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BIG BOXING BOUT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PE
HOW THE ENGLISH CHAMPION WAS BEATEN.
A. SWEDISH VICTORY.
PEER'S STORY OF
ASHI
THE
URN BROUGHT BY LORD DARNLEY FROM AUSTRALIA:
NOT TO GO BACK.
The "Ashes" exist, but whichever team wins the rubber this year-they-will not leave Kent.".
ba won..
When interviewed, Lord Damley gave the history of these " Ashes.”
As briefly announced by Renter at the time. Phil. Beott, the British heavy weight champion boxer, was defeated onl June 14th at Holland Park, London, by
They are to be found to a little Harry Persson, of Stockholm Co earthenware ura in Lord Daruley's menting on the hout, B. Bennison, in the rivate study in his country house, near. Daily Telegraph, said that it was a right Cobham. They have been there for more swing to the jaw that toppled Scatt over than 40 years, and although they may be at the count of eight Scott rose bewilder. ed, drunken; his long arms by his side, en by visiting Australians they may not limp; his normally queer eyes had taken on an exaggerated, tell-tale twist, and the Scandinavian, a giant, several inches higher than Gft., as is the Englishman, and round about 1a, swung bis left hand also to the neighbourhood of the chin, and down went Scott with a bang, to be counted out. Such a finish was as unexpected an it was dramatic; it wasaporting weekly a reference to the death of English cricket, and a note that the body be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The expression caught the public imagination, and when I took out the English team to Australia in the early part of the following year (he was then the Hon. Ivo Bligh), I was asked. to bring them back.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, in truth, the outstanding feature of the
Motorhip THE
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[3783 Hongkong, 15th July, 1926,
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bout; it saved the affair from being a travesty of the science of boxing.
"It was after the 7-rubs defeat of England at the Oval on August 29th, 1889, when the late F. E Spoorth took 14 wickets for Australia, that the tradi- tion of the Ashea arose," he said
There then appeared in a popular
URN FIVA INCHES BIGH.
Very many Australians have seen these sabes, for when our house in Kent was converted into a convalescent home during the war some 1,400 Australian the urn round the wards and show it to officers passed through it. I used to take them, and it always created the greatest amount of interest.
A large and distinguished gathering had places at the ringside Princes Gustar Adolf and Sigvard, and other notabilities. And when Persson appear ed, decked out in a dressing-gown of red
"Some Melbourne women purchased and white squares, he was greeted with stranger, save. Carpentier in his heyday, an earthware ura some five inches high was ever given a more cordial welcome to and filled it with sahes. It was sent to our ring and Scott, a model man physime before we sailed, and I brought it to cally-in make-up 1 doubt whether we England, and have kept it ever since. pien-did not lack for encouragement. have ever had a more impressive cham- had the appearance of being better trained thab. Persson; if ever a man look ed the part Scott, did; there was an alertness about him that augured well for his chances; his muscles glistened and rippled by comparison Persson was lethargic to the point of indifference, and I must confess that when he struck a fighting attitude I fell to picking holes in his deportment. He was mostly wrong; he outraged first principles in the matter of carriage elbows out after the manner of an incorrigible swinger Tucked up impossibly, you would have said Parsson was, and it was as plain as a nikestaff to all, except Scott, that This limitations as a boxer were immense, Scott unbelievable in a champion. commendably straight, and in it was Promptly shot out his long left hand, much force. And it landed-within-a- fraction of an inch of the target at which it was aimed, so that Persson was pulled up with a jolt.
-Wharren, Delize whence, and/or from the drive home his punches and in a general
be
Goods not cleared by the 19th July, 1926, at Noon, will be subject to Beat
All broken, chaled and damaged Packagon" lf in the Godowas, where they will retained in the presence of Consignees by Messrs Goddard & Douglas en 16th July, 1926, at 10 AM Claims against the Steamer including those for Cargo short delivered must be presented on the Spodial Form provided, and must also be ruhmitted within 30 days of arrival, otherwise they not be recognised.
No. Fire Insuranos will be effected by us in
any case whatever."
Bill of Lading will be countersigued by
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Agents Hongkong, 12th July, 1926,
"
(3778
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the 20th instast, "
"Even if the Australiant win this year, I shall keep the ashes, and if Eng and wins they will not go-to-Lord's They are a most precious souvenir of my cricketing days"
MARINE COURT.
HEAVY SENTENCES PASSED.
