THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1959.
Former British Boxing Champion National League Baseball
Makes An Amazing Confession
'I WAS A ROTTER,' SAYS JACK LONDON, TALKING
ΤΟ ARNOLD FIELD
A few days ago I told my solicitor to claim £8,000 from my son, Brian London, who recently fought Floyd Patterson for the world heavyweight championship in America.
I did not approach Brian before putting the claim through my
solicitor because I have fallen out with him.
say
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I am entitled to the money as his manager from various interests he had in that much-boosted big fight, and before
it.
Jack, who was Brian's par- ring partner, went with Brian to
Veronica it when irtan married I need the money, I need bodily. I un penniless, Ich last year. living on the charity of friends I was looking forward to Bar-me them at the airport about -I. Brian's dad, who helped barn guing to St John's, the lunch-time. I deliberately stay. 50 much to Jame and paris church of Blackpool, toed away. I went fishing instead. wealth.
Join hundreds of other guests, I'm not anxious to see my wife
I have no real home.
No san I once loved-Brian and Jack.
I bought her a £20 gown forogain. Nor, I maposo, are my thought It sor anxious to see me. Their the occasion. She
-
that hurts.
No wife. Only otle more diplomatie if she stayed attitude is someiling of a punch person matters to me now-- ; away, the girl I love. Her name Barbara Flail. She is u Black- pool waitress, 26 years old- twenty years younger than I
Am.
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And, because of Barbara, jeft home and my wife, Agrieni, whcam 1 WAK mariest for 20 years. My witole life itas changed.
Left The House
My sons don't talk to
1.
My heart was' breaking camily Barbara wasn't there.
But my wife said she was She had mistaken someone else for Barbara. And that led to the biggest barney of the celebra ConR went lut. The
Again
on till early morning. 1 got drunk. Deliberately, this ilme.
And again. 1 picked with my wife, shoving her culį of the way came dangers- ly near to clocking her just 10
Ju-lover four weeks ago. I quit Lhaw her how much I roventedi
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£2,500 house in Sanning her wines Barbara wes among dale Avenue, Blackpool, tr suy | the mests when I knew, to my with Barbara, Stay" permanent-untappiness, she wasn't,
Jy with her, I hope,
For without her I don't want
to live
ZIN there. I would
rather go down for the kick- ou for all time.
Biggest Acts
1 have
My smiles before the cameras were the biggest arts not ever put on.
My suns pas me in the street
hotels. They do
and in
even nod to me.
Were I not se tough-I still have left bit of the stamina with
I was blessed with when I was
I'm certainly not going out of my why to visit them. 1 am still their father, rotter as I have been to their mother.
to
for the
Oh, what I've done Brian! I nursed him in game, I saw that he got only the beat terma. When I wäh offered £500 on a 60-40 baris for him to fight Peter Bates I sald "Definitely not." I turn- ed down £000. Eventually we gut 1.100.
What Hurts Most
I was offered £600 for Brian
fight
Lave, the Kitione
We got Terror." Pongan £2,000 percentage after waiting two years,
And we netted £3,500 for the Willie ParTHEO; that against £4.000 for the matek ogsired Jra
The And millions in Britain saw Erskine; and £10,000 for
was Henry Cooper fight.
have boom my televising when i
stories Brizo
Many the eve of his
Brian in written wut the money Pattersons
in als fight against mace
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£21,000. was Patterson. I'm glad he's earned that money. I hope he sticks to it.
Swine, roller that I
ght
against
Brlish and Empire heavy
pais.
weight clumplon-I
would
My Brian's
w be
wife.
f 2
women at big
rame 1 nights,
over with clarta' like anyway.
Iol
GOSH! THERE'S NO DOUBT
ABOUT THIS BEING THE
VARI DINA BYCENT
have
First-Timer Wins King's Cup
NEAL'S NINTH INNING
HOME RUN GIVES
DODGERS 3-2 WIN OVER GIANTS
New York, July 21. Charles Neal led off the ninth inning with a home run which gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 3-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants today and handed a heartbreaking loss to Johnny Antonelli who had set down 21 batters in a
row.
Neal's Homer, his 12th, cut the Glanta' National League lead to one and one-half games. over the Dodgers and also broke a pitching duel between Antonelli and Dot Drysdale.
Drysdale, who won his 120 Kame against six reverses, was staked to a two-run lead in the Orst Inning when G Hodges hit his 18th homer Into the left centre field stands with Jim Gilliam aboard and two out.
Tied
The Giants scored two "runs in the second to tie it on three singles and an error by short- stop Don Zimmer.
It was The Afth defeat for Antonelli who has 14 wins and was going after his 1fth straight Triumph,
In the only other game was at St
Louis for a night game.-UPL.
scheduled, Chicago A first-time entrant, 47-year-old A. J. Spiller, last week won the King's Cup air race at Coventry in his Percival Proctor 3, which he uses in his turkey-breeding business. Handicapped 15th out of 21, he finished only yards ahead of the back marker. R. R. Paine, director of an aviation firm, flying was the Society of British a Hawk Speed 6. Consolation prize for Paine Aircraft Constructors' Cup for fastest spced in the race, and also the Air League Cup for fastest time in the Kemsley Trophy race.
Highest points in the King's Cup and National Air Races combined, and therefore the 1959 air racing championship went to 30-year-old Army Air Corps pilot Captain N. Baldwick, another first-timer who also won the Osram Trophy event.
Photo shows (from left to right) Captain N. Baldwick, A. J. Spiller and R. R. Paine with their trophies-Times Photo.
been, I am still the father of day. She knows I still drink a Jack and Brian London. Iial, but she understands. think they should appreciate No man could have wished for
than the one no better wife all I've done for them,
But matter what
they loved a long mistake
time ago. because I that's all over. think I've made
What hurts most in all this love Barbara.
crisis is the way my sons ignore
I'm hoping to marry her onc
WELCOME
TO TIBET
OIL
BAM
DANGER
by MADDOCKS
IT'S HIM, JUST LIKE THE BOSA GAIRA LITTLE GUY WITH A TRIANGULAR
HAT.
