European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Pago 23 for Friis sugars a of Haflenger the Flower of american letters was invited to the Waldorf to learn at first hand the answer to the question what is an Ayub top rank a fight promotion seized the occasion to present an Ayub to the specifically Ayub the ugandan Dane from Kampala via whom the world boxing association regards As Junior middleweight 154pound Champi on of the Kalule is going to fight the world boxing Council welterweight sugar Ray june 19 at a site not yet if Leonard wins the 154pound it could create an interesting contre Temps because rays elder is ranked 2 among contenders in that in the few instances when close relatives became the top contenders for an Amateur authorities designated them co champions instead of letting them fight it the Sweet science is suffering from a noticeable shortage of ugandans who fight out of and this int the Only thing that makes Ayub a he is a Freak who was born right handed and still writes and scratches himself with his right but converted to a left handers stance when he be Gan his elder was a Southpaw Boxer who won 39 of 40 Amateur bouts and was thought to have a Bright professional future until he got religion and quit the Young a sprinter and soccer read a Magazine piece about Muhammad a that roused his interest in because of his Brothers it seemed natural to fight with right hand and right foot turning a right hander around is heresy punish Able by excommunication from the fight at least it was when managers and trainers were raised in the ring instead of the garment if they saw an infant reach for his rattle with his left they took one of two Steps immediately 1 strapped that hand Down and forced him to do everything with his or 2 drowned As a southpaws cant when a lefthand or uses his its More a push than a he looks like a woman swinging her handbag at a Mash this says a fight official who asked not to red Smith be has the greatest right hand Ive Ever seen on a he snaps the he is a Busy comes right at you and Bangs with the right he doubles and triples with the reminds me of a Young Emile he May not beat but ill Promise you hell go the Kalule is undefeated in 35 professional Al most All of them in in he went to Japan and won the Junior middleweight title from Masashi Kudo on Kudo has not fought Kalule and Marvin the Middle Are two of several current Southpaw Champi though left handers May be aesthetically Dis a considerable number have held names that come to mind include Al Lou Tiger Johnny All middleweight Freddie featherweight Melio Bettina and Marvin sugar Ray Leonard left and Ayub Kalule almost met in 76 olympics starting As a featherweight and growing up to the Junior welterweight Kalule was Uganda finest Amateur from 1973 until he turned pro in in he won the Al Africa title and was elected Africa sportsman of the beating out the world class Miler Filbert Ray Leonard won the Light welterweight 139 Pound title in the 1976 olympics in Tak ing three round decisions from Ulf Carlsson of swe Valery Limanov of the soviet Clinton Mckenzie of Ulrich Beyer of East Germany and Andres Aldama of that was Palules weight division and he was the ugandan had it not been for the african Boycott of the Montreal he and Leonard might have met in the final by that discouraged by the had Given up on the amateurs and was boxing profession ally in Mogens his had persuaded him to move to where Junior middleweight have better employment opportunities than in accompanied by four danish newspapermen and a television Kalule and his manager flew into new York monday the newsmen wanted to interview Leonard immedi but Irving Rudd of top rank told them sugar Ray was i dont want to be Irving but he is Champion of the world and has Many matters to attend hell be at the press conference wednes i must remind Mogens Palle put in polite that for this fight Ayub is the Champion and Ray Leonard the the manager challenger he will re main after the by this Rudd had Kalule pinned against a hotel room Wall and was working with the tape Mea sure he carries for the tape told him that the 27yearold was 5feet9 inches with a reach of 73 the plane from Copenhagen was two hours but Kalule and his party sped through customs in five the customs inspector was a fight if Hes going to fight Ray he he has trouble enough without any from the new York times another victim of maps scandal dream ends for Young runner Houston Mctear no More free rides by the Cox news service Miami rescued from a life of grinding poverty in the North Florida Ham let of Houston Mctear blazed through the mid1970s toward the olym he dreamed about six figure endorse ment contracts and a future in the nation Al football he tied the world record for the 100 Yard dash As a High school the 1976 olympics were going to establish him As the worlds fastest from he would go into pro football As a receiver to become the Bob Hayes of the today Mctear is looking for a he can do he and Lay its hard to forget what one of his High school teachers said when Mctear left Mulligan for California in afraid he might wind up Back Here in the Mctear was 24 years old May be time took his Speed perhaps he never got the coaching that a world class sprinter the fast life could have drained his its last at the millrose games in new Mctear didst even qualify for the final in his he wont be getting the expense paid invitations to the big meets much for the first time in his life Mctear has been talking about finding in the last 10 Days he realized that the Money had run Mctear is an incidental victim in the Muhammad Ali professional sports maps collapse that has shaken Harold the mystery Man who ran the maps operation and is being sought in connection with a million theft from a California was Houston Motears pipeline to the Cash the Box is empty and the pipeline is when word got around in 1976 that Mctear and the nine other members of his family lived in a rotting three bedroom shed of a House in that his father could barely keep the family together on his salary from the local analysis Muhammad then heavy weight bought Mctear a 000 the Man Ali sent to Mulligan to scout out a Home for the Mctear family was mysterious Harold before he got into Smith was to identify himself As Motears last week the Fri came to Motears apartment in to ask some questions about Smith and the millions that have vanished from a Wells Fargo the Fri came into the front door of the apartment and Mctear went out the later he went to the Fri office and told them he knew that he haunt seen Smith for which they in really said me and Harold have come a Long ways when he found me i was Down in i didst have anything i got a Call from him and he asked if id like to come to California and meet Muhammad Motears record As a after he moved to was his times did not there were accusations about Loose the flaws did not disappear from his a pulled hamstring took him out of the 1976 olym the United states did not enter a team in the 1980 olympics in but Mctear stayed on Smiths Ive never had a he but the track club pays the rent on my apart Mctear went on trips with Smith in the maps i like to he the ride was Mctear understands that the rent pay ments will Stop id like to ask Harold some he Mctear thought that Smith was his meal and in a Way he a House in Mulligan came out of and years of rent free California but Mctear was Smiths meal the sprinter helped Smith make his first connection with it began with the Muhammad Ali track which was built around that led to the Muhammad Ali boxing for Amateur it turned into Muhammad Ali professional now fall ing with a mighty Mctear came into All this As the head he leaves As a theres a lot of Money in laying he said after his defeat in the millrose Harold was going to get me into