POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"In some ways, Culthrop, one is rather glad that one did one's soldiering when one did!"
{ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1954.
The shattering fall from grace
of M. Carpentier,
Few Knew G
The Wine Shop Earl
From Ronald Singleton
O
who
NLY
ever
Wala
New York,
a few customers bothered to ask
The
courteous,
idol of France
The Fight that Finished the Champion
WAB once
by GEORGE
WHITING
Either we
L
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hand into the undefended face Joyful takers of profitable odds of his opponent.
hoirled Siki to their shoulder. Again, na Siki lowered his Officials swarmed the ring. The guard when the bell sounded crowd cheered and howled and for the end of the round, Car- demanded its verdict. pentier, whipped over another sneak punch-this time a full- blooded right-hander on those thick Senegalese lips.
These non-regulation manoeuvres endea for all time
"Mosaicurs," crackled the loudspeakers, "the referee has disqualified Siki for tripping. Carpentier is the wizer.”
That did it. The whole Jam- Carpentier's chances of recovery, packed arena exploded into a or even survival, They earned frenzied bedlam as justice wor him stern reproof from the demundod for Siki, as stormy referee, turned an indignant passage through the mob was crowd violently Dud notally
forced for Corpentier by short- against him and, above, atl, tempered gendarmes, and as romoved the Jast remaining officials rushed about in fruitless shrods of restraint and control, attempts
to quell the Gallic from the snarling man in the pandemonium. opposite corner.
THE AFTERMATH
Round four-a shambles, Skulls ler, flashed his smile, panto-
together 05 the "punches," and smacked named a few
pain-stricken Car- Dest part of an hour later stood back courteously when the desperate, half-scared Sikl collapsed to his pentier sought shelter in the with most of the angry crowd knees without being hit
clinches from the rain of punish- still roaring its Indignation, the ment that gushed his mouth, referee's decision was rescinded, The farce had begun. Many split wide the skin surrounding and the judges declared that in the crowd began to read their his right eye, and brought blood Siki, conqueror of Carpentier on newspapers, others to howl for cascading from his nose.
knockout, was the their money back.
new cruiserweight champion of the world.
EORGES CARPEN. Picture Parls that sunny Sun- TIER, who cele day afternoon nearly 32 years brated hla 60th ego. We are in two camps, we birthday In his fight-fans of France. Paris restaurant in January, are on our way to see our idol, the magnifleent Georges, chop described by
Sid to ploces at his own in- Arnold Bennett as "having
minculote convenience; the appearance of a barris-
በፖር deliberately staying away ter, a poot, a musician, Foreign Office attache, B
round, because we consider the whole the second Fellow of All Souls and affair to be a phoney, a take-on, stooge was on the floor from no An air of intellectual or designed to part us artistic distinction."
Bernard Shaw called him
or We
£ from the Velodrome Buffalo Again, in the first minute of
hard-won francs.
from our
Who is this Siki, anyway? And
a genius, the reincarnation by what right does he dare to of "Charles XII, with
the challenge
Carpentier for the the world title that stance and poise of
our hero has statues of Greek gymnasts." won against Battling Levinsky
in the United States? These smooth and erudite New similes offer a true enough
COUNT OF SIX of the
elderly man who served
behind the
counter of
little wine shop on
York's East Side.
His accent told therm Was English
all.
picture
WILN that
Then he disappeared suffered a stroke desk, they were told.
It i
most
man
He
the ebony
took
A CRIMSON MESS
A
technical
Aftermath? Plenty of it. The French Boxing Commission decided that everything pertain ing to Carpentier versus Siki had been strictly legitimate.
For the whole of the Afth apparent cause.
around Siki fiung his savagery at count of six-and then, irritated the crimson meas that half an and tormented as much by the hour earlier had been the hand- Jeering crowd De by the pin- somest face in the fight game.
