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BRITISH CHAMPION BEATEN ON POINTS
German Fighter Too Strong
For Ben Foord
WINNER TO MEET MAX BAER
(BY HAROLD LEWIS)
Ben Foord, British heavy-weight Champlon, lost a golden chance to advance into the world class of heavy-weight fight- ing when he was beaten on points over 15 rounds by the Ger- man, Waiter Neusel, at Harringay Arena recently.
So much might have been possible for him had he won. As Itly, this story of a fight which interested, but failed to thrill, a crowd of 13,000, is, I am afraid, the old unwelcome story of
gallant British heavy-weight defeat.
Foord was
outwitted and out, Foord, by staggering away, avoided generalled, by a man considerably trouble, and before the end of the older (which should have been to round was fighting strongly again Foord's advantage), considerably stronger, and far more experienced.
Mr. S. Hulls, the promoter, told me Neusel would definitely fight Max Baer at Harringay. In Febry
ary.
It was Neusel who, from the Afth round onwards, dictated how the fight should go. Neusel is a close- quarter battler pure" and simple He has one idea only to get with- In half-arm punching distance and hammer away with his slow, cum bersome but weighty punches.
At first Foord boxed well. He
RESULT DISAPPOINTING
suit was a bitter disappointment
From our point of view the Neusel is almost a veteran of the ring and although he has fought some of the best in the world in his day he has also received some very severe beatings. Any, boxer of pretensions to world class ought to defeat him, despite his strength and his experience.
mained.
What others have done against his "tank"
attack successfully Foord was unable to do. I have never pretended that he was any- opened with a nice, solid left thing but a strong fighter, lacking the face and kept Neusei well away footwork, and possessing simply a But in the fifth round Neusel did good punch and plenty of courage. exactly, as he did in both his vicis footwork was not good enough tories over. Jack Petersen: be
to enable him to stand of and box. buried his chin in his massive right only his strength and grit re shoulder, stopped. and came steadily on until he found his man,
NEUSEL EASY TARGET * Any punches that might and
I would point out again that their way through the guard of
was never great his thick arms he accepted without Neusel's margin stopping. "Foord's lefts might. have in any round until towards the He was an easy target for been so many straws. The Ger-end. man sought his objective as a tank, blows that failed to disturb him. goes through a wall: and, havingThere were many who thought the got there, he hit with force and. verdict was wrong, but in my view hit until his opponent cunched or it was right-very definitely. backed away.
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Foord, I am. fraid, has still much to learn. He has made progress SLOW MOTION!
but not nearly enough to raise the From that Bfth round until the hope in our hearts that he wil end the fight went on precisely carry the British colours into the those lines. If you had seen oneworld zone of heavy-weight fight- round you had seen all, excepting ing. that later on Fbord changed his methods of meeting the Neusel at tack, and that, as both tired, the German machine was reduced to slow motion or rather, one should say, slower motion, without ever being less effective.
Foord's change of idea was to meet Neusel with a right or left hook to the body. Very severe, some of these punches were, but never severe enough to turn Neuse! from his path by so much as one degree.
Afterwards. Neusel admitted that it was "one of the hardest fights of my life." He added, "I knew I had to make up a lot in the closing rounds. and I went all out."
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1936.
GEN. GOUGH AND GAS MASKS FROM FRESH FRUIT ALL
FIFTH ARMY
"Time The.Truth Came Out”
TRIBUTE TO HIS MEN
COAL
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Experiments At Fuel Research Station
The annual report of the Fuel Research Board, for the year end- ed
March 31; 1936, which the Department of Scientine and In- General Gough, speaking at
adustrial Research lasues recently, refers to the increased efficiency supper and concert of "old com- rades" of the Firth Army at Well in the use of coal during the last ington Barracks recently, defended few years, which has resulted in the Fifth Army against what he striking reductions in consump- termed the "obloquy" of the many tion, although the total energy years since the war. The General, obtained from the coal and use- who was greeted with the singing fully applied has increased. De- of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | velopments of an equally striking from the several hundred men nature, the report states, are tak present, said:
ing place in thethods of mining "The Fifth Army has been very and of preparing coal for the much in the limelight lately. One market.
In the past large coal has gent- comes to look back eighteen years We not only went through a ter- tally realized the highest prices, rible struggle. a terrible ordeal, but to meet the needs of modern but, when it was over, through Industrial practles and the capa- many years of what I might al-city of the modern coal cellar. nearly ai hard most call obloquy; and those were graded and cleaned coal of smal
as those eight or ler sizes is now equally or more ten days of desperate struggle valuable for many purposes. To we had in France.
