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FIFTH IN THE SERIES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1954.
Where are the Kings of the Ring today?
NOW DEMPSEY SELLS STEAKS-AT 30s A TIME
TEW Yorkers, I sup pose, would be hor. rified if
N
anybody
Warm
stole Times Square or the Empire State build. Ing. but an almost equal affront would be afforded by the removal of Jack Demp- sey's restaurant, whose 3 ft. red neon bluzes a but expensive welcome to the world that walks along Broadway especially to that wide-eyed section of tourists known to the in- habitants as Sunday kers.
HEC-
• The man whose fists earned him тоге than £3,000,000 in the ring says:
by GEORGE WHITING
frame to any such savagery as the "whistle stop champion- might remali in the slumberous ship" · Willard.
second
Being then In "career" as a fighter-the first having ended gloriously and impecuniously with a labourer's job in # coalmine ~ Dempsey
gladly would
have
shot at bun- for money, but not for nothing were hia offers being handled by the fabulous Jack "Doc" Krama,
Willard's championship 'You
can say that I'm a busy guy.'
getung to be a bad smell," he
an Why joint—and the pince was
continued, “So now I have taken over and we are doing all right, I put in 18 hours a day backslage, eut front, meeting people, every- thing. My being around means At least 1,000 dollars a day dif- ference-and don't forget we have to take 2,000 dollars a day If your pocket and your sense of values baulk at paying 30s. to break evon. The staff pay- upwards for a stable, you must be rail is 20.000 dollars a munur. corberst with a sidewalk view of and the rost is 70,000 dollars a proprietor Dempacy on he signal year minimum, plus seven per- autograph books and menu cent of the taltings over a certain cords ki a window seat,
figure.
"Yos, mir, you tell them I'm a buy guy. I do a lot of rudo atui TV work, 1 referee boxing and 1 um wrestling all over, and
In my case, I could claim sutile acquaintanICU with
grent the man. So I marched
past the fred portico representation of a younger
in fighting also director of publicity for un Dempsey
schoul mood, through the brass doors, electronica
Chirago, and up to the horse-shoe shaped where they
resident got 2,000 bur round which the restaurant scholars. radiates, und round which up t 400 putions can cut, drink, and pay.
Dempsey, one-time Manassa Mauler, smothers all out-of-towe customers with the warmth of his "Hiya feller" welcome--like a ponderous beur who hopes for buns but is ready to be friendly anyway.
At 39, his dark head admits to not a solitary grey hair; his right hand crushes you; his left, the one that used to hook the heavy- weights of the world into pain and suffering, now dazzles учки with a half-inch ruby worn the little finger.
Hail fellow
on
Diplomats, gangsters, politi-
徒息
"No tane, then, Think about the old days." I prompted
Backed himself
"Every buck I car is munder,” he grinned. "Especially a reminder that if | hundert heked Jess Willard I would probably be sweeping out this joint instead of walog 1."
This was it. The Willard Aulit, The Apht that made Jack
One minute and 58 seconds after the impatient warriors had begun their maul
Willard was flat on his back
in mid-ring, sent thither by a pile-driving Dempsey right the
hook that would have put les robust citizen In mortuary.
a
Al "eight," Willard contrived
SEFTON DELMER'S NEWSMAP
A significant fact emerges from today's dossier on the latest German to go East'
it seems he was a member
of a society you'll hear more about
THE SECRET
S
LEGION
top
10 another top German the Legion can reach ita
has gone over to the grades is by successfully carry- Soviet side. Two in a chiefs.
Ing out tasks set by the Legion
monthl
That may be significant. For First, Dr Otto John, chief I would not rule it out complete- of West Germany's M.1.6. ly that the apparent detection And now Karl Fran Schmidt- Wittmack may be a cover for of the very ambitious Schmidt- Wittmack, one of the leaders some mission he is performing of Chancellor Adenauer's an Legion orders. Christian Democrats and A
possibly the shadest mainger a wobbly perpendicular - but / member of the Bonn Parlia mack shares the sentiments of
all tune. and certainly the
smoothest.
At first sight, the two
On one point Schmidt-Witt-
John. He is an ardent monarchist.
But, unlike John, he belleves
by a monarch rather than
the
much good it did him. Dempsey, mont's European Defence Dr with victory in his knuckles (and Plan committee,
£33,000 wager-money half-way Koortis extolled the viciousness into his pocket) leaped of the of his protege's punch, dweit groping, pain-racked Willard.