Siki bought himself a lion cub, pick Jobs of his posturing up- Only instinct, the instinct of a ponent Siki forgot his lines, champion, kopt Carpentier on lost his title to Mike McTigue in The whipping boy went beserk. his feet, and prompted him to Ireland, toured the U.3.A, fell The dolt became a demon.
seek revenge by means of one foul of the police, una got him- mighty pay-for-all right-hander selt murdered in a taven brawl at the beginning of the sixth. In New York's "hell's Kitchen"
on December 15, 1823.
But his last-gasp effort, born of pain, fizzled out pathetically as the cock-a-hoop Siki brushed
eside and thundered
Leaping from the canvas, Siki flung himself furiously ni the astonished Carpentier in a blaze of unorthodox punches, and Carpentier, debonair no longer,
to his knees it aprawling Carpentier was several grudes went higher than
from the unhandsomest right- avalanche of punches at Ely a president
target within reach, trade union leader in the France hander in all creation.
DT U
of those days-still ruted second The indignity Jasted two Lest heavy wolght
Jock seconds, 10 Dempsey, to whom he had lost
his
Then Carpentier almed famous Internationally
right at Sikj'a jaw, and way Immediately overwhelmed by the wildcat man he had sought to humiliate. Only Instinct kept Carpentier upright under the storm.
he resourceful lighting
ever to throw a punch in France. But suppose your Charles XII and your Fellow of All Souls gets his torso his battered and his handsome that sensational world title fight straight face mashed up by an apt in Jersey City the previous year. mis ed. man from West Africa? Those same similes, I
And Siki? Just cual-black Senegalese sacrifice from St gest, must then give way to Louis, West an entirely
Africa, where he new series --- had been burn 25 years earlier coined in earthier terms of and given the name of Louis sacks of potatoes, blood- Phal. His introduction to Paris stuffed pillows and stuck was in the role of dishwasher. pigs.
A week later they learnt that Archibald Viscount Acheson, 76, fifth Earl of Gosford the man who could talk so knowingly of good wines had died in Manhattan hospital.
And they discovered that one of his sisters WAN Lady Cadogan, wife of Sir Alexander
Cadun. former chief of the
SUNNY AFTERNOON
Never
Aug-
it
His And Carpentier?
good looks came back, but never again his did
An uppish left swing, full on the mouth, sent Carpentier to the ropes like a dying fish in a not; attacker and defender thrashed the air, and there was Carpentier, fallen idol of France, flat on his back with one leg twitching grotesquely autumn Bir.
The fight was over.
the
Gorgeous Georges come within Aghting distance of the world title he fet slip to un opponent he despised in the sun- shine of a Sunday afternoon in Paris.
WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED
NEXT SATURDAY:
Jack Peterson--the boxer who got away
JUST WHAT IS
SIKI DOWN!
Momentarily, when a right Brave?
Certainly brave hook tumbled Siki in the third enough to have won the Croix round, it seemed that Carpentier de Guerre
and the Legion of might yet rescue his reputation Honour as a conscript with the from impending disaster. Bul French Catonini forces in the the woolly-topped West African, the loud! Atzel [ ]
1914-18 war. A boxer? Never no longer a puppet to be pinyed the night gaino U.K. delegation to the United | Jurid history of
In your life nothing more than with strings, bounced up without Nations.
has there been a more shattering
a sub-human slinger of indis- a count, and rushed at his man fall from grace than that of
with criminate fists, gly, unkempt,
such venom that Car- own circle of Carpentier at the block hands of
of entirely without
side-step, style
secking to and pentier, Sep- and stump | Balting Siki on Sunday, cullectorn_stamps were another
slipped and fell. Whereupon tember 24, 1022. To all intents almost entirely without code.
Siki, not yet completely beyond of his interests-he was a well-
No, monsieur, this Sik! is a the beau geste, stepped forward known figure.
joke. The whole affair is ridi- to help his rival to his feet. culous. Georges will eat him.
around But Carpentier, it seemed, was
Amongst his
connoisseurs
wine
Never
seventeen
Over the past years, they had loved to drop in for chat about vintages and rare issues with the man who, In World War I, hud been head of the Brillsh Women's
Corps.
