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hemorrhage ol the muscle bel. .Liston left St. Francis Hospital~eariy today with his iniured hospital or when he left with wing in a sling and was in seclusion later at 6351 Pine Tree Ty, the statement said. it in a sling. A cast was.not Dr., Miami Beach, where handlers said he was sleeping. Doctors Liston, necessary. also wearing two said his injury was not of a permanent nature. pieces of tape under his left Both camps loudly disclaimed Clay ruled as the new champion in an incredible upset eye where Clay opened a cut. any suggestion of a rigged because of one punch --- and be didn't even throw it. in the second round, said he match. injured himself late in the first Sonny Liston, the supposedly unconquerable."killer," threw round. "Put a Bible before me and the punch and when it missed the fallow-through, twisted a I'll swear it was on the level," "I tried to throw a left hook," tendon in his massive left shoulder. said Jack Nilon, Liston's man-. he said in a voice almost in- ager. That was the diagnosis of eight doctors who went over the audible. "It missed, I felt some- 7-1 favorite with X-rays and other devices for more than three "This is no fix," screamed thing snap.. hours last pight and early today xt St. Francis Hospital. Clay. "I am the greatest. He "I just couldn't throw a punch didn't touch me. I closed both. The sudden ending when Liston failed to answer the seventh not the jab anyway. My his eyes." round bell -- catapulting Clay into the title -- left the crowd of. was killing me.". 6,297 stunned. Clay, 22, may have his laurels on ice for a long Former heavyweight champi- time because the contract had no return clause and tbe gabbing He did not appear in too! on Joe Louis commented Juter 'aaen onn se Juon an non noos nnnn nnn onur o? nen donn. much discomfort with his arm the fourth round that Clayl"is down when he arrived at the surprising the whole worldh A group who paid $50.o0o ior the right to promote Claly's hext fight said, however, Liston is *obviously the No. 1 clal- he wants it." The crowd barely half-filled the 16,000-capacity of Miami Beach Convention Hall and cost Promoter Bill MacDonald a cool $400,- 00b. The "live gate" was $402,000 of which Liston took $367,000 when his purse was released after the doctor's report. Mac- Donald had said it would take twice that to get him even. The fight was expected to gross close to $4 million, how. ever, in Tv and other income to top all previous records. When Liston didnt get up for the seventh round, Clay began a dance in his corner and the crowd thought he had finally flip- ped. But when Referee Barney Felix held Ciay's hands high it began to dawn on the audience and muttering -- but no cheers or wild screams -- swept the hall. .. The announcement five minutes Iater that Liston Hud A'thrown his shoulder out' still fell on unbelieving ears. At' St. Francis Hospital, a tense crowd of fight officials Vand close followers of the fighters awaited Liston's arrival and examination. The Miami Besch Bosing Commission ordered pis purse withheld until the report wat made. After hours of waiting, Dr. Alexander Robbins, chief physi- cian for the commission, report- ed that the injury to Liston's shoulder "would be sufficient to incapacitate him and prevent. him from defending himself." Tht'so-year-old fallen cham- pion "suffered the injury to, the igng head of the blceps terdon Oll the left shoulder with the re- stt there is separation and jear muscle fibers with some