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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936,
KING GEORGE V MEMORIAL Hongkong is fittingly aligning
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The winner in addition to his
£43,000, will stand in line for
One
of the quickest fortunes that it is possible for a young
man to make.
Tex Rickard, once the ent- peror of boxing promoters, will probably stir in his grave. The . good old days of the million- dollar gates are back again.
by
Maurice
Lewis
At last there is a probable beings that these spectacles stir champion with "colour.", high the blood and cause the heart skill, courage, superh technique to quicken its beats. The public and clean-cut workmanship. reflects on the astounding The rosy Dempsey-Tumcy days wards, linked to the modera are rolling back again, when a heavy-weight champion's suc fight once drew over £600,000
cess.
from the pockets of the public. But the
many women,
that of
NOW
Hering Correspondeat, gives these estimates of borera fuck:-..
Tutine-made £100,000; quit undefeated. Dempsey made £100,000; runs big restaurant in New York. Jack Jolinson-made 10,000. Beckett-Ins £25,000 Fili-edged. Sharkeya rich man. Hombardier Welig.now a country publican. Berg-well off. Cornera-broke:
fer
paid iwny mast of his carnings, Max Haer-made £13,000 in his last fight, and needed it. Lauin-made £43,000, previously well off Carpentier-- it bar, Kid Lewis-runs a club. MeCarkinlnie £200 sub. scribed for him recently Petersen -worth £30,000.
a
imaginative mind For boxing in these days is no longer the exhibition of skill swings back to the extraordi and pluck that it once was. It pary contrasts of fortune that These foolish things-Fox Trat
holds its thrill for all men and boxing presents, the tolls and But its thrill is penalties exacted from the un-
successful. The touch of your lips-Fox Trot
a gladiatorial
Perhaps they reflect on that amazing figure, the black fighter h
At the other and hazers, usually
front Indian Love Call-Fox Trot
unemployed homes, Battling Siki, stormy petrel of fight six counda for fire ahillings, Rose Marie-Fax Trot......Roy Fox & His Orchestra. itself with the Mother Country NOTES OF THE DAY the boxing_world. who Wax
made king in a night, and whose the effects suffered by and other parts of the Empire f Let's face the music and dance-Fox Trot
Roy Fox & His Orchestra. In deciding to raise, by means |
jworn-out body was tossed back fighter who refuses to give in; Since its foundation about half into a New York gutter a few though frightfully punished in But where are you-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra of public subscriptions, a King.century ago, the Cavendish Labora-years later with a dagger in its the ring. Wah-hoo-Fox Trot ...Roy Fox & His Orchestra,George V. Memorial Fund. Up tery at Cambridge has been perhaps
The cumulative punishment I'sc a-muggin'—Fox Trot...Poy Fox & His Orchestra. to the present, no definite deci- the most important centre of re-heart. Or they may concern
search in pure physics in the themselves with the sad case of eventually produces a witless, sion has been taken as to the world. Ita four successive direc- that pathetic young man, et dazed individual who appeats BD-5051 And so to bed-Fox Trot
Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. I precise form which the mem-tors, James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Fontaine, now in the condemned to promoters to "give me one
orial shall take, but sympathy Raleigh, Sir J, J. Thompson, and cell under sentence of death.
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For Del Fontaine is just as You know I can take it" " Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. has been expressed with the Lord tutherford, have all
Anternational fante in the scientific much a victim of the fight game suggestion that, as at Home, the d. The present director, Lord as was that keen-eyed south I'm nuts about screwy music-Fox Trot
The Ballyhooligans purpose of the Fund should Rutherford, leads a brilliant band Luther McCarthy, who in the At the other-end of the scale
of young scientists in a conseless
great. Gene the provision of operattack on the secrets of the atom. full stride of youth and won the prizes are I got Rhythm-Fox Trot
The Ballyhooligans.include
areas. Many of these secrets have been re-drous boxing ability wn blotted Tunney, who never really liked congested Goodbye Medley-Fox Trot The Ballyhooligans. Oriental Medley-Fox Trot
The Ballyhooligans. Actually, the Home memorial is vealed in the Cavendish Laboratory. out in the ring by the first blow fighting, by the skill of his Sems of the most important were delivered in a contest-his neck arms made more than £100,000, of a dual character, includinge discovery of the electron in broken by a jab that fell on his most of it during the two years the erection of a statue between 1897 and the ricognition of the jaw as his head was turned to while he was champion. He Westminster Abbey, and the neutron in 1932. When Lord avoid it.
