THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1954.
KID BERG STILL EATS FIRE-
AS STUNT MAN
TEPHANIE, a bright
little brunette of eight, would be very indignant if any- one insisted that her father, the doting father who drives her to prep. school nt Windsor on Monday mornings, used to make a very good living out of a bicod-lust.
"I could see blood, smell
blood," said father, as we
By George Whiting
watched hdm hammer the croamy hide : off Harry Mizler to become lightweight cham- pion of Britain 20 years ago,
Now there was in performance1 Berg v. Mizler, Jow 5. Jow, Yiddle v. Hymile, thunder v. lightning. Oghter v, boxer. East End neighbours of rare distine- tion settling sharp differences with fista.
"Maybe I had just a little bi of 'needle' that night,” soys Berg. "I was only a few months back from four or five years' fighting in the Slates,
and
sat with his pretty blonde face now decorates film people were telling me I was wife, Morya, in the trim screens. The boy whose finished. Then somebody laugh- sitting-room of their recent- firat penales came
from
ly acquired house hard by rescuing hats blown from the leafy pleasance of Re- open-top buses down White. gent's Park.
A
to
"To me a fight was
ment. I just had fight. When I was in ring. my one intention
ed in my face when I was over the odds and had to go on the at the weigh-In.
scales twice
Timt annoyed me.“
chapel way, approaches ** remember. You Jooked middle-age as a stunt man, that way," I said.
like Just now, the pugilistic nose bears marks of a cafe the brawl in a studio representa.
tion of Paris.
. he fights GA I
on stairs. rides horses the other over cliffs.
jumps into lear him to moats cff castle walls
cut him
to expands five inches on a
manly cheat
swims
WRA to get as near could to killing
man
shreds
pieces."
Thus Mr Jack Kid Berg, under water.
born Judah Bergman, and
Just plain Yiddle to tons Property
of thousands of admirers
from Aklgate
Pump to
Brooklyn, from Johannes- burg to Bermuda.
never
Kid Berg -the East End fighter who stepped back in 20 years of
"Ah, but
none of you knew un at the Albert
what went Hall before the tight," replied Berg. "When I arrived. I found that Mizter had jumped my dressing-ruor, It appeared it was the room he'd always used, but my name was on the docr.
Where are the Kings of the Ring today?
★ The fighting face ∙now decorates sereens -- and ho boards of the scholarship that daughter Stephanie is going to win
Jack Rid Berg relaxes at home with his wife, Morya," and eight-year-old daughter, Stephanie,
cane Berg,
was known that, since
the
ho
second round, their champion had been fighting with injured handa.
"vas an fil-equipped stranger. And in so doing he got himself into tangles impossible of solu-
"Anyway, there he was, oll ready changed and sitting down calculating stride by the hurri- mode of fighting to which in bis dressing gown, Mayba te thought I would use some other room. but I told him I was staylig put, and invited him to stay put as well if he fell like 1.
his head In his
Mizler ceded his title under remorseless fre. hi once weight let bent innocuously, his right missed its target frequently that he could neither tamc the belligerence of his nor shake his con-
08
be-
Berg was something never
The pace set and sustained by fore experienced by Mizler, and before the fighting was three round. old, the champion's
to Inablilly
deal with body punches was crimson patches round his ribs.
"I undressed, taped my hands, challenger The money does not be.
I sidence. and then put on what gin to compare with the consider was quite an act. £150,000 Yiddle earned in Badow-boxed round the room, are hitting out, shifting around, and the ring, but there property Interest, holdinga grunting like I meant business. And there was Mizler. altiing Jo métal, shares, the Re- down with reckless, napjawed scrap gent's Park house, and soon hands, watching me between his ping
the hurricane
modest in- Angers. I'll bet that was the Limey, who compelled ad- (he hopes) a
Brat and only, time a champion vestment in a cafe. Не miration from a
of England has watched his million
also wants to find a
under his Americans in
young challenger work out 75 hell-firo
fighter he can build into a nose a few minutes before they fights against the toughest
of heavyweight champion opposition they could find
the world. Who doesn't? from coast to coast.
Spender
went into the ring."
The hurricane
I reckon so, 100.
But the Albert Hall crowd were told nothing of these back- stage goings-on, "All they know was that they had paid for, a nerce, splintering clash of styles
and they certainly got it.
1jon.
Berg made it plain that there was to be no compromise, по leisurely measurement of dis- tance,
no dilettante manoeuv- Ting for picture-book boxing. Everything as plain as a pike staff biff, bang and wallop. When Mizler led with his left, the tense, flushed Berg took it, ignored it, and pressed on.
advertised by In hospital
Next Saturday: The American marine who won the heavy. weight championship of the world is an unrec», ognised man today:
Recorda tell us that Berg la 48, a computation hotly denied by this soft-spoken man who put sustained The riotous apender and savagery on a commercial the basis. the snappy dresser Jewish Jad who thrashed Andre Routls, Harry Cor- "I'm 45," he declares. "I
Berb, schooled in 50 or more no-quarter brawls in America, bett, Johnny Curley, Alf was only 14% when I got
was essentially an in-fighter, But the Mizier men Mancini, Mushy Callahan, 178. 6d. for my first fight,
among Mizler preferred to keep the at them also
got disillusionment, full extent of his long left arm Tony Canzoneri, Kid Choco. against Young Ginger,
for a red-sceing Berg swept, between Inte, Billy Petrolle, George Premierland, but I had to into action like a man avenging opponent.
himself and Rose, Len Wickwar, Harry tell them I was 17, and I've a century of indignity-veno Mizler,
been stuck with those extra mous, two-fisted, unmindful Gustave Humery,
consequence, scornful of oppost- Pat Butler, Harry Mason, years ever since."
tion, impervious to hurt,
The dark,
amooth whose educated lett hand
of
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after Jack Kid Berg had allen to one so accustomed to finished with them. But nowa quick explosion. But his natural daya, Yiddle boasts of other oggressiveness was not long things... much as the treills concealed. Once he discovered he bullt in the garden that Mizler. was
.. and under close quarter fire, he the scholarship that Stephanie throw dull carò away, and en- is going to win down Windsor SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. foyed himself.
floundering
Did Mizler, then, fail com- pletely? By no means. To his dyorlasting credit, he stuck manfully to the job of defend- ing his championship.
