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Title: Sonny's training hard
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Robbins, Jeff
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph article dated January 16, 1964 partially reads, "Heavyweight champion Sonny Liston says he's training harder for Cassius Clay than he did for Floyd Patterson. 'I don't want him to catch me short,' Liston told newsmen Thursday at his resort hotel training camp. 'I want to catch him short.' Nevertheless, the confident champ predicted he'd flatten Cassius in two rounds Feb. 25 at Miami."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 17 x 12 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00053974
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d063_f30_i17
CARL0000057717
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41469
Subject: Liston, Sonny,--1932-1970
Boxers (Sports)
Peace signs
Men
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time Period: 1960-1969

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