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me, as long as I can remem- ber-and even before that. Scraps of one kind or another, with and without financial reward. When I talk boxing these days I talk in thousands, but it hasn't always been that way. I can remember the I hadn't two time when ha'pennies to rub together. In fact, when I haven't had

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at

I haven't for-

By Ted Broadribb

Ted Broadribb, famous boxing manager has a story to tell which is unique in the history of the Ring.

In hit 50 years he has in turn been a fighter himself-as "Young Snowball" he was the only English boxer ever to knock out Carpentler-promoter, referee and manager, of champions.

the

It was Broadribb who helped Tommy Farr to his fight for World Heavyweight championship, it teas he who took Freddy

Mills along the road to the Light Heavy-weight title. 50 There are few secrets of big-time boxing in the last years that lie does not know. During that time he has met has managed Bucli all the great figures of the Rings; he fighters as Frank Goddard, Gus Platis, Jack Hood, Ernie Rode- rick, Harry Corbett and Nel Tarleton and so the list could could go on.

They had a whip-round for mo in East Street that night, and the

30 bab they handed over was, the

**Buses', with Shanghai streets,"

Travellers'?

biggest amount I had ever handl-Magazine article is entitled, ed in my life, And next day allow to deal with cardsharpers, three and a half stone of me, was on the way to 'France.

Jockey career ends

Within a couple of months my "career""as a fockey ended. The other boys played so many tricks ou me that it was nights, Oghts, and more fights-I went through But the last the lot of them. "ght" nearly was my last.

I was given my morning work

. But surely the main thing not to let them deal.

"The U.S. holds most of tho world's 'gold."-

Yankee boodle?

Chop who believes in making

by the trainer-more than I could the most of travelling, advises: manage before breakfast. The When in Rome, do as the Ramea bell went for the meal, and I left | do. straw in the corners of a box,

*

went off to

intended

The

cat, and finishing the job later.

Ted Broadribb was born in an obscure South London street a few doors away from a house in which, six months later,

of day. Broadribb, Charlie Chaplin first saw the light bricklayer's son, literally had to fight his way as a boy, and he says his life has been one flight after another.

What he has to tett is something new in the boxing bust-

steeplechase whip, and then lock- It is a thrilling, fascinating record against the back- ground of an intensely-human struggle.

TICKS.

was an entente

President Loubet was

guv'nor beat me to it, and when A me with

I returned belted

ed me in a box.

the, East Street. He didn't know six streets the City, and through seeing the told my story to a gendarme,|

sure

1101

aggression in Korea was com.arrit now in East Street, which

on

"Young mun shouldn't "wast time on girls who flirt."

They don't!

Sald the. clergyman: "We.

Beh.

Some of the fighters I've taken STALINISM ON

to the top liko Freddy Milis and DECLINE

Tommy Farr, have had their own uphill battles in and out of the ring. In the Students of political form in fact, it seems that no one and of the direction of the fight game is born with a silver

። tides have been deeply impoon in his mouth. But I doubt whether the early struggles of

In the evening the lads came and and threw me some food, pressed by the outcome of any of them have been compar- trial by armed force in Korea. able to my own.

She taught us to say our pray at Grimths and Son, printers, Old, when it get dark they advised me shall now Kotten

sing hymn number any of them, right from

"Ten thousand times ten There is another arena of no that cold foggy night in Decem ers. Father didn't know, and Balley, and it

His strong suit was cordiale procession which got me get out. I did, and they led 222.

to the police station, pushed me

hundred and less significance which should ber, 1888, when, long after mid- didn't care.

me through the door and then thousand. Two visiting ran away.

twenty two." not be lost sight of in the na- night, the kids were still awake an uncanny knowledge of London. into trouble that time.

"Dad," whispered a small boy tural concentration on

far from London's.

and nume, but he could direct anyone

In the congregation, "do we have to the names of pubs, procession I was a quarter of an and he wanted to send me drama in Korea. In the Castle, George, aged seven, told anywhere by

free brother Bill he was positive the and he wouldn't miss a single one hour late getting back to work. hospital, but I made my way back to work this out?"

wasn't alone, but I came un- and went to bed. Next morning doctor had brought another baby from the Garibaldi in Blackfriars Europe recently, the Com- bag when he turned up. Road to the Greyhound at Brom-stuck because I was the looker, the trainer asked me if I wanted

out. We had all punched in, and to go home.

