Sport: Londos v. Spy

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Now 34, Champion Londos is one of 13 offspring of a Greek olive picker. He got his nickname, for purposes of abbreviation, from a sportswriter who admired Author Jack London, when he started his wrestling career in San Francisco 17 years ago. During the winter, Champion Londos wrestles three times a week, makes about $250,000 a year. This season he has defended his title 207 times. He lives in St. Louis, eats enormously, maintains a library of 1,200 volumes, takes singing lessons, smokes a corncob pipe.