage has been made. 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