"Now I do think it was about time that the truth came out, and when the country.should really understand what this army was asked to do and how it did it. We are the survivors of a great band. of a great army, and although it may seem that there are a lot of you sitting round this table, there
The questions of dellberate a great many more whose breakage and of preservation of bones are lying across that forty-sizes are being investigated by the one miles of front in France whom Fuel Research Station and by the we left behind. This army was staff of the Coal Survey Labora- asked to undertake a very great!
Work on the problem is tories., task, It was not only great and being carried out in co-operation Important. It was vital: but, also, with a number of collieries, past the unfortunate thing was that we
cularly in South Wales. were asked to undertake it in con- ditions which handicapped us very. very much.
are
LEFT UNSUPPORTED, "We were left unsupported: we were left with insuficient numbers
do.
meet this new demand the prac- tice of sizing of coal by screening end in some cases the augmenting of certain sizes by deliberate breaking of large coal, such sá has long been the practice with Welsh anthracite, is extending in districts where the market for
large coal is diminishing.
Another matter in connection with the grading of coal to which the report refers to the large number of different size grades that are being placed upon the market: There appears little
to be in with, and with insuf-doubt, the report states that a ficient support once the attack be-reduction in the number of these gan. That, therefore, threw a tre- grades will simplify the selling of mendous burden upon us to keep coal, and the board welcome the the line going, to keep the line, l-appointment of a committée by tact, and to prevent the Germans the Midland Institute of Mining bursting through as they nopec to | Engineers and the South and do, expected to do, and intended to West Yorkshire Coal Owners' Association to investigate the "What we did we did by the matter. superhuman efforta, by the gallan- From information supplied to try. self sacrifice, and also the the committee it would appear. initiative of all sorts and condi- the report states, that regarding tions of men-officers, non-con- only the coal, below 3in. in size not missioned officers, and
private less than 106 different size, grades soldiers-most of them having and slacks are marketed. Analy- been brought up in a civilian homesis of the data relating to the without a very long military train-whole Yorkshire area indicated that approximately 60 per cent.
Foord's remark was "Well it's all in the game. Some will agree, I think, that I deserved to draw. I feel I won most of the earlying. rounds, and certainly did not lose. many towards the finish."
PALMER BEATS WARNOCK" In a very good eight rounds fly- weight fight Pat Palmer, "of Bat- tersea, beat Jim Warnock, of Bel- tew fast. Palmer was beaten a
a title fight by months ago in
"Yet they were real soldiers; and of the total tonnage worked was in a moment of great crisis they graded according to 15 size grades, showed themselves to be soldiers, and if mixtures of these were and acted like soldiers and by added a "total representing op- that I mean there was a greet dealproximately 70 per cent of the of skill and courage and initiative tonnage was covered by these and using ground; how long you
shown that" with sizes. Ib
Gradually. the strong young South African was worn down. His lack of boxing technique had no answer to the tank methods of Neusel, He scored. and scored Lynch, and Warnock hopes to meet should take up a new line.
often. At times he aroused en- thusiasm by a gallant attack. But when
the
night was half-way through nothing but an accident could prevent the German winning Naturally, the monotony of it was a trifle boring at times. What maintained
the interest was Floord's pluck. He never gave up until the last round of all, when both he and Neusel were too tired to deliver a punch of any con- sequence.
Lynch shortly. He holds a points decision over the champion in a non-title Aght. On this Inst display, however, this Irish left hander would have little chance against the hard-hitting Scot.
should hang on to one place; how only sinali adjustments in mesh you should retreat; when you
size a large proportion of the re- maining sizes could be placed un- der one of the 15 grades, which would account for 95 per cent, or the tonnage.
INDIVIDUAL HEROES.
All those are matters of some some natural instinct. skill and and those great soldierly qualities were shown by officers and men of the Fifth Army. I may take some credit for some things, but, in the main, it was a soldier's battle. It was the individual soldiers on the battlefield, the officers and men in small parties fighting for days and
CROWLEY'S POINTS VICTORY
Dave Crowley has come back from America, more like Kid Berg In style than ever, and his rushing. two-handed tactics enabled him to score a useful win on points overnights, who won the battle. I do Harry Mizler, the former light- weight champion. His victory cught to help to put Crowley in line for a title match.
NEUSEL IN DANGER There was just one moment when Neusel seemed to be in some
Mizler was never permitted time danger-a curious affair. In the seventh round Foord rushed Neusel j to develop his scientific style. He was rushed from rope to rope, his to the ropes and over them. Neusel scrambled back, only to be left load being brushed aside. hurtled over the top rope again. Frequently he tried to stop his fiery This time Foord went with him- opponent with a swift right to the Jaw, but never succeeded in land- on top.
ing it.
It took Foord some seconds to get back, and he had to lean on the man beneath him for leverage to do so.
Meanwhile the referee. Mr. Jack Smith, of Manchester, was steadily counting, and one "witnessed, the absurd scene of the German scrambling frantically underneath the lower rope to get within the ring before being counted out. Mr. Smith had actually reached seven or eight before Neusel was on his
feet.
