Olmedo's Great Moment
A great moment for Peruvian Alex Olmedo, as
he receives the Wimbledon men's singles trophy from the Duchess of Kent last week.
Seeded No. 1, Olmedo fully lived up to all ex- pectations by defeating R. Laver of Australia in the final in three straight sets to become the new Wim- bledon champion-Centrul Press Photo.
Title Fight Postponed
Montreal,, July B.
The Montreai Athletic Com mission today approved a two- week postponement of the world light-heavyweight ne bout between champion Archle Moore aid Canda's Yvon Durelle.
requested
* THE CHINA MAIL", .: TUESDAY, : JULY.'7,.. 1959.
Orsini, German
Champion,
Runs At Ascot
By PETER SCOTT
Baron Heinrich Thyssen and his sister, Countess Batthyany, partners in Erlenhof, the most powerful stable in Germany, are sending their five-year-old, Orsini, for the £25,000 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 18.
This smallish, dark brown five-year-old will be flown to England three days before the race and complete his preparation on the Ascot
course.
Lester Piggott, who has rid- den Orsini in many of his most impertzat veteries, is likely to be claimed for the Queen's Pindarl.
Hungarian-cin Abert Klimschra will ride the German horge.
FO
Orsini, one of the best ever to race in Germany, will be making his seventh overseas
trip. I had the pleasure of seeing his three biggest wins
last year.
They were the Grand Inter- national at Ostend (where he beat Tribord arxi Chief 111). In the Oslo Cup in Norway September, when he knocked nearly two seconds off Ovre- voli's 12-mile and fually Brussels,
where he ploughed through the mud to win the £10,000 Exhibition Grand Prix under 9st. 13lb.
ba
Orelni will The second challenger that Erlenhof
stable has went for the King George VI and Queen Eliza Leth Stakes. Niederlander
HE DOES LOOK LIKE LITTLE BOY LOST
INGG
HARRY CARPENTER continues the personal story of Ingemar Johansson, new world champion
Has shrewd brain behind
baby blue eyes
AMERICA'S fight mob rubbed hands in quiet glee as they flashed a sarcastic grin of welcome to Ingemar Johansson, Here, they thought, is one for the taking. Ingo and his Swedish adviser-cum-friend, Eddie Ahlquist, had arrived in New York in preparation for the Patterson fight.
Can't you just imagine those brash Broadway boys think- carried a blue Jacket and red ing: "Hicks from the sticks. They haven't got a chance."
sleeves in the 1952 race, won by Tulyar,
Trainer of Orsini is 53-year- old Adrian von Borcke, Ger many's top conditioner and with seven of that country's Derbys
to his credli,
Albert Klimscha, 43 is one of the world's most widely travel- led jockeys. He has ridden a total of Dimest 1,200 winners in 12 different countries, but Orsini will be his first mount in
England. Track record,
Groenendael,
Only this spring Klinscha became stuble jockey for Baron Thyssen and Countess Batthy- any. Klimschá has 2 son ap- printeed to Som Armstrong at Newmarket, and The boy has Second Challenger ridden several times. London-
Express Service, Unluckily beaten over 14
France mile in
Inst October,
Orsini then Anished Afth to Sallor's Guide, Tudor Era, Ballymess and Tharp in the Washington (D.C.) Inter- Laurel Park.
nullonal pt
Inter-.
Empire Flyweight Champion Beaten
But for connuning into the hedge rails at one of the bends, he would have been closer, Moore last week
Johannesburg. July 6. Apart from these fight be postponed from the
Dermis Adams, British Ente to July 29 when he national successes, Oricini was flyweight boxing champlon, was July 15 braised his left heel in training | champlon German two-year-beaten by fellow-South African He was examined Today by old of 1958, when he won six Les Smith in a non-title fight athletic commission doctors and of his seven staris. He was here tonight. The referee stop- later the commission antiaoneed | successful in that country's ped the bout in the fourth round after Adams had twice its approval of the postpone Derby and 2000
been floored-Reuter. ment-Reuter.