"Professor J. B. flmith, the never wanted any- munists have had setbacks as and,"

enough at 3.30 a.m., Joy, or from the Bush Hotel all was the last to try to sneak thing quite so much in my life, well-known authority on

Shepherd's Bush to the Abbey consistent as the defeat of young Edward Alfred. Broadribb

window, East

past the timekeeper's

and when I got back to dear old suggests that Arms at

Ham.

droughts may be knees. All the London they and He seldom

counted 48 weals called anything by my hands

caused by the cooling of the sea." others got

but young Broad-m

ad- from my neck to my thighs.

I won't mention to a soul plete. Clearly Kremlinism buzzes with activity any Sunday its proper name, and we had to

up A doctor who saw me was keen: as we have known it is not morning to rival the East Endy learn to understand his cockney ribb was caught, and hauled

to take action against the trainer. the wave of the future. no Petticoat Lane, they might tell Thyming slang of things like Uncle to the foreman, Palsy Collins My father had other ideas, He..

Ned (bed), weeping willow (pil- Patay made to hit me, and

Householder in Sydney brok matter how many breakers you that the spot where you can low), apples and pears (stairs), where he slipped up. Or I should said "He probably only got what

anything from broken-

Ð

for I duck- he deserved."

Lehe

Is it any wonder a picture over n burglar's head

fellow insisted o may crash on the beach of our down blcycle or an overcoat, new Rory O'Moore (door), and you have said tripped up, legs and that tough breaks later on didn't The

and me (tea).

ed, collared him by or second-hand, 10 time.

My little mate, mean a thir an over-ripe

framed. a thing to me? tomato, was The Swedish municipal elec-lin first saw the light of day.

where Charlie Chap- That's how it started him.

Bobby

Mumford, joined in, and And is it any wonder that I ran Yes, that's how it all began soon there wag д free-for-all, away from home? lived in East tions which are also indirect-

Although I licked him to it by for me. But that tough up-bring with machine-minders and every Street with costermongers, and

months no one would ly elections for the Upper six

say

So once again I got ing has stood me in good stead one at it,

pald two shillings a week for my Covent House of Parliament, have much about the umpteen millionth on the way through life, although the bullet and a week's pay, keep. I walked from

best baby ever born, the fifth

Garden to Bromley, and to Edg- brought a heavy reverse for child of George Daniel Broadribb, shortage of food made me more three shillings and three-pence.

before my ware road and Kilburn, selling like a whippet than anything else. the Communists. They polled tip-top brick-layer who admit- and I can't have weighed much time aroused suspicion, and when from a barrow, I worked only five per cent of the votes who, in his early days, had really started selling newspapers at sacked again, he said "You've al-

ted to being a good gambler, and more than three stone when, at my father learned that I'd been toe-droppers the fellows whe sell a piece of Tino which -a third of their strength two

Ludgate

Hill Station. That didn't ways been worrying me about isn't as big as they say it is

butcher to years ago. As the well-known

Things were tough last long. I was fired-yes, be- being a jockey-you go and be a fetched blood for a commentator Mr. W. N. Ewer

lieve it or not, for fighting with ext day he took me to a rac- worked as tea-boy for bricklayers

make black puddings, and points out, this ebb of Com- Things had been really tough, a

for the old fellow, and it was

porter.

worked at various places as Ing agency in Effingham House, on buliding operations. munist Parties is general that way for us. The punishment an errand boy--and it was always Arundel Street, and made ar- throughout Western. Europe. he dished out to us was often the samo

story-the "pedlar's rangements for me to be appren- Only in France and in Italy drastic, but in his way the man pack" for fighting. Eventually I ticed for five years to a trainer:

as "Danny Wyatt," had been got a Job as an indoor messenger in France. are they a serious political

acknowledged to be a fair knuckle | force, and signs of coming fighter, loved us, and we loved decline are visible there as

him. well.

.

buy

had to rough it.

14,

unless he was, thirty bob

My

home

the

Japan

(To be continued)

Enduring Commonwealth

It is still often supposed By "Windrush,”

the British Common-

Special correspondent

two

I

advantage from its contacts with: British scientists....

any truth in this Januses, one at Colombo in continue it.