Apparently Foord thought he had done some damage. He fought furiously immediately afterwards. But Neusel was unhurt and went to his comer amiling at the end of the round.
The body attack of the German was incessant in the tenth round, and in the next he suddenly shot
Much valuable work has bee carried out with the gas-making plant and the low temperature carbonization retorts at the Fuel. Research Station. At the request, of the War Office an investigation has been made at the station with the object of producing active carbon for gas masks from British not think I need remind you or re- coal. The knowledge possessed by count to you the sort of thing that the station concerning the CAI- dld happen." he added.
bonization process and the pro- Referring to the incident when perties of various coals has en- General K. C. Jackson rallied theable successful results to be sc- men with a hunting horn, Gener-hieved after
very little special al Gough exclaimed, "Goodness I work. knows how he had a hunting hom It has been found, the report with him."
states, that certain hard coals Later, he repeated, "It was not (durain), with A suitable but my doing: it was a soldier's bat- rather critical degree of eaking tle. That fact fills me with an power, if carbonized in sultable immense ädmiration, an immense sizes at low temperatures and respect, and an immense affection then activated by steam at "high for men who would show such
temperatures, will provide an ac- spirit and auch self-sacrifice."
tive carbon very nearly, if not Comradeship and affection, pride quite as good as the best obtain- in oneself, in what they had toable from other sources, and at a do, pride in the country, and pride considerably lower cost. in the unit still existed, he went "London, Dec. 15. on, and it. formed a tremendous Bidney Heary - Holland, former bond between them all. member of the British Air Force, who placed
The attendance was about 13,000 and the receipts more than £17,000.
R.A.F. MAN KILLED
his services at the
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Finally, General Gough thanked it was felt, still remained concern- disposal of the Spanka Red Goy-
the men again for what they aiding the historic retreat in 1918, in 1918. "I have already told you and the reversal which would ernment, was killed in Aghting that, possibly in very inadequate bring reller of mind to relatives of vittoria in the North of Spain-words," he said, "but they were those who fell fighting. The tele- Transocean News Service.
sincere, and they are a really gram, was signed by Mr. H. D. gehune tribute. I do not think that you have been thanked suf- KING'S RACING STUDficiently, and I certainly officially
London, Dec. 15.
His Majesty the King will con-
was never able to do it." General Gough also thanked them for maintaining that spirit of friend-
a left hook to the jaw. which tinue to maintain a racing estab-ship and comradeship." caused Foord to stagger and sag at lishment stud on the same lines as the knees. Had Neusel the speed his father, and he will similarly at that moment he could have won keep up, as far as possible, Ral
a knock-out. He never was 'moral and Sandringham.— quick on his feet, however, and Reuter's Bulletin Service.
by
Bradford, chairman of the Fifth Army Old Comrades Association:
When General Sir Hubert Gough arrived in his car-from which attered the old Fifth Army stan- dard-he interrupted a little "In- dignation" meeting over the Goy- ernment's refusal to remove the stigma.
'APPEAL TO PREMIER, The survivors of the Fifth Army A message of goodwill was re- sent a telegram to the Prime Min-ceived from General von Gallwitz Ister appealing to his sense of Jus- (of the German Fifth Army op- tice to remove the stigma which posing the British in March, 1918).
THE YEAR
Success Of Official Experiments
A plan to make fruit in season in this country all the year round is being developed by agriculturai experts attached to the Depart ment of Scientific and Industrial Research, says
the "Bunday Times."
Fruit grown in this country is being kept seasonable by means of gas and other forms of storage.
"Bramley seedings, for instance," an omcial of the department told Sunday Times" representative recently, "are being stored in old past-houses. The wall are smother ed with vaseline to keep them air- tight, while a ventiator is let into the roof. Immediately the apples begin to give off too much carbon dioxide the ventilator is opened and the atmosphere relieved."
The development of gas storage for other varieties of home-grown apples is proceeding satisfactorily. Promising results have been ob- tained with apparatus or the maintenance of atmosphere in which the concentrations of both oxygen and carbon dioxide are in- dependently controlled at levels as low as five per cent.
PRESERVING PEARS
Work on the gas storage of home-grown pears has proceeded far enough to justify the state- ment that there is no reason why
this fruit should not be stored on the commercial scale for periods up to six months.
storage of "Conference" pears. In Trials of the refrigerated gas-
particular, have been made with definite results. First-class flavour, texture, and appearance can be obtained after long
periods of storage. The miting factor in the supply of homegrown fruit of this variety for consumption be- yond the normal season is now the quantity grown, and not the ability to keep it.
The storage of tomatoes, sald the official, both for short and for long periods is being investigated. but it is hampered by the fact that little is known of the physio- logy of this fruit.
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