1932-06-17 — Page 5

BOXING.

FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932.

KID BERG'S COMEBACK

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FAILS IN AMERICA

BRITON OUTPOINTED BY SAMMY FULLER

MORE FOUL BLOWS

ONE OF THOSE ROTTEN BREAKS IN LIFE”

SAYS KID BERG.

New York, May 21.

In one of the most furious battles ever staged at Madison Square Garden, Kid Berg, the Whitechapel light-weight, lost a very close decision to the former bootblack, Sammy Fuller, of Boston, when they met in a return contest over twelve rounds last night.

Thus Berg's hopes of making another "come-back," and earn- ing the right of a third shot at Tony Canzoneri for the world's light-weight title, are more remote than ever. But although he lost the decision it cannot be said for a moment that Berg has slipped back. He proved himself to be still amongst the leading light- weights and a credit to boxing.

He went down with flying often swayed the Bostonian with

The

MINTER RETIRES FROM

FOOTBALL

Finest Amateur Centre Forward In History Of Game.

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London, June 5.

W. H. Minter, St. Albans City's amateur international centre-forward and probably" the finest amateur leader in the history of the game has decided to retire from football.

Capped for England against Ireland in 1923 and against Wales in 1926, he has played over thirty times for Hertford- shire, and be led the county's attack when the Southern Counties Amateur Champion- ship was won six times in nine years-a record for the com- petition. He has refused mag- nificent offers to indulge in professional football, but loyally remained with St. Albans. He is by occupation, a butcher.

A presentation is being made to Minter at the annual meet. ing of St. Albans City F.C. in

the next few weeks.

THE CHINA MAIL

China Mail

Sports Diary:

TO-MORROW.

LAWN BOWLS

First Division. Talkoo R.O. v. Craigengower C.C. Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon G.C. Police R.O. v. Kowloon Docks B.C. Club de Recreio v. Kowloon BG.C.

Second Division. Craigengawer C.C. v. Taikoo R.U. Kowloon, C.C. v. Civil Service C.G.. Kowloon B.G.C. v. Club de Recreio. H.K. Electric R.C. v. Yacht Club.

LAWN TENNIS

“A” Division. South China v. Chinese R.C. Kowloon C.C. v. Hong Kong C0.0. "B" Division. Craigeagower v. University. Indian R.C. v. Army T.G. South China v. Civil Service. Hong Kong C.C. v. Kowloon C.C. Chinese R.C. v. Club de Recreio.

RC Division Recrelo. South China v. Clab

de Kowloon Indians v. Indian R.C. Hong Kong C.C. v. Filipino Club. Craigengower v. Army T.C. Police R.C. v. Radio Sports. Kowloon C.C. v. Y.M.C.A, University v. Gradunter Assen.

SENSATIONAL BOXING DEVELOPMENT

Camera To Claim Schmeling's 'Share of Title Fight Purse.

Berlin, June 11.

According to a New York

YACHTING.........

CHELIDON REACHES

NAGASAKI

dispatch, the legal representa AFTER EIGHT DAYS CREW

tive of Primo Carnera in New - York has obtained a court order attaching Max Schmeling's

-share in the gate of the cham- plon's forthcoming bout with Jack Sharkey. All other manies accruing to the German in con- nection with the contest have also been garnished.

The reason given by the Italian heavyweight for this sensational step is that he Incurred heavy losses through Max Schmeling's refusal to fight him last September. It is, however, not expected here that the claim of the Italian will be upheld, as the boxing authori- ties at that time had decided that Carnera was not qualified to challenge Schmeling for the championship.

RAIN EFFECT ON COUNTY CRICKET

colours, and it was only a magas his left, which is now the Briton's COUNTIES ROBBED ficent spurt by Fuller in the last most formidable weapon. two rounds that earned him the weights were:-Berg. 9 st. 121⁄2 decision. The crowd had been lb.; Fuller, 9 st. 12 lb. with Berg all the way, and hun-

Two-Fisted Onslaught.

dreds of spectators roared their ob- After

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cautious start, Berg jections in a rowdy manner as the commenced to launch his charac- veteran Joe Humphries announced terietic two-fisted attack, and the verdict. Berg himself seemed swarmed all over Fuller.

Fight- stunned by the decision, but he did¦ing in fine style, Berg plied left) not forget to walk over and con- and right almost at will, and seem- gratulate his opponent, and, after-jed very confident. He won the wards, he spoke a few words into first two rounds easily, but Fulleri the microphone.

gained confidence in the third, and administered some punishment.

One of the judges, Charles Mathieson, voted for Berg, but the referee. Gunboat Smith, and the other judge, George Kelly, favour- ed Fuller.

Ready to Fight Again.

severe body

Savage Exchanges,

OF £10,000.

WORCESTER UNDER WATER.

programme of Football League Somerset v. Worcestershire match matches the English climate has abandoned yesterday was $15 for not permitted a complete day's play the three days. No county can simultaneously in all county games, hope to pay its way on gates less

In all, the counties have lost in than £130 to £150 a match. the aggregate 35 full days' play since the season opened.

