SI Vault Dan Levin February 07, 1972 In Memphis the $30,000
question was, when a handball champion and a racquetball
champion do their things, whose thing wins? Decrease font
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Issue  It was a sporting first, the match they played last week
in Memphis; as one excited Memphian observed the day before,
"This is like Joe Frazier fighting Terry Daniels—except this
time Daniels has a 17-inch nightstick." The stick he spoke of
was a racquet, the kind used in racquetball, and its owner was
the game's best player, a 40-year-old San Diego dentist named
E.F. (Bud) Muehleisen, who kept saying—he really did—things
like, "My big vice is ice cream. My friends call me Straight
Arrow." The Frazier figure was Chicago's Paul Haber, a man who
takes a drink or eight, has been known to wink at a girl and is
the world's best handball player.  Thus the Muehleisen-Haber
match was important on several levels; symb