THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1960.
Ferraris almost sweep the board
BELGIAN DRIVERS WIN THE LE MANS AS FIVE OTHER FERRARIS FINISH AMONG FIRST SEVEN
Le Mans, June 26. Italian Ferraris dominated the 1960 Le Mans 24-hour endurance
race which ended høre in brilliant sunshine today, taking six | A of the first seven places. ́
A lone British Aston-Martin, driven by Roy Salvadori and Jim Clark broke into the Italian procession to take third place. The winner was B Works eight-mile circa't had fourth position, having lost Ferrari driven by two Belgians, io do.
water and seized up. Paul Frere, a journalist and Thousands of enthusiastic ad-
Flockhart commented philoso- Olivier Gendeblen, Grund mirers moobed Frere and Gende Prix driver,
bien as the winning, Ferrariphically: "It was the fuck of the Second was an American-pulled up in front of the pits game." entered Ferrari, driven by shortly after the flag dropped
In his hour trumpli, Frere Ricardo Rodriguez and Andre
declared: "This is my last race. Pilette.
After the Aston-Martin came I have made up my mind." four
privately-entered Ferraris,
by followed
Corvette American Chevrolet entered by millionaire sports- man Briggs Cunningham.
more
Injury-free
an
Talking of the race, he said: "We had no trouble at all with the car. She ran beautifully throughout.
Thrills
One of the strangest mis- fortunes of the race was the elimination of two Works Fer- raris through a miscalculation of petrol consumption. The race was yet young when the iwo cars ran out of fuel on the circult and had to with- draw.
Speeds were cut down last a downpour lasting
"I had no worries or trouble at all. I was quite confident There were ten British cars]
Mind you, we wmong the 25 which survived throughout.
nursed the car," from a field of 55.
Although there were some Gendeblen, winner of the night by spills, the 28th Le Mans was race two years ago with Phit several hours, but the track an injury-free race. The Hill in a Ferrari, said; "I only, later dried out and today was small army of doctors, nurses, believed in our victory once Ane and warm
ambulances, round the had passed the finishing post.”
and
U.S. BASEBALL
Baltimore Orioles
take over AL lead
The winning car was the only survivor of the four Works Ferraris entered. Eight other Ferraris were privately entered, Another crashed in practice be-
fore the race,
Pace-maker from the start of the race was the American- Maserati driven by entered Masien Gregory and Chuck Daigh, which took the lead and stayed there until I retired after 82 laps.
Fastest time
This car recorded the fastest on the long Mulsanne
of 272 kilometres an
New York, June 27. Chuck Extrada and Jim Gentile
boosted Baltimore into the time American League lead yester-straight
with day
a victory over hour (170 mph). Kansas City while the New York Yankees fell Inis second place, one game back, by splitting a doubleheader with Cleveland
The Yanks won the opener 6-2 but lost the second in 11 innings 7-6, before 57.261 fans at Cleve land, the League's largest crowd of the year.
Pittsburgh dropped two games 7-6 and 7-3 to the Chicago Cubs who had lost nine in a row, but the Pirates didn't lose much of their National League lead be- cause second-place Milwaukee and third-place San Francisco also lost. Frank Howard's two home runs helped Los Angeles defeat Milwaukee 6-3. Cincin- nati backed up Bob Purkey with 12 hits for a 10-4 romp over the Giants.
Results
Yesterday's results were:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston
(First game)
R
HE
3
5
4
Chicago
Boston Chicago
(Second game)
New York Cleveland
(First game)
тел
7 10
21 22
8
D
2 4 0
g
7 11
New York Cleveland
(Second game)
11 Innings
(First game)
Washington
Detroit
Washington
Detroit
Baltimore
Kansas City
NATIONAL LEAGUE
. St Louis
(Second game)
12TM innings.
Two Jaguars also started but both retired with engine trouble. One entered by Briggs Cunning-
First ever robot bookmaker to be
tested in Sydney
Sydney, June 26, totalisator betting machine believed to be the first in history to take a gambling risk will be tested at Randwick, Sydney, within six weeks. Universal Thialisators Ltd, has been trying to perfect the "Robos
Bookmaker" for four years.
