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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 19sd.
A boxer tells his ring secrets--No. 3:
FIGHTING IS MY LIFE
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By. Ted Broadribb
in,
Good M
Mine' own executioner,
"Londoners today hanged the
didn't go so well. I finished up reputation of being among
B out programme money to most patient people in the world the staff, and alt the takings went, as well as my first pounds,
40
Broke again, and back once more to brickinying. There are cusier ways than that of making a living, and I tried book making
one of two incursions into the
The "world citizen" wants become an American again, Garry mic hacks to Virginny,
"Red China said organised in· enorious whole."
So it was that I went I tried to get myself fit to fight boots, of course, which did it. My] Billy Condon on the Billy Paple-old man went out and sold them second on the Harry Lewis-Jim Jin Sullivan bill. Any excuse at seven
"rubber shillings a pair, and Harris bill, against the for a fight was good enough in everyone was happy, until I got man who used to box exhibi- those days we didn't find ex- broke again and then I got an- tions with Joe Bowker. For my cuses not to fight but I got lek- other belting and was slung out part I knew that I had to get it
over quickly if
I had any chance
No, Myrtle, there's a "" What a good thing I made of
You might think all this didn't at all, and since Pickard never racing fielli, of which more later. wasted any 'trouble with pre-
All the time, though, I stayed front of it.
as I could. the camp thot year, though. Gerry make me a very bright prospect
while insted. And it Insted Johnny Matheson," the "Fightint Elderly club members, says dressed to the Company CHINA Shiny, the quartermaster, used to far a bible class, but I joined the lies, it was a fierce stains close to boxing give a tanner each to boys who Dulwich College Mission, a boy's only two rounds.
Ecot," was managed by Billy! MAIL LTD.
writer, pre sporta would have three rounds, and I club run by a Mr. Marsh, who
Ames, who had been my own Look on such as Tommy Nya, devoted his life to trying to make
manager, and Johnny cume and hatsmen, but may be a linbil Charlie Catchpole, Charlie Wise, the wild boys of Walworth better
sked me if Matheson could in other ways. Charlie Jenkins and Mo
A man is as old as he fields Levy citizens.
lodge with me. We put him up for £1 a week, and Ames fixed which was very good experience
hin a fight with a fellow numed.
The outbreak of fire un bon for me.
James. The fight was in Wales, will not, we learn, prevent and Matheson came home with Sven Salen.
£5, which he had to send to his wife.
PEKING LIFTS ITS FACE
nature.
With these sixpences 1 became the camp money-lender.
I
I lent twopence for threepence until the next pay-day, and used to hang around the lents playing where the boys were "crown and anchor" and "over- and-under" to walt to lend it.
the
Back for more
I shoved lefts into his face, and It opened up a new future or hooked him repeatedly to the jaw, me. I began to attend the Sunday services, my muffler disappeared but he was always coming back and I got used to wearing a collar heavier punishment that, he was and handing out regularly, and cleaned iny bootsy as well.
Right and wrong
for imore,
round At the end of the fest
But the end was a sensational;
•
1
often go
I don't believe all these re of bombing and strafing Johnny fought a return, and going wide of their the same thing happened. So I having been impressed time saw Ames and said "What are again by the amazing accura you going to do about Matheson.proved by the unerring eye He hasn't paid me anything for the Technicolor camera. seven weeks."
•
The Chinese have always attached extreme importance to symbols. The re-appear
I may have been ahead on polits, for clean hitting, but my ance of the portrait of Dr.
strength had gone, and it must Sun Yat-sen alongside that
have been obvious to the custo- of Mr. Mao Tse-tung in the
I had led a life of might is mers that it couldn't last very Peking anniversary celebra-
right, and it was a strange ex-¦ long. One fellow who gambled heavi- perience to learn from Mr. Marsh tions is therefore importantly, and lost, was the camp barber. the difference between right and
Wonder if anything conere, In the first place, it is an actient him so much that he finally wrong: but I am happy to say I onc
Ames replied "He's no good-¦ Pickard had been banging of appeasement of a personal decided he couldn't pay me back am sure the other boys did, too."
́benefited from his help, and ne around, and then, in a clinch, I think I'll send him back to will be achieved at the tari
Scotland." So I said round me and he put his arm
you conference, or if it will just t Communists' and gave me a half-share in The
I fell
don't want him, can I have him?" a lot of Torquay Torquay. gave me the half-nelson, decision to ignore the Father had nifty per cent of all the been setbacks, i've never
barber's tent to settle the debt.