* cases seem identical authoritarian government led rentinrently on Dempsey's mur-
Seven times the man-mountain derous elimination of such other was flattened, and the end or Schmidt-Wittmack has, in constitutional form favoured by
tim sitting help the words of East German and hopelessly
the Communist radio, "requested he had been 50 fussy political asylum for himself, carlier his wife, and his daughter streamed
Sir
COVEN
three
minutes
on
the
heavy weights
Gunboat round found 05 Smith, Jim Flynn, Bil| Brennan, lessly Billy Mike and Fred Fulton, and aled that the taking apart of about
as Willard would be a spectacle His cost and mouth winth at Jouset £17.000
blox and his eyes stared vacunt after having had talks with ly at mahing as his desperate responsible personalities."
There is a difference. per- haps a vital one. It in a difference in the characters of the two men themselves.
Dr John Was
Liberal, Schmidt-Wittmack is very far from being one. He has never disguised his view that demo- cratic government is unsuitable for Germans.
Rickard, knowing fall well secunda dragged him W the that Kearns was expecting
kazetumy et ave corner, thun bulf that amount, uffered £10,000, but reserved to
Fanself the promotional rights Counted on
ist
of all future Dempsey fights,
Contracts were signed--and off weat Dempsey
train Masumer Bay Lake Erie Tuledo,
a few
น the
mules outside
shore of
Ricard built himself a huge wooden stadium in the open air, 20,000 8ght-follower packed the hotels, gold-brick operators made their cusÐARY piking and Dempsey, having a quired £3.500 stake-mney, beetod himself to win £35,000 by dipusing of the Buat Wibard a one round.
Cue for pandemonium. Referee Ollie Pecord, cloth-capped against
the furnnec heat of the after- nem sun, had failed to hear the tumekeeper's whistle for the end of the rcond an
be tolled seventh count over the prostrate Willard. He continued counting. and then, as Willard's seconda on their errand of climbed up morry, he raised Dempsey's hand as the new world champion.
officials
He is typical of a good many Gerinans who, like himself, be gan 28 devoted Hitler youth loaders and
became enthusiastic army officers.
then
Two tasks
1 can disclose that he was a mem-
A cock-a-hoop Dempsey left the ring--but got no more thun Independence Day dawned a Gen yards,
At that distance BUT, more than that, bright and boiling. but the a horde of harassed
hurt-keved crowd had to sit caught up with him, explained ber of the secret and influential through untuk for wel that his opponent had beaten political society called The First ane, Lefore the vet ild champion- the count. and
Legion, which is anything but would słup be the get going.
Dempsey be so kind as to step democratic, back and finish the business in accordance with the rules?
Dempsey heavy-weight Use a whistle
champion of the world out
there in Toledo, Ohio, On
July 1. 1919. Truly せずし
17st. 13st
John,
I
Close friend
whether
this
WONDER monarchiat
aspect of the latest desertion to the Russians will cause the German Federal their original project of police to take up once more inter- viewing Prince Louis Ferdinand, the Crown Prince's son.
He was one of the closest friends of Otto John and almost the last man to see him before his drive across the border.
The Federal police, I am told, have 90 far refrained from calling on Prince Louis only because he is at present staying in France.
feel
The German authorities they would be losing face 12 they asked the French for per- mission to send representatives In such a delicate matter,
The prince is staying with his father-in-law, Duke
the Grand Breton fishing village of Saint the little
Vladimir, at Mr
Its members include top civil servants, diplomats, and Indus- Cialists in West Germany.
The Legion was set up in the carly days after the German collapse to enrol a small elite of Germans who would dedicate themselves to two tasks,
The first was to create out of the ashes left behind by Hitler new, reunited, and greater Germany.
Q
Bricuc.
He is not due back in Hech- ingen, the Hohenzollern seat until the middle of September, when his children go back to school.
His A
Naturally nettled at this turn ol events and the lose of his "one round" bet. Dempsey re- Independence Day-and here Willard, trained to an appat turned to apply once again those
Whatever the reasons for was Jack Dempsey recalling it, endly nanoeuvrable 121. butcher-punches that had mash
Schmidt - Wittmack's
defection, over cheesecake and coffee.
against Dempsey's
71b ed Willard's face, removed two
one thing is certain: he did Joined his sworthy challenger in of his teeth, closed his right eye,
not go over for money. ...Willard, ort, am, ex-cow- the sun-baked ring and promptly and raised a plum-like swelling
He is already well-off. cians. statesmen, small fry, big boy from Potawatore County, protested that the fleur-canvas on his right temple,
wife is wealthy coal merchant and their
of the daughter try.. everybody visits Damp Kansas. had become u nation's was stained with the blood of mey's sooner or later, and for idol by winning the heavyweight
Tesser men, and would they For three more minutes
Joint
incomes made it possible title from Negro Jack Johnsui in please change it for a clean one, Dempsey lambasted the bruised
for him to devote himself 1915 But four
and blood-stained wreck befone yours of near.
