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BAER: PLAY BOY OF THE RING

COLOURFUL STORY OF

RISE TO FAME

FANTASTIC TRUTH STRANGER: THAN FICTION

(By Paul Gallico)

T the moment of his fall men.

The twentieth *as:

A from championship heights Frankie Campbell He fought

to

The

&

box-office Before the bout, there was a

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was there in 1789, and he writes Mar Adalbert Baer ex-pig him in the San Francisco ball of her with no small pride as his killer and slaughterhouse hand park August 25, 1930.

from Livermore, California, has meeting was what in the slang "Queen Square daughter."

"natural: Campbell's rise on Mrs. Dennis was proprietor of but half prized open the enor- of the ring is termed

mous oyster of his world. tirme one

He is supposed to be but a the Coast had been as rapid and John Churchill, the poet was ennthetic Jew, a Hebrew ordain-sensational as Baer's saged to give lessons in the Eged overnight for lish tongue to the young ladies.

The boarding school was at No appeal; he has been rated as meeting at the Commission. Litrakjoffice in which it was definitely Irish. Bohemian and

a understood that no matter what 1 in the Square. It was not father has been called inally closed till about the year butcher and a millionaire happened the bout was not, to- rancher. His first blow was be stopped. In the fifth round. struck (a) in honour of a lady, Baer hit Campbell a looping (b) in defence of a small boy right-hand punch, knocking him It is expected in naval circles against the school bully. (c) in into the ropes, where he stiffen- that there will soon be no more defence of his mother. He has led and hung, the top strand The referee was on the other Commodores. First Class, in the gone through a million dollars. passing under his armpits

The truth about this strange Royal Navy.

At present there is one. He is man, or at least as close to the side of the ring. While Camp-- Captain Robert Raikes. Chief of truth as one may scratch, is so bell hung on the ropes Baer Staff to the Commander-in-chief. much more fantastic than any-hit him eight punches with both Fleet. He was thing that has been cooked up bands. so that Campbell looked given the title. which is honor-that ore wonders at the trouble first to the left; then all the was not, as is taken to paint this gaudy circus way to the right. then back to

the left again, like an automa“.. ary, because' he usually the case, a Rear-Admiral poster any brighter. when appointed to his post. When He is a fighter, a boxer. aton. before he slid to the floor he is relieved by Captain Edward-motion-picture star in his own He died the rext morning. The right, a night-club entertainer. Californian Boxing Commission being added Callins on October 30, he will re- ta raudevillian a singer alsuspended Baer for a year. The China Mail hoard

All the miners of precious linquish it.

"hoofer" and a radio actor. He At first he was heartbroker metals are digging up. ore to. Captain Edward-Colins is like-

hands in the arena. And they alone in a room. Later he pro- inveat fited by idleness to begin an up- Hong Kong, Saturday. July 29, 1933. feed the refineries in order that ly to be promoted Rear-Admiral has killed a man with his gloved and frightened and afraid to be.

the product may be once more before then.

ward journey. He First Class stake the trouble

bought buried where it is will be as A Commodore.

equipment in fast cars, cloth- His Parents

ling and a large retinue of ser- useless as in the ground; and distinguishable, from a Rear-Ad-Stories about hima. those who had contracts to be miral only by his flag, which is

six-foot.vants- Later still without Baer's mother. a {two-hundred-and-thirty pound quite getting rid of Lorimer, he was born acquired a new manager, Ancil Scotch-Irish woman. Dora Bales in the town of Adel Hoffman, the man who had pro-

Jacob Baer, the father, moted the Campbell fight. Iowa

born in Michigan, but Eastern Campaign was

His first Eastern campaign Jacob's father was a Jew from Alsace-Lorraine and his mother was not a conspicuous: success. Jewess from Broch, just over He went back to the Coast. the German border.

where he married, Dorothy Dan- When Max was born in 1909 a divorcee of some social it is sometimes necessary to the West. Indian Islands that Two'zitiiends met in the street