In fact, although there have on my back, and Bill Natty, my
The answer was "Yes," and that's how I became fully- really second, called me to the corner, of the Republic has beeld zione I used to go in and do the telling the white les neus te
and to help the business done anything bad (apart from taking it for granted that Pick- fledged manager. sore point with his devoted along
would be disqualified for and very pro-Communist lathering for the 'alave custom-
ers. When a rookie came in within the boxing business) since throwing; but to our surprise the widow. The Kuomintang
Maria Dobbs married me. My referee, John Murray, gave the policy of deification no doubt soft beard even used to try wife and I, who had known each deefsion to him.
ether from schooldays, started well behind scratch, with onc And just like that my aspira- room and a few pieces of furni- tiens as a featherweight cham-
thin air.
corrective. Sun
needed Yat-sen was the greatest Chinese of his time, but a very human person and no deity. The Communists went to the other extreme they just ignored him.
was
my hand of shaving.
Mistakes
I made a few mistakes, of course. So 1 always had a packet of cigarette-papers handy to stick on when there was any blood around, and i used to tell them I had just taken a pimple OIT.
Towards the end of that camp it was becoming obvious that
get back my wasn't going to
lot of the fellows owed dough, as i me more than they could be col- I know, though, that
But though Stalin's picture
still a
was my opponent at feature of the
**IE
11
Battered by another typhool *he islanders feel they ar constantly waging a Luzon batti with the elements. Alcoholous anonymice, or
J
I took Johnny Matheson to Birmingham to fight Harry Lewis of America. Matheson's chances were regarded so lightly that they were only betting on how nnny rounds he would last it was 10 to one on Lewis winning orning feeling mousy because by a knock-out.
to hang for a do-over.
Many people wake inti
100
the ho much alconight before. This buy me avoided b
me
ture, including a couple of chairs. pionship contender vanished into I lost only four other rowed more chairs from our land- boxing, but I won the last one way - and
When visitors called we bor- tights in the three seasons I was But Matheson went nil the redrulning from frinking. Thi won on points. being pryly imhobbable, the bes lord. EL well-respected Covent although, truth to
be told, I Within 12 months he had beaten nest thing is to inink
the Dixie Kid four times, Garden porter named Bill Hudd. should never have done.
Blink drodderation. I worked as a bricklayer, helping
drawn with McClosky
Mike
However, to repair the brickwork under- Charlie Dixon, of Southwark, Glover and Bob Scanlon, and lost and hang up next day with
if you sidnore' my igvis the Ring, neath the boilers in Lavington- street Baths, Southwark, and the Blackfriars, in the
a close decision over 20 rounds wake-over, here's a trunk that autumn of
And well worth
Toke celebrations, there are politi-
slying. lew golden sovereigns I earned 1911.
Twice during the bout I with Bondsman Dick Rice.
Instead of his fivers, Matheson sowel in Ice-would kawter a went cal implications in the partial
inlo our 'safe'-a soup bulted Dixon, Accidentally."
Nobody saw me do it, but Dixon was getting from £100 to £150 a wrap it hightly round your te re-instatement that are to be
turcen.
Dght.
Now bill a fairsin with wate knew it, and when be butted me: welcomed, however cautious-lecting.,
We struggled on until we added openly in retallation he was dis-
heeming Matheson fought at the
stet and bit on the edg Ring Wye Sun Yat-sen stood for some of their personal equipment to the home and managed to get qualified.
became their own property -
quite often, and I begun to be of your sed with both your waw rooms in Walworth, and
in the feeter. Within a sought after by rising boxers annis you will And the more things than Nationalism, such as boots, sacks and under-two
That fight had an inside story who knew that, if I could he blushing from your fed to you slowly made progress. From the
rud though the Kuomintang Gov-wear--and so I wrote to my be comfort I know today, those other and it was more than 30 years Matheson, I could help them crnment's policy was almost ther to come along for the break-
days seem a long way off. But Lefore Dixon forgave me for my up with some sacks.
Both of us being loca wholly limited to this prin-
the memory of them is just as part in it. So when they couldn't hay, I vivid now as when it all happen- boys, there had been a good dea ciple. It ignored the other took the debts in kinti. I anished ed. It's no wonder, really is it? of mixing to try to get us to two principles of livelihood up with £15 and a few sucks of
gether. So I sent to Dick Burge, and democracy. But the boots, which wasn't so bad if you
championship who ran the Ring, to ask him to a has-been. give me 50 per cent of the gate symbolic gesture in Peking realise that when the camp began contender: the next
or very nearly. That was my lot for the fight. He said "Yes, but I was 'broke.* will be regarded as a nod to
When
what about Dixon ? got home to Walworth in February, 1811.
