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Duino's career in the sporting world began on a golf course at 16 in 1925. While working as a caddy for the newspaper's managing editor, he was offered a job as a copy boy earning $12.00 a week. According to his daughter, Marla Lenz, he would ride his bike from hotel to hotel in San Jose to check the registries for athletes. By the 1930s, Duino had hopes of becoming a professional golfer, and even joined the professional tour. But upon his return to San José, he was offered a position as a sports writer covering golf. In addition to writing under his own name, he also wrote under the name of "J. Rufus Pinhead," so that "it appeared the newspaper had a bigger sporting staff," Lenz said. Duino became the newspaper's sports editor in 1938, and the executive sports editor in 1972. In addition to working at the Mercury News, he promoted boxers, and even sold tickets for boxing bouts at the San José Civic Auditorium. According to Duino's obituary, he enjoyed boasting about San José State boxing coach Julius Menendez, who "sweated 10 pounds off" the young Cassius Clay in hopes of preparing him to make the 1960 Olympic team as a light heavyweight. Duino and Menendez would later develop and patent a game, Gateway to Golf.
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1411F41C-6EFB-4DAB-9F4B-646422681820 L2007-9-3
Subject
Sportswriters Journalists Olympic Games (19th : 1968 : Mexico City, Mexico) Duino, Louis
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