Exemplary sentences were passed, it the Marine Court yesterday, by-Lieut Commander G. F. Hoie, KN, on two unemployed Chinese coolies, who were charged with being on board the S.. Tennessee (Norwegian steamer) without master or, the the permission of the officer in charge
WHY SCOTT FAILED. Whether Scott was surprised at the readiness with which he found he could
Wong Ping, of 383, Canton Road, Tou way show that be was appreciably the mati, and Chan Pat, of San War, both better, the more huished, boxer I cannot admitted praviona convictions, and were say, but it in & fact that immediately sentenced to two months imprisonment following his demonstration that Persson with hard labour. A native of Nam Hoi, could be bit, and was far from being who was arrested in their company, was more than an average boxer, Scott beat sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour. around him a fogginess through which At the same Court, the master of a he could not see or even grope Instead passenger boat was fined $10, with the of making use of the ring, instead of alternative of ten days hard labour in obeying the alphabet of boxing, which default, for a breach of the conditions- was to lead with his left and make play of his passenger boat licence. It was with his feet, he somehow--perhaps be shown that he carried cargo, other than cause his fighting mentality was wrong passengers luggage on his boat, namely, twisted himself into pretty nearly a 300 bottles of mineral waters, one case hopeless knot, and allowed the slowly of tinned milk, 300 catties of potatoes moving and, I considered, most obvious and three large sacks of linen table- Persson to walk into him, and engage in cloths. something that was closer to wrestle thau a fight.
The mistress of a cargo boat was fined. 83-for a breach of the conditions of her. cargo boat licence. She admitted carry-
THE S.S." DRAFN.”
Persson was all for laying on, for mak ing Scott carry his prodigious weighting three passengers on her boat. about with him, and the Englishman had not the nous to work around and insist that his opponent should be his own carrier. There was, perhaps, method in the ways of Persson he himself, at the finish, professed that he only bided his time for the coming of the psycholo gical moment to deliver a knock-out. I ciently clever to play a waiting game. personally, do not think Bersson is suffi
NORWEGIAN BOAT SOLD TO
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The s.s. Drain, a Norwegian ship
If he were certain that the moment owned by Camilla Eitzen, of Oslo, would come when he could, and would, Norway, has been sold to Shanghai, it knock out Scott, that he deceived me en-is stated on a deferred payment plan,
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remamintirely. This I would give him credit for an will, therefore, fy the Norwegian flag undelivered after
--he realised that if he did not keep close until all the purchase money had been Scott would outbox him completely
Originally built by Henry Kock, at Lubeck, Germany, in 1:03, the Drifn is
All Claims against the Steamer must presented to the Undersigned on or before the 3rd August, 1926, or they will not be recognised, chafed and damaged Goods are to Afthe Gowns, whey they ill be be left in examined on the 20th instant, at 10 am No Firs Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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[3774
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So: Persson took on the shape of a classed A1 in the Norwegian Bureau of Ench round until the eleventh-which, as last surveyed in June, 1923. Her net ramrod and threw science overboard. Veritas Her engines and boilers were I have recorded, was the last was tendragistered tonnage is 1,025 tons, and her ly dull, for in each of them Scott was gross registered tonnage,1,499 tons; D.W. perplexed by fellow who approached capacity, inclusive of bunkers, 2,325 tons; him open-mouthed and who- re often and her bunkers contain 381 tons Her than not shut his eyes when he saw a capacity for cargo is 106,306 cubic feet. punch coming and when he himself set and her draft fully loaded is about 18 out to do damage. The two, for the most fest, her mean draft in ballast being parf, gave an in tation of a new fangled eft 3in. The ship miter speed of polkamazurka. Of clean fighting there 10-11 hots per hour on about 17 tons of was deplorably little. Now Persson Japanese coal. Her length over all-is would so work his head us to make Scott 2051 length between perpendiculars appear as if he were all for holding it graft breadth 36ft, depth of hold 12ft. in chancery; there were few moments in, and the height of the 'tween decks when both were not guilty of laying ou 7ft. The steamer is fitted with air and when arms were locked in the scuttles. She carries several first-class fashion of novices
passengers, and has ample water ballast for native passengers in the amount of 310 tons She has tween decks all over, and is equipped with six side ports.
At the half-distance Scott was in front the best that Persson did up to that stage was to bring an uppercut into play when the two were in clinches A left-hand was all too frequently little more than a push a blow with the body behind it I did not see until what proved to ha the last pinch and I am bound to that the punch which gave Persson the
WES & terrific one That it was given designedly I refuse to believeather did Scott walk into it; he asked for it, he got it, and there's an end of it.
There is this to be said for Person he kept his head when he saw Scott fall; that is why, when the English champion rose, he promptly put him down again with a swinging left without the least ceremony, just as if it were a simply and OGRAN" COMPREHENSIVE POLICY everyday thing to do. I felt sorry for
THE
Boott ha tried so hard; he failed so
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Captain Fingalsen, well-known on the China Coast, is the master of the prafe and will continue to command
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