And I said Nationalism as Stálin's pic-no prodigal son ever received a
"Leave him to me." Peerless night
Jim lure is a bow to the Kremlin. warmer welcome. It
Driscoll beat Frank Spike There is. Indeed, a good
Robson at the old National Sport- deal of this spirit even in Mongolia and
Garden, he Manchuria. Ing Club in Covent
sold before he entered the ring Peking these days,, where the They were the first to be re- Imperial grandeur of the past,Į covered. Then came the new to which the city has raised national heroes who were so many monuments, is not yet old, the great rulers, Peter
Catherine forgotten in the striving for the Great,
Was the
of
Оле week ✡
The
I don't think I
£40
better than other managers they heat, thus pinimising the hed had to pay as well as forking the main-ache, The fin'li not out" for others to train, teach be in your peet! and second them.
If this roomly hemmily, doesn work, and if the sist pepsins I took over Dai Roberts, and afreeze to kerquently, dec looked after Georgie Clarke sockter." Unless, of course, Tommy Noble - Twice-Nightly been on
a tinge, boo! Tommy, they called him-Ber- mondsey Billy Wells and Gains.
Noble got his nom-de- plume because in One year he nad 53 fights, and finished up as British bantamweight cham- pion.
Dido
all about the butting, and he the Ught-heavyweight cham-
knew that I was really the one plonship of the world.
who should have been disquali- fled.
of
Net receipts
Dixon So I guaranteed that his boxing days were num- out of my end. The net receipts hered. That meant a great deal, were £240-remember ringside Since those days I've handled for I knew that I had only to do seats didn't cost. five guineas in champions and near-champions well to step right into the cham- those days. I got £80-out of
at every weight. I have had plonship plcture,
Whitch I I had the
to pay my manager, fighters in 27 Lonsdale Belt con- ! who didn't arrange the fight, 25 tests, winning two outright with i a better future. The score Great, and even Ivan the
Stoker Allan was my opponent, per cent-and Dixon gat £40. Jack Hood and Nel Tarleton.
old-timers like H. had no quarrel about the and more of delegates of the Terrible; the great soldiers and there are
1 gave Len Harvey his first Jimmy Buller, Lamotts critic
for, like myself, had in London. I secondod Communist World Federation Suvorov and Kutuzov; the and referee of other days, who of Democratic Youth were new Marshals you probably both fabling for about Fredy Mitha vinst him an ind £1-a-round-before; but he knew Inst. And I've taken-Freddy-to- taken round the palaces in like the old, whose bemedal- ranks among the best fights they the Forbidden City, now con- led breasts carried orders ever saw. verted into the People's named after the great onesĮ It was an uncompromising toe Museum, after the style set of the past no less than of to-toe slog, and by the Bolsheviks. The de- the great ones of the legates from Asia murmured volution; and, finally, among themselves of the his- unparalleled expansion toric memories these remin- the post-war era. ders of the past stimulated. It is profoundly true that, as At any rate the New China Mr. Chou En-lai declared in his News Agency said they did, long speech on foreign policy which indicates the major last week-end, the Chinese purpose. And it is just as people sincerely, love peace. right to have a proper respect But they have settled their for the past as it is to seek disputes by civil war, and to impress other races, still seem very proud of that.
Moreover, the representa- If Saul hath slain his thou-furious in everything he did that utcut 18 months ago 1 collected I never thought I should llek £376 for his widow, who was a tives of the minority races sands and David his tens of him, Each of us went down in who are attending the celebra- thousands, the new regime turn to terrific punches, and it sister of Jim Sullivan, another
a few weeks ago. tions added colour to the in China hath slain its mil- was one of those nights at the Beter of my day, who died only
NE.C. when the Quiet, Please" There are Mongols lions-so Mr. Liu Ning-yi order had about as much chance I decided to retire because I and Koreans (from Man- told his friendly audience in of being effective with that had had trouble with my eyes. churia, of course); Takasagoes London. And the last great have when the winning goal is gót a punch on the nose it caused
as it would My vision was good, but when and Muslims from East historic period which TC- scored in a Cup Final. China, Uighurs, Russians, sembles the present, when Anyway, I I won, and I felt blood to trickle from the corners
scene.
