THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1953.
SMASH HITS
THE QUEEN-Final
Illustration
by ROBB
Mink, diamonds in mad Monte
I
T isn't always the greatest fights which stay in your memory over the years. Sometimes the setting Is as important as the set-to. Such an occasion was the meeting between Lancashire's Peter-Kane and Pierre Louis, then the bantamweight champion of France.
Banjo-eyed Kane had at that timo the best elnim to the world's flyweight championship, but the circumstances which enable me to recall the fight s0 easily were the time and the place,
The date was August 4, 1939, 25 years to the day after the outbreak of the first world war and just four weeks before the second one swept so much of the Europe, we knew into eternal limbo.
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ROYAL INFLUENCE ABROAD
By Sir
Charles Petrie
assume that because a large number of foreign countries are republics the Influence of our own Sovereign upon them must he small.
and
100 many unthinking was broken. The incident, more- people are Inclined to over, was typleal. In the streets at officini receptions, in public and in private, he exerted all his powers of charm, so that when his visit was over he was as it he acclaimed everywhere had been a national hero, and the Entente
good wus
as made.
This triumph was not only a Nothing could be farther
Dentable from the truth, and it is
one for the King: it was success for British significant that one of the
diplomacy, and what has been greatest triumphs by done unce can be done elsewhere British monarch this cen- should the need arise.
Does anyone doubt that in due tury in the field of foreign
course 3
State visit by the Queen affairs was the visit of King to Washington would give aft Edward VII to republican enormous Allip
Anglo- Indeed, France in 1903, which re- American friendship? sulted in that Anglo-French the help that the Crown Entente which helped us to give the nation in International
matters is incoleulable. pull through the First World War.
and
can
The place was Monte Carlo-
prewar Monte Carlo, which for mitless luxury will never be Huplicated in our lifetime.
Money-mad Monte Casino- Cruzy Corlo!
every hour, the
No. 3 OF A GREAT NEW FIGHT SERIES
By Peter Wilson,
It happened on August 4, 1939. at Monte Carlo PIERRE LOUIS
PETER KANE 8...........500005
However, when the rain had ceased and I don't night fell, think I have ever seta such a star-studded ringside.
A. seat is the first four fows cost about six guineas, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor had one of the largest parties'
there.
It did not take up the whole row, however, and when an American heard that they were coming, he offered nearly £30 a seat for the rest of the rOW,
Great Draw
lieve that this was
It seemed impossible to be- the sport which had developed from the of the bare-knuckle. bruising
To make matters worso for Louls he bumped his head on the boards and it was instinct
rather than intelligence which hauled him "eight."
to
kla
fcct
Scotland's Loneliest Church
By J. W. TAYLOR
TAKE à peop Into Scot- gland's loneliest church, where everything is always
But Kane, like all greal cham-ready for a service that is plona, never let his man go once never hold, and where he had him on the hook. He solitary collection plate that rained punches with both hands
a
on the Ashen Frenchiman and is never taken reznd-stands Louis recled round the ring like in splendid isolution always
marionette with twisted full of money,
strings.
the
coine
As Louls had gone down, so
crowd had
UP, countess and chorus iris, millionaires and mechanics, united in the oldest thrill in sport the kill."
It is on the island of Cannn, off the west coast, No matter at what hour you may visit this little kirk you will find the door will swing open to your touch. people are Bibles and hymnarles placed uidily and ready to hand,
their
covers pre grey with
Along the pews for sixty|
And Kane
gave it to him. Louis was a nerveless, bent damp and, except for occasional thing, crouching behind a lattice dusting, seem not to have been
alsturbed for many months. work of armis, and gloves, swayThe altar is neat and tidy and Ing desperately to avoid the tall all ready should there be a
which ne of punches half of never saw and some of which minister about to conduct a
Bcrvice, but mercifully he did not even feel, And on a plinth by the east
there when high against the lights, window is a silver coll
collection like a seagull, the white towel plate. It will always be full of of surrender rose and fluttered, maney, no matter the day or the It was all over, and England there's something like £4 Look Into hour of your visit. had triumphed.
But perhaps Kana's biggest thrill was on his way back to
inn't one.
fin sliver there and
a ten shilling note Hmp with damp on top..
There's really no mystery.
*Every day. Blue Train, white-winged pri- vate yachts, and, of
course, puiring planes brought million aires, im stars, soclety beau- lahteenth century, through the the' dressing-room, for a slight./Only eighteen people live on ins, opera and two of than
and diamond customers, to
the tiny Principality where the sun binzed out of a cloudless sky like an orange in a blue bowl,
Spinning wheels
whe rendy -Bcross
spectators had to
ald are members of Glendalough, tle in the be fingering his
tho to take to their heels familiar gesture, got up from it is without a minister.
name of this forlorn klik. Опсе
the muddy fields of his seat to intercept the chunky, England at the sight of the still-sweating, little Bghting
machine,
police.
"
In year, perhaps only once in two years, as sea and esther permits, a missionary, conduds In short act of worship there, otherwise the kirk is devold of any kind of organised activity.