gained also as a result of his his fellow in- Houses of Parliament, and the Rutherford and
Del Fontaine Was il vestigators suegerded in "splitting provision of children's playing the atom" in their experiments in fighter, plucky beyond the aver fields throughout the country, the Cavendish Laboratory, they age, and the second and third
philosopher's stone"
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fame a bride, the multi-million- nire heiress, Miss Polly Lauder.
Jack Dempsey, under the tutelage of Jack Kearns, and. with Tex Rickard to help to steer la destiny made an oven vastor fortune. Five of his fights drew sums varying from £216,700 up to £631,733. He.. Jas now consolidated his for- tune by investing most of it in a. fashionable restaurant ap- posite Madison-square Garden- which is frequented by New York notabilities.
Huge are the rewards, but the tolls outweigh then. For one boxer who makes a' respect- able living from his profession there are hundreds who éke out a wretched existence, signing up for any match even though they know that their mission is to
48 net solely chopping- blocks, to enterlain the crowd which knows they can "take it,” or acting as "punch-bag" spar- ring partners.
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A few years ago a friend of mine was walking with Juck Dempsey along Eighth-avenue, New York, when a queer figure passed them, who touched his cap and called out to Dempsey, "How do, boss?" He WIS shabby, his face grey, his hair the colour of ashes, and he shambled along, walking jerkily ` on his heels.
"Who was that?" .nry friend asked.
"Why, don't you know." Jack szid, "that was Young Griffo."
Young Grillo was one of the greatest light-weight champions of all time.
Once famous throughout half the world, he came to the same end 18 D many of them- "punch-drunk" and destitute.
To-day the prizes are so glit- tering, so many strive to gain. them, the spectacular element has become so heightened, that the tempo of the boxing game has quickeneil enormously. Champions come and go in quick succession. They are soon forgotten.
The world has no reward at all for the broken anul battered the old-timers, the "set-ups." under-paid preliminary fighters, the human punch-bags over whose unconsidered bodies all champions and near champions. chamber to their heights.
Hongkong already has a statue may be said to have found the true class fighters are the pluckiest PUBLIC LIBRARY STORIES
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LUVE yin for ma mither, an' meant, but some people seem to think thus no occasion to perpetuate' Selentific research is an expen- At Del Fontaine's trial fam-
bludy in for ma faither." that they can inquire there about any his memory by a further monu-sive undertaking, and the many ous boxers, who well know the The grubby little girl pushes two fil-little subiect on which they need in- ment of that, type. There will, Cavendish Laboratory have only
triumphs of the scientists of the tolls and penalties of the lesson cd books across the counter, and formation. I have been asked the repeats her message carefully. She is most searching questions which # lawyer, teacher, or doctor would be we imagine, be widespread ap-ben achieved by the expenditure lights of boxing, introduced the easily supplied.