They are achievements which I am proud-really proud. ever encountered anyone in the It wasn't until one night dur- I feel that the buys I have hand- Re-ring with such strength as Allan. ing the last war that he forgave led have had the benefit of the the I remember now that on one oc- me. I went down to a show at a experience I gained in my early casion he charged across the ring little drill hall near Rotherhithe struggles, because I have always at me, and although I ucka charity show. Dixon was one three lefts into his face on the of the seconds, and he nodded to
tried to do everything I could to to see that their lot has been a way I might just as well have me, not very approvingly, Dur- happier one than mine was, been trying to stop a runaway ing the evening an appeal was! But how different it might train, and at the end of the trip made, and I gave a fiver. Then have been had Johnny Matheson
to re and been able to pay for his keep. most decapitated me with u Dixon came across
sald What I've heard about you, then, is true," and shook hands (To be continued)
right swing.
Terrific punches
He was so strong, so game, so
bolled-shirt crowd is
of
and FO
warinly.
I was glad we sattled that
Charlie
dled scure, and when
Tickled to death
put
it on because
of my eyes, and I know I couldn't Kazaks, Tartars, and Uzbeks Chinese Ming came between good. You always feel good when box too well on the defensive, so
you and Manchu
win, dad It happened to be thought I ought to call it a day. from Sinking; as well as Mongol
con- for £50 a side, which was a lot
caused me to tribal minorities from the querors, was one of such
What Psion was
The money to me in those days.
know- South-West. Most of them tremendous expansion that It was us a result of that make the
Jeptha of South Africa, was going blind, are accompanied by troupes Chinese power reached even clation that I forgot all about edge that Andrew
Fomething which had happened of their own national per- to the coast of Africa..
In the dressing-room before the and I didn't want to find myself formers, dressed in what are Happily, the
resurgent fight. When I was shadow-box in the same boat. I decided to try promoting, and for my first described as beautiful national spirit which is rejuvenating ing to warm up, I felt something venture, at Manor Place Baths,
ping" in my back. I had a Walworth, I decided on costumes.
the greatest of the world's light pain, and I told Fred Al- benefit"-for myself. There is a meaning in all ancient races is being directed exander, who backed me, but he these things, and it need not now into channels beyond the said it would be all right,
I let it pass. necessarily be sinister. Tibet knowing of the great ones of
Next day, though, I could tako will be the touchstone of this. the past. It seeks to
scarcely move, I thought it was I had to A settlement by diplomatic the way of science and indus lumbago, and I was a bit worried, was broke once more--after negotiations along lines ac-try, not to make other peoples because I was due to fight Waily and two of my pals, Ned Dug
Pickard at Holborn Empire the gen and Judah Barnett, had had cepted long ago by the Na- their beasts of burden, as was following Monday, and everyone acruck at learning to be taxi
drivers. tionalists would be as reassur- the old way of conquest, but was saying that if I evercame
I had put up the cash ing as invasion by force, or to build power dams and in-him I would be well on the way for that venture, which wasn't
to title.
very successful, and I was tickled the imposition of, repressive dustries as the mightiest of
I waited until the Thursday, to death with myself as a boxing terms, would be proof of Im-instruments for the creation
I told Jack Callaghan, promoter I naked the boys to perialistic ambitions. The of wealth and the saving of the prometer, that it would be box a bit cheap, so that I could cautious note is so far justi humun labour. So long as impossible for me to box. Cal- show a profit.
I well, remember when I was not a dome With
bu planning that show a little thin- by the Russian Revolution. be well, and the mutual mis-
be Ing nslate shouldn't In the early days the Bol- sion of East and West will be
12 shillings and sixpence, and sheviki damned their entire fulfilled. But it is necessary at and I it for and box eight rounds was tough for me to have to say 10 or 15 rounds for 15 shillings. national heritage by bell, never to forget that the past that at any time, because I sald Six rounds will be plenty
Altar can. book and candle. The turn, has warnings no less than needed the dough. But the news for you. I'll fix when it came, was pretty sources of legitimate pride. paperman said "Are you sure That Was Ted. "Kid" Layiz.
I made myself about £40, and That did it. I couldn't resist was very pleased with apy | start dcastle Nothing was, more Nor is Russia's example in It's your back 1 hotly denounced than the the post-war porlod devold that one. "Forget it, I said, as a prometer. So I put on a record "show," This time things. Tsarist acquisitions in Outer of even sharper lessons. *TH FOL
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