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A boxer tells his ring secrets--No. 2:

FIGHTING IS MY LIFE

By Ted Broadribb

I always read every word... I could about fighting, and always 32312 got as close to the boxing game as I could. One wet day, when the boy who wanted to be A What few of them could tell! bricklayer couldn't work, he you

In fact, I doubt whether found his way into a twopenny any of them could-was how I got seat at the old Canterbury Music that name in my fighting days. Hall to ace the pleture of Jimmy I'll tell you. Britt and Battling Nelanti.

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A twopenny seat took me into ad. communications should be

boxing. for man named Albert to the Company CHINA Stallion tapped me on the shoul- dressed

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der and asked me if I would go Into an 8at 41b. competition at the Cornwall Boxing Club, near Waterloo Station.

NEW PHASE IN KOREA Nobody is likely to make the mistake of regarding Mr. Chou, En-lai's statement in Peking as a warlike trumpet- blast. It merely shows the way the wind is blowing-a tilting at windmills whose direction has been the subject of delicate negotiations be- hind, the scenes: China, he said, would not stand idle "should Imperialism want only to invade the territory of its neighbour"-North Korea. We have no doubt Peking would continue to say quite a lot about it,

"Snowball

When I told -Albert Stallion 1 would Oght in the 8 stone 4 pound competition at Cornwall Boxing Club, the one I referred to last week, I said: "I'll go in the name of Ted Wyatt,

I was announced as Ted Wyatt, but the crowd were not slow to notice that I was the brother of Bill, who boxed "Snowball of Walworth," just because he had a He said he had heard of my white patch about the size of numerous fights who hadn't? half-a-crown on the back of his

thought I would stand und

ahead. I won the competition, chance. knocking-out my first two op- ponents in the first round, and

So instead of the people shout- the finalist in the second round.

I was as proud ing "Come on, Ted," 15 was "Come It didn't I could be although it can't on, young Snowball," have cost more than three and sound so bad, elther, so Young sixpence. I hurried to Dad's local, Snowball it remained. the Queen Anne in South Street, to show it off. And in less time thap it took to knock out

opponent one of the handles was off!

entered more novice competi- tions. It was valuable experience youngster who wanted to for

It didn't bring learn the game. in much money, though. Once,, at the old Wonderland, I renched the semi-final-after three fights, and got five bob.

as

in

won a cup.

Making good

"Ruzelan leadors "selfish.'”.

Oh, come now, let's be a littlo

or a boy named Georges Carpen-moro restrained in our language, tler. They are spoiling him, suret

I've heard it said that I was near the end of a long fighting career when I fought the French great man, and that he was only a kid.

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They didn't apoll him, and no Coming movie attractions, one is happier than I that Georges went on to make that eritle eat according to one advert, include: his words, and to become a very "Santa Fy."

This is not quito Fe. Alghter, Actually, in less than a month the same writer I wasn't exactly a veteran, for 1 was saying kind things about me.

Show complains about being was

months only a few

over when I was on my way to Ameri-

The matron is not twenty-one that night at the en for the Grst of many trips, given too many baths in hospital. too Tivoli in Paris In April 1910, although it was my only visli

She is mure it will'alt when I stopped him in four there as an active performer. He perturbed,

come out in the wash. wrote: rounds.

Few will realise when he Carpentler had had a lot of

lands New in

York that the fights, too-actually more than I had had, and it wasn't my fault

pack them-looking boy is going to kind of veil, which lifts down! if he had tried to

things hum a bit out there.

has been

1

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“Attractive sailors have a new;

'Never heard of purposes." 'An- promoters said.

year, but in that annould have been casier to

Or, of course, for

for

yelling

Cobbler's wife has triplets. When that happens to a woman, can sheemaker very proud.

