Juan Fangio's First Talk To Newsmen After His Release
SPORTING SAM
Havana, Fob. 25, Argentino Ambassador Ad- mira! Raul Lunch was the first person to son World Champion racing driver Juan Fangio aftor Cuban robols had revealed his whereabouts last night, a
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1958,
by Reg. Wootton
Page
RING
Pakistan
ONCE THEY BOOED HIM OUT OF THE
Now He's On His
His Way To The World Heavyweight Strengthens Team
Championship
friend of Fangio disclosed SOUTH KOREANS today.
The friend, Argentino racing driver Alessandro Belomasso, told AFP that Fangio had changed houses three times bo- fore being picked up in
house hero apartment address of which was Argentine secret by the
bassy.
persona
Delomn550, one of the
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INVITATION
Singapore, Feb. 25. The touring South Korean an soccer team, now in Hongkong, the has declined an invitation kept visit Singapore, it was announ- Emced here today--Reuter.
first
who saw Fangio after he was freed, said that Lunch Adolfo Consul and Argentino
from Goervy slipped away pursuing police and newsmen sors to abide by their promise to the rebels.
and
The rebels
Goervy midnight and they in turn con- M. incled Detomasso and
contacted Lunch before shortly
Glambelone, Pangio's represen- tativa here, and informed them of Fangla's whereabouts.
PICKED UP
Gocrvy picked up Detomasso end Glambetone nt their hotel
drove In a taxi
to the and
where Argentine Embassy athers got into the inxi and drove off luring away pursuing police und newsmen,
Meanwhile Goeavy, Detomassa and Glambetone left the Em- bassy through a side door and drove to the address where Lunch
al.eady bud
joined arriving There Fanglo after alone in his own car, Detomasso Bold.
The four men had a half- hour talk and then drove to the Embassy and the Ambasandor's residence, where Fangio had his first talk with newsmen since he was kidnapped by rebels yesterday at his hotel.France- Presse.
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Says GEORGE WHITING
London.
Once they booed him out of the ring and called him a quitter. Now he is the Heavyweight Champion of Europe, and they cannot find anybody this side of the Atlantic to beat him. Meet Ingemar Johansson, a smiling, square-shouldered Swedish glant whose name used to be mud, and who now stands poised to throw spanners into the million-dollar set-up of the Heavyweight Cham- pionship of the World,
Seven
For Third Test
Jamales, Feb. 25. Pakistan, one down in the Sve-match series, have streng- thened their pace attack for the third Test against the West Indies, starting at Kingston to- morrow.
Klinn Mohammad has been of batsman
included in place
Wager Hassan.
This is the only change from the team which lost the second
Test at Port of Spain, Trinidad, carlier this month.
The first Test was drawn Team: A. H. Kardar (Cap- tain), Hanif Mohammad, Imtiaz Robert kronen at stake he was no Ahmad, Saeed Ahmad, Wallia the top The French referee, years ago
Allm-Ud-Din, Wazir amateura
Fazal Mahmood, of Europe, charged Valsberg, called action stations. langer a reluctant debutant at Mathias,
Khan Hussain with the gentlemanly annihila-The judges from Italy, Poland the fight trade. The wayward Mohammad,
a very, Mahmood 1lon of "America's "Golden and Austria flourished their amateur had become
Mohammad, Nasimul Ghani. Gloves" champions, pleked pencils and scorepads, Helsinki's very, purposeful pro.
With a shrewal and likeable Twelfth Ho takes the place of Jim Johansson as their heavyweight, packed Messuhalle awaited
named Munaf-Reuter, publisher Hetherington
(Northampton) and the bold Ingemar opened explosive climax to a week of newspaper
the Eddie Ahlqvist tieing up who has
Olymple boxing. withdrawn owing to up in fine style by outpointing a
promotion ends, Johansson pros- Eddic the after effects of concussion Chicago garage-hand,
pered, thumped his way to suffered in the matches asains! Fann,
glory, and finally laid to rest World Chess Title Australia and Ireland - China Mall Special.
the bogy of being prone to quit.
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Alas, Mr Johansson had other ideas. Distinctly negative ones. Mounting his bicycle (ring diom for running backwards) retreated Ingemar covered speedily, na
But things began to go wrong when the visiting team got to Washington, where they rted
far out of range him to light a slightly smaller but more redoubtable specimen as the ropes would permit, and called Norvel Lee, later to showed no inclination whatever to demonstrate the finer points become the Olympic Games
of fisticuffs with Mr Sanders. Cruiserweight Champion.
This time Johansson gibbed. Referee Valsberg signifed Claiming a damaged left hand, his disapproval of these spring the pride of Sweden defled doctors, team manager® match organisers, refused potat blank to go in the ring and was sent home in disgrace-the sub- ject of aeld remarks by me and all.
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No Real Feeling. "Objectionable behaviour...
situation..
a humillating
no
real feeling for the sport." Thus
ran the strictures of the Irish-
man and the Belgian in charge of the European party.
One year later, not-so-esger Ingemar found himself in the Olympic Games in Helsinki with wins over a Hungarian, a Yugo- slav and a Finn on the books, a husky American called Eddle Sanders facing him from the opposite stool in the Anal.
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hoeled shenanigans by means of two warnings, and then half- way through Round Two tossed Ingemar out for "not boxing," Everybody booed, Sweden pro- tested and Johansson got no medal.
We now know, of course, that Johansson had made his profes- sional "arrangements" Jong before those Helsinki Olympics, and it could well be that he was acting strictly on commercial Instructions against gold medal- ilst Sanders-who died two years later.
Not So Reluctant Quietly, almost stealthily, Johansson made a professional bow in his native Gothenburg four months after that Olympic
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Return Match
On March 2
Moscow, Feb. 20. The return match for the chess Uitle between
Germans, West Indians, Italians and Englishmen were right-crossed out of his path. He knocked out Franco Cavicchi In world Milan for the European Cham- plonship, defended it success holder Vassilly Smyslov and our own Henry challenger Mikhail Botvinnike, fully against Cooper last year, and now stacks both of the Soviet Union, will a spotless record of 18 wins in start in Moscow on March 2 18 nights not to mention a farm Tass news agency reported to- tractor business worth at least night,
The £10,000.
Fedaration
.
Such, then, is the big, brown- commenda haired Swede, who top purse money and house-full
job.
International
Chess hps appointed Sweden's Gideon Stahlberg os relerce. Harry Golombok of
wili be
assistant Britain referee,
The match between Smyslov former world champion last Bolvlunk is scheduled to for 24 gimes, but will be halled iga 3007 as one of the chess grandmasters has obtained a winning lead of 12.5 points, France-Presse,
boards for a night's wrecking Rest assured that Johansson will not be "riding a bicycle" this time when he is billed, In- geinar is a big shot these days, The boy, they used to boo way up there in the idol class.
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But when he did arrive in the capital, Ingemar Johansson made it plain that with real
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