By Mik
mc. My ons, my sons for winan I've done so much.
My sons, my sons, who should try to understand me even they think I'm a ruddy fool to leave their mother and full love with a girl young enough to be my daughter.
Sheaffers
NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXOLUDIVE
STERLING SILVER TIP
Sctors prefer
SWISSAIR
THE AIRLINE OF SWITZERLAND
break down and cry,
But Barbara, this slip
girl who makes me so many n every way, helps me to forget the way They ignore m
I will tell you straight thal perhaps they are ript. I a the man who
han brought so
match unhappiness to Iticir mulher. I have been a swine to hor, and she has stoo! from me.
Many Times I have rolled home drunk, 1 can knock back iwelve pints a day. And in orguments when I was dronk suurted a vident quarrel with my wife and told her to get the hell out of it.
A Good Father
For 20 of our 26 years married life there was no real And when love on my part.
Barbaru walked into my life three years ago i tell matly in in lover love again. So much
that 1 stayed with ker TWO. three or four sights a
vick
Instead of going home to my wife.
AB right, I have been a swine call me what you like.
But I say have been a gem! fathe to Brian and Jack, 1 slaved for them frumra their earliest years, dreamed they would become world champions
They were my life. I wanted them to become great boxers. I wanted them to make money. And when our Urtan became British and Empire heavyweight cham- plon I kept counting tho minutes to the day when he would fight for he world flite.
That he did against Patter
He lost. And when he lost
son.
I fast sumelting more-the other half of any life-my interest in boxing.
min
What has happened to me has befallen many ollier married
a11- I can crazy about other woman. Other men keep their homes together for the sake of the kids, though they're grown up and married, but I can't. My love for Barbarn is too overwhelming.
I first saw her three years ago when friend brought
her along to see Brlan train- lug In Blackpool, out home town. I saw her-and knew this was the girl for me-for all me.
Rows
We didn't meet for 14 months afterwards. Then we started zeeing each oflice regularly. And that led to rows with g wite.
So I was annoyed.
FOUR D. JONES
JONES FINALY ARRIVES AT THE GIGANTIC FOOT OIL WORKS OF NSET. MAKERS OF THE FINEST FOOT OIL, IN THE WORLD....
PLACE, CUESS I'LL HAVE TO ABE AT THE OFFICE
R REFIT FOR THRGE BOTTLES..
FERDINAND
NANCY
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY---HOW
OKAY
HELLO, STUPID
DARE YOU SAY
SUCH A THING ?
OKAY OKAY
HELLO. BIRD BRAIN
-EANIZ
BUSMALLER,
BRICK BRADFORD
T
her
HONEY
BRICK RUSHES OUT TO MEET PAM...
On BRICK!
HANN!
Sho found out about association. Someone tollf that Bambara was married and had a child. Barbara kg never married. Nor has she ever hud a childh
We have revealed our past life to each other. I have told her there were two other women T my life after I was married. She has been honest to say she was courting und in love with were engaged. a man. They Barbara broke it off long before
she met me.
I wanted Barbara to ecme to the ceremony and celebrations
EXCUSE
HELLO DOC!" I BEG YOUR
PARDON!
YOUR MORE
JOH, NOT YOU? DOC...ILL
BE WITH YOU IN A MINUTE!
By Paul Norris
YOU'D BETTER SPEAK TO HIM NOW,
HONEY! HE WANTS TO
SEND US TO THO
MOON!
THE
AERO
MILK CHOCOLATE THAT'S DIFFERENT!
ME, BUT I HAVE COME TO
SEE YOU ON
MR. GRAPPERO!
OH, YES... THIS IS
DR. JANJAY BRICK!
BEAUTIFUL
THAN SVER!!
BUSINESS,
ROWNTREE'S
Pat Smythe Injured
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Archie Quick's Cricket Article
Sin-1 feel I must point out to your porrespondent Mr Quick that he is hardly correct his article "Famous Sports Stars [ have met" in your Issue of 18th July fn stating, that Mr S. C. Grifith is the only cricketer over lo hit a century in a Test Match debut.
This feat has been performed by a large of number of people different erickcling countries, from Dr W. G. Grace onwards.
What Mr Grif has done uniquely is to have scored hla maiden century in First Class cricket In his maiden Test Motelt.
Now I
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London, July 20. Celebrated British horsewoman Misy Pat Smythe was injured
sure that a very when she fell from her horse large number of readers noticed during an obstacle" run of the Mr Quiet's mistake and so it is
Shuw International Horse
at hardly necessary for me to poin White City, London, today,
Fit out, but cricket fans have She was taken to hospital with been reported in the press most bruises to the face and detained feently es being the
critical crowd of readers, ready for X-rays.
Among the countries taking and eager to swallow anything. must therefore speak up an part in the show are Norway, France, Ireland, Spain, United say that here is one strong pritle States, Poland, Hungary, Italy, of your cricketing Journalist f Belglum and Germany.
we are expected to swallow mis- The Queen Mother and Prin- takes of this sort. cess Margaret, will attend the show tomorrow morning for the King George V Gold Cup for men riders. The show ends on Saturday.AFP.
'Flying Dutchman'
Yachting Championship
London, July 20. Italy today won the first of. the races in the International" "Flying Dutchman" yachting: championships in Whitstable bay. Kent, South England.
The winning yacht was Mario Caplo's "Alderberan II". Second was Britain with East Germany third-AFP.
J. R. F. MELLUISH
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