IN
AMERICA, THE STATE RUNS SPORT
AND POLITICS ARE CASTING
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1951.
BIDDY III GOES OVER
The Shadow Over
U.S.
Boxing
By J. L. MANNING
It
was they who
Americans have mastered the art of ceremony. perfected the delightful pageantry of strewing with tons of paper the paths of conquering heroes.
They were sweeping the streets of Chicago when I arrived. Its citizens had been urged to out-do New York's 2,800 tons for General MacArthur.
But at Soldiers' Field, the stadium was half full. The General gave a rousing Then everybody Kрeсch, telling American mothers they were wasting their sons. cheered, and the band played Good-night, Irene.
Next day, I read in the papers that the General was being offered the job of either Pro- dent Truman Or "Happy" Chandler,
sport!
of This Socialisation
I have read the constitution.
is shocked me. It will shock | The colonel's argument you, too,
bunkum. At best it is a naive of the New interpretation FINGERPRINTS
York constitution. It doesn't One morning I went by sub-10
prevent other athletes, amateur "Happy" is America's Bose- wayninepence anywhere,
and professional, belonging to ball Commissioner, This is a and no tickets to New York's well-sulurted post which
organisations which have in- State headquarters. Past com-
ternational federations. mands great prestige and slot machines where 1ypists
But it for
does help prospects. In no time, the right were being photographed sort of inan can become Public 25. 3d, and up to the infor-sonal prestige Commissioner Enemy No. 1.
mation desk, where air-raid shelter notices wore a London- In-1030 frown.
HAIRCUT COSTS MORE When I left America Chandler was heading for the same fate
the General-with
dis
this
difference: he could not, after being relieved of his post, fy his own flag outside New York's Woldorf-Astoria,
the world's largest hotel, where I had a haircut for 14s. but bought a good Havana cigar for 3s.
But baseball
is one of the world's
best-administered games. And in Americn, the land where free enterprise is enshrined and to talk of nationalisation is to risk being called a Communist, It has another distinction,
It has not been put under state control. Doxing and rac- ing have.
The Millionaire Yachts Have Vanished, But-
MISS HAM GOES SAILING
ON £75 By Robert Kingsley.
Cowes.
A dark-haired and at- tractive girl wearing blue slacks and a blue sweater squatted on the "hard" of
a shining new dinghy.
Euch white letter 2d. and had been bought at the local chain-store.
The girls name is Audrey Ham. She is 28 years old, hotel receptionist,
Q
and she
Booths to personily very well the new atmosphere about yachting.
The
"I want the boxing depart- the attendant, ment," I told and up in the elevator I went to the offices where Civil Ser- vants run boxing.
There they showed me a 62- page book'et called "Depart- inent of State, Division of the State Athletic Commission."
In it were the rules of box- they ing in a country where don't trust any of the people all the time,
Law 9 ya that all boxers, managers,
promoters, even doormen and ushers, must be licensed by the state
and ingerprinted."
Furthermore, a copy of the fingerprints ia filed in the office of the Criminal Identif cation Division of the Depart-
ment of Correction,
مجيد
Lin
the per- Chlef of the
keep pro.
. on
And it does help to
world's boxers and noters crawling around their hands and knees for re- cognition in New York.
MORE REASONABLE
State control of racing
La
ol
more reasonable. There is not the same desire to fingerprint jockeys, but the constitutional position of this sport is similar to boxing.
Put it
this way: Imagine that Suffolk County Council
a small number appointed
officers .to local government
Club
from oust the Jockey Newmarket; that other county councils followed suit; and in fully this way racing became trol of the sport changing municipalised, with some con- a result of local elections.
DS
American system, however. 11 There are advantages of the
has almost eliminated doping and switching.
DEFEATING ROGUES
9
Miss P. Nesfield on Biddy III jumping in one of the main events at the
Royal Engineers' Horse Show at Gordon Barracks, Gillingham, Kent.
The Sun Returns To Give
The Summer
Leaguers A
Chance To Get Moving
By "GRANDSTAND” ·
Law 10 says that the Box- ing Commission can issue sub- poonas "to the same effect os it they were issued in an ac-
The welcome return of the sunshine which spread over the softball diamond At Jamaica and Belmont tion In the Supreme Court."
like a comfortable blanket of warmth enabled the Summer Leaguers to catch up Park race-tracks, the Com- COUNTY COUNCIL BOSSES mission showed me in detall with their schedule, as' several rearranged..games were played off.