The rough old game which It was the Duke of Windsor, had blossomed in spit-and- end after he had presented Kane sawdust lofts over dingy pubs to the Duchess, I heard him NOSTALGIC HYMNS
a
and
And through it all, the sun shire
until it had become the millon- ask the slacksmith's boy where ond the swimming and the gaiety, you heard the could draw-royalty,
dollar entertainment which he came from.
What congregation, then, nobility,
gathers within to use those rattle and click of the ite and plutocracy into this iging--
Bibles white boll በ። the
Kane replied that he came neatly arranget rculette 1 wheels spun.
sugar stadium, guarded by the from neur
the prayer books, to search the Liverpool, and of Duke said that he had often been
a nostalgle hyme hymnals for in the Monaco, and perched on the there. Then, no doubt harking and to leave a collection plate "kitchen," where you could edge of
the smiling Mediter- back to the great days of Jimmy piled up so generously all the
year round? Wilde, he added: "I have seen a Food, my boy," lot of flyweights, and you're very
Perhaps they
were
wager as Hule as sixpence, or on the huge tables in the Sporting Club where the #t- tendants were dressed it kuce breeches and velvet coats and there was a notlee telling you that a single stake must not
exceed £8251
Kaudy Iin-soldier militia
ranean.
a
Chewed cigar
You would soon And the But the lnd from Lancashire,
answer if you were to sit Kane,
around a while within its damp down-to-earth Peter brought blood and reality into
walls and wait. Soon a Bsher- fairyland. It was the familiar,
man straight from the boat anl Prancing Peter in his crimson
encumbered by his
sen kit shorts who spent the first round
would quietly slip into a pew feeling out the heavily museled Later in the evening I was and Indulge in an act of private Then there were the generous fighting cock who was the French presented to the Duke of Windsor worship, Not long before he gestures, too. One of the fights bantamweight champion.
and he relived again some of would have a companion on the programine was a meet-
Towards the end of the first the nights when he had chewed share a ing between Francis Rutz, then
any or to reading from the Bible at one or two heavyweight champion of the sesalen, Kane caught Louis with his cigar as excitedly as Let It be said at once that in
and One note of warning should, French Army, George heavy right to the head and other fight fan at the ringside favourite hymns. And as they of some of the great battles of gathered their kit for departure 118 connection... personality
the twenties...
they would add their silver und counts for great deal. Some perhaps, be sounded here, and itMarkwick, ex-heavyweight from the look of astonishment in the Frenchman's face it was people get on with foreigners is that it would be dangerous champion of the British Army clear that he had never been
their copper, maybe a crumpled monarchy, and
He was very optimistic about note, to the mounting pile in better than others, and kings for the British
The Marquis of Queensberry, hit so hard,
peace even then... and yet in the collection plate on the queena are no
exception; consequently for Great Britain
who was helping to promote the other State but woman always has a herself, were every
By the second round the little a few short weeks the sirensplinth. naturel
sounded and
Icw for years Larcastrian, who had been advantage in these in Europe to become a republie; show, was talking to Sir Joh
to famous s # and that Is why the and it is difficult to resist the McTaggart,
that of late years bullder that the late President blacksmith's striker, was hitting people had time to think of the is exceptionally for conciuslun
to be lost of Roosevelt eensulted him on an 80 hard that it looked as though mimic warfare of the ring when sight has tended tunate today.
he had rought some of hi the real thing submerged the International monarchist American housing scheme. It is here, too, that the Duke of that
horse-shoes will him and was world. can make a notable Victoria and King would be a friendly gesture to
Sclidurity upon which bath
Sir John decided that it wearing them inside his gloves, pamburgh British relations to-
VH tuld so particularly close with Edward
pay for seals for os inny of the Scandinavian countries and stress.
All regimes derive strength or Rutz's comrades as could attend, Greece, and the Duke is nearly
as well as any first World Wat related on his father's side to the weakness from the success
And a of Greece, Den- failure of those of a similar wounded veterans,
British battleship arrived royal familles
elsewhere, and а
ae time, the sailors from were mother's side to the King and monarchy is no exception. Que to be invited too, mark, and Norway, and on his nature
Qac Queen of Sweden.
of the outstanding monarchtual a privileged triumphs since the Second This gives him position in those countries, and World War has been achieved through their rulers, he can get casy contact with their leading mics much more rapidly Britain has cause to rejoice that. This cost McTaggart come than would otherwise be the the Queen's-consort is a Greek
spendthrift because the tickets bought for himself and his family cost only about 135. çach. If ever anyone wants to end
day
case.
are
much
or
in Greece, and that is not the least of the reasons why Great
prince. prince,
201
Cost him £300'
?
£300 — bul
WAS
It is, then, qui
quite untrue to say that the usefulness of the Crown in this sphere is at an Furtherare, owhig to his ces cnd because so many countries No one mopolitan-background he can today are-republier, naturally appreciate the foreign wants the Queen to go abroad a drought, all they need do is
Desperation
Louis tried to use the ring,
Lut he would hard needed a five-nere-field-to, avold Kane's persistent rushes, and even the bloge, crowd were wide <yed with wonder at the pattern of destruction which the world champion's floves weaved through the cool evening air.
