Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight by Howard Bingham & Max Wallace

Author:Howard Bingham & Max Wallace [Bingham, Howard & Wallace, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781590772102
Publisher: M. Evans & Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The induction had been originally scheduled for April 11 in Louisville, but Ali’s attorneys had requested a transfer to Houston, Texas, because he had taken up residence there to assume his ministership duties at the mosque.

Still, the day after Ali received his induction notice he was in Chicago, where, walking through the streets, he was accosted by a group of American Legionnaires as they emptied out of a tavern.

“Hey, is that Cassius Clay? That looks like Cassius Clay!” one shouted. A drunken member of the group waved a small American flag in his face, exclaiming, “They gotcha! They gotcha! Sonofabitch! Thank God they gotcha.” Another waved that day’s edition of the Sun Times with its headline: ARMY TELLS CLAY—PUT UP OR SHUT UP!

A week later he was to take on Zora Folley at Madison Square Garden. The marquee there also referred to the induction controversy swirling around the champ. “Last chance to see Ali before he gets one to three,” it read, referring to the traditional sentence for draft evasion.

In Congress, Representative Robert Michel took to the floor and complained to his colleagues:

I find it interesting, albeit depressing, to note that the illustrious Cassius Clay has scheduled another alleged bout to milk a few more thousand dollars out of dodging the draft. Apparently Cassius will fight anybody but the Vietcong.

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