Ali fails Ali.(boxing)(Brief Article)

One morning not long ago, for the first time in years, as he had done from around the world in another lifetime, Angelo Dundee called.

"I'm sending you something you'll like," he said.

What is it?

"You'll see, you'll like it."

In the mail came a photograph so wonderful it could make you cry.

There sat Cassius Clay, 19 years old, as near to living flame as a man can be. In block letters made to shout by a stylized "C," his name decorated a white T-shirt. He sat on a stool in a boxing ring. He had his arms raised, fists balled, a strongman's pose of triumph. He looked straight into the camera. He glowed with that smile that gains all forgiveness.

Behind him, in shadows, Dundee leaned on the ring ropes.