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THURSWAY, October 28, 1937,
Twentieth Governor Of Hongkong Hongkong to-day welcomes another Governor and his Lady -Sir Geoffry and Lady North- cole.
They have been sent to this Empire outpost at a time when history is being made around
it.
The map of Asia, pitted and stained by another ruthless war, may suffer a painful shift ing of boundaries, never tou secure, during Sir Geoffy's stay here. The responsibilities of office which he shoulders when he takes the oath to-day may weigh heavily upon him at some later date, for Hongkong has an important part to play in Far Eastern affairs, and may have a still more 'exacting one. For one thing, the Governor of this Colony has a task such as British diplomat is rarely called to perform, in the
upon administering of the War Relief Fund at present being raised in Britain to case the suffering in China.
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WHO'D be a CHAMP?
I
obtain
every
F. one could
the vote of ambitious youngster in English-speaking coun trics whether he would prefer to be a President. Prime Minister or a world boxing champion, 1 am certain that an overwhelm- ing majority would declare in favour of ring stardom.
It is no exaggeration to de- clare that big-time boxing is infinitely more international than racing, football, cricket or any other popular pus- time. Thousands of boys have been ardent hero-wor- shippers of an Alex James or a Jack Hobbs. Millions have enthusiastically discussed the qualities of Joe Louls, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Georges Carpentier or Tommy Farr.
Youth and Age have always been fascinated with the prowess of a champion pugillst. But the real magnet is The Big Purse.
£ £ £
They remember Tunney's stu- petidous share, £247,612, when kè defcated Dempsey the second time at Chicage and Dempsey's £117,250-at the rate of £30,000
Iminute when he knocked out Luis Angel Firps, the Italian- Spaniard from Buenos Aires. This was the most sensational of all Dempsey's this, when the powerful ex-bull fighter sent the then world champion crashing through the ropes clean out of the ring: Demptcy's £75,000; Carpen- tler's £50,000 for the greatly dis- cussed so-called battle of the cen- tury at Jersey City in 1921.
more
It is this fantastic fight Briance that intensifes public interest than the actual match. Nowadays match-making is such a commercial art that boxers' managers generally arrange for a percentage of the "gate," car park. bara, programines. Some of them have even demanded and received their cash income tax free.
£ £ £
Because of the enormous sums paid to a few world champions you will frequently hear the inanc remark: "I wouldn't mind being knocked out by Louis or Farr for £12.000!" Proving that the speaker has covetousness, but not
courage.
How many, I wonder, would be ready to take a cheque beforehand
ALL
by
James Butler
for £12,000 for an awful hiding such as Dempsey inilleted' upon Carpentier; the ruthless ham- mering Mickey Walker denit to the plucky Scots battler, Tommy Milligan, at Olympia; the, anna- snering which tho Senegalese Negro, Battling Biki, administered to the French Idol, Carpentier, be- fore thousands of fashionable Parislons of both GCXC& one Sunday afternoon!
Ring romanec and ring trage- dies talk side by side in every championship fight. The champion of to-day is the discard of the morrow is a fuism of the sport. It is a paraphrase of the age-old tag: "The king is dead; long live the dng"
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With the exception of perhaps. Tunney and Dempsey, most of the former champlons are for- some of them broke. HOLLEN While Joe Louis was defending his title against Farr at Yankee Stadium, New York, the founder, shall we say, of the 'big, purse' movement. Jack Johnson, so t was stated. was an exhibit in a side show at a nearby amusement park,
Tunney can thank his lucky star that he was given an excellent education. Also he had the un- usual experience for a boxer of obtaining commercial knowledge while employed as a clerk in a store. This proved of incalculable value in the years when he was to become a championship conten- der and champion. When he de- cided to retire for good he settled up, his indebtedness to his agents. His fortune was thug -protected from the grafters.
£ £
Dempacy has become the most popular fighter in America, but he incks Turney's fair for keeping the "dough." Two of his greatest friends told me that the old "Mauler,” as he is affectionately called, made over best part of his ring carnings to his former wife, Estelle Taylor, the film actress.
Dempsey has few illusions in life. His description of his romantic career is pleturesque: "From Rags to Riches," and is more or leas true.
A youngster must have remark- able assets if he hopes to reach the top of the boxing world. The hide of a hippopotamus; the diplomacy of a Disraeli; the courage of a cougar.
Because there are heartbreaks
I WANT
THINK it can be pretty well taken
for granted that nearly every human being has a passion for own ing thing--and this for one or both
of two reasons. There is a very nu- tural desire to remove the dread of actual want, and/or there is a very
It is fantastic fight finance that intensifies public interest more than the actual match, says the writer of this highly
topical article, in | which he helps to answer the question: "Do Boxers Earn
Their Money?”
Tommy Farr's experiance is that of most boxers who have
eventually reached big monoy.
at every corner of a boxer's life. Managerial problems. The risk of accident. The possibility of being blinded .. and maybe some per- manent injury.
Jack Petersen has retired with a fortune. He is too wise and care-
ful to squander the hard earned money that nearly cost him the sight of an eye.
Tommy. Farr is anything but a free spender-indicating that he possesses, among other qualities, wisdom. The champion, to make a lot of money, must look after the pennies as well as the pounds. Len Harvey 13 another brilliant Britisher who is a comparatively rich man.
£ £ £
Gershon Mendeloff, more familiar to readers as Ted (Kld) Lewis, son of a cabinet maker in East London, must inve received nearly £200,000 for his many fine fights in America. He has told me that sometimes he believes it was more.
He never kept any records or books to show the aggregate of his earnings. What an extraordinary life story is his. I recall him as a
IS SERVICE!
