THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1954.
Let's forget the alibis, said
the Golden Boy
OME beaten fighters
holler, a few apologise,
a minority beat their
breasts and weep, others
by GEORGE WHITINGŹ
from the for the postwar Boon-yet few their conjure excUSES
extensive air and the pertoire of their managers.
re-
But not Eric Boon, the Golden Boy,
keep in that feverish of us at the ringside. Imagine, minute between rounds six and were prepared for the dramatic seven. ken rounds of thrust and bust lant came our way that migħi,
Now came Eaution, until the Matched at the curous weight ressurrcful Boon saw his rival Beaten down of 1958, Tuib. Doz., Вамал
come Bud
out of a chuch with as plum-like swelling under and out by Robert Villemain, Villerman gave us boxing at
his right qe blood-red lurget to tawny, belligerent French, w
be thumped with all the vaguIRAT man, in the "fight of the
he could command from his left year" in 1948, Boon got up
nuncalate hand, off his knees and stepped ont of the big time in the grand manner, Said he:
"Bring me IL forget the albis."
beer and
British boxing has
duced no
sonality
t23
21
sformer
hat accent on speed. Villemain, right Com the start, proved himself a man of
efel
jirport
THE FIGHT THAT FINISHED
THE CHAMPION
But Frenclumen.
carted
Boxa
TV-
the in-
The date: June 1952 Rete Boon ond kis wife have a last look at London as they love for Austrollo from St. Pancras station.
neuritis.
me down.
CHAPMAN PINCHER on SLEEP
DO YOU
FEAR
LYING AWAKE?
table,
the process of verslai toples at the breakfast DURING
waking up your senses Sleep seems to be absolutely come back in the reverso essential to life. A human being order to which they disap can go without food for much peared when you went to longer than he can go without alcop. Your senses of touch sleep. Not one of the scores of and
cases in which people claim to hearing, freshen up have had no sleep for years" first, followed by smell and has stood up to examination. finally sight as your eyelids Folk who say they never sleep fliek open.
wink usually average about
hours a night The brain
100 exhibita Ave
Young men who volunteered activity exactly the reverse to go without sleep for as long of that displayed on drop as possible Во that scientists ping off to sleep. Will-power could study them developed is the first faculty of all to delusions after only 72 hours of
continuous wakefulness. weaken when you are dozing Doctors have quizzed healthy off at night, and is the last young people to find out how to reappear on waking. much time they normally
let
11
Body Build
de-
must
оге
L
Villemain, with seconds left to smush home his superiority leapt at his target with a stream of left and right hooks to the head, and Boon all resistance gone, collapsed to his knees under the bludgeoning. At the end, the mathematiclans among
Hence the diffeally of getting vote to sleep, They report that us discovered that Boon had urely ght failed to cheat the knock-out by how strong
up in the morning no matter the figures are eight hours for
your unit, and Villenala seemed an just five miserable seconds.
resolutions women and seven for men, but were on the previous night. they stress that sleep require- unconscramble time being Hin an hour inter, this -
Many of 18 through habit ments vary so much from person beaten off. The gloves uf
credible character was AM | never awaken thoroughly
average figures ou to person that Wiring Boun were now being i
108 assembled sympathisers a one-
first opening our eyes because have little meaning. lower than his chin, his minute lesson on how to lusU
we deliberately ourselves A few exceptional Individuals mivot satuge punches were being m like a gentleman.
alip back into semi-consciousness can manage with only live hours' blocked, and the golden PT method. Punches shot from his
up have been licked by J to get an extra few minutes lie sleep. JU crested 1 test Boon, Thurs
earlier better fighter," he said. "When in bed. hand like
of portunities streamT.
We shut off our eyea began t Tounas
fought to ship away as the
Roderick, myand our Ernie There may neve Deen
other sense boy bulle s lightweight country
organs 10t handy samler in superbly trained Villemais
When
Other people feel they quickly become droway again. from Cambridgeshire white powerful arma
covered and wound himself up sough Omar Koudel, i got Selentists who have
10 hours' die business, but nome quicker.
specially have nine or even
they set the lighting world by its
This time, there was studied this borderline state be- sleep regularly and The gallantry eurs when he was Hi, crush a few with greater cumulative for the final assault.
was nothing wrong with me. 1
was tween wakefulness
and
sluggards. sleep often by no means nearly spent. Lead in his We beaten by a elever fighter, and
hunve aptly
named it "floating in fact one investigator showed ed when they "ated him
three Tomas the Pale
that in all there is to !!."
