The Paramount Theater in Abilene offered a live, closed-circuit showing of the heavyweight boxing championship. A rematch between former world champion Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay, a newly declared Muslim who took the name ‘Ali.’ I called John Storey, MD, one of my favorite people. He was the youngest doctor in town. Patients applauded Dr. Storey for his smarts and honest diagnoses. When John could find time, he even crewed for me on my 18-foot sloop.
Category: Sports
Water Polo
If you only scrimmaged the varsity but never played in a game, you will appreciate my suppressed regret. I was a swim team “scrub” for our Longhorn water polo team. Skinny, 145-pounds, I wasn’t much opposition for the big-shouldered varsity brutes who practiced their underwater demolition tactics on me. Water polo is a contact sport, but two-dimensional. Little contact above water. By rules, only the goalie can catch with two hands. The other six men