The first reason I can fully appre- clate. It is common to everyone and some animals.
But as for the second reason,
price of the franc concern me no more than the rain-gauge readings of some recluded village. Financial ramps (whatever they are) nur! bogus com→ pany flotations make very interest- reading, but they can never be a
skinny-built youngster boxing for purses of less than half-a-crown. He emshed his way to the top by sheer strength of will as well as physical power.
Had he been able to possess sonic degree of philosophy and thrifti- ness, the Kid would sulll be well ON...
But he spent money almost as Inst an he earned it. What grand fighter was ho at his peak. An example to every boy who starts in the game. Ounce for ounce I rogard Lewis as the équal of Jack Dempsey, Mickey Walker, and Jimmy Wlide.
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Sporting Jewry has reason to he proud of the fighting spirit that- cartled Lewis to a world cham- pion's title,
Yet, while these champions T have mentioned provoke admira- tion from followers of the fancy. what about the thousands of boxers who haven't anything to- show for their herole battles-
thick caIS and broken except
noses?
I meet these pathelle derelicts of the ring hovering about the entrance halls when big fights are being staged. These are "down and outs" mostly because they lack initiative or have not been taught some trade or business.
It is a tortuous path to a cham- pion's title, a long way even from serving an apprenticeship among the novices, to becoming a six and ten round preliminary fighter. Every boxer has his tough times. some of them much worse than others.
confess i have never had the slightest desire. to own things for themselves reality to me. alone. I look upon possessions s encumbrances. All I ask is service Trammels of Property have
human dealre to own things for the everything I want the moment I suke of owning them.
want it.
I own nothing, but I willingly pay for the privilege of possessing things. This may seem a pretty tall order, and any rise or fall in their value is and in a way it is; but I have no de- the concern of their owners-who,
sire to have a single cent behind me
incidentally, have all the trouble and in the way of money or property of responsibility of ownership. any kind. What I want is to be able to earn a suffelent Income to pay for
While war rages near this Colony His Majesty's repre- sentative must be prepared to other use his good offices in ways than in relieving misery. There is the broad, and to the layman, terrifying problem of diplomacy ever the fore. Generally speaking, in matters of international significance, a Governor is spared the neces- sity of making a decision. But ring. The story of East Afrien, in times of emergency it is the with all its sheer romance and
I pity people of property. Besides man on the spot who must act, beauty, is also Sir Geoffry's; the use of things as I go through life. the fact that they have so much to lose and to little to gain, they can very often. It is reassuring to for he literally grew up with the
never give complete expression to Free and Unfettered their Individuality with their ties the people of this Colony to country. Sir Geoffry participated
and trommels. Their movements in- I do not want to own à car; I want volve such tremendous uprootings, have for their chief executive in no small way in the bullding a man of such calibre as Sirup of sound administration into be able to hire one when necessary. There is always so much to be "con- have no desire to live in my ewit sidered" before they make a change. these, until recently, remote house with my own furniture; I pre-
There are no restrictions placed Geoffry.
for to rent a furnished house or apart- parts. He was made Chief
ment, and when I tire of it, to be ab- upon my tastes, and preferences; I solutely
free, unfettered-and to travel through life without luggage. Only 6 years of age; Sir Secretary in Northern Rhodesin, se a complete change in my sur Perfect service need not necessarily Geoffry hus spent thirty-three 1928-1930, and was Colonial roundings by renting another, or per-pander to whim or fancy--but it does allow full freedom for one's cultural development and change of habits. of those years in Colonial Ser- Secretary of the Gold Coast, haps live for a time in a hotel.
1930-1934. In 1935 he was house than, to own a public square,
I admit that I may be an extremist, vice, since leaving Oxford. From
of British although I am perfectly willing to but it must also be admitted that the made Governor 1904 until 1935 he served in \ Guiana, with Georgetown his pay for the we of both.
vast majority of people are slaves to their possessions, and hence to their Service, I think, in the substituto environment. Within the limits of par excellence for properly.
my income, I make a choice of en- vironment, moving about on free as Sir Geoffry is Hongkong's ingesponsibilities and anxiety. It life without the trouble of owning Acquiring property means nequir- air, and enjoying the good things of twentieth Governor. He may means or it means to me--that one them."
can't sleep sound of nights. No labi-
plcturesque seat.
I have no more wish to
own a
Africa, spending most of his time in Kenya, formerly the East African Protectorate. That is what Who's Who says.. But be gratifled to know that he files are incurred when you buy ser- Own nothing and you that period of East Africa's takes the Colony out of its vice. Stock Exchange quotations world, bwn something and you own
have never sent any cold shiver down į little else. history in among its most stir-'“techs."
my back, and nuatustfors in
own the
Rod Handley
£ £ £
I have known many lads who provided thrliling battles on an empty stomach
....some- times with only the sustenance of a cup of tea and a slice of bread and butter.
Their wagen have varied from 3. d. to Ei out of the latter sum half-a-crown commission 15. collected by the manager; a slill- Hng or two seconds' money; and. farca.
Tommy Farr haa's vivid memory of his struggling days and nights, when he used to fight without a meal; now and again he was able to Indulge in the luxury of a Hipper! Farr's experiance is that of the majority of boxers who have oventually renched the
DIE money" thore have naturally been exceptions Jack Petersen, Lan Harvey, Jack Hood and others.
Yet, what of the boxers-the countless legion-who fall in their quest for fame and fortuno? They pass down into the corridor which iends to oblivion.... battered and punch
drunk...
disillusioned .... unequipped for decent work. just to join the growing army of unemployables.
-To-day's Thought WHEN the gods wish to punish us they answer oir -OBOAR WILDE.
prayers.