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| | Sports JACKpot 1964 |
 | | With the Olympics in full swing, challenging the World Series for space on sports pages throughout the country, we pause to reflect that there scarcely is a youngster who hasn't dreamed of being proficient enough in some sport to represent the United States in the world's greatest amateur spectacle. |
 | | He won the amateur Bantam title in 1937 at Boston, returned there in 1938 to capture the flyweight crown and then successfully defended back crown in 1939 at San Francisco at the World's Fair which was being run in competition with another World's Fair in New York. |
 | | He had his first fight in 1936, dropping a decision to Paul Cardinal of Wilkes-Barre in Sayre, Pa. Fighting several times a week, he gradually became ringwise and, starting in 1937, ran off an amazing 186 consecutive victories in a row as an amateur, including his three national titles. |
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