Army
Viscount Acheson was as fond
of New York and New Yorkers
us ony America,
He came to the US, in 1928 und decided to make New York
home.
City his
But
to friends who asked him about becoming an American citizen, Lord Gosford would say: a minute would 1
"Never for
consider it!"
And
And
Lady
American-born
Beatrice Claflin,
Gosford, his wife,
formerly
would add:
and
finished the purposes, international championship career
ut the greatest cruiserweight personality of his time-even it
A SAUSAGE?
By LES ARMOUR
London. marmalade will never
national dish.
HER Majesty's food ex-
perts will sit down
table shortly
↑
he did recover sufficiently Lu Carpentier, uniruined and out In no mood to appreciate th to decide what is a sausage
hle score
second
one-round of trim-why should be train for others the gallantry for which he and what is not u sau- knock-out over Dur own Joe this nonsense?-came from his himself was famous, and signifledge. Beckett in London a year later. corner in the manner of a cava- his fury by smashing his left |
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They'll Shop
Shop By Covered Way In Snow City
By FREDERICK ELLIS
snow frequently feet deep in winter. Each house the town's is connected to shopping centre by a covered way. Tunnels are sunk under the high-speed highway so that the children un no risks on the way to school,
OU will not find Kiti- for you cannot dump 50,000 men, weather with
mat on the usual women, and children in this in- hospitable country without care maps, for Kitimat,
and thought. The nearest labour "Never for a minute would I which the Red Indians call exchange i 450 miles away.
"The Land of the Falling Snows," was no more than country very much, as they a cluster of huts for Indian used to tell their friends,
fishermen ♫ few months
a British citizen,"
become n
Both
got along fine together,
each loving each
As
Coldstream a
A serious problem this. The sausage is an essen- tial ingredient
become
City analysts have made similar appeals. They art worried about nutrition Food inspectors take the same view.
Árud
ordinary citizens Trouble even more rate.
sausage after all, that a
of bread LOOKS Just sausage
full of meat. So 50
aro
18,
fuli
Like o
the Food Ministry has has asked local
the acted. It in
English way of life. Few governments throughout the breakfast tables
not are
country to decide what they think sausage should be. The
Ministry's experts and a new law drafted.
complete without it. Scarce results will be sifted by the ly a dinner table escapes the sausage for more than a few days at a time.
And, lately, the sausage has posed a neat problem: It is hard to decide whether to put sauce or marmalade on the thing.
He's Particular
The Englishman is parti- cular about these things. Yes, the town will have every- Sauce is a thing you just thing-fige shops, cinemas, hos DON'T eat on bread. Nei- pitals, schools even parks and ther do you eat marmalade playing Acids. Already there are touches of the civilisation on meat.
to come; the odd flashy
and Ford roar up the f But the "sausage" may new, broad highway.
well contain a preponder- ance of either.
Thus kalimat became the town-planners' dream of haver to build, a big town from scratch. Scratch it was, for square miles "Guards ago.
of forest had first to be removed. officer, Lord Gosford fought and was wounded in both the Boar Now a town for 50,000
They spent £70,000 on plans War and World War I.
and planners alone. Now the dry He was
decorated
people is rising, a com- plan is injected with life, with still with the
British the first 500 houses of this dream Buick and the Croix de munity of size in then
ho became Columbia, where moun- town going up fast, Assistant Adjutant General tains almost outnumber and chief of the Women's Army people. It Corps, a job which convinced him, he used to say: "The best rises on land KITIMAT chaperon for a young woman is where, since
Military Guerre
Cmse
a pair of cotton stockings."
Needlework
Ho went to China. In 1918 as director of a tobacco company, but found it too far from home later he took the
Ten years
advice of a friend who suggest-
time began, only lofty pine trees have stood - 450 miles from the city life of Van- couver,
It is to
ed. he go to the U.S. and Kitimat that
become a grocer.
