RING MEMORIES
THE CHINA MAIL,
TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1957.
THE NIGHT ROCKY MARCIANO
WON THE
WORLD
HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
By HAROLD MAYES
The ring's greatest prize is the World Heavyweight Championship. The man who holds it is the king of kings in the boxing realm.
Through the years the title has been held by men whose names will always be household words-Dempsey, Tunney, Johnson, Louis. One could string them off, and they would seem something to anyone who ever saw a fight, and to many who have never done so.
But for me one man stands out from the rest. And he wrapped up everything in one glorious battle that will provide enough memories to last a lifetime,
The ability to take a punch, ¦ before was there, sure enough, and give one, the physical after only 37 seconds. enciurance to take a shellacking [ anti come from behind to win, and-boxing's thril
A look of pained surprise spread ccross Marciano's face, Tri The crowd shook liself out of its
ellence to yell for blood.
The KO puncht-lhey are the assels which make a real World Champion.
Rocky Marciano proved he had them all on the most vital night of his life-the night he won the Heavyweight Cham- pionship of the World.
Born in Brockton, Mass achusetts, this softly-poken son of a tiny nigrant shoemaker the only Izavyweight Champion ever to go untenten through an entire
professional curcer.
Way
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FIGHTING MAD
the
away in a manner which was bound to lead to collision,
When their hands rallied together, their perspiring bodies | wère spaltered with blood, They parted, and the feeling of the blood trickling down Als face from a long, deep gash on forehead Senil Morcieno In Marciano's corner, Charley tearing after his foe with un-
wizened equenchable ferocity. Goldman, trainer who had taken part in some 300 bantamweight fights, yelled to his charge to take an eight-count. But Rocky was in no mood for that. He was so mad with himself that he was up at that instant the three, and in feeling of surprise switched from him to Walcott.
"Old Tappy" had no illusions His atomic fists and extremse about the power of the blow he hin a legend had delivered. It was just as toughness made
In his own ifferime, but he will good as the one which won the rever forget the night of Saple for him.
tember 23, 1852. That was the night a right-hand pinch travel ling no more than ten inches Inverbed his name for ever an the full of ring knmorials,
He won't forget it? Neither
Ezzard Charles hadn't got up. Yet there was Marciano, stand- ng up, eyeing him murderously and quite obviously ready for anything. What did he have to do to keep down a man who shrugged off a punch of that kind?
will I. For If I am able 10 watch men battle for the world heavyweight crown for another My years,
whether finish it? I doubl there will be anything to match for sheer drama and excitement In Philadelphia's night -Municipal Stadtur.
Should be go in to try to Should he walt for another mistake by Marciano, that he did not risk the counter-wallop of Suzy-Q, as trainer Goldanien had christened Rucky's Jethal right hand?
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HOLLYWOOD IS STRICTLY Sports Diary
A FAMILY TOWN, SAYS YOUNG ACTRESS
By RON BURTON
Hollywood.
Hollywood, sometimes thought of as quite a racy place, is really nothing but an overgrown pueblo on the shores of the Pacific that's just great for familles,
This is the essence of the thoughts of young actress Sally Brophy, who thinks Hollywood is a mighty poor place for a single girl to be. She'll take New York any day or night, as the case is.
Mexico Unable In New York, now, there's seene-
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were paid for providing city room background for the picture. The project was joued by the
NOT TOO COSTLY
one
cod
They also had free access to the set at Paramount and talked to Perlberg, Clark Gable, Memle Van Doren, Doris Day, Sophia Loren and numerous others.
"This place is strictly 10:praved her plans. The situation o'clock," she anid. "All the tents started!
The young blonde who at-ather major studios, cud when producer Hal tended classes at Marymount night each week there was cater- are folded up, and that's that. Wallis asked her about a movie College West Los Angeles tairament provided by. for
betore becoming a protesical example, MGM, Columbia thing always going ca,"
"It was something to pander actress said she can learn through so on. There was a preview after Miss Brophy makes her com- parisons cn periods of residence give up my schooling and take
over, but 1 derided for myself to experience as well as bookt. each diner, and usually at least
I've leamed plenty, just talk-three stars were on hand to tal in New York and Hollywood, the plunge," she said. where she has come for a leading parents would
"Not all ing, listening and watching cu personally with the newspaper- have agreed to the set," she role in "Greeneyes,"
sald. "Anthony iren, most of them fim-drama Arwid let their kids drop their educa-Quem and Aria Magnant have critics. production for Mexico City, July 8.