Worcester's Plight. ·

'The plight of Worcestershire is £200 Per Match.

serious. Play on

The ground at Worcester, by the many other days has been so restricted as to be worthless side of the Severn, is under flood from a Anuncial point of view.

water, in places three feet deep.)

ARRIVE SAFELY

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HELMUT AUSTS FEAT

SHANGHAI ANXIETY DISPELLED BY MESSAGE FROM JAPAN.

Shanghai, June 18.

The Chelidon, of the Shanghat Yacht Club fleet, skippered by Helmut Aust, an adventureous German, slipped into the misty calm of Nagasaki's barbour early yesterday morning. After a full week of cruising and after seven days and seven nights at sea, the trim little craft skipped in towards the shore on the dawn of the eighth day of its voyage.

This is the first time in the history of Shanghai yachting that a single craft has made

made the journey to Japan, and Helmut Aust and his companions have the satisfaction and distinction of having pioneered a solo passage.

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Out in Calculations.

This is the second year that the

A message early yesterday flashed sciousness of the friends of the safe. She and all her crew were their safety. There were unplea the word that the Chelidon was yachtsmen a certain anxiety as to well, the message said. The yacht sant reports of heavy weather to was manned by Aust and five com- the south, of typhoon warnings up panions, with three native loadahs on the Bund, of ships delayed on to jump to stations when it was their way to Shanghai from the necessary. W. D. Neil. J. Milligan.south. But "The Shanghai Times" C. T. Davies, V. V. W. Frefwell and pressed inquiries among 'seafaring

Heinze were the company. Two Benefit Matches

men and gained some Assurance Washed Out.

from the statements obtained from The voyageurs half expected them. The direction of the south- The average loss-Retual and Other grounds at Stourbridge that they would reach Nagasaki ern storm, they said, would scarce. LORDS MINIATURE LAKE,

potential to each of the 45 firat- Kidderminster, and Dudley аге some time Saturday. They were ly threaten the Chelidon's locality. class games cannot have been less waterlogged.

not far wrong in their calcula- Message from Nagasaki. than £200 a match.

To-day's game at Worcester London, May 25.

Two benefit matches have been against the South Americans has tons. But because they were good Still, when the flash was receiv . Seven first-clasa matches aban- almost completely ruined. In the been cancelled, and there is little against emergencies and had certain tension: The Shanghai sailormen they had provided ed early yesterday, it relieved a A savage exchange of blows doned without play yesterday-two case of Watson, of Lancashire, no expectation that the Worcester stocked their little vessel for a yacht Chelidon arrived here at 8 took place in the fourth, but Berg of them without a ball having been play was possible in the match ground will be fit for Saturday's much longer period of time. The o'clock this morning, with every- was beating his man to the punch. bowled in three days-add to the against Surrey. J. W. Hearne, of match against Somerset.

300 miles which lay ahead. of body on board feeling well and The opinions of those in the 1n the fifth Fuller's face was bear- grim harvest that the weather has Middlesex, had one day's play only Lord's was one of the seven dressing-room after the fight were ing signs of the punishment he reaped from county cricket since in his benefit match against Sussex. places yesterday where cricket could them once they left the estuary happy," the brief message from varied, many voting for Berg, had received, while Berg's body the season opened on April 30. Although Insurance has to be not be played.

of the Yangtsze are subject to fog Nagasaki stated. and calm, and an occasional stiff while others thought the decision was one red mass. Fuller launch- The county cricket clubs began taken into account, the absence of

At ten o'clock on Monday night wind at this time of the year.

Second Crossing. à fair one. The Berg connections,led a fierce attack to Berg's body (the season with the knowledge that the big attendances that these rain came down with a violence Their craft was stout and they were Shanghai Yacht Club, has diad, re-: however, were disgusted, and and then followed up with a ter only a fine Summer and big crowds matches would have attracted, with which suggested a cloudburst. not apprehensive

The M.C.C.'s annual dinner was claim that Fuller repeatedly land rifle right smash to the jaw which could save them from financial dis- the usual collections, means a loss

the presentatives aboard yachts cruis- ed foul blows. "Tell the folks in almost put Berg down.

aster From the first day the posi-of at least £1,000 to each of these being held at the time, and those weather, nor yet their own ability, ing from Shanghai to Japan.

Some Anxiety Here,

But this is the first time that England that I'll fight him again.”.