П
In World War 11 he served as
captain of the New York City
pas
corps
after the
F.H. La Guardia
the power
lines
miles
stream the late from
Ke glant mano under- .: 50
over the moun-
200
**BILE"
KITIMAT
on OUR map
persuaded its board to accept a
foreign
Ign citizen. Curiously, one of his hobbies taking
was needlework,
In 1933 he entered a sampler
of his coat of arms with
motto
an ΟΙ
exhibition of "Needlework Today" in the Vernay Galleries
the only man to do
Now
80.
Round the town rings a 50- mile-an-hour by-pass road, with a civic centre planned as the hub of a wheel. Its spokes will be the nine boroughs of Kitimat, But this will be no
Cheap Power Lure
A year ago, there was a law governing these mat- Before even the first house ters. A pork sausage had company was started the planners had to be 65 percent pork. town. It will be the people's established a landscape nursery, beef sausage had to contain A town. Already.
Com planted with tender trees arid population has elected its reeve, shrubs to beautify and mellow 50 percent meat any or mayor William ("B") the rawness of the new town, Sparks, engineer building the
kind of meat, not necessari- town.
ly beef.
the
sice letou
Permanent Home
This
month the first per- manent home of the town that
is not yet on the maps will be aluminium by Occupied worker. He will buy his house
допо
Kitimat will not be Industry town. The lure of cheap power has already brought two other plants to the factory area, On the outskirts an enterprising hoteller has got in quick with a super modern motel, where you drive up and stay the night.
The first store is up as yet on mortgage, aided by benevolent # temporary building through inancing from banks and the the pioneering spirit of the Aluminium Company of Canada. Hudson's Bay Company,
Thesa
There the 2,000 construction are super-workers houses, costing £3,500. The workers and their families, with
200 wives, and 100 girls, do
repayments
of
much
the
Then the law was re- poaled. The Government proclaimed its faith in the efficacy of competition. The inevitable laws of economics would seo that sausage eaters got a fair deal.
Mostly Bread
Alas, like so many lawa the tains, often a mile up and a down payment will be 6246, works shopping from radilo in economics, this one look- Vigilantibus in
'with
212 8 mile down.
month. By Canadian" standards sets to needles and thimbles. ed much better in the text And the girl behind the cigarette books than on the break- It is the other half of that is a bargain-basement buy.
stand is certainly chosen for fast table. "He never regretted making the $210 million power-to-ing material, but this will be no acumen.
Wood is the traditional build- looks as
busi York his home," Lady frying-pan project."
shanly town. The houses are Nevertheless Kitimat is still a markably good up to 95, per- Some waarigos have been re- Gosford said. "The Far East This was too far away from London alone. is a
aluminium plant attractively designed, ranch-type construction camp where man cent pork.
tremendous in- bungalows.
Others have been for him to resettle, but from
will
gamble his pay packet remarkably bad. Some of them Each one has three bedrooms, away. It is not uncommon for tanto su though they were development, here he could be back in London dustrial
with alted wardrobes, and a man to lose or win £300 in a percent bread. within
few days any time he free-enterprise development large lounge, with a kichen night's gambling of black jack, i wished,"
# with two miles of buildings, that looks like a show house of form of pontoga.
Monafacturers have appealed Surviving him are two sons,
to the Kitimat John Viscount Acheson, now the 1,000 feet wide, near readi- what could be in Britain, on
isővernimerit to set up now ones to spew out the metal burning central heating is built barely names to folk outside covere sixth Earl, anet
in, with gases alongside, It is Canada." But what imagination, that the inferior products, will They fear Acheson, and two daughters, | of 4,000 uses.
a women's dreams Erotinu,
what courage, what endurance beinar Baroners von der Buscho and
the vary concept of But factories need people and The town, pianoan have for. Ama hao - to attacks: much Botora Mary A. de Corcuera.. people need homes. Bine homes, gotten nothing, vertattly not the majestio project,
They are convinced that sausage, and"
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