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...
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