Twelve years himself in him, and from that ent sorts of news, and that it is first saw the rise of vigorous one day. "I hear you've broken of Jacob was working in Omaha. position. Dempsey interested

communities. governing them your engagement," said one of them splitting cattle. quite possible to mingle quite a selves in all essentials and "Oh, my dear, yes," answered the lot of tendencious partisanship having an independent culture other: Jack simply became imposage he migrated to Livermore time on his sun began to rise. sible. He suiticized the way I dress where he raised and bought Though beaten by Paolino in in the selection of the items based on an English foundation, objected to my friends, and always hogs and cattle and butchered twenty rounds in Eeno, he beat

King Levinsky twice. cabled, and the expressions of which not only gave to the home expected me to be at his beek and them in his own plant

On June 8, 1933, Baer, grown. policy quoted.

Young Max went to school for The origin

stout citizens, call. Then, on top of all that, he and- the cable or postal communica-

to the original thirteen derly went off and married another

So I simply made up my mind a while, and he worked in the into a powerful magnificently tion is worth a glance, and it is colonies such leading men

do with plant. He was a fast workers shaped animal standing six feet to have nothing more to

ja hard worker and a great two and a half inches and weigh- usually given in italics at the Alexander Hamilton As they

iller. He worked from ten to ing 208 pounds, scored his most have the sort of government

He fourteen hours a day.

ring triumph. notable- We have noticed several para-they prefer, and are consistent-

Tourist Trips Over the Mountains swung a short meat-axe after graphs recently forwarded from ly loyal to the British throne, Washington, or by agents under they could only be conquered by-Headline in a Weekly Paper

He should have looked here the control of Washington, and force as was recognised by the was going relating to home affairs, that Staff officers who recently ex certainly do not reflect opinionsplained their plans to a commit-

Baer then went to Hollywood. that would find acceptance in tee of the Senate. We are face

First Fight

and played the leading role in London. In general-it may be to face with an

The story Max tells about his "Everywoman's Man". In it said that there is a considerable imperialism that is very dan

first fight is this: He says there he acted, sang, danced and amount of irritation at the tone gerous, and plain speech seems

was a country dance outside fought. He was of American references to the the best answer.

His oppon Livermore, and all the high-taneous smash hit. League We know that it is The old prosperity of the

bout that school kids went over Thereient in the screen not popular in the States; but West Indies was based on cane!

was a big steeplejack there, and climaxed the picture was Primo- the weakness and failure of the sugar, and was ruined by the League is so largely due to the high tariff imposed by their One case of typhoid fever and the steeplejack had a flagon Carnera, heavy-weight cham- withdrawal of the United States nearest neighbour and natural one case of meningitis were reof wine in the back of his carpion of the world. Last year after the Covenant had been customer, seconded by the Gerported as occurring in the Colony The kids hooked it, and nipped the screen story came true with jat the neck of the bottle until Beer's wresting of the world ZU¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶¶ shaped by President Wilson in man subventions granted to for the 24 hours ended last

it was dry The steeplejack championship from Carnera a form unsuited to Europe that beet. Free import of sugar is Thursday.

(Continued on Page 10): the furious denunciations of not popular, as Manila has rea- Randolph W. Hearst and his fol-son to know. What then The Dollar Line ss. President was big and tough, and

yelling vengeance. Baer, as the lowers are uncalled for; and the causes this sudden interest in Polk, when berthing yesterday at

were proper victim. There Press might gracefully pay it colomes which have lived their Kowloon, was caught by the biggest, was offered up as the tide and rammed the clapboard walls on three sides the courtesy of impartial re-town life quietly for three cen- streng ¡ports. In this Abyssinianturies? The answer

be wharf, buckling her bows slighof Max and the steeplejack in Trini-ly, but doing little apparent dam front. It was the first time the affair the efforts of Mr. Anthony given in one word-oil.

boy was unable to flee troubles Eden to set the machinery of dad is rich in oil; but that is lage to the wharf.

The

and a beating. The jack took rbitration to work should sure-not the whole story.

