Sport: Body Chess

Detective Henry Wittenberg had eaten too much. He had also won his first two matches, in the Olympic wrestling trials last week, so easily that he scarcely worked up a sweat. Feeling heavy in the midriff and afraid of exceeding the 191 Ib. weight, Wittenberg decided on a little road work. As he stepped on to the darkened Iowa State College track, Wrestler Wittenberg tripped and fell, fracturing a bone in his ankle.

Next day, with a lump on his ankle as big as a doorknob, heavy-set Henry Wittenberg warily circled a stringy young opponent,...

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