His Saturday ha'penny meant a more to us than the present! In the Danish general elec-

neration can realise, because he tion a few weeks ago the Com- never arrived home with more

than munists went to the, electors fortunate enough to back a win- that

Will this co-operation continue? as the only champions of peace ner or two, and then one or two wealth came to a vintage end

Nobody can foresec. There are and the only opponents of the of us would get a new pair of at least as far as Asia is con-

strong nationalist forces at work "warmongers."

somo They secured boots,

in all the Asian countries, six scats only, compared with and invariably sat into the sinali

Mother made all of our clothes, cerned, in August 1947, when India and Pakistan became

of which are narrow and isola- 18 in 1945. In Norway Inst hours doing all kinds of jobs for independent. Formally, it is wealth machinery led to this aid tionist in outlook. As the present on to the Asian generation of statesmen dies oul, November they lost every one neighbours to get enough eats for true, it has continued in being. being passed of their eleven seats in the the hungry Broadribb gang. Only But those observers who sup- countries of the Commonwealth their successors may be. less in- terested in maintaining the Com- when shu died at 49, did We pose it finished say that it has which urgently needed it. Storting. In the three Bel-realise the sacrifices she had made survived merely as a fiction. During this present year there monwealth system

taken have already

On the other hand they may they have so that we could live,

Place gian elections

Many The reality, they argue, ia have

very important Commonwealth find it so useful that they will dwindled from 23 seats in Friday, when there was no money

In the home,

she would let "uncle" dead. 1946, to 14 in 1949, and to

Is there

the other at Sydney in N.B. The view in London is have father's half a sult to get seven in 1950. The Dutch us a dinner, and when she had-view?-

May. Both of them had special that there is little point in look- The answer depends on how reference to Asia, the Colombo ing so far ahead. The tradition municipal elections last year,

conference to pudding with raspberry

its political pro- of the Commonwealth is to be and the provincial electionsavour, which if it didn't fatten, There are roughly two

Immediate pra- concerned with this year, show the same filled a cavity.

about its naturë. One is that its economic ones.

blems and not to be too much It is a kind of super-state. If trend-a loss of some 27 per

At the present moment the interested in the remote future. this is the accepted view, then

with the Iden of cent of their strength since

are working

out in making the Commonwealth rigid the the 1948 general election. In this incessant and constantly-clearly we shall have to say that ministers are worldarted To take steps

permancat would Britain, for the first time in shifting policy of dissimula- up. India, Pakistan and Ceylon London a six-year plan for the and

economic development of South

In these discussions, and down. To take no thought for ita Asin

Burest way of causing it to break 30 years, there is not a single tion which has helped to are all fully independent coun-

in the research which was distant future seems to be the Communist in the House of destroy them.

If Pakistan and Ceylon retain

preparation necessary in

for

Eurest way of keeping it alive, Commons.

The other reason is that their allegiance to the Crown, them, India has taken a leading

formality. By no part Taliks

are also taking In Western Germany pro- their own leader has "un- this is vincial elections were held in masked"

general problems himself. In the reasonable interpretation can the place on

Commonwealth be regarded as trade and prices. June in North Rhine-West- face of what has happened in forming phalia, which includes the Eastern Europe it is hopeless federation, however loose. In. a

member states sur zender whole of the great industrial for them to pretend that federation,

nothing to pawn we had roly- we regard the Commonwealth.

tries.

has

viewa biems, the

the Sydney conferento to

扭 state, or even o

Initiative

be

though In a constantly changing

of

area of the Ruhr. The Ger- "Stalinism" means democracyeder a part of their sover it was by Commonwealth Initia-|

In

the centre. In the

Second view.