Warner Bros. tice was a college freshman been wonderful to me. I gues Mexico decided today that it New York in the only place for a
--cad go to the movies.
that even though I had some could not organise the seventh angle girl us for as she's con-
education I showed up dumb on World
"We talked it over and over my first picture. That's because . Pantathloncerned. Championship, due La take 10 O'CLOCK CURFEW
and over, and tally they told 1 blushed scarlet when Elv me the decision was up to me. place from November 22 to 20
"If I walk down a street la They could advise and suggest,
kissed me." next,
New York, there's a good chance but the Antal ruling was mine to How they laced each other!
The Mexican
A public relations Olymple Com-run into smece bow," make, they said. So I quit school And so it went on through the
"Often they'l kavite coe day, reported to Mr Wallis miltee
that
Or- she said, stated Some of
the
me to have coffee or go shop at Paramount the next day, and ganising Committee had In- the preparation which had been used to try to stop the flow of formed them first it was imporst-ping or something. A single girl now I'm in movies.
there en circulate, meet a lot ble to organise the Championship of people, get to know directors in her winning the role of Elvis The decision she made resulted blood from Waleatt's eye found
because of the physical state of cud producers and other actors Presley's love stercat a "Loving its way on to Marciano's face as he bored in, It made
the horses which would have and actresses."
You." clano's
been needed for the competitors eyes smart and water,
Hollywood is not this way alport aj
Then she got another fat Every time he raised
the equestrian event.al, the young actress found,
Anthony Franclosa's glove to wipe it away, Wafcolt
France-Presse.
sweetheart in "Obsession,' clipped him, and silil they baitled it out with unabated fury.
next
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UNABATED FURY
three
rounds.
Mar-
In
INTERNATIONAL SPEED RECORDS
beholl
ment on Whether Was apparently
a
experl-
"This is twaing out beauti- of Hollywood
fully," a studio still photographer success.
rald as he shot pictures of two wns conceived
now belde the point because it tog a new idea of us, I think. device for cnc motion picture i originally as merely a publicitywspapermen with Mamie Van
tumed out to
"These people are get- Maybe when they go home be a community they'll find out the moral sircugth effort.
Doren.
here is a little better then they thought it was.
"They'll also find out that people here aren't really any different from others, I hope moy straighten out a few ideas," they send back storica which
or belief, the cost of the opora
He said that, contrary to popu- ice was not as great as might be imagined,
This is a family town," she
Paramount began the project Lid. "After work you go home,
by inviting 200 newspapermen SHE BLUSHED have dinner, watch TV and then
throughout the country to have their domes the clock. When the clock says "I know I could have stayed in Fitty would
put in a drawing, 10, it's off to bed. This sort of college and then taken a chance here and play the roles of news
be chosen to come Achedule is downright domestic." on having srece ke Me papermen in "Teacher's Pet." Miss Brophy isn't critical. She Waits offer me a job," she said. The reases given was that pro- Birmingham, July 8.
just thkaks Hollywood doesn't "But what Basurance did I have ducer have the best possible atmo- that there would be such a job director
William Perlberg and A trom of Cambridge under-
aphere for a shigle women.
George Seaton were graduates today
waiting several years later? broke seven
"I feel lost here," she said.
Hired of Hollywood being put en
"I'm quite sure that the whole International speed and duration
"But I
ezo always go back to the pan guess I'll
for making movies cost of the project was less then records after driving an Austin mind after I get married. Aller women of 65 going to college. I pelther end
change my college. Why, I've heard of about newspapermen who the cost of a full-page colour ad A35 chr for seven days and all, if a single girl feels the way happen to think that life is for newspapermICA,
looked nor acted like for "Teacher's Pat' would have nights on the Montihery elreuil,
bea ki a national magazine of I do, so en Bingle near Parks, it was nounced by
men and twing and not to be dedicated to
top circulatice," he said. I don't want my husband to ravnopping yourself up books. the Austin Motor Company here around after work."
The 50 names were drawn, rud The "little thinga" made a today.
I've met some awfully well-the lucky cues were transported big tit with the visitors. Thero educated people with all sorts of here from such places os Sankcluded lots of photographs to The battle of school vermus degrees who are kind of dumb, if Francisco, Phoenix, Arizona, New send back home, ar to illustrate carcer has been fought in the you know what I men."
York and Boston. They received stories, personal name mand of 18-year-old Dolores
plates Hart, The bleede actress chose a
$285 weekly for the seven to 10 which were used a the picture These awfully well-educated days they worked that's pud then given to each "actor" career partially because, as she persons might not agree with standard acting pay-were givea | transportation everywhere and puts it, "I've heard of women Miss Hart's contentico that they excellent hotel quarters reid a complete freedom to walk attending school at 65,"
feel secure caly when they re-small dally allowcuce for x-around the entire lot and talks Young Miss Hart said she has freat behind the safe ground of cidentals. They were added to 13 La mayone without a press agent understanding parents who ap- their knowledge.
local newspapermtu who also in sight-Ulted Press.
