PIDGIN LANGUAGES Robert Wallace Thompson
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Catty
, is a measure of weight, the equivalent of 1.33 lbs. The New English Dictionary be- loves it to be of Malayo- Javanese origin though it is not unlikely that, like many othe pidgin and Anglo-Indian words, it came to English through Portuguese, This weight is widely used in China and South- East Asia and is well-known in Hongkong-even by griffins.
Au esriler form appear in Eden, Decades, p.238: They reccayed. In Cumble .. for XVI Cathyle of quicke 'silver, ane Bahar
Chop
BRAND or seal. Often the
A rubber stamp in Hongkon
"Get a massage through to your mother, son. If wo miss that last bus we're here for koops."
FROM RAGS TO RICHES: 12
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T is chiefly people with a special gift who have progressed from rags to riches. Some have displayed a remarkable flair for business. Some have had a great artistic talent. Some have made millions through their eloquence or charm,'
Yet it is possible for a pauper to achieve great prosperity without any of these attributes, provided he has an unusually powerful physique and stamina, plenty of courage, and an expert trainer,
The New English Dictionary says that this word was "corried by European traders to China, where it le now use in senter that have become obsolcle In 2rifa." It is recorded as early ns
in 1014-
Milward, Purchas' "The King Migritas 1. p.528: tur Aclient sent us his chop." In the route of brand, eg is. chop, 2nd, chup, elc., we have extempler from the early nine- teenth century. An early Vic- torian anob complains thut he must make up his table "with directors, milliary men, and such Gallons of Jike second chop."
that ink have flowed in order the true origin of this word might be found. As it makes an early appearance in Indio In both the modern Indian dialects ant Portuguese us chapa many of the older authorities were
become a professional boxer. Indian origin. convinced of Yet fly sama word was used by bolli Portuguese and Spaniards before the modern period of age Loviation between Europe and the Sub-Continent. In a strictly European lile the word usual- ly meant (and still means) small metal plate. Since this meaning appears to have been rure in India the older elymo-
were not prepared logists Bccept it as the vigorous pro- genitor of so many India forms.
Chinese glossary of Macao Portuguese, published ta- wards tho
middle of the eighteenth century, opposite the Chinese rubric meaning smith I have reconstructed the form chapare (ro, giving the Inudern Heung Shaun pronuncia- llon to the Chinese transcrip- tion. This word would certakily translate "Insmith'; but it seems to me that there is just a chrince that meant 'chop-maker.
In a
Chow
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By JOHN COTTRELL
Fought his way
a fortune
doubled
to then
The majority of that crowd champion for eight years, would
was confident Dempsey, world be the winner. He had success
fully defended his. title five times, and eliminated all the obvious contenders.
it
But, to everyone's astonish- lieved that boxing and marriage
ment, the referee did not start didn't mix. He bride was Ming trying to hustle Dempsey back grand-niece of Andrew Carnegie.
his count, Instead, he was busy Josephine "Polly" Lauder,
a
to a neutral corner. The titlend an heiress to her father's
challenger had forgotten the fortune of £10,000,000. strict rule that a boxer, on fell- ing his opponent, must retire 10 the farthest neutral corner.
When he had ushered the im- patient Dempsey into corner, referee Dave Barry started his count-at feast four, possibly six, seconds after Tunney had hit the canvas.
Dempsey had not fought for a long time and, at the age of 31, was past the peak of his boxing ability. But the
had fors tremendous faith in his prowess. Tunney, five years younger, was sill generally regarded as
second-rater Ye! the Dempsey-Tunney At the count of nine, Tunney clash, like the famous was on his feet and-qalekly
Fighting Marine between John L. Sullivan and boxing lilimself out of further
Tunney's story
a
Since his retirement, Tunney has shown as much shrewdness cut of the ring as he displayed chan He has In it.
more doubled the fortune se made as a boxer. .....
At 57, he is now a director of several big cunpuntes and a.
lionaire-industrialist.
looks the businessman. Sar-
Today, Tunney complete
Such a man can ferolly fight played tremendous promise us a his way to a fortune. He can fighter.
But Cene baptised James job, Probably no other profession Joseph-needed a reliable Bas brought riches to so many one with a steady income. So work as a £3-L- then of very handle origin. The he started
the week shipping clerk. He did heavyweight champions of world, have included Johm 1. not think of carving & career Sullivan, a plumber; James J. with his fists. Jeffries.
boilermaker; Jess
During World War II, the ex- Willard, a cowboy; Jack Demp-
eight; he private served as a lleutenant- sey, alebo Primo Curner, a It was World War I which James J. Corbett, turned out to trouble. In round
short coinmander and Was put 201 Max carpenter's apprentice;
undoubtedly led to his becoming be a magnificent match between floored Dempsey, with
slugger and scientist,
right and finished the fight way charge of the U.S. Navy's. Dace a butefter: Jim Braddock,
Wars professional boxer.