Into too short a space of time. For months.I tried to get this below the chin in a ruff

Or smoking Here's what the Parls correspon-young boxer a fight in Paris. eating, drinking dent of "Boxing" had to say about without success.

him, the it at the time:

deflance at the enemy. other of those English cans, "Carpentier

boxing only about a time he has been asked to fight nearly 30 battles. Just imagine look for banknotes on the pave the folly of it all! True, the lad ments of Paris than further afit only lost about four of them, but

em, but tempting to get Young Snowball But Dan McKetrick, by the time he is 20 years of age a match. he will be all in. To quicken who seems to wield a sceptre of Snow- he is now things, he is the state of

power at Wonderland, got I actually started boxing in

verily believe that it anyone tier. The English Ind made 1909, and by October of that year being pitted against champions. I ball an engagement with Carpen-

French Pro, before,' and pono, 'place."" my they were talking of me in the offered his manager a match with deuce of a mess of his

breath 05 the best of the same

Jim Driscoll he would take it on. adversary, and now he's on the bantam-weights,

it but

was

way to America. Here's the very novice strange that after my

Trotted out

best of luck, young un!" competition days, fecen as I was to get into the fight game, started once more only by. ncei- dent.

show

50

"Some of it came out in

A

Indigestible definition from the "Reader's Digest."

"Profound.... From the Latin

So for I haven't found the :

place.

With a third world war hovering near, the democracies

remarks

•

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Over Very

in

in Nathan

"Well, Snowball was trotted +

Sequel to trip will have to Chou the foreign out, and in spite of advice Of my fights there, and subse-minister's carefully, quent ones, more later; but I can't Somehow I had to get in to a Georges Carpentier was allowed to show at Manor Place Baths, Wal- be led to the slaughter, even as let the opportunity pass without

proverbial lamb, Nearly all telling you of the sequel to my Business man Just returned worth. Young Nipper of

Ber-the

the French lad's usual cleverness Atlantic trip. I had been in the from a trip to America tells me That was the beginning of

mondsey was fighting there,

Rifles since 1905, as that the price was conspicuous by its absence King's

they charge for I should be life-time, an active ring what better than that I

there Is pheas But if it wants a peaceful stic

career which lasted only just over his bag carrier? I was, and when on this night.

the militisman. I joined only be haircuts over fighter settlement, and not a full- twa years but which gave Young a

called

Fox

lo who was

barrow business selling bananas, scale prolongation of the Snowball, my ring name, a knock- boxed George Peters didn't first round, but in that

I was asked to take his dawned on him that he had met and I thought it was a good way These threatened strikes up didn't

this master. From that instant the

of getting a

a few bob. The Barnet Britain's main seaports are not campaign, it may be supposed aut victory over Georges Carpen-

tier the only Englishman to place.

hesitate, Although

Jad was beaten, and although

Militia. They

called

led us because couldn't say I was really very

use unexpected. They are, in fact, that it will also do every achieve that feat - and which teased about it. just then but I knocked down time after time for recruits' training, was done there; quite orthodocks, -

took me into the stormy thing in its power to persuade later

It did me lot of good, and Communists world of management, refereeing, went in, and, in my first full con- nine, and bleeding, this precocious

after the training there were times those Korean

test over six rounds, the referee and plucky youngster got up and

Big poster erected resumed the fray.

I thought I could have a Road yesterday read: when who are still clamouring for match-making and promoting.

the verdict as gave Verdict as a draw,

made the But I "Why his manager waited un-

race. I wan

a marathon war to the death to conform

"Sabu.in I won my next fifteen #ghts on to the basic necessities of a

"The Thife of Bagdad." 60 now, so my associa- the run, stopping my opponents the fourth round to throw up mistake of thinking that the Army tlon with the fight game dales in nine of them, and then I lost the sponge I do not know. How would be interested in peaceful settlement. Certain for something like 45 years. There to Frank Riches over 15 rounds ever, seeing that his protege did things have to be done. They have been plenty of ups and at King's Hall, Five more vie-not have a look-in, he did at last

be done if: downs.

followed, and then came saw fit to stop the combat." must and will

and tories

Не continued: "The English peace, unity, public order and out to me in the ring on only the contest which gave me the

very rare occasions,

but I've been satisfaction that was denied many lad boxed in great style, and de- recovery are to

on the floor many times in other an English fighter in later years served his victory, yet all sym- done

pathy was for the handsome slip Korea. If it can be

I've always come backstopping Georges Carpentier.

and I

I hope I always will. without involving further fighting,

I've had a fighter going the dis- sacrifices by the American.