Came the tenth and the folk with big money bels ut the ringside were the odds. Murciano was throw. starting to shift ing blows from evry
angle, but Walcott was going to win.
.Stil! Rocky chased, chased, Stil Wolcait avoldes that dreaded right hand, And, although Walcott had a cul over the other, eye by this time, was he who looked the more Hikely to win by a knock-out as another left hoolt buckled Mer- clano's knees.
What a ghi? And the best had still to come, In the eleventh, the punch which would surely have suffened In spite of his voluntary anyone but
Marciano a right three-second sit-down Recky to the body which Walcoli sock was a mood for cautico, in almost to the elbow--didn't almost Like curaged animal he tore even make the challenger buck
HOT FAVOURITE
Forty thousand people had puid more than half a million
dollars to watch the 20-year- old destroyer take the title from Jersey Joe Walcott, the oldest man ever to win it
They made Marclano
not?
Perhaps it was not surprising that Walcott attopied a policy of caution, and in doing so he Rive Rocky a
proceeded to boxing lesson,
a two to one on favourite. Why out for the second round, tossing away.
With Walcott's age puches frem all angles. Seme) Surely, as Walcott saw him variously being guessed bedded. Meny
more missed, shake it off and keep walking twem 39 and 40, the bundle of Every time he missed, Jersey forward, that must have been the fire and fury at least ten years his junior, who did not even know the meaning of the word defeat, could not fall to beat Jum.
Joe pinked him with a punch 15 head or body.
A CARBON COPY One right Walcott threw was Or could he? After all, Mar- a carbon copy of the punch rinth t never been on the which poved the way for the canvas in the whole of his fight-fast-round knock-down. Bu: Jeg Be and it aldn't see as if Mercinno, the men they
SOL cven n puncher of Walcott's couldn't learn, was smart alough nbility- spite of the fact that to know that
he had to avoid
Le had subjected Joe Louls to the left hook which would sure- the gnlty-could put his follow.
there.
t
Twenty years of campaigning, He clinched and wrestled, but however, had made Walcott no although he was looking like ne respecter of reputations, betting more than a novice against edds, or other people's fancics. ring tradesman, Rocky got in u The wisdom he had gained in right-hander just before the that period told Walcott to be end the round which caused gin zutiously,
Walcott to show a healthy res-
for his pect
somewhal in- adequate looking challenger when the third opened.
STEEL JAM Whea
Moreland's Arst lead missed, the price of his folly
right to the jaw.
every
last straw. He had hit Rocky with his Sunday punch, and some more for every day of the week, but he still had four and a half rounds to to the preclous points lead he to hang on
undoubtedly held, and he must have wondered just how it could be done.
FATAL 13TH
Walcott hammered away to the body, and Marciano to the head, in the twelfth. Three to go, and Walcott good as hame,
The thirteenth, the round go often described as deteful, was fatal Twice Rocky was short with his leads. Then, when he rushed in with n left hook to the body, Walcott backed to the ropes.
to
The cagey old man tried rely on a sway of the hips, for
was to collect a couple of jefts Rocky was messed around at there was no room to move his and
opportunity. But cach feet to escape, He dropped his Wham! went another right. time Walcott managed to ge: left hand, End from that And even on Marciano's steet home with a flurry of punches, mument all the guile and gal- jaw cue ilke that had to malce Marclano gave at least good fantry was not enough. something give, Walcott must as he got, and was beginning to
that vlial lock like making a fight of it. Suzy-Q was have rememberei,
cocked. Just ten inches she travelled on to right-hands and the unprotected jnw. One
second, that years before the Cracking sang thing had happened with lethal left-hools rattled against vicious, expicsive punch, and a Joe Louis, and that a following the negro's chin in the fourth. virile human frame, within loft book had dumped him on
and in the hell-for-leather then of victory, had been trans-
the sent of his pants,
both men began to show signs formed into a Hving corpse. of wear and tear. as cach landed with shols which looked hard enough to fell a buffalo,
An
In went the left hook. A hush descended on the vast horse-
Do you wonder that I rate shoc-shaped stadium. The blow
this, the greatest heavyweight which had Boored Louls, which Brutal stuff? If it was, It was litle light I ever saw? had won for Walcott the title gentle compared to the sixth, Next Articl The night ad- from Ezzard Charles, looked when Rocky opened a cut overversity made Wally Thom a like playing of again, Yes, the the champion's left eye. and fighting fury and won him the
bulled European welterweight title, man who had never been decked then, heads down, they
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