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(SPORTS--BOXING.) U.S. Olympic Team Trials Boxing Finals program featuring Cassius Clay. Numerous illustrations. [48] pages. 4to, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, original color illustrated wrappers, minimal wear. With 10 1/4 x 7 1/2-inch insert program for the 20 May finals laid in. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Examiner, 18 May 1960
This is an official program for the United States Olympic Committee's team trials, most of it being an elaborate magazine-style publication on the Olympics in general. The cover is overprinted for the boxing finals which took place at San Francisco's Cow Palace from 18 to 20 May 1960, with the center 16 pages devoted to the boxing finals. The 8 finalists in each weight class are listed, with photographs of two or three in each class. Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY is listed in the 178-pound class (the light heavyweights, not the heavyweights), and is illustrated with a youthful portrait. A one-page insert lists the finalists who made it to 20 May, with Cassius Clay squaring off against Allen Hudson for the 178-pound championship. He won that bout, and went on to win the gold medal in the Rome Olympics before launching his storied professional career.