The second was lo
that entirely to politics. to much They
vicious purpose the did so, but, in their him-to such
German people the ringside that even
regained midriff, and, at haste, the officials laced the new
bacists 38. Willard was definitely in
90 clumally
that faith in their destiny which that they were yelling for b cease-fire
they appeared to have lost. bell, putting that Referee Pecord ignored them. what you might call the twilight covered the stage of corpulence, It took a very necessary instrument almost Sheer guts enabled the half- Tex Rickard, newly arrived from entirely out of commission. So binded Willard to botter from the West. to beguile the spread some genlus, sensing the growing his stool for Round Three, and Legion became ind klart to definding tris
customers even, from some unsuspected and Impatience
time-keeper Warron super-human reserve of fury, world title, the promotional spiel provided being sweetened to the tune of Barbour-later a United States to hit back at his tormentor...
£35,000.
them all the former hobo from the St. Luis Valley in Colorado has the art of hall-fellow-well- to the nth
Inet worked out degree of cordiality,
How is life coming alons for
a man whore fists
have earned
him more thum £3,000,000"
**[ ala't broke, but
the sam
ปี
working man," said Dempsey, at Lime indienting that thr steak I was eating was the most tender in the world. else.
10
had activity thickening of
the
led
Carwas
of
the
Penstor...with a police whistle instead. How was he, or any.
Dempsey, thyen a foowling black-fowled jaw-breaker of 24, brigir, but fevered. piece of "Up to six months ago 1 was was asked to state his price for improvisation was to raise every kind of sleeping partner exposing has comparatively small kind of cal and give the world
body else, to know that this Towel in
only
FROM RICHARD HUGHES: DATELINE, TOKYO
THE JAPS HAVE A PLAN
TO DISCOURAGE SUICIDE
I
Na desperate attempt A new kind of "sincere and hostesses for having forcibly
to rid the fashionable genuine whisky" is promised by imprisoned seaside hot-springs re- Japanese distillers this year.
隐情
a
suicide centre,
In the customer G cellar oll Saturday night.
The
innocent customer, an
But the end was at hand. Willard slumped on his chair like a sack of meat at the end of the round, and shook his head wearily as his chief second, The O'Neil, tossed the towel of sur- render into the ring.
That was 35 years ago.
a
you to
And
your'
sce
the
With the advent of Adenauer Government
of first-rate
importance.
A. big catch
the HIS friends tell me that since
Two of its members became | high officials of the new Ad
ministration and, perhaps more Important, advisers to the aged and somewhat crotchety Aden-
auer.
In key jobs
THESE were Dr Hans Globke,
his election as the Christian Democrat deputy for a Hamburg constituency in last year's elec tions Schmidt-Wittmack
had been frantically busy in Bonn
"He's been rushing around the place seeing everybody hearing everything he could sald one friend. "And he puts everything down on paper."
He should assuming he has really gone over → be almost as valuable a
catch
for the Soviet Intelligence i
John him- pelf. For,
all I am told,
THE former No. 1 civil servant he has managed to pick up not
the
currents in German
Yes, coming so soon after the John core and right on top of the E.D.C. deadlock, this new decampment is going to
D and considerable blow for the old Gee Chancellor.
in Himmler's Ministry of the only a knowledge of the con- alecker, lerg warlike Interior, and now State Secre- Aleting Dempsey waves
tary to the Chancellor's own internal politics but of the inner
Dr Blanckenhor, w favourite table in his Broadway 9ice:
office; and
of Germany's foreign restaurant and tells you how he former Ribbentrop diplomat who
as well. Chancellor's went to bed and cried the night managed to win the he won the heavyweight cham confidence and is now running
the pionship of the world from big
political department of
Foreign now
Office. Jess Willard.
Between them, Globke Teckon Willard would have cried, too - had there Blanckenhorn were able to been room for fears through that Legionaries got key Jobs. On September 8 the German the alite that covered hir And I don't think it is too much Federal Parliament will meet to of an accident that a large discuss John, It will now be number were the samo turials who had won key jobs mack as well,
oppor
able to discuss Schmidt-With-
under Hitler and Himmler.