Pm taking this took by Michnet. far better qualified to answer. How- proval of the idea that the af large sums of money, as well as delay teen haard Arlen, chirps the dear old Indy, ever, this Inquirer-evidently a tour- by continued application and re-drunk." Few laymen ave never read any of his books. Itist-only wishes to know the chief memorial locally should be resource. New buildings and new this word before, but it is in called Babes in the Wood-per-places of historical interest in or near |lated_to_the_provision of much-apparatus must constantly be pro-fevery boxing man's vocabulary, paps a little juvenile for me." the town.
needed amenities for children,vided, and by the generosity of Sir
hastity retrieve the book in question, Herbert Austin. the well-known
supply her with a pleasant and the provision of more open not:r manufacturer, there will, It has nothing to do with a domestle tale.
in crowded districts, fortunately, be no lack of funds drink or drinking. It indicates tabelled "Inquiries." Inquiries about A face appears at the window where children have nowhere for some time to come. He has the toll that is taken on courage books or library inatters is what is else but the streets in which to contributed the princely sum of £200,000 to dhe Cavendish Labuan- play, immediately suggests it-itory in order that research in the self as being most appropriate. I fundamental problems of physics! King George, like his beloved may be continued and extended. One of the first uses lo which the consort, always 'took the deepest money will be put is the completion interest in the well-being and a laboratory recently began for happiness of young people, inutilising the very high voltage. whose company he was always accessary for the transmutation of goalter. Fifty ton magnets and thoroughly at home, and nothing large and costly generators for could be more fitting than that probing the serets of the atom are memory should be linked modern scientifle technique requires, the instruments which his with projects devised in their Most important of all, the inoney! interest. It may not be easy, in how available will allow the most view of the congested character brillant of the young scientists of the day to devote the best years of of some of the Colony's districts, their lives to continued scientific to.secure the necessary land for investigation,
aunong
the purpose of providing a suf-] —–
his
ficiency of playing-grounds, but be behindhand in giving that in this connection we would re-memory a tangible form. so call the suggestion made that in years to come ut Home, in connection with name may be perpetuated the King George Fund by here in lasting manner. Mean- Mr. Baldwin, when he stated while, the public is invited that landowners could give of as to the precise character to put forward suggestions their land, and the people them- of the memorial; in the selves could supplement any knowledge that these. will re- gifts of this character, in a com-ceive due and careful considera- plote realisation of the fact that tion in the uppropriate quarters. all classes of the country and One Idea which occurs to us is that the feasibility of erecting a Empire are members of one children's hospital might be kept family. There is no part of in view, or, in the alternative,; that Empire in which the late that part of the Fund be devoted |King's name is not revered, and to 'an extension of the move-| in which the memory of his ment for children's clinics or beneficent services to his people welfare centres, which is al- are not lovingly borno in mind, results amongst the sick and ready producing such splendid Hongkong, we are sure, will not the needy.
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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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"Now we want some very impressive stationery. Could you let up see the letterheads of some of the older law firma?",
"I want a good novel that my hus- large, middle-aged woman femly. band has not read before, says the difficult one, this, as I have not the pleasure
ber of knowing (a) who husband is; (b) what books he has [read; (2) whether the book is to be. "good" in a literary or merely a morat sense. I make several suggestions, but finally she insists upon selecting a girlish little book which I feel sure | no husband would read,
Nor am I wrong, for a few hours Inter a grey little rabbit of a man appears with it in his hand, and'uska timidly if I would mind changing it for something -cise. help him to And a volume, more to his taste, and he goes off contentedly to lose himself in a tale of swashbuckling and ad- venture in perllous and romantic lands which his meck little pyes are never destined to see.
"Have you Any more Passant?" asks a working man. "Real good his stories are." I search vainly for books written by an author named Passant, and finally discover that translations .or Dc Maupassant's works are whint, he requires,
A harassed studerit, with an exam. looming in the near future, wants various books on abstruse kelentific subjects. He is appalled by their size, and, with touching faith in my. omniscience, asks which I would recommend, as he will never have time to read them all I do my best for him,
On
I help people to And books economics, detective stories, books on higher mathematics, cookery books, mighty economie tomes, "nice love stories," philprophlen? and theological volumes, plays, ngetry, and novels, novels, novela.
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It is time to close the library now. turn to lock the door. Another face uppears at the inquiry window. "Can you tell me," Bays a shrill, and earnest volee, a word of two letters beginning with "I' and meaning a Ihree-toed sloth?"
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