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[[caption]]OLYMPIC CHAMPS TOGETHER AGAIN AS CO-WINNERS OF TANQUERAY AWARD - Howard Davis and Sugar Ray Leonard, whose parallel brilliance as amateur boxers brought them identical Gold Medals in the Olympics, finished in a dead-hear again as co-winners of the Tanqueray Award for excellence in the field of amateur sports. Shown above at a recent gathering of the boxing clan at Gallagher's Restaurant in Manhattan are John Heilmann, president of Somerset Importers, Ltd., sponsor of the Tanqueray Achievement Award, center, flanked by Sugar Ray Leonard, left, and Howard Davis. The two young boxers, who already are maintaining unblemished records as professionals, conceivably could meet in the ring some day for a world championship.[[/caption]]

CLIMBING JACOBS' LADDER
Franklin Jacobs, a little man with a lofty motivations that put him up higher on his own power than any other American in history, is the winner of the Tanqueray Achievement Award for excellence in amateur athletics.
Jacobs received a silver trophy for his record high jump of 7-feet, 71/4-inches. In a gathering of track and field notables at Gallagher's, he was dwarfed by the cross bar from Madison Square Garden which he cleared at the Millrose Games last Jan. 27. At 5-feet, 8-inches he was nearly two feet under the standard, but he is convinced he can go considerably higher in his quest for a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.
"That is my ultimate objective," said Jacobs.
"More than anything else I want to win that gold medal for American. all you have to do id want something bad enough. And my size doesn't have that much to do with it. I also weigh only 150 pounds so I don't have that much to get up there. My advantage is just that I want to win more than anybody else and I don't care who they are."
John Heilmann, president of Somerset Importers, Ltd., sponsor of the Tanqueray Achievement Award, viewed Jacobs' performance in going nearly two-feet over his height as "perhaps the most spectacular in the 11 years that we have recognized excellence in amateur sports with this annual citation."
"When you think of Franklin's size, it is just about the greatest defiance of the laws of gravity since the cow jumped over the moon," said Heilmann. "And, very seriously, what an inspirations he is to legions of young people. He has achieved these marks very early in his career. He is a great competitor with a big drive and it seems likely he will go higher and higher. We are proud to bring him in to our distinguished family of winners,"
Jacobs, who live in Paterson, N.J., where his mother, Mrs. Jannie Jacobs raised her own family of 11 children plus four cousins said that "I feel like I'm up in the air again in a really great jump, to be in such high company as the other winners of this award."
"That's a pretty good bunch," he said when he looked over the list of former winners.
Franklin Jacobs has a down-to-earth philosophy about the "gravity of the situation" whenever he completes a record performance as a high jumper.
"I'm in the pits," he said. No matter how high I go, I always land in the pits. Gravity is a big help. I never have any trouble getting down. It is getting up there that really is tough."

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[[caption]]BOXING
World Champions - Floyd Patterson, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Leon Spinks were all Olympic gold medalists.[[/caption]]

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