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SATURDAY, OCTOBER
EXPERT POST OFFICE THIEF TRAPPED.
CHIFF. CONSTABLE'S FOUR' WEEK'S VIGIL,
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GENE TUNNEY. ON SPORTSMANSHIP.
1928.
BOXING SHOULD BE STOPPED IF IT DIES OUT.
Before a small but remarkable ed in robbing post offices, and who audience collected by Mr. Harry fell into a trap laid for him at Preston at the Piccadilly Hotel, Mr. Ramsgate Post Office, was con- Gono Tunney, the world's heavy- tenced to five years penal sorvl-weight boxing champion, throw off tude at the Old Bailey recently. his mantle of reserve and made a The man, George Harold Smith, brilliant speech on the psychology aged 20, described as a motor of boxing.
driver, admitted breaking into His listeners, who numbered 40, post offices at Dorchester, Sitting Included Lord Clydesdale, Sir bourne, Horsham, Maidstone, Can-Godfrey Thomas (the Prince of terbury, Southend, and Hastings Wales's secretary), Lord Dalziel, before the Ramsgate offence, Mt. Arnold Bennett, Sir Henry
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"England is the eradlo of modern boxing. From England we got sportsmanship. If sportsmanship begins to die out In boxing then I think it ought to be stopped.
He also confessed to having Curtis-Bennett, Sir John Lavery, arranged to break into post offices Lord Decles, Mr. George Graves, at Dartford, Tuni-bridge Wells, Mr. C. B. Cochran, and Lord Portsmouth, Margato, and Brom- Plunkett. ley had he not been caught.
Mr. Forster Boulton, prosecut one contest in the world which Mr. Tunney said. "There is only ing, stated that the Chief Cons- would get me back in the ring. It table of Ramsgate had cloverly would be a fight between Jack assumed that the Ramsgato post Dempsey on July 2, 1919, and Gone office would be visited, and for Tunney in July or August in 1928, four weeks he and two constables of their careers. This, I repeat, watched Inside the building at when both men were at the peak midnight from July 2., Smith is the only contest in which I should broke a window, pushed. back the be interested. But as that can catch, opened it, and dropped in- never take place, I will never come side. He was at once pounced back to the ring, upon by the waiting constables, and found to be wearing gloves. . Mr Samuel Flowers Butler, Chief Constable of Ramsgate, stated that Smith was the son of a pensioned police offleer. He had been twice convicted, once necessity of a boxer possessing the "Much has been spoken about the for house breaking. Smith was killer instinct in order that ho worldng as a builder's labourer should win. Personally I think when he started specialising in that this phrase was coined by a breaking into post offices. He romantic and imaginative writer broke into the Dorchester office wih no knowledge of boxing. The twice, and at Sittingbourne stole desire to kill takes place, I imagine, £368. Ile had a holiday with part only when the opponent is helpless. of the money, and put £52 108, in the Post Office savings bank. At most, ferocious when his opponent "It seems, in fact, that a boxer la Maldstone he stole, among other has his guard down and is helpless things, a sapphire and diamond against the ropes in other words bracelet, worth £250, which he that he is ready like a cleaner to sold for £50 at a London shop. put him in an ashbowl. A man who He worked alone, and, having has such an instinct on such an found out offices which closed on occasion is merely brutal, and this Saturday night, he inspected them instinct in fact, enters when com- carefully. When arrested he had petition stops. in Post Office guide and an A.B.C. time-table in his possession. Ho had retained the Hastings Post Office date stamp with which to stamp unissued postal orders,
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"When I heard a college man Mr. Butler mentioned that a shout like that I was disgusted and mun, Alfred George Pops, sen-began to wonder whether boxing tenced to five years' penal servi-was a good thing. In my opinion tude at Gravesend for burglary, sportsmanship is essential to box- had wrongfully confessed to the ing, and if that disappears then 1 Sittingbourne robbery. The mat- think boxing ought to stop. tor was submitted to the Homo Secretary. Smith throughout had tion of becoming the heavy-weight "I took up boxing with the ambi- strongly expressed his desire that champion of the world. I attain no other person should be punished the object considerably by good ed for his wrong-doing."
luck. Having done that, boxing Smith, in a statement, said that has no further interest for me; in- he had married a good woman and deed, it seems foolhardy for me to let her down badly. "I was in continue in it. An artist always work," he continued, "and I was thinks that his greatest master- without any reasonable excuse plece is to come, while the business) In going stealing again."
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The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, can. K.C.), passing sentence, stated "In boxing, once one has reached that the public owed a debt of the heights one has reached them.) gratitude to the vigilance and There is nothing more to it. In the acumen of Mr. Butler. He order- circumstances boxing has no fur- ed Smith to pay a sum not ex-ther incentive for me. I have taken! cecding £20 towards the cost of out of it all I want for my small the prosecution.
needs. It is with a feeling of gratitude that I now retire from it, and I hope that a clean-fighting,
OVER THE DANUBE IN "pstanding sportsman will take my
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A scattered-brained adventure is reported from the village of Bata, near Pees. A short time ago an Austrian, who resides in the village, announced his intention of naviga ing the Danube, as far as the Black Sea, in a beer barrel. The pro- jected feat excited the imagination of the neighbourhood, and it is stated that the Pannonia Brewery actually made him a present of a barrel of beor In the hope of ac- celerating the date of the start. But when the barret had been ap preciatively emptied its recipient apparently considered it a too close fit, for he announced that he would make the voyage in a bed instead: Crowds came from near and far to witness the launching of the bed —an ekį „four-poster with a tent stretched across the posts and two beams, three metres fong, nailed to the boltom-but as soon as it cast off from the shore it sank like a stone, and the adventurer and his dog were rescued with difficulty. In spite of this set-back, however, the Austrian, asserts that when he has mastered the elementary rules of seaworthiness he will set forth in his bed once more,
Samuel Polgar, the driver of the Budapest one-horse "Confortable No. 192," has decided to emulate the numerous "International tour" champions which the, summer has brought forth, and has started to drive his horse, Catiling (Star), through Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, and Italy. Polgar has taken a gun- smith named Janos Mulaka as his travelling companion. He carries a book in which ho intends to col lect the seals of the towns through which he passes, and six thousand picture postcards, by the sale of which he hopes to buy provisions en route,
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