Let's hope there is Where does Schmidt-Wittmack another case for it to discuss not yet At in this picture? Well, one of between now and then. the ways in which members of
(London Express Service)
sort at Atami of its grisly It will be made from corn and rural visitor admiring the city
national fermented reputation
eyes. with yeast with an bright lights, was dragged into sauce, beans the bar at 9 p.m. by two gurls, the local admixture of soy
and dried chrysanthemum petals, who set 20 bottles of beer and tourist body will establish a "It instes just as good as real a lorge ham in front of "Pearl Island" below the Scotch whisky
and
is much and proceedad, beautiful but notorious cheaper,"
makers
nned nervously behind the report him Cliffs of Nishiki – ga - ura, proudly.
table, to emply the boilles
couples.
Scotch
the
while
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WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED NEXT SATURDAY: A Champ Haunted By The Tax Men
'WONDER' DRUGS WITH A QUERY
where most suicides jump No name has yet been selected themselves and distribute them into the sea, singly or in for the new brew, but veteran to amused favourites at the bar. Presented with a bill for drinkers, recalling 10,000 усл (£10) Tokyo's early Occupation "Scotch time, the rustic
at closing types" have suggested "White he had ordered nothing and had protested that On this built-up island, it walking Stick Brand," with a drunk only one bottle of beer. is proposed, women divers, free white walking stick for
NO "Wonder Drug" has Scop, however, the danger All threata falling
AMERICAN heuphoto. the Swainl specially chosen for their every purchaser.
host then hurled him
into the gist Professor Philip ever raised more hopes and signs became too obvious to be looks, will plunge Into the
collar and locked the door. Hench went to London in brought more despair-than any inner. As British reirntisto confirmed in their re- Бед during the Aummer
The girls and barkeeper pro- October 1948 to give the Cortisone. Five years ago feruall bed chiv last week, The old argument whether months to bring up specially tomato is fruit
tested to the er a vegetable that they were
polico next day most important lecture of the first news of this Cortisone and ACTH have dis- planted cultured pearls. has cropped up in Japan, where "incere
only showing the year on rheumatism. The "answer" the National Tax Agency has to the visitor and had kindly lecture was a great success, excited the imagination of May. A commose up by
Japanese hospitality"
to rheumatism turbing drawbacks.
Greatest blow of all came last to decide whether allowed The instructive spectacle, been asked
him to sleep in the But Hench was troubled.. the world. And then. the Medical Research Counc{1 the locala argue, should give tomato juice should pay the new cellar to save him the cost of
and the Numeld Foundation hotel accommodation pause to intending suicidea 20 percent tox on fruit julees.
found that in early and uncom plicated rhourastoldarthritis, Cortisone
better
officlats,
A month earlier, at the famed Mayo Clinic in Amcirca be had. Ministry the cliff Finance
used a cubstance called Com- patient eager for revenue, insisted that only barbarians" would clamity impressed by the vigour of the Pound to treat a
crippled by arthritis. the tomato as a vegetable. game, the Osaka police have
who ansemble on edge above, and may dis suade them from an impul give death leap.
:
BY A MEDICAL
› CORRESPONDENT:
•We no ordinary, spirti
than
It coemod to be the end of Cortisuno,Yet in the
The Tax Agonoy, has decided, decldod to add rugby, to the (Compound E, later named Coupled with research into moath, another team of Brilh Atami police, who owever, that anything which physical
anything which physical training course for riot Cortisone to distinguish. It from The
vitamin E, is a hormone, made Chellmann, Heneli, and a come speciálieta ocnfised its value have the weary task of re food with Japanese bolled rice
All 430 wellnourished by the body's adrenal glands,), league back outed anothas sub- lative testers of Belected
stance, "ACTH. Tilki zboru, chase of long-manding therm covering Identifying and is not fruit.
Wine Ministry
members of the city's celebrated The result steemed miraculbus, monell which i wernisistent the told artheidh dan cremating the bodies of
of Justice has squad have adopted the sport. But Dr Honch could not tell his body lato mukhang in lowest Cor. The 1 m suicides, are delighted at accepted the dispaadionate tax which, they are with that addignon in London about: ConstansKĄTE the poposal and several rule and the tomato has inspector to simplesy, more use because he had dieds 10 4ymphon
the research stjumlat ording boon prodialed warding and expensive as a patroneladendant montherock have already volunteered to taste hroughout, apart
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