Fresh Air for Fighters

Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with him.

Pete had read in a book that oxygen peps you up. Realizing "how full a fight arena is of people, all of 'em exhaling carbon dioxide, and most of 'em smoking," he decided his boys weren't getting enough fresh air. So Pete pushed a small tank on wheels into the Hollywood American Legion Stadium, fed his fighter oxygen between rounds. The fighter, Bantamweight Benny Goldberg, punched out an easy victory over Luis Castillo and stayed fresh to the last bell.

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