In the first years after the war And live at Singapore that order was

man Communist Party threw or personal freedom or nation- wealth there is no centre. all its energies into a speciallyal independence, or that the none of the member states have introduced into the distribution of intensive campaign, and workers and peasants are bet- shed any of their sovereignty. rice among the different countries On the contrary, India, Pakistan of South Asia. Now that the rice cheerfully prophesied great ter off under them. In the and Ceylon attained sovereignty supplies of the region may ngain be inadequate because of large gains. In the event it polled face of what has happened in in 1947, and guard it jealously.

purchases by SCAP for Japan' only 5.5 per cent of the votes the Far East it is idle to pre-

which will drain rice out of the as against 14 per cent three tend that Stalinism means There is, however, a second region-there are again to be view of the Commonwealth. Ac- Commonwealth consultations at years ago. Even in Ham- peace.

this the The decay has set in of cording to

Common Singapore to try to find ways of burg, once a "Red stronghold" the Communist vote was only Communism as it has come to wealth is not a super-state. It evercoming the threatened hard-

is" hardly a political entity. It ship. be known since the overthrow

be described beat can perhaps seven per cent.

This is the Commonwealth kind The tide everywhere, in of the Soviets and the dicta- as a of political activity system for promoting economic

the fact, is running strongly torship

master It is the joint activity of all the welfare. The Commonwealth gov of

free

and Independent states of ernments are also in constant Mr. against the Communists. They of the Politbureau.

the Commonwealth working to

to touch on defence questions and can no longer hope even to be Attlee has referred to it gether for common purposes. If on foreign affairs questions-a

Cony without any accepted as partners in any as "a new Tsarism more dan- the

then it can be said imposing a rigid "Commonwealth Coalition. The basic reason gerous than the old." It is that it is still very much alive.ne

There is no question of Is obvious they have been not a question any longer of

A great part of this reccatr

the co

Commonwealth into a found out. They have pro- an economic system, but the activity of the Commonwealth le military alliance. There is com- clasticity over foreign fessed to be the champions of purpose to which all power, due to the partners in the piele

Commonwealth, not simply to working-class unity. In fact including economic resources Great Britain: polley, an is shown by India's line

Consider th

vitality of the over Korea N

and Communist they had orders to disrupt the and policy, is to be put. Social-

In the economie Chinna trade unions and to destroy ism is thus merely a means to Commonwealth

Berides these omclaf activities phere. Th

In the post-war world social democracy. They posed a very different end. The dis-

the Commonwealth countries,

tries of Commonwealth governments, as the only genuine opponents ciples of Stalin can no longer through their machinery for con- the Asian countries of the Com af Fascism-while Stalin was win power by the vote or by cultation and Joint action, have monwealth continue to cultivate bullk up an Intricata and mutually their associations through private coming to terms with Hitler. revolutionary action. The

bonaficial system of finance and agencies with the non-Asian parts patriotism. Communist world revolution economic co-operation. Mr. They professed

Ba of the Commonwealth, For exam- The

ple, both India and Pakistan, des- when it seemed to serve their is thus indefinitely postponed. vlu has estimated that since pupose. At times they even The devotees themselves can war £750 million of capital has patched powerful delegations to flowed from Britain to South net year's conference in Canada came forward as defenders of still make plenty of trouble, if Asia. (This Bgure can be checked of the Institutes of International Commonwealth the Individualist peasantry Moscow, so wille, and it can from the reports of the Econo- Affairs of the and of the small business man be met only by firm handling mic Committen for Asia and countries.

These reports Their latest disguise la that But the upshot of the elections estimate the pure General, impression of partisans of peace." They in Europe is that the Comless, but it is still an exceedingly that they played a 4 dominating had hoped great things from munists have now to be re large sum) capital came part in the conference. Profes

of this it. But their cagar, and er garded merely as trouble.A part

originally from America prii siodal associations in India, and thusiastle support of aggres" makers in alien morvică. "They was recolved by Britain on loans Pakistan Fil keep closely in touch Mon in Ko

ssociations fa made thapro- I are no longer a political force and Marshall, vaid keerne uspore with professional tence, merely ridiculous. -ist

revolutionary danger. tant thing is that the Common Britain. India extracts the utmo

tho Far estumato

the

"RONT H

It was the general impression

form. At least this is the lesson of the history of the Common- wealth which is now nearly 400 years long.

war

"A small wilé generally gets. her way."

Will o' the wisp.

"British brigade doing whale of a job."

And the North Koreans are up the spout..

Myrtle says: "All my friends. are yes-men. They won't take, 'no' for an answer."

"Men's

clothes now favour

bright, striking colours."

Our wives profer us with large cheques.

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