New lance in

York's Yankee forces, so much the better. Stadium for boxing's most glitter- The call for surrender has ing prize, the heavyweight cham- gone out: a full response is plonship of the world. The man

who

Freddy Mills, is also in

I

come

to

I'm

ways.

Knock-outs were handed

necessary, and Peking is in divis the roost in the next

my sort

of fighting. I skipped a summer's camp to go to America, and when I reported the next sumer I got defaulter. 21 days "junkers" as a

(To be continued)

TRUMAN AND JAPAN

President Truman's state-

ment that America's raind helped them there, along with the was now made up about interesting sidelights in the career

to date.

In the

By "Windrush," Special correspondent

long run broken down. The de militarised country has chosen a favourable moment to tear up its treaties, and nobody has been able to do anything about it. The proper course, says America, is therefore to try to win Japan as a friend.

So much

י -

with

a strong position to help the my going to tell you how

charge. United Nations get it. But whatever the risks, it is es- sential to see the job through of the little Londoner who didn't Japan has excited less interest: to thorough completion. That really have a chance--but made in London than might have been expected. It has been remains true whether the task good just the same.

What's in a name? Nothing,

Risks involved is conceived from the view-maybe, but when you get one very little discussed in the the Communist government in

Nobody can deny that there are point of the defeat of aggres- the boxing business, good or bad, press. Partly this is because China that even if there were now

some a formal establishment of diplo risks. Nationalism in Japan is a decided There are plenty Britain has it just sticks.

Whatever the sion or from that of the es-

of oldtimers who are more likely time ago its own attitude to-matic relations it would be a volcanic thing.

long time before there was a suf- sential interests of the Korean to know me even today as Young) wards Japan. It feels that petently cordial atmosphere for appearances in Japan, today, there people. They have passed; Snowball than just as Ted Broad-

there will be no great dif-the delicate negotiations, required must be a deep and Instinctive desire for revenge for Hiroshima. through an ordeal no less ribb.

Japan. ficulty in reconciling its own to reach agreement over

Japanese coalescence of terrible because it was So

com- the General views with those of America. And there is of course the addi-There will be the standing danger

tional dimeulty that the Peking brief. In three short months determined by

munism. Just as Communism in the Land of the Morning Assembly, on the basis of the Nevertheless, the President's Government is the ally of Russia nationalism and Japanese

It China sapped Chiang Kai-shek by Calm has been through an-recommendations of the statement does raise problems which has throughout made upheaval unknown for cen- Social and Economic Council, which ought to be consider known that-it-will-have-nothing representing him as-an-American of treaty puppet, so in Japan it will seck which America and Britain wish to discredit any Japanese govern- turies. Indeed they have as soon as possible after the ed afresh in the present cir- to do with the kind to make with Japan.

ment which seeks to carry out

ita treaty The American and British pro- honourably suffered more in this conflict interim Committee begins to cumstances of the world.

In the past it was Britain which than in the invasion of function.

was pressing for an early treaty posal has been to make the treaty America. The political phase of a with Japan. It foresaw the re-by means of the Far Eastern These are dangers. They must Hideyoshi which lasted for

recognised, The Western problem like that of Korea vival of Japanese nationalism. It Commission at Washington. The be years.

Modern warfare scatters is often more difficult than expected that all kinds of difficul-Russian view is that, it must be countries must have a policy to people and destroys villages the military phase. It will ties might arise if the negotiation made by the Council of Foreign overcome them. But the way to of the treaty was postponed and Ministers. In the Council, the guard against them is not by in a manner incomparably certainly take more time to

strong national feeling had Russians can exercise a veto; in punitive provisions in the peace more terrible than any wars work out all the details grown up in Japan against the the Commission they cannot, and treaty, which in the long run majorliy decision prevails. would prove ineffective and un- General MacArthur's occupation. save those of the Mongol than

Britain had reached full agree-Almost certainly the Peking gav enforceable. It is by a vigilant, Hordes earlier days of ruth- astoundingly rapid campaignment with the Commonwealth ernment will associate itself with Imaginative Far Eastern policy.

their general the Russian vlow. less destruction. The sooner It has been said that the countries about