In the third Louis, in despera- tion, tried to match Kane punch for punch. It was a counsel of despair and suleide. The black gloves flew through the air like a perfect left hook from Kang point of view in a way that would and at their neighbours or her told at the time that there had
hornets on the attack, and then with her relatives stage an open-air fight. I was caught the Frenchman on the otherwise be impassible, and he against can interpret It to the Queen and own, but what as a con- not been a rainy day at Monte her Ministers. A few narrow- stitutional monarch, she can minded and ignorant people may is, like her great-grandfather, that the Duke is not to create a friendly atmosphere British by birth, but in reality in which her Ministers
work for the country's good. a tremendous asset. is One instance will suffice to
-regret
this
-show-how much the Crown, can do to further the national in-
do
ean
terest where foreign policy is Every day we read of the concerned, and it is that visit of
politicians of different rations
King Edward VII to Paris to hurling abuse at each other in which allusion has already been the name of peace, and it is made.
are sill some At the close of the South lucky that diere African Warin, 1902 Great Bri-
kings and
to pick up queens left bricks the tain was isolated in Europe; the
which these same politicians have dropped. Government of the day had fall-
ed, through no fault of its own, No one could be better equip-
to make an
an alliance with Ger-ped for this somewhat dellente many and it was turning to Lukthan Queen Elizabeth France; but centuries of enmity She has the charm and energy
was
sho
+
.
It
angle of the jaw.
He went down all of a hosp
Carlo in the Arst week of and the light of intelligence in August for 28 years, but sure his eyes was quenched as you enough, on the day of the fight, sulle fame of
a candlo it came down cats and dogs, between finger and thumb.
MARIUS HAS A GOOD CHANCE
From Sydney Smith
PARIS. minutes before the operation was
18-YEAR-OLD Frerich Boy, due to start.
are not lightly forgotten, and of youth, and both on her own A Marius Renard, has a chance France was auspicious of British account and on her husband's of life because his mother begged There did not stem to be
many connections Intentions.
Eurecons to take one of her much hope for Marlus until his Somehow the ice had to nbroad.
be
kidneys and graft it into her son. mother offered, the surgeons broken, and the King undertook At home she has behind her For a kidney taken from a live whatever her son needed. They the task. His reception in Paris the colld assurance that the person was his only chance of accepted. The operation lasted two hours while mother and son frigid.
ahat Crown was never more firmly ite: and hardly
lay in neighbouring operation came off as he drove through established in the hearts of the the streets, but he neglected no people than it is today.
The Renard story is ons which rooms, opportunity of impressing upon The the French his desire to be their hates a role of Britain Incar has stirred all France.
great national tradition that of the family, which is friend.
One evening he went to the bedded deep in, British life and Theatre Francais: The house history, WAS
s full, but the public were ley, the long course of the so during the interval the King country's anuals it would not be nod 1bit his box with the intent of trust and confidence between
to and another case of auch They operated and removed Doctors and surgeons tending them both say this: "The transfer winning this hostile side. In the lobby he saw on Sovereign and people 45 50ed to be even more gravely ill Marius more chance of Ute than The next day, so Marius stem- of his own mother's kidney gave actress whom he had met in manifestly exist at the present
surgons If it had been anyone else's." He London. Holding -out his hand, tune, and this is a
than before, the a happy augury operated again. To their as-is doing very well but it will, be enchMademoiselle, Ind- for the future. Hoving need of had been barn with only ong can will for contain whether ho tonishment they found that he at least another month before we member, how I applauded you in
Unity In the London. You personified, diere, the hour in a world tom by
kidney
wall live. all the France, all the sprit of strife, and the union between
10
to his Towd
That was Christmas Day. Since Marius Renard, working in his then Marlus and his mother have father's building business, fell lain in opposite wards of the three storeys from a laddar Just hopital, windows facing each before Christmas Doctora dag other, a small garden between,
a crushed, right kidney)
Qucon Elizabeth II and - those Another. Paris hospital offered. But Marius's condition has
Never •hald⋅
| King Edward better over whom she (reipia is man a pele operation. A dying patient, tiges, my good that they whipoled displayed his abilly, to any and example, which we hopes will volimbered to tranbun to Marlias his mother to soo him. Nobody,
do thư right thing," the rematic" be "widely," "fallowed, tooth and the kidneys huo anadai la lvn, Bab 2004 yet darat tell him, though, spread like wildoro and taito-homa: uhú abroad..
i iber woukt-os donor died fifteen, who had enabled him to live,
And so it goes on daily all through the year., Fishing boats often sheller or pause at Canon. Then, singly or in cups, the men who follow the sea make their way to the little kirk of -But-the-memory-of-the-Monte Glendalough to perform--their Carly of 1939, which can never own act of worship and thanks- be re-created, 13 n fresco of
giving for a safe voyage. boxing which
shall never
Occasionally they ກ: abla forget.
Feet Mrs Campbell. of Canna, when she periodically clears the collection plate and mis- sends the money to the sionary.
"
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