The machine is reported to have ensi the makers a small fortune. on the robot, panters will know what odds they are getting when
they make a bet. Unlike the ordinary tote, the machine can lose as well sa win on
a race,
hate in their fists
By REX LOPEZ
Page
More than just a fight',
said The Bomber
Joe Louis said: "A guy fights for dough, except maybe
once. Everyone knew exactly what he meant. For Louis only once went into the ring, his gloves loaded
with hate.
Normal totes here deduct 1214 per cent from the total investment That was his second fight against Max Schmeling, idol of
Germany and Hitler's muscle-flexing Aryan superman.
-734 per cent going to the government, and the race club and totalisator company sharing 5 per cent,
But since the robot is a gambling booknisker -- not a tote — the deduction would only be 2 per rent turnover ixx-as paid by bookmakers plus, possibly, a small percentage for the club. It is believed the lote will use the same opening quotes se book-
-makers most of whom obtain them from pefes framers. Although the "Automatic Bookmaker" scientifically adjusts odds as money flows in, the machine could lose if punters plunged on one horse, regardless of the reducing price. Sydney race clubs have not yet approved installation of the
"Robot Bookmaker" for racing purposes,
But the Australian Jockey Club big given permission, for a test
run at Randwick.
Racing officials will be "punters" at the trial.—Ching Mail Special.
Overnight, in the eyes of the a declared world, he become Nazi.
It was not so much the By a mere glance he had courted no favours. But a true humiliating twelve-round beat-reduced world class boxers to a portaman
Louis suffered ing
against mass of quivering nerves. Arst fight Schmeling in their
Primo Camera, strong as an that burned in him. Or the fact ox and built like a Samson, had that the German had gloated gone pale at the sight of Louis. over his achievement.
Tough, wise-cracking Max Baer What made Louis mad wax) became a nervous tumbler when the ceaseless flow of racial he met the Bomber. propaganda Germany's démon doctor, Joseph Goebbels, dish- ed out after the fight,
By the time the men came face-to-face in the packed on June 22, Yankee Stadium, 1933, the world crown at stake
France came into her own. as The Lotus team was hand- The heavy Chevrolet Cor- always with the little DB Pan- cepped by the absence of Jona-
in had become almost incidental. drumhara which makes a feature of than Steff, who crashed yetles, equipped with
of perfor- practice on Thursday and was brakes, which do not compare winning the index
with the mance, in life or efficiency
flown back to England were
chartered aircraft today.
Jum
more modern disc-type, generally not taken as a serious
threat.
But there were cheers when things went well for the Cor vettes and groans when they were in trouble. Two of them finished in eighth and tenth places, but the team was in- volved in many adventures on the track,
One car crashed twice bat kept running. Two Corvettes caught fire on the cireult and another driven by Fred Wind- ridge took to the escape road just past the main grandstand with clouds of blue smoke pouring out of it
The German Porsches, of.
This prize which brings in es much money as winning the race itself, is awarded on the basis of a formula which takes the engine size into account. The winning drivers Girard Laureau and Paul Armagnac.
New event
were
This is the last time that the index of performance will be contested in the Le Mans race. It will be replaced by an Index
of "energy output" which was started today, with Lotus
ears taking the first two places.
The new index is a complicat- tion, weight of car, distance run some in and average speed. The Lotus driven by John Wagstaff and Tony Marsh took first place, fol. Works car driven by Robert Masson and
ham and driven by the Ameriwhich six started and only two ed calculation of fuel consump can sportscar champion Walter finished-in eleventh and twelfth
Dan Gurney, was
places-also provided Hansgen and
terest and excltement. Mechanics the fastest car in practice.
The other Jaguar, entered by even took the engine out of one Ecurie Eesse and driven by Ron and put it back again during alowed by another Flockhart and Bruce Halford. pit stop in an effort to keep the retired after 13 hours when in lear in the race.
Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS
FERDINAND
HERE THEY
COME
0
2
2
NANCY
(First game)
HOW
2 5
0
3 11 1
MY MOTHER
CAN
AND MY
THEY
(Second game)
AUNT
0
BOTH
USE IT
BOTH
USE IT?
(First game)
Chicago Pittsburgh
7 13 0
Second
5
Philadelphia
St Louis Philadelphia
Baltimore:
7
4 11
1
BRICK BRADFORD
YES, YOUR
Chicago Pittsburgh
Los Angeles Milwaukee
San Francisco Cincinnati
10 12
League standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York
Cleveland
tega betrola Washington Kanni "City Boston
W L P GB
41 27 309
37 25 397
35 27 586
'NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburg
Milwaukes
San Francisco
Et Louis
Cingrati
Los Angeles
Chicago
DON'T TRY ANYTHING,
MEN! GEST GIVE
SADE HER FATHER
AND LET THEM GET
· OUT OF HERE.
HISHNESS!
FELLOW, MAYBE
YES, DEAR
THEY KNOW THE MAKE OF THAT
STRANGE NEW HUMAN CREATURE WE HAVE FOUND
ONE IS SKINNY AND THE OTHER IS
FAT
Claude Laurent.
14,1053.
OF ALL THE CHEEK PUTTING ME IN A
CAMP
THIS IS THE LATEST
THING ON THE MARKET
A FEW MINUTES LATER,SADIE'S FATHER IS TRANSFERRED FROM THE SPACE PLATFORM LTO THE SPACESHIP, AND THEN
OKAY, YOU HAVE.
YOUR FATHER / NOW
GET AWAY FROM:
HERG!
k
in
д
A race war
It
was
more
race
than mere More even
Clark, co-driver of the elemental revenge. Aston-Martin which finished than a grudge fight. third, said after the race that German propaganda had he thought the ear could have blown the encounter into a full dan better, but it had been blooded international incident a war between hampered, by engine trouble miniature
Germany and throughout, and seemed to be fanatical
the
short of revs
entire Negro race.
Make no mistake. That first victory of Schmeling's was no fuke.
sensational young
The official averages of the first six cars were;
1. Ferrari (Frere-Gendebien) 175.730 kph (109,193 mph),
2. Ferrari (Rodriguez- Pilette) 173,486 lph (107.799 mph).
(Salvadori. (106.600
3. Aston-Martin Clark) 171.571 kph mysh).
4. Ferrari (Tavamo-Loustel) 168,997 kph (104,910 mph).
5. Ferrari (Helde - Morlet) 167,928 kph (104.345 mph).
6. Ferrari (Arents-Connell) 107.875 kph (104.312 mph), Router.
SO IT SEEMS THE APES ARE COLLECTING OUR FORM OF SPECIES ?
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Aryan arrogance
Louls was on the way up, de- vouring everyone placed in his
a final eliminator for the world path. When he was matched in Crown against Max (Schmeling
the result was a foregone con-
clusion to experts all over the world.
But Schmeling had other ideas, To the veteran (31-year-old) German ex-world champion it
When he returned to America
■ year later to claim his chance against Braddock he was cold- shouldered back to his Father- land.
Louis got the chance instead, and won the crown.
But in his dressing room after the fight, the slow:
talking Louis uttered the bitter after-fight
most
stake a crack at James J. was the chance of a lifetime. At speech of his career. Braddock and the chance of becoming the first man to regain the world title.
Someone asked him: "Why don't you smile, Joe! the new Champ,"
You're
But Schemling wam't popus lar. In his country Hitler had already started his persecution of the Jews. To the Jewish with Schmeling." community in New York-the bigrest
the supporters of
Was fight game-Schmeling the embodiment of Aryan arrogance.
"No, I ain't no champ,” Louis retorted. "Not 'til I've dealt
Peak form
The fight was arranged for June 22, 1938 in the same stadium where Schmeling had Louis' championship halted climb.
No one seems to have pointed out that Schmeling himself had courageously dolled the Nazis and refused to break with his Since his defeat by Schmeling. Jewish manager Joe Jacobe des Louis had taken the world tille
campaign and
successfully staked it
pite. a
newspaper
against him.