Nice, Isn't it? Would you how they defeat rogues. The like it to happen to British famous detective agency, boxers? Fingerprints at Scot Pinkerton's, has an elaborate and Yard, a suminous from system of tattooing horses and them. This the hands of a sub-committee
of
the
Bow Street, and all boxing in "fingerp photographing
of the London County Coun horses "night-eyes" the warty growths on the inside Thus do the Governor and of each leg. They have never Senate govern the sport of found four alike. boxing in the State of New York
Politics and boxing mix well In America. Boys in political lavour get the jobs o12 the State Boxing Commissions. Sometimes it happens that
or less
It
succeeds, because
who
co-
New rican
race.
The near upset was the South China Reds v Blues affair which lasted nine innings before the veteran Reda were able to overcome the junior Blues, while the US Navy charged right back after a 7-3 defeat by the Pandas to nose out the Ragg Mopps 5-4 in a last inning rally.
The Sallor outfit broke into the scoring column in the fifth frame when Kaigle and Barry bunted safely, followed by Dollinger's sacrifice which scored both of them.
In that same year the Squaws and White Fangs were started, and these wo outfits have already seen two campaigns.
ÚNPREDICTABLE BUG
PICKED UP THE BLACK
The Navy boys, represented by the USS Albuèrqueque, fought their way to victory, after
Оп the other hand, it is conceding a four-run start to the learned that the four-time R-A-G-G outfit
champion Wahoos may be losing some of their players as most of their voterans have felt it is time to hang up their gloves.
the sailors had
At the end of the third frame picked, the slack and the next three frames went by without further scoring by either side..
for £75: she sails the smallest i wheat pit specula monopoly the boxing commissions. They when L, C. Phoon smacked, out the seventh, Navy hind-snatcher they will be on the deld as
Both the Overseas and Blues { The Overseas pounded Y. L fielding scratch teams, the result Yam for a total of nine blows was a slugfest which stretched in the seven innings and nicked All race entries are checked into an extra frame before the L. C. Poon for two telling hits before a race for identification Overseas unleashed a 5-run when Poon relieved Yam in the and fitness.
splurge in the eighth to break overtime frame.
Lino Marques, who is manag- the As for doping,
Com- the deadlock.
ing this ravived Jaguarine out- mission's veterinary surgeon
At the end of the seventh, f. with Jock Brown taking takes a saliva test of the win
PANDAS' WAY
both teams were deadlocked over coaching duties, has round- ner and any other house he
fi-all, but iring hurler Yamed up some good prospects. there is a Commissioner
chooses after
The Pandas had things their walked the first three batters in every Laboratories do the rest of own way with the US Navy the eighth to load the sacks This outft will start training has a wife wealthy enough to
when they took make substantial contributions the detection.
the following advantage of and when Poon took over Lam next week and ́n Cowes yach! club, ̄ ̄ ̄and | to party funds,
"And the policing of race-}(ɔld-armed Shepler to wheedle Leung-ying and Yeung Yuk- have signifled their intention of One state hag letter by letter screwed in
a coloured tracks is done entirely by the hurler
into giving three sing drilled two safeties over turning out: Thelma Coelho, because Commissioner
the Pinkerton's men.
successive walks in the opening the Infield that cleared the word 'Gloworm'
the Tracy Brown, June and Bobbie (her
stato 1105 500,000 coloured
The parimutuel monopoly stanza, and when right-gardener sacks, for the ballgame.
Lee, Virgle Ribeiro and several spelling) to the transom of voters.
there are no Book-C. Y. Lu poled out a grandslam
others who have seen action on A most every state in remember
the diamond. com-makers, officially pays for all homer, a big four went up on Amerlen has a boxing cost
mission. Sometimes every city. this, and the Americans system the scoreboard.. They do more
what of having three to four weeks'
continual They like.
racing at one track New York refuses to
helps to make it practicable,
there is much
for operate with anyone. It exer- But
our cises a vero on all the world's Jockey Club to learn. boxing decisions.
Furthermore, on many Ame- tracks a battery of York, through the operation synchronised movie cameras South China's Reds, com-
International of the
Boxing makes it possible for stewards prising the full Senior Division
They all say the same thing in MISE Ham, ex-Wren, ex- Club at Madison Square Gar to be shown complete film ofine, took the field expecting
the off-season, but when the stewardess on a Korea-bound den, the control of which is in the race within ten minutes of an easy game from the rookie troopship, bought her Gloworm the hands of wealthy Chicago the finish.
nine which made up the Blues, After the Moppers failed to bug bites them' again in August Jim Nor- There are similar benefits in but they suffered a rude shock cross the rubber in the top of you can wager your last shirt class of boat and typifies the ris, has virtually trend towards boats smaller of boxing champions.
homer with two aboard in the Barry singled, but while skipper peppery as ever. And
world's Ancat than were sailed in the past.
is finance that monopoly
sixth to set the seniors at the lock fled out,
The Annual General Meeting class The lordly gh
yachts cemented by thousands of dol-medical care service for boxers. tailend of a 4-1 count.