We often
attained return to
that men con-
who have on the scales, sought revival moon and toe swarty Villeman vented him making the most of a dreamlike opening when
in life
appear Selousness from it with a start, distinction and stacked each other with the hot Vilteman stumbled at welterweight.
Hoon cheekily
only to floot off again unless sleep longer than the average. exposing finally petered out, msung hand
we take resolute action to rouse There may be some connee- ala, demam with his being of the math round.
Jouk pourtes 111
Durselves. it by a profession he once had ked rusty bit the shelter id
you happen
tion between sleep habits and stocenio leita jabbed and posted ruled with a punch like the
1 vit shoulder LuchIRtt༥I,
BA Lakini heval- unguarded A
out off" with your eyes open, body bulld. Stocky people seem us can happen, you may
fatigue less kick of a mule.
beenuse his arms were no longer keeping with the rumbustious
yourself seeing double. Anybody's light
able tu Diy Mi defensive Hoon we had known in earlier
in-cla
But not entirely accurate, At the end dae
Begin To Yawn of the Loumi, 23000 sumped so for it later transpired that Bou the door in sheer exhaustion, had boxed the last five rounds Once you are fully conscious
begin will probably against Villeman with a badly damised knuckle on his right yawn, which is belleved
an automatic effort to hand
Whatever the circumstances, the amount of oxygen
Golden the
Boy hud sung Kings and hence in the blood. Tare mmaes to do, and the
which Your blood, He put on gloves diluted during the night, ringside "beys were bartering again an England, in Canada, in odds-on whether the weary Boon the U.S.A. and in Hawail-but begins to recover its
strength cause le direct harm to the bed and body or mind.
It is only the fear that con- He put he himself, I feel certain, would when you get out of More snipag, and then, in the his all into a right to Villemams have us forget those affairs. your body becomes vertical, but
of sleep must be clun, but timing and directan
it does not get back to normal tinual loss Eric Boon ended his career in
which causes serious ath, came the beginning of the
and injurious up you have been with un logger beads real deworks. Boom, recovering were by now but ta-tered rem Britain
Villemam
active for about nants.
the xxing authority, But he con- fm a slip, tried a left to the
swiftly to tributed much to our boxing hours. button." indeed Villeman to patch, side-stepped
tus r.val sent
by the history-and not least divp his guard for the tha: lume, his right, and
to horizontal ha slithering down the ropes to the manner of his departure ander dur Jute to collec ́L
# left hook to the fire from disalend with every punch he flour with
"Gingerbread."
There will
always be argu- Jurent, E suppose, i to alasch fight
It was that any set time skuds urule the impudent, colou ful
blacksmith
mist while Berati, Striker From Chatteris.
ser mont
his
ห
Just
Prodigy days
Club,
To giving
Having
from at the and the mugh
of a discussal
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M
select the Villerutin
chefend at
6 April 20, 198, « that enaid mi the
curtain career in champurship boxing.
Never penn him ham
t
The hide ull an opponent in this country.
'Gingerbread'
ech
J
Sniping
In the fourili, Boon ron
Carla
a short night that put him down ! and slung hin unte fivels
13 Pi Plaka 114 kona ใน duate the und with
!
de of breath-supping puncher b. the body.
could muster.
Fer two minutes, Viljemain mostly 13 hammering -- Villeman, uncknamed "Ginger - took bread, looked and fought like rights to the head-that would a French bulldog, was five years have overwhelmed a lesser ma, the 29-year-old but he rode out the storm in the younger than
uf A reul Champion. Boon, and bad never been beaten manner in the 30 professional nghis that Nevertheless, he did not decline, had led him to the welterweight as he had done previously with championship of Europe at the the show of disdain, the prof Ernie fered steal 8 the end of the UWT! Our expense of
round. Roderick.
had Vallenam Against uncompromising an opponent, it was nuke-or-breuk mend, and his seconds
bellows
to
earned
The name's the same, the face is similar, the out-look is identical
ITA
MUSSOLINI IS STILL BOSS
By RALPH HART
But one Mussolini
doubts
some
about
methods used by the Fascist revivalist brigades.