They flocked in their thou-gainst Tommy Fore, Nathan
Mann and Harry Thomas. sands to the Yankee Stadium (that June night in 1938, Jews He was at the peak of his and Negroes, to see Louis strikke farm. And Itching for his fight
a blow of protest against the against Schmeling. crimes of the Third Reich by taking it out of the sour German.
Shock
But instead they got the shock of their lives.
In his close study of Louis' style. Schmeling-had discovered his one weakness. The Brow Bomber Was a sucker for a straight right. And Schmeling was the deadly possessor of the best right hand punch in the business.
When he wound- tip - his training, Louis, for the first and only time in, his career, uttered
a-threak; ~\"Enta la more than just a fight,” he wald. "I'm fighting" Hiller's man. In Germany they hayo ridiculed me and my race,
a little
"You want to make money! Get yourself a bet. I'll tear his head off in one round, Yes, sir. Just me round,"
It was the longest speech Louds had over made.
It took him four rounds of masterly ringcraft to coax light- On the big night. 70,000 footed Louis into the right posi-fight fans paid more than tion. But when the chance 1,000,000 dollars to witness what came he grabbed it.
eventually became known a
Blocking a devastating left job the greatest slaughter in boxing from the Bomber, he threw a history.
right hook that caught Louis
bang on his chin. Momentarily
The first bell sounded muffled
dazed Louis dropped his guard, in the tout atmosphere of the and like a flash Schmeling moved packed Stadium. For a moment in slamming left and rights at it seemed that neither man had
heard the gong. the Bomber's unprotected chin.
Then the unbelievable hap- pened, Louis' knees wobbled liko jelly, and he crumpled to the canvas.
Like a novice he aprang up at the count of "three." And the bell saved him.
But when he came back it was obvious that hde mechanical fighting ability had been throw out of gear. For eight rozda he instinctively defended him- self.
A final shattering right ended the debacle. Louis was counted
out,
First defeat
Punishment
Guardedly, they moved closer to one another. A few seconds looping right-hander. If he of sparring. Schmeling threw a hoped to reproduce the punch that had undone Louis two years ago he was very much mistaken. Louls wasn't going to make the same mistake twice.
Suddenly, like a wild beast, Louis Hew into Schmeling, throwing hate-guided punches from all angles. Every one found its target,
It was a welter of blinding punishment. And Schmeling answer. He tried to
To Louis it was a humiliating had no setback, the first defeat in his take refuge on the ropes. But career. But he accepted it he couldn't side-step a skydo
blow from the furious Negro. philosophically.
The story might have ended there, but Hitler and Pro- paganda Minister Goebbels de- cided that Schmeling's victory was ideal material to boost Ger- man prestige at home and abroad.
Then Louis Jet rip a right- hand punch with every one of his 1984 Ibu behind it. Schmeling squealed in agony, In fact that punch setually distered one of Schmeling's vertebrae.
Helplessly he went down for
They cabled glowing con- gratulations to their hero. And ordered him to obtain a copy of "three," Again for "two," the film of the light. They sent flowers
to Frau Schmeling (actress Any Ondra) and arranged a riotou recention for the return of the violar,
Then again. Retenee Arthur Dononovan waved Louis back. He kicked aside the surrender towel Schmeling's tranfic trainer had first into the ring, and started counting.
in accepting their praiar, Schmeling indentified himselt with Germany's ·dékpofá," "He told German newspapers:? "I thought of the Fuehror and found strength in best - the Negro.” He became 3. willing Time: Exactly 124 seconda-50 inal in the hands of toshbels seconda desa than Louis Hitler's living proof of Aryan had estimated...
At "sight" he knew he need count no further. He mured Leals (arm, the dark sky.
Schmeling was rushed to
Before he victory those who hospital, and ihres weeks later knew him fudged Schmeling a carried aboard the Bremen on a conscientious, fair mann: True bej stretcher for his retien home, was dour, relantiões, &: Oghter 1 There, only his wike waited to without sodinom, a mgas who greet him,