I knew how to keep score by this time, and I rushed home from school — for the four weekday games, that is — turned on the big Stromberg-Carlson (with its glowing Bakelite dial), and kept track, inning by inning, on scorecards I drew on one of my father's yellow legal pads.
Still, it is numbers on scorecards that matter in major championships rather than exciting golf.
The judges declared Camacho the winner because of the following state rule: whoever is ahead on scorecards can be proclaimed the winner when at least half the fight is over, the bell for the next round has rung and the bout has been stopped because of an accidental head butt.
The WBC found that Dawson broke the rule barring "any rough tactics other than clean punches" and since the incident occurred before the fifth round, the result should have been a technical draw, rather than a technical decision based on scorecards.
The wicker-basket pins weren't very accessible and it showed all day on scorecards and players' faces.
In the opposite corner, an exhausted Ali, comfortably ahead on scorecards that differed from those kept in ringside reporters' notebooks, had cornerman Angelo Dundee urging him on for three more minutes.