There were times when even the onrushing Berg had 10 pause for broath, and Mizler On this occasion the non-stop neglected no such opportunity methods of Berg prevailed-and to pink the snapping jaws and Mizler, shocked out of a polish- glinting. eyes with punches
from ed routine that had made him straight
the But who cares for dates and
text-book. record books? This Berg man is
Mizier, champion, had neither pace nor There were even occasions had quick-wittedness to escape the when his efforts were rewarded ageless in memories of all blazed brilliant trails through consequences, of us who saw him bust the the amateurs and shot him sky-
by a wobble. nost of Mushy Calishan to win high the professional light- Also, as I remember that But, after six rounds, ・ the
the weight championship egalnai Oght, ho played Does he still eat fire in what they used to call
straight into issue was plain even to those Junior welterweight champion- honest Johnny Cuthbert, 19547
wos Berg's eager hands by daring to of 'us outside Mizler's corner- Yes. The fighting ship of the world or bundled completely out of his aland toe to toe-accepting a the one tiny territory where it
Jake Kilrain, Tippy Larkin, Eric Boon, and a hundred other champions and near- champions.
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I
And the escape hatch stuck
was only this week
that I discovered that I had in the same London office a member of the Caterpillar ‘Club..........a former RAF bomb-almer whose modesty is such that some amount of research was required before I ran him to earth.
GERALD BOWMAN concludes his Adventures of the Caterpillar club
I think that normal imagina- buried his parachute in a hedge. Later on in Paris (to which he tion will supply the rest of the When his head had stopped re- had boon passed from "hand to Monaford at his en- picture. The aircraft. burst into volving, he checked back on in- land")
*
to be about 10.30
p.m.
mag of blasting, scaring cidents, and reckoned the time ginger. Since the two had oppo- flame. The crow, at their lots there was no sign of movement they had a word, shook hands, Since site Ideas of soules of escape positions, heart their pilot's around him, he set of walkin
wished cach other luck, and order over the inter-come down a long country lane and parted. out! We've had it, chums. Get Bally took a blind chance and
knocked at the door of a cottage train, and on his own two feet, carried cn. By
to. countered.
out, everybody!”
By normal emergency routine in the first village be en- Sergeant Mansford had
wrench open the forward escape halch and clear his navigator of ancillary
'Passed gear before Jumping
himself. He
he tried-but
escope, halch
Him On
Manstord
on donkey carts, carriers wagons and anything else he could and the reached the Pyrenees and He is ex-Fit.-Lt. A. R.
over into Spain. At crossed Mansford, and he had
Froix on the Spanish border his watched my history of the
couldn't get the
arm and leg were giving him The good folk of the village very considerable trouble. Here Caterpillar Club going into FLT LT. A. R. MANSFORD. open. From the angle in which
of the Resistance ho was lying and the dimculty fed him, rested him and "passed his friends
him on." In the course of pass-" had teamed him up with a crew print without saying a word Halifax. in which Sergt. bomb refund in moving he realised ing-on he used the 2,000 trafics of American, French and other thus conforming to the Bimar (later Fit.-Lt.) A. R.
that the aircraft had gonor of "escmp money with which nationalities who were trying to traditional Royal Air Force Mansford sat
deep dive. With the navigator in his normal manfully lending a hand he all members of bomber air-crew oxape. By reason of the fact distaste for "line shooting." position directly above the
escape hatch in the nose of the wrenched and wrestled with the were provided. Although from that he could move only slowly
the Argonne Forest he made his he persuaded escape hatch until it came open Hero extracted from himi aircraft.
with a thud.
Spain and downface, "through" group to leave him and go ahead" way across much after
persuasion—is
to Gibraltar, on their own. All went well until they were Mansford's story.
In answer to his colleague's he had the astonishing record of crossing the Forest
gesture he plunged head-first arriving in England's after re- out and them for a brief moment patelation with quite a bit of the In the dreadtullence that 2,000 francs still loft in his every parachutest knows so well, pocket, he saw the flying torch which hed once been en altoraft flick away past him in the heights, and finally go in with a burst ing uprish of flame.
of the
On the dark, moonless night Argonne, of March: 8-9, 1943, an all-sor- geant crew of No, 102 Squadron Took a Halifax Mark I off the
On the Alert aorodromo as Pocklington, York- ahire. The aircraft had a full load of Incendiary bombs, and
The crow, trained to keep an was part of a 600-bomber rald on all round watch, were alert for Nurmborg.
an enemy attack. But when it re came, as happened, so often in
Makiforo, gently floated down Halifax. made hoight over. Le cost of England and then heavy darkness, the rear gunea from tky At that time he
had no idea, what had happen drongd WAY ACTUM DEcupied of the aircraft raw, nothing umfll starthat is of the erewight
Cat Uvid: Hne for tracery, whipped)
when he ar towards him out of the big
Mornwhile, in the course being passed from one pocket" of resistance, to another ford, risañaged 7 to badly daerging his and his fight
'the' rest of the
He has never been able to trace what happened to that group, but he knows that it is moro then probable that his disability brought him good luck.
1 Found None
way.
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