FOUR D. JONES
PLEASE LET ME GO. Al... HEY!-YOU AINT MONSTERS AT ALL YOURG
JUST ORDINARY MEN,
WITH LARGE FEET
JC145
FERDINAND
THAT'S RIGHT MATE, NOW YOU KNOW, THIS ERE PLACE IS A REST
CAMP POR SWOLLEN.
FEST...
following year.
NANCY
BUT IT'S HOT TODAY, AUNT
FRITZI
I DON'T CARE ---YOU
CAN'T STAND AROUND IN THAT
TOWEL --*
---I HAVE
GUESTS
COMING
BRICK BRADFORD
A MONTH PASSES LIFY ON THE BARTIN
BOUND BATELLITE BECOMES VERY
- TRYING...
HAVE YOU MADE ANY RADIO CONTACT
WITH EARTH AS YETI
I PICKED UP A
DANCE BAND WHILE
YOU WERE SLEEPING!
I CAN'T GET THROUGH
TAKE A NAP! ILL
SEE IF I CAN RADE SOMEONE!
I see you've GRYEN UP CRAVING AGAIN, CAPEY!
Guineas
the
THEM FEET ARE WOT YOU GET FÖR
PATROLLIN'A BERT FOR TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS, JUST LOOK,
AT EM...
OH
NOT A WORD
by MADDOCKS
AN THAT'S ALL YOU THE GONNA DO-LOOKAT EL
NOT A SINGLE WORD OF THIS MUST REACH
THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmer
15 THIS BETTER?
THE KNIFE GOT DULL... AND
I GOT TIRED OF SCRAPING!
By Paul Norris
HOLD ITI QUIET!.... SOMEONE DID PICK UP- MY BROADCAST...A LISTENING POST IN HÄNDE, PART OF THE SATELLITE TRACKING BYUTEM,
But they were in for a shock.
The first time you meet Johansson he does, indeed, create the impression of little boy lost. It's the face that does it-handsome, with baby blue eyes, and that beguiling chin with the dimple big enough to sink a shilling in.
Inge the tractor company Boss.
Sheaffers
"NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXOLUDIVE
STERLING SILVER TIP
Garolfers prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
ROWNTREE'S
AERO
THE
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
THE FINEST BEER IN
HONG KONG
San Miguel
Fighter? Surely not. More like an operatic
tenor.
I don't know how New York promoter Bill Rosensohn summed โปร up. Rosensohn, himself, hardly conforms to type. He's an ecuested man of 38, a newcomer to the fight of immense SUITS which, because brought in by TV, is rapidly becoming more
Madison Avenue than Dronx.
Rosensohn doesn't screech in Brooklyn accent, or maltreat the English language. He isn't the mouthpiece for a gangster boss,
Nevertheless, it would have been odd had Rosensohn, son of wealthy parents, not counted on Johansson being miles out of his depth when it came to negotiating a six-figure contract,
Took Over
But when Rosensohn saf down with Johansson to talk terms and sign forms for the Floyd Patterson fight he quickly discovered Johansson had a head for figures, the cash klud. Ingo bad brought his lawyer along.
Gount, fast-talking Rosensohn
put bis terms to the lawyer. It wasn't long before Ingo look over.
When he calmly Inquired of Rosensohn: "What are your thoughts on my percentage of the film rights?" Rosensohn, the fight tycoon, accepted Johansson ut his own level of hard bar- gaining.
From ...and the family goes too. the foot of the gangway: fiancee Birgit, Ingo, mother Ebba, sister Eva, father Jens, and brother Rolf,
T Employ 8 Men'
From his own office, he also | States for the first time, but Today, Rosensohn recalls: "frm in Stockholm.
and a used-carj not to fight. runs a garage,
said to myself, what sort of
Good-loolding Ingo
can also ruy is this? He's a fighter, yet
pick up
an occasional cheque ho talks like his own agent“-
He has for sponsoring goods. pooed as a fashion model.
US boxing being what it is, negotiations for Johanson's crack nt Patterson rary Into trouble through
no fault Rosensohn.
of
When KN American world champion risks his title, his manager starts wondering what happens if his champ gets beaten. The oldest dodge is to try to eut yourself In on o slice of the challenger, in case he should become the new cham-
plon.
His own taste in clothes runs to monotony. In New York he has frequently been seen in n blue Bightweight suit, blue striped shirt, and blue ile.