American's Eye Cut. tion has gone from bad to worse.players.

ndar the windows of the dining- said Berg,

But when on Saturday night a single craft has made the cross- On Whit Monday there was no room, saw the lower part of the there was no ward of the Chelidon. Ing. The Cheliden has that honour. "I think I won the Fuller had received a bad cut A high authority yesterday estimat- fight, but that is only one of those over his left eye in the sixth, and ed, that rains has robbed the seven-play at Lord's, Leyton, or Bristol, ground turned into something that from Japan, no word of her hav- ¦ Helmut" Aust and his "companions. was losing blood, while Berg was teen counties engaged in the cham-and little at Nottingham, Derby, or suggested lake within five Ing been sighted by Shanghai- have the satisfaction, and distinc- Eighth Round Incident, also oozing blood from his nose. pionship of not less than £10,000 In Leicester. Four-figure gates for minutes. A ringman of the first water. The Englishman ran out to meet 21 playing days.

the three days at these centres could V. W. C. Jupp described the sud bound vessels during her crossing, I tion of having ploneered a solo Fuller relied upon his superb box-Fuller at the start of Round 7, Except on the first day of the fairly have been anticipated. den flooding of the ground as being there began to creep into the con passage. ing ability, and submitted Berg's and landed left and right to the season-which coincided with a full The gate money at Bath in the "like a tide rising." body to severe punishment. With body. Fuller's eye was now in a the exception of two stinging very bad state, the Ameriçan be- blow that almost knocked Berg offing hardly able to see out of it. his balance, however, the Briton Berg clipped him to the jaw with never backed, despite a hard blow a hard right, and the American's to the thigh in the eighth round.legs doubled under him, and he This low blow prompted Berg to almost fell. tell Fuller to keep his punches higher, Another foul-a blow to Berg's head after the bell-did not please the spectators, who voiced their disapproval of the Ameri- can's tactics.

rotten breaks in life."

Fuller's Recovery.

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Berg won this round and the next; Fuller took the ninth, and the tenth was even. Fuller made the pace in the eleventh, but Berg met him at it, and had the Berg's Powerful Hitting. American very groggy with one Had Fuller not staged his hard blow to the body, Fuller tigerish onslaught in the eleventh again got down to it in the last,, and twelfth rounds, he would and. to use an American expres-i never have had the slightest hopes slon, "poured dynamite" into of earning the decision. Berg hit Berg's stomach, and then rocked no he has never hit before, and him with a-left hook to the jaw.

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PING PONG VICTORY LAWN

FOR EASTERN A.A.

South China Girls Lose by 22 to 9.

The Eastern Athletic Association

BOWLS RINKS FOR TO-MORROW. A

Recreio Teams Against

the K.B.G.C.

The following will represent the defested a team from the South Club de Recreio In their Lawn China Athletic Association Girl's Bowls League encounters against section in a friendly Ping Pong en- the Kowloon Bowling Green Club counter by 22 games. to 18.

Results were as follow:

Eastern AA. 22, Leung Yas-hung 4, Tao Yu-man 3, Tong Wal-hung 1, M. Sabban 8, Tsoy Hok-ling 4, Ng Po-kui 2, and Lau Hal-man 5.

South China Girls 13. -

to-morrow.

First team (at home).

F. Xavier, R. R. Robarts, A. 9. Gomes, and R. F. Luz (Skip),

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F. X. M. Silva, CA Lopts, C. R. Bouss and C. G. BINA (Skip).!

F. V. Ribeiro, J. M. M. Alves, Lul Tsul-wan 1, Chu Kau-sang 2, L. A. Gutierrez, and C. E. Marques Lui Teul-ying 4, Wong Yuen-Jan 28 (Skip).

Lau Kit-hing 1,' Wong Sul-lan 8, and Wong Ng-lan 0.

Second team (away).

M. A. Carvalho, F. X Spares, The Eastern AA, is holding an . G. Ozorio, and OH. "Basto At Home to-morrow at 6.30 pm (Ship).

the Chinese Y.M.C.A. There wiF. Prata, LF. Xavier, J, J. be a cinema performance, Chinese Basto, and A. H. Basto (Skip) boxing and a Chinese concert For A. A. Xavier, M., Rosario Towing this will be the distribution E, M., Remedios, and Dr, B. A. C of prizes won during their tennis Basto (Skip

tournaments.

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LOVELOCK'S GREAT MILE

SMASHES BRITISH RECORD.

A.AA. BEAT OXFORD Howland's Putting the Weight Record. HAPPY AUGURY,

London, May 27:0 Thrilling performances mark. ed the match between Oxford. University and the A.A.A at Oxford yesterday, Ground cord after ground record Went by the board, and the culmina-. tion of the excitemente camén when Lovelock, the Oxford zu Freshman, beat the British Te cord in the One-Mile, winning a magnificemiye, run race in 4min. 12 Ja

kept well behind Cornes, who was running with just a sign of stale- ness As they entered, the straight, howevery Cornes, had a six yards lead. Hampson then moved пр with a steady, almost imperceptible, increase of pace and caught Cornes

with fifty yards to go. The latter could not respond and Hampson finished six yards ahead, running with magnificent force and imper- turbability. The time, 1min. 54 2-5 sec, equalled F. G. K Cross's ground record, set up in 1886. - Im-3 mediately after this race Howland broke the ground record in the weight with his first put of 45ft.. 51⁄2ln., which also beat his own British native record by six inches.

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His remaining three puts were all within inches of this mark, each one beating the ground record, but not till he gave an exhibition put did The And everything in accord

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