For Signor Alfredo Mussolini
cropped
men
on
is not
they
the
fear
.t
The odds
evuld stay the course
+x2
Swan song
characteristic gesture
swan song.
at
in
you
to
lo
to
from find to recover
rapidly than silm people and so may need a little more sleep, What must be happening the health of the thousands of insomnines who rarely get a full
sleep?
The doctors 40 be quota
have 4 reassuring answer. Increase
A long and continuous night's the
rest is ideal for general health but steady loss of up to three become hours' sleep a night seems to
in
8005
a
couple
of
As this effect on the blood is posture and
a Frenchman called not to sleep itself it may also
help
to explain why lying in the sun is so enervating. nuth
chin
AL "nine," the one time dragged Gulden Boy somehow
perpeu- himself to a buckled dicular, but there was no longer armour to defend him. He any was spent.
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Fortunately be made up later.
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JEWS RETURN
GERMANY!
HE Jews who suffered ++
Frittttt The Bonn Government's major the negotiation with The Nazis in their 000,000 restitution agreement, of
more than any other When Hitler took power in 1933 step was
there were 503.000 Jewa in the state of Jarnel of a £274,- people under the Germany. sadistic lush of Nazl attempt to "wipe out the Jews" which £250,000,000 will go for butchery, are now return suoceeded all but for 71,000. the delivery of German indus Here Norman Lindhurst ro trial equipment, manufactured
-
ing in their thousands yeala for the first Ume one of products and raw materials to
to the land of the former the most astonishing stories of develop Israeli economy. Third Reich.
the postwar era the story
menta
occur
Ing to Germany.
of
towns
of
are
Efforts also are being made by
up restitution of Jewish properly in Germany seized by the
tima.
A few months ago this *x- of thousands of Jews who, for the Bonn Government to speed traordinary trek was little more saking their new-born State of Milan. ever doubled that there is nut
than rumour-suppressed in Israel, are returning to the land the Land of Promise known
of their enemies
and the payment of claims of camp vic- TALY has over 1,500,000 a new future for Fascism? The only doubts I have are whather
the new-born state Izrael, ++++++++++++++++++* Nazi concentration No Fascists who make
the neo-Fascist party has
and whispered incredulously in the
At this stage it may well be have agreed to try and stem German the streets of bones about their political capable of organising
Support
has happened to it.
asked, "what and cities Votes polled prewar scale.
In are concerned anti-Semitism sympathies.
Germany? The Germans But we need a lender lacking. MSI
Now the rumour has suddenly her neo-Fascist by the
of the returnees Surely, after being instilled into with the strength of the Duce.
Germons-not burst into an irrepressible fact, because most
necessarily at the last parlia- A man who can
settlers all exploit
are disgruntled Israeli party
which can be holled as one
who re-enter Germany illegally. Nazis for so long, it cannot showed chaos of mentary elections
of today in which millions
the most significant develop Jewish leaders, meanwhile, have died so quickly?"
Germany the Blackshirt "shadow" is volt Communist because they
fear the exodus from
The answer is that anti- Israel are dissatisfied - not because
AND I sinca the ead of the war. a very substantial one.
are Reds.
And in which
may grow to such proportions Semitism is not dead in Ger- they are
Significant because it proves has millions
vote for the Christian with little margin loft for doubt as to endanger the new state's many. Far from it. Chancellor
development.