Dempsey, docker; Joe Louis, a cation usually produce great fighters, come, was the boxing manager's
as tough as they ahead on points.
programme. physical training He invented new. kinds of exer nicker-turned-truck-driver and and as fighting Marine,
elses for servicemen and toured Floyd Patterson, former Tunney was expected to be able pipe-dream come true a savage reform-school bay,
Gene Tunney had successfully Allied war theatres. to look after himself in the ring. knock-out specialist who could started He had already won several so take an atomic punch and defended his world title.
Butk
contemplated Tunney never Many of these men
Tunney, an
itis only the fact remained that he had making a comeback. life in the humblest circum- major amateur contests and in stay on his feet. stances and nearly all of them the U.S. Marines he was able to the other hand, though, tough as been down on the canvas for at fight since retirement was in a
wus O defensive fast-
14 Jenst
seconds. And, as quiz contest. He won a purse look to boxing out of necessity traks harder than ever before. teak,
moving fighter, renowned for
knows, when of £1,000 by "nocking-out" a everyone rother than love of spart. They in 1919, be attracted European found it a most rewarding pro- interest by winning a compet- his strategy rather than the boxer is put down for 10 seconds univerally, professor on questions
he is counted as knocked out about literature. fession.
tion in Paris staged by the ruthlessness of this allack.
And it was the scientist who Unfortunately, Jew
and defeated! Great American Expeditionary Force,
scored with the first blow in boxers have ten shrewd enough
he As soon
Was
de the world-itle Oght a straight about the
For nearly 30 years arguments which inobilised fortunca to keep the
of Lorially elegant, he has a beauti- Gene exchanged his
boxing prowess the jaw which shook Tunney right to hands. uniform
have centred through their
on the ful country home, and three oft- passed
for a pair of boxing the champion only B Some, dazzled success, have trunks and
few question of that count. In strict tell sons. He still takes a pride started making seconds from the start, squandered their prizemoney on money fist over Ast as a pro-
accordance with the rules, he in keeping fit, but eqnfines his Dempsey kept rushing the was certainly the rightful winner. exercise to the tennis court. pleasure. Others have invested sessional.
clusive challenger, but the But there remains the possibility He laughs at the old saying their money In foolhardy 1 1ook Tinney Just tres fighting-t Tunney was forever that Dempsey might now be the "Everything comes to him
y cars to reacti the top. By on the move, blocking, scoring
"All that comes Only a handful of world 1922, he was unbeaten a 30 points with his counters, dancing only man to have regained the who waits." champions have managed in professional bouts and had won
world heavyweight title, having that way," he says, "is bills, out of range nf Dempsey's keep the bulk of their wealth, the Ikht-heavyweight cham famous devastating left-hook. once lost it, if only he had re- dreams and old age."
tired immediately to the correct "Be aggressive, is his advice. The most ancially successful pinship of Amerien by defent-
By the fourth round, Tuancy corner in the Battle of the Long "If I hadn't used all the force of them all is a Shakespeare- ing Bailling Levinsky,
was well ahead on points.
His Count
and drive that was in me, But that was to be the most speed and loving ex-Marine, called Gene
ring-craft were Tunney.
critical year of his career. A superior: he had the fight well of the incident:
Tunney, longug in check, said should have finished up a fire-
"Jack was man or a policeman. few months later be took 4 in hand.
friend of mine. He looked in He certainly worked hard for the fast terrible hiding from
Fortunately for Dempsey the ad shape when he knocked me his success. Perhaps the only and furious Harry Greb. Only fight was over only 10 rounds.
down.
So I gured I would reol luck he enjoyed was to be fitness kept At the final bell he was still on stay down as long as possible to throwing his fists in the Demy- He was world heavyweight Taney's supers champion for only three years, him on his feet for the full 15 his feet, but was a very battered, let him get his breata bacic"
sey era, He lost his title and bewildered and exhausted man. Whatever the truth of the For it was undoubtedly the But ho made a fortune the rounds.
his reymutation was severely he had lost. the world title he matter,. it is certain that Gene fame of the "Manassa Mauler" ring, uilt the boxing gaine at
damaged.
had held for eight years. the height of his career, andl
Tunney yas one of the greatest which brought the vast crowds Most Aghters would never
scientific fighters. He along to the two most prolt- invested his money wisely. To-
have recovered from to decisive The "Long Count" millionaire. day, he is a
always used his brains in the able boats in the short but suc- Bat it made Tunney
enreer of Gene WDS the shrewdest a beating.
more determined than ever. It The result causis a world-ring, and he studied Dempsey ecssful boxing
sensation. Mony of in action several times before Tunney. not of boxing gloves. He wa
Dempsey's fans-just could not deciding the best way to defeat traders speak of a chote-chow interested in achieving fistle feat as a professional boxer.