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A British South-Coast resort a only the right to comment in prosperous communities is not rertises a new attraction at the end

own economic: -it touches the accordance with

of the pier for the coming season. Most resorts, however, will be co- views. In following that prac-national honour very closely. tice they are giving the public

Although Newfoundland was tent to leave the sea there as usual. the best service they can; but'

the first overseas colony, it was

Fully Decided

point out that there are differ-

end

country many bat

as

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Goliath

He

many, ex-heavy-weight cham- he the killing, and the axe bit stopped Max Schmeling of Ger through muscle, sinew, and pion of the world, in the tenth. bone, clean. Baer still swings round with a sweeping, brutal his right-hand punch the same berserk attack.

Exposed "They say George is an expert in American the art of self-defence."

"Nonsense! Edith made him pro-| pose in just one week."

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PRISONER'S DEATH

IN GAOL Inquest Yesterday

pre Max by the neckcloth with his VERDICT OF NATURAL CAUSES ly have the encouragement of richest country of all is Vene Amongst the visitors at the country to which Mr. Kel-zuela, and her oil is turned into sent staying at the Repulse Bay left hand and struck him on the

An inquest was held yesterday logg belongs; but every move of gasoline on British soil, and the Hotel are Mrs J. & Cranwell month with his right fist

Max grinned at him, and theat the Central Magistracy on the British Government has product is sold to ships using formerly Miss Doris Duke. re been ascribed to some fanciful the Panama Canal What may puted to be the world's richest man hit him again and knocked Pun Kwong, aged 57, a prisoner motive other than the obvious be called "Caribbean Imperial heiress, and her husband. one of trying to prevent a dis-jism" has led American Presi

and

ward and lay unconscious, blow- ing air through quivering lips man), A. L. Cunningham

D. C. S. Alves. The boys draped him behind the After medical evidence had been given showing "that deceis. wheel of the car and went home. Early Scraps

ed had been suffering from Thereafter. Max sent for a variety of diseases the jury re- hears sandbag to punch a set med a verdict of death from of gloves and a boxing book a causa

his head up against the wall at the Laichikok Prison., who fa blind, abject terror, Baer died in the gaol hospital early astrous war between two States dents to depose a President of The name of the Man Kwok swung his right the way he used

M QA S Macfadyen sat as with which we have been long Mexico who gave a concession to Wearing Mills Co., Ltd, has been to whip the cleaver through the yesterday morning. on most friendly terms.

a British engineer Lord Cow-struck off the Register of Com-air. There was a thump and

Coroner, while the jury compris- All this might have been dray to occupy Nicaragua with panies, it is announced in the the steeplejack went over backed Messrs. A. F. Walkden (fore- accepted in silence; but the pro-marines for a term of years, Government Gazette. mmence given to the speech of and to exercise a control which. Senator Lewis proposing the has antagonised all the indepen- sale of the West Indian Islands ident Republics of that part of MR A RUBINSTEIN is the sort of thing that rankles. the world There is no analogy The War Debt is at present not with the offer, or suggested being paid because the United offer of a passage to the sea States refused to receive pay for Abyssinia through a barren ment in the only way in which and deserted tract of land in For Wednesday Next it was possible, in goods; and Somaliland The West Indies she then made money payment are once again prosperous, and

ble by grasping the gold ask for nothing but to be left noted Pol which was the basis of the alone The object of men like

The gold locked Senator Lewis is to familiarise in Hong Kong,

with for dollar the publ

the idea the here from Manila nen cambe sed of like gold the

jects give anoz

to £1,820,4 and silver and

I thoroughly mischievous

Second Recital Fixed

Mr. Arthur Rahmatien,

2

He was never afraid again He the lacquired his first manager recent wealthy business man namedi

cert Ham Lorimer. Then he had his first professional prize by with an Indian named

Cariboo, and knocked him out in angitwo

Sherm

and.

Kong Hot

He then knocked out

meteen to

HAPPY EVENT EXPECTED. IN TOKYO