Dollinger clouted his fourth will take place on Friday, June have disappeared from
contracts
consecutive single of the after-29, at the Jacobean Room of the lars from television
At the New York offices found Solent seascape: and there are
"brain-testing" sponsored by brewers.
The batting power of the Reds noon and scored equip-
Barry for Hongkong Hotel and, according boat raves for "scow" (as a
The manipulation whichment-to
detect punch-drunk-soon made up the deficit and at noseout win.
to the notice received, several like Miss Ham's is culled) in
goes on behind the scenes to enness—which would ba the the end of the regulation seven chapters the score was knotted
Joey Franco pitched for the suggestions regarding the com- Cowes.
ensure that only those boxers envy of any hospital. who are tied to the monopoly
four-alt.
lasers but was backed by a position of the General Council. The reason for the
are given chances
Every boxer is periodically of fighting medically
The Blues failed to score in ragged infield of utilities, while have been received. trend is nac hard to find. King
examined, Every for titles is the cancer which
the George V's Britannia, a yacht
and year, hundreds of thousands and after the Blues made one the win, added a two-bagger to eighth and so did the Reds, Shepler who was eredited with
Particularly worthy of note is decency of 200 tons, cost £8,000 when is destroying
dollars are spent fo prevent
the recommendation more futile attempt in the ninth his achievement. him falling victim to the batter-the Reds led off with the top of
Council comprise the following The gals are making an early President, Treasurer, Secretary ing of the prize ring.
the batting order,
start this year, and news has and the Chairmen of the varioux
that received
the Sub-Committees, so that any been
any Jaguarines, alster team of the necessary action can be brought First Division Jaguars, will be a jup by the head of the depart- starter in the coming pennantment concerned 'Instead of a re-
reaching the port
Council through Indirect channels which unoMela is usually insumelent in delali
for a decision to be reached.
new
it was built in 1893. In 19261 honesty in American boxing.
a 50-ton yacht, the Halloween, cost the same sum. In 1951, exactly that sum, £0,000, was paid for an 18-ion ship, the Larph
Before the war a boat simi-
of today would cost £350; to-
GREATEST SCANDAL
I call it the world's most disgraceful scandal in
sport. The State Commissioners
about it. nothing they instigate it.
The
19
the
I
race,
short-stopper
that the
THE SAME THING
K. T. "Rabbit" Leung worked But what have fingerprints do Sometimes and cross-indexing with his way to first on a walk and criminal record departmenta Lefty C. M. Tsang promptly rifled out a single to rob the lar to the Dragon class yachts State force of the New York got to do with all this?
Athletic Commission
I don't know, Most boxers Blues of a triumph. well preserved by globe-trot- crimes are committed with the day the price is in the region in colonel fathers an
Regular hurler Tony Kwok Playing in the Colonel Eddie Eagan,
gloves on, of £1,500.
was not available for the Over-junior series two seasons ago, "The"
Yet
accounted (OF royal connection
a fighter aghts to eat, seas in their game against the the Jaguarines with tractive little myth. Ho says
want to cat in Blues and if you
This will also do away with Cowes underlines the clif- the constitution of New York and
Lam Leung-ping of themselves very well, but owing you have to have an ference. King George V sailed prevents his Commission hay-Britain
the Dragons took over the to time taken up with studies petty complaints as these will be Britannia. Prince Philip salta Ing anything to do with a identity card.
pliching assignment, with Y. L. they were unable to round uptaken up by the Committee con-- Dragoti.
Maybe it's the same thing, in Yam of the Blues his opposite enough players to field a fegular corned and action will be taken pan-Amerkan or International
the end..
side.
i if necessary.. body for controlling boxing.
♫
year,
One Cowes yachtsman, com- paring costs, told me that be- foro the war he had sailed a Teal (a five tonner) and roe- koned it cost him £150 including the wnges of the paid hand. Today,
bald hand's wages are £0 a week and It would lake another £200 year to keep the boat."
in trim.
Before the war, yachting was a weelt-day pastima for the very rich and there was DO racing on Sundays; but now nt Cowes, as at other centres, the week-ends are the busiont umes. The majority of yacht- owners work their five-day week arki travel from! London the Midlands for their sport at week-endo.
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