Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot - Harris, Roy; Montgomery, Robin
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Generations of fighting Harris blood exploded through Roy Harris's veins that August night in 1958 as he stood in the boxing ring in Los Angeles. He was facing the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Patterson, who, at the time, had earned that crown at an earlier age than any other man in history. Roy faced a psychological handicap met by few other heavyweight challengers. How could a rustic backwoodsman turned gentleman-scholar-soldier cope with such a challenge? What strange events had conspired to create the meeting of such a contrast in pugilistic antagonists? Roy Harris…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Generations of fighting Harris blood exploded through Roy Harris's veins that August night in 1958 as he stood in the boxing ring in Los Angeles. He was facing the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Patterson, who, at the time, had earned that crown at an earlier age than any other man in history. Roy faced a psychological handicap met by few other heavyweight challengers. How could a rustic backwoodsman turned gentleman-scholar-soldier cope with such a challenge? What strange events had conspired to create the meeting of such a contrast in pugilistic antagonists? Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot is, in part, the story of how and why Roy Harris emerged from backwoods obscurity to the pinnacle of fistic heaven-a heavyweight title bout. But this is also the story of the rapidly vanishing breed that spawned and nourished him-the rugged individualistic frontiersmen from the oil-rich southeast Texas thicket country. Today, Cut and Shoot is a growing community northeast of Houston. Roy has retired from illustrious careers not only in boxing, but as an attorney, real estate mogul, and the county clerk of Montgomery County, Texas, for twenty-eight years. Roy's personal memories are inserted throughout Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, adding authenticity to this dramatic saga.
Autorenporträt
Roy Harris is a retired British rubber Manufacturer who now lives among the rubber plantations of Thailand's eastern seaboard. His other business interests included a Travel Agency specialising in cruise holidays and a Fashion Boutique both based in Sacramento, California. He also had part ownership of a Computer maintenance company who both assembled and serviced computers, with offices based in England and Ireland He visited Sacramento every other month, and after attending to business would often drive over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Lake Tahoe and Reno for relaxation, before continuing on to the Far East. Keeping in contact with his customers and raw material suppliers kept him in the air for usually, about 175,000 miles each year, visiting over 60 countries.His early hobby of long distance bicycle racing developed into compering in motor cars rallys.His next step was to join the British Motor Racing Marshalls Club, were he became treasurer of their southern region. The Marshalls Club assisted private car clubs to hold motor race meetings for their members and guests, This enabled him to visit various race circuits in Britain and Europe. s his business interests put pressure on his time his motor racing pastime took a back seat as he needed more time attending to business matters. He always considered flying to be two periods of terror, take-off and landing, separated by a period of complete boredom. So from an aircraft seat he started writing. Mainly short stories, written for pleasure not money, although many have been published in regional and trade magazines.