Adenauer,
hower, has made it the Democrats because
that the fung of Nazism, Or West Germany's present highly unpopular and rather they which many belloved Communism-not because
has dangerous to display it. In his to be Jewish population Berlin admire De Gasperi."
springing up again, is, in fact the most Jews 0,000 and own interests, at a time when Shaking his heavy, close-
for the moment head
any way one of the most successful post- he is striving to restore Gler- muttered he
a world power, it he calls Auguste
dead as the bow and arrow. If
war centres of Jewish life, many as De Marsanich, the t were not, if there is annoyed with what
were 4 Thousands of the
of Jews are regis would obviously be bad policy the "too alow tempo
neo-Fascists, swing back to Fascism" He secretary of
of the has not the punch for the jou, vestige or a danger of it left, tered with Jewish church com- to let an-Semitism revive in
the Jews would not be return munities in various West Ger- any form a 65-year-old cousin
man cities, and thousands more Duce, and he has the tumultuous The movement needs a power- chin and bull ful houd, a man who will fan
scattered over Germany, tongue, granite
living
ordinary German unlamented the flames of the old passions." neck of his late
Because of this I have been FOND OF A DANCE
to able discover only relative.
in citizens, There were 568,000 Jows reports that
Today, there are 400 well- Germany in 1925-the nation's
examples of anti-Semitic feeling Alfredo Mussolini is Predappio Alto - the village to-do squire who cate and peak Jewish population. When jurists in West Germany, of in postwar Germany. Jewish molested in West are judges in the graves were where the dietator spent drinics well and is fond of a Hitler took power in 1938, Ger whom f boyhood--was turning
Fascist
German courts system. Three Berlin and Sluttgart and a many still had 503,000 Jews, again after a postwar "irt" dance with the village
members of the present West Jewish doctor was rejected for Nazi terror and barbarism O
the Offenbach (a German Parliament are Jews, a job on with left-wing politicians. So I But his influence is not merely
for ho alao all but obliterated Ger- and the Association of Jewish
Juburb) Frankfurt
Board of went up into the rolling, wind a parochial one,
Rome, the many's Jewish
population
by Trade reports that 360 Jewish Health. In both cases, however, awept. Romagninn hills to find pulls strings in
fact, there merchants own large business "outeries" followed tho
#1111
cidents. So much so in the diving as Germany in 1980.
case of the doctor that he was Once the camp gates swung his own health as he told me, open, Germany's Jews stamped.
Binally given the job. The Jewish Women's Associa- tion of Germany has 2,000 mem On the other hand, Admauer
fairly encountered The Commendatore got me aed to get out of the country.
or £23 a month. pension of
Jurt Allied assisted emigration bers, and there are 170 Jewish has asike that,"
opposition to
the Israeli "re at," snapping his sun programmes sent upwards of students in German universities. tanned fingers.
In fact, it was "I don't know 60,000 to Israel and thousands Jewish cultural life, with the unition.
pact," the of the Social De-
votes who he saw in Rome or what more
only Brazil, assistance of German authorities,
mocrats that put it across MAN OF BOMBAST
he told them. But he fixed the
America and
is being re-established in all To Now, however, the tide has areas of Germany,
sum up then, the Jews are Alfredo Mussolini is a man of pension all right."
I learned that Mussolini just reversed West Germany's offi- The Jewish newspaper, returning to Germany confident. bombast. He has an aggressiva
the
the village, for in clally registered Jewish popula- Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der village about runs
d) that anti personality.
·Square you FEEL his authority, aktition to "fixing" things like |tion currently. numbers 25,000. Juden in Deutschland, has been. Bemit} **** rightly
pensions though he dresses in the rough fashion of the local farmers ifte, too. unbuttoned sult, woolly cardigan and unabaven countenance.
I had heard
out just what was happening in
bellea,
had
capital. He "Axes things," Bay the war's end. In the weather-beaten characters were just 21,979 Jews
year 9 A.D (After the Duce). in the local tavern.
The meeting with
Alfrode Mussolini showed that he is power in his village. People on the streets doffed their hats to him, and addressed him "Commendatore" his Fascist tile.
In
pro-1945
He keeps a treasure chest of
One of the regulare
drana
to
concerns.
Jewish
(and
two
#titr
for the Germans, for ho bosses the social in addition many hundreds of revived and now has circuls moment. The
Jews who emigrated (particu- tion of nearly 80,000. It is their part, while admitting no In the Master of Jarly to Israel and Bouth published in three editions one personal responsibility for the
at the village America) are drifting back ille for West Germany
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