Free Travel
It is laughable to Think of Americans greeting
He wanted to show him what
Nica American fighting was and to let him learn in Ameti- can gyms.
Ahlquist staked him to a six- week stay here, much of which was spent in New York's grimy. but well-loved Sillman's Gym. There he came under the sys of chirpy little Dan Florio, who now trains Floyd Patterson.
I asked Florlo if he recalled Johansson then. Не said: innocents "Sure I do. He was just new one of the world's when you know that, before then, but you could see he was
is trip out here, he cold him- gonna turn out OK. self to a Swedish shipping line,
"You showed him somefling, Where the blame Hes I don't allowing them to use his name he learned it. profess to know, but Johansson in their advertisements suddenly discovered that, un-exchange for free travel. less he agreed to "employ" an American manager, who would When he clasps your handi require 10 pc. of all eamings, his chance of aghting Patterson would vanish.
Say's Ingemar "I said O.K because I desperately wanted to meet Patterson!”
No Licence
The "manager" was Hurry Davidow, who ron a cafe in! Brooklyn, and had at one time bcon associated with Cus D'Amato, Patterson's manager.
in
IR
that 134-in. Ast, on the
end of a 7-in, wrist, you realise, as your knuckles crock, that, i necessary, Ingo could haul in the fish, dig for gravel, or drive n lorry.
THURSDAY: C HIT THEM-BOOM I—AND DOWN THEY GO
Somehow I doubt if he will ever have to.
זיי
„Johansson 'always Gayst. The deal fell through, how-
owe much, both in my Oghting ever, when the New York State and my business, lo Eddie Athletic Commission denied a Ahlquist." licence to Davidow, as his recent
connections with boxing, other Ahlquist, Jrs his early 50's, 1s than selling hamburgers to the Jack Solomons of Sweden. broken-down fighters, were He manages · fighters, and pro- strictly terajous.
motes them. He owns a newa- poper.
Also Ho Johansson
The rest of the time Johansson and Ahlquist have been "well", able to look after themselves in the sharp world of purch and percentage.
become A
discovered
To Learn
in 1940. Saya It happened Ahiqulat: "I was taken to a
Johansson fighter with a busincas flair. His shabby little very stable in ont real aplurge is on fast Gothenburg
C&г.
somo
amateur boxing. And there was Ingo, just a kid of, 16, squaring He has already earned some. thing like £200,000 from the up to a very tough man called Rolf Axelson, à labourer, and ring. onti at one time the
31. Swedish Government were be- lleved to be taking 70 per cent. "Well, I thought Ingo would
be's cno
af
of his carnings in tax. Bo he get half killed, but this kid in Invested. Now Sweden's wealthy ellizenz
Expanding
Let Johansson tell you:
"I own an excavation com-
trunks throw his right hand in the first round. It acht Axelson spinning, and they had to stop the fight,
gym shoes and faded
"I thought to myself-l! ho
pany, and l'expand it all the Com hit like that at 16, what time.. 】 buy Lorries, steam will he do when ho's 20."
ahovels, bulldozers, and I sell
the sand and gravel they dig
out. I employ eight me.”
In 1859, when Johansson had
won his first five profezaformal
Aghts thro inaldo the dis-
"Still, you could see all along ho was gonna make it good some day."
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Tennis
Ladies' "E" Division: CRG V LRC (3), LRC (1) v Neersio,
"Men's "g"" Division: BKCCSA (1). v LRC, Recreio (1) v CRC. SCÀÄ V KITC, RAY V KTGCA (3). IRCCSA (3) v Recrato (3), Tumarelo (2) V ETCCA (1).
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2nd Division Army v Chung Sing (Victoria Park Pool 0 pm.
Bowls Colony Open Paire Championship Malches af KCC, CCC. KBGC. Recres, 'PRC.
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CHESS
by LEONARD BARDEN
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from
And he employs a secretary, tanco-Ahlquist, who beforo Here is a position better known to us as his the war' worked on the Clly-actual play: Binck to more mzd flancer 22-year-old Birgit ] desk of. * New York paper, Win,
Landgren
| brought his young fighter to the
London-kapleri_Merrick.