Dan Parker

As the late Dan Parker used to say in his late N.Y. Daily Mirror sports column, "The customers always write." Last year, for example, you wrote us 3,000 more letters than you did in 1967, telling us what you liked in...

BOXING—Light Heavyweight Champion DICK TIGER of Nigeria retained his world crown at Madison Square Garden when he gained a split decision over favored José Torres. The fight was followed by a 20-minute barrage of...

DEATH AT MONZA

Dan Parker, sports columnist, quoting a reader: "The reason the Yankees never lay an egg is because they don't operate on chicken feed."

For 30 years Dan Parker, 62, sports editor of the New York Mirror, has kept a loving and vigilant eye on boxing. No one in the daily newspaper field has been more pungently critical of the forces that have damaged...