New bitterness there is real peace and the United Nations' victory has policy towards Japan as early as sooner the tremendous task changed the whole balance the Canberra Conference

of 1947. It hps autumn

on The consequence of all this of recovery is begun the of world affairs. That is a aut

several subsequent occasions re- seems to be that, if a treaty is to with the be made now, it must be one better for everybody, and not' tremendous claim. And it is viewed the situation

con-Dominions, and the Common- from which Russia and China are least for the Chinese across true now, and can be

exclude themselves. There may the border. It will be noted firmed, if the present oppor-wealth view has been brought up excluded, or from which they that in his Order of the Day tunity is exploited firmly but

Was thus a certain be no great harm in this. But it cause. now bitterness in to the armed forces on the wisely by the processes of amount of vexation at the con- will

association with Russia. first anniversary of the new peace and diplomacy: The tinuing delays of the Americans China. It will drive China into Government, General Chu more we can allow force to to state their ideas. An Ameri- closer

consideration at Teh when stressing the wait on events in Korea the can draft treaty was promised for For these reasons, one view held the Colombo in London is that the treaty, now Conference, last that it has been

so long, need of strong armed forces stronger our position else- Commonwealth -summoned them to be ready where in the world, and the January. It was not forthcoming. would best, be delayed at least to fight for the liberation of greater the discouragement of Everybody knew that the delays until Communist China has got were due to differences of opinion over its hurdles and has been Taiwan, the Pescadores and a repetition of the Communist about the military terms of the admitted into the United Nations. treaty between the American There is little criticism in Lon- Tibet, but did not include experiment,

content of the Korea.

The prestige of the De-State Department and the De- don of the actual

treaty which America proposes. The United Nations is be-mocracies has gained greatly, partment of Defence.

It is to be a very generous treaty. ing asked to appoint a new and that of the Kremlin has.

Now that America is at last, favours generosity in agreements Commission to supervise the been reduced. The gain is

History ready, an 'ovent has, in the mean- with defeated enemies, establishment of a unifled, in- thus a double one. Now we while occurred which has com- has shown that it often, but by

democratic can get together out of plicated very greatly the whole no means always, pays

a hand- with БОТС dividend. Korean Government, with strength and not weakness problem of treaty making

This is of course provisions for relief, and re- and work for a realistic, just arrival of the Communist Gay- respond more favourably to the In this respect, London wit' habilitation. The resolution and speedy settlement not ernment in Feking as the evident- American plan than will Can- laying down plans for the merely of Kosea but also of ly established

berra. People in England do not government Obviously there is no

is no fall to understand Australia's very future of Korea is sponsored Formosa and the vexed ques- China.

world

rld which can

over

fer the prospect! can natural alarmi in the Political Committee by tion of Chinese representa- country in the

claim to have such a lively in- of a revived Japan. They know Britain, Australia, and Pakis- tion in the United Nations. terest in Japan as Chins. Will a that it is much easier for America tan, among other countries. Great ideas, backed by great peace treaty with Japan make and Britain, so many thousands It proposes that steps be resources of mind, money and without reference to China and, in "generous" than it is for Aus- sense if it is negotiated of miles away from Japan, to be taken to ensure stability material, are fermenting in the face of Chinese.protests7 tralia, whose escape from, In- throughout Korca; that all the free democracies

As long as the government of vasion in the last war was such action be taken under Unit-creation of a new partnership China was in the hands of the a narrow one, ita

The disagreement with

Aus ed Nations' ausplees to set between East and West, and Kuomintang, America would have up the new unifled Govern co-operation in the task of agreed that China must be asso-tralia, if there is to be one; ment that UN forces establishing a new prosperity should not remain in Korea and widespread development will not even recognise the Feking It will be over the method

not which to ensure security. The except so far as is necessary, in Asia. Korea makes urgent government. There does to achieve stability and fair what had been largely in the com, any possibility that it will American and British thesis La do so in the very near futuro. that all attempts in the past to elections; and that relief and realm of imagination, and out

Bo much bitterness has now enforce the demilitarisation of rehabilitation measures be of evil will come great good. up-between America and] country by:: trealy have in the

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