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Show Join Tato; By PETE FRITCHIE John Tate fought a very smart fight against Gerrie Coetzee at Pretoria. The hard-hitting South African tried to get Tate to slug it out early tried to provoke him. Tate was too clever to bite. IT TURNED out that Coetzee Coet-zee couldn't get through the American's defense. Tate is too big for most of today's heavyweights. And that was the story of the fight. Had Tate slugged it out in the first rounds, before he took some of the steam out of the South African's right, he might have lost. One suspects Tate will win over Larry Holmes, and settle the split personality heavyweight title issue. He's a deserving athlete, a good-mannered good-mannered Southerner with dignity and sensitivity. How nice after so many loudmouthed loud-mouthed braggarts! WITH TWENTY or thirty more fights, or maybe even dozi with a , Coetzee miEk, piJ'- I skill and talem who was " !, br. Pol L-s"rely, L-s"rely, he could Lb,t' Pretoria fight ' ofpclitics 'V 1 ment into it EmPtasis should h,..'1 putr,nthefactltlaa Africa's f,;;. audience. , tNSTEAD, CBSca... long Program before : on South Africa's ' " Policies, various Di'! opinion whether Ta-." have fought there -1,35 "o Place in made $400,000 - w ':' . haultodate-and:.; ; edwell. - j 'n sports covera.: ' American fan d(S0V. i New York types at ." NewYorktell,nghlnii: , should think -ab .'-' . tries, politics, etc C ' sports. |