He retired to the backwoods believe Tunney was the belter im
It would be different After winning and successful- cargo when they meant mixed glory, and great popularity. He
time, was in professional boxing for for weeks of intensive training man,
they cald, when y defending his title against Then, superbly fit, he returned ext not a restaurant but a shop one thing only-MONEY.
Other champions of his time to New York early in 1923 to Dempsey had prepared really. Dempsey, Gene Tunney had only. gae more fight-ogolhat where one could buy anything.
beat Greb Just as Ulioroughly as seriously for the fry would enjoy the, "night life"
A crowd of 104,943 paid the Tom teeney at New York in The (probably deliberate)
Greb had beaten him. frequent up-
record sum of $2,658,800 to see 1028, The promoter lost money error that dog-meat is one of big cities, make
the return fight at Soldier's on the fight because of the small the most importan! Ilmes of pearances before their fans, and
Field, Chicago, almost expeily aliendance.. Chinese det gave the common uenerally court publicity.
year later.: Turney received Heeney
by whe bilixded chow dog ila name.
punches in the eighth round $199,000.
FOOD. The New English Die.
onary lists this word for both pidgin-English and Anglo- Indian usage. A writer in 1880 speaks of gelling an invitation to a rate Chaw-chow or Chinese inners."
The origins of this word are obscure, though its use in broad semantle field seems to be widespread in the East. The link which unites the varied meanings given to this word is defined by Yule und Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, in the words: "the idea of mixture seems to Thus, in India, chow-
schemes,
Quit at his peak
prevail incant untidy, worth over to don a pair was to be his first and last de- wide
claw often ICAS dikaganidou-but NOVET when applied to food To 1882
one. A chow-choto shop was
Wives at gambling_tables,
Hubby gets no, chow.
CITY LIGHTS
TYENT
Not
'funney.
In his view, his duty to the
company.
man
second
Conquered Carpentier
.:
In a song recorded for me by public ended as soon as he left Then it wad back to more The conteal produced ono of: ond Tunney; realising his a lady born in Hongkong the the ring is job wan to. enter- riorous training.. For four the most hotly debated incidental opponent's hopeless conditon, following lines appear as protestasi boxer. What he did years he trained and fought in boxing history and It will be did not attempt to hit him, hard against the modern wonians-
out.or the ring was, zatirely his constantly. He beat Greb- for ever known as the Battle of again. The contest was stopped own affair,
time and went on the Long Count,
In the eleventh round.. He was, in fact, the complete, victoriously through the light-
Then, after only two fights as For the first six rounds, the introvert
quiet
of heavyweight division, beating, mixture...was very much as world champion,, Gene Tunney simple tastes and habits,
as cham- the who among others,
famous before, with Depeey ne the rollred-undefeated preferred to be alone with a Georges Carpentier.
charging bull and Tunney in the plon, unmarked, and the richest In 1923, Tuancy stepped into rola of good book than in other people's
skilful thib
elusive pugillet inboxing history. In the top-weight, ranks, defeating matedor. The Veggressive Less than 10 years as a profes- As a result, he never won auch experienced campaigners Manassa Mouler, hungry for slonal boxer he mode about grent popularity fund today as Tommy Gibbons, Bartley revenge, atacked throughoul, £400,000; there a tendency to under- Madden, Johnny Risko and Jack ver.discouraged by Tunney's Why did he quit at the height mate' him 'when the greatness of Hermani z former champions is assessed.
strong and young chough to afendily piling up points.
··pros? Geno Turmey was not an fessional contests, the ex-Marine Then, in the soventh"round, a - make many more thousands of "ext-hond": a come of Chinwas enlikded he was, ready to hattered bleeding Deppey dollam in the ringt
You only take up profes critics would imagine. Like the make a bid for the greatest made a sensational comeback. great Gentleman Jim Corbett, prizo of all-the heavyweight -For a fleeting second, upbey Bimal boxing,an, ancorafty," he was edinated for the priest championship of the world, left his jaw unguarded domina explained the scholarly Timney. hood, and that early trainingSo on September 23, 1920, at dush the famous Dempity Texte "Hunger, and want alone give That probably explains his serious Philadelphia, Tunney meb the hook had exploded on his low you the tenacity to win,
·mindodness, ***. KOMAANAANA great champion, Jack Dempsey, A. right to the jaw, followed c is why my sons, although At the age of 17, Tunney known throughout the boxing and runney was down for the Interested in boxing, whit never worked as a gymnastum in world as the "Mansa Mauler very first time in his cereur van take it up, pratsionally. They structor in Greenwich Village ho lent drew a crowd of All eyes turned to the referen have no cited to,27 ugg Part of his job was to tencia 130,80774 jainging - Dempenyes the crowd awelted the ViŁKI. Another russon want that be boxing and he immediately dis- "9711,668 und Timey $304,000, couste verbed antena de spate, maka wameit geflling, married and bé-
· After fighting some hugging left Jabs which were of 'hle career 'when he was still
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