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BIRTH CHARTER-To Yvonne, wife of John Charter, on 4th October 1950, at Queen Mary Hospitat, a doughter, Anne.

THE CHINA MAIL,” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1960,

A boxer tells his ring secrets--No. 4:

FIGHTING IS MY LIFE

You have to do a lot of kidding to get along in the fight game, There are even times when you have to say binck y fs white ||19|| offen that in the end you get around to believing it yourself It's just business, In a battle of wits, of course, and I'm going to tell you about one or two Occasions when I've kidded to very good cffectes nor

First of all, then, here's how I set about gelling Mike MeTigue into the ring with Batiling Sikd in the fight which gave the Irish man the light-heavyweight

cham planship of the world. One day carly in 1923 McTigue came into the St. Martin's Court office of prometer Arnold Wilson, with whom I was working at the time, He had just had a Aghting in Sheffield, and asked if there was anything I could do for him.

I thought, and I realised that before I could do anything for him I had to get him into the Headlines, for publicity is the life blood of boxing, Then I hit on' an

By Ted Broadribb

was in pain with it, he obeyed my instructions not to give it away.

Good Morn

Poking representatives

England continue to urge that

vole.

Was in 1920, In New York. The new regime must be accept inst I heard of him was that he Lake Success. So far, they had lost all his money in the It's been a very slow Wall Street crash and was work-China. ing us a stevedore."

I'm

back a bit for lan-

Ok for which I bad"30)| do a bit of fnet work, but It's remember. Komething I like le Whum Sid Smith, a clever little London boxer, came back from America, he had made no money and was ready to turn up tit gamo.

We had trained together

"Nehru fears new wa Him and moboth.

Show is now hopping aroun on the fractured limb No broken reed.

in England. Right then, Ireland was always prepared to do any thing England wouldn't do, and so we got a "Mr. Singleton" and a

He kept jabbing Mr. Ray (Mr. Singleton, by the way, the name which hid the He kept jabbing with his left, identity of a well-known Harley and keeping out of trouble with Street specialist)

they lively footwork, but more often to say

than not Sik! was able to force him would put it on in Dublin.

That wasn't the half of it. Siki into clinches, and bath of th and were good pals, and when Paris, and that wasn't had to be brought over from were dishing out some rough

an easy stuff inside.. It was in one of these was told he was working at a job by any means. Jim Harris went bouts of In-nighting. In the 11th leather dresser's for 30 shilling over to France with orders to get round, that I really thought that week I decided to see him to Dublin, and succeeded only time had come for us to put up could help him.

the shutters. Sik! threw some Fifty per cent). after agreeing to the request of

"Curley Walkercoming the Senegalese that his three vigorous lefts and rights, and ont managers and their wives were of them split McTigue's left eye.

along, and a lot of people think I say split, I mean he can beat you," I told Smith. And when allowed to go as well.

I don't know that I can "You would 'draw a good house at certainty of making a proft, They all travelled in a cattle alla Cash quite liko it in the the Ring-I'll-manage you for the boat-not because Siki was the whole of my career in fighters fight, nearest rapproach to gorilla I ever saw, but because them as well. they brought a donkey along with

& human

Although McTigue had no con-

ㄇ If they want side- free, come over at the end of corners. Jack Smith, the re-stake, I'll back you." He agreed. the round to have a look at

It and and I haven't the slighest doub

Idea, Frank Goddard was due to tract with me, I was looking artow that if he could really havi

box an exhibition at Brighton on A Harry Preston charity show, and I told McTigue to meet me there.

to ha fleht.

went to the Ring, without having seen Walker or hin managery and asked for 50 per cent of the gate to supply the

con it he would have slopper

two fighters. I hastily covered up McTigue's face with a towel, anc

aid: "Jack. I'll be

wa:

will be ans revaluation of British officials deny that there

sterling.

Now, if only Stafford Crippe We could buy pounds in the would make a categorical denial,

"Rumours about sterling,"

It's got to that point, has IET

Nothing

a

THE

HALF PEACE, HALF WAR

his affairs, and I went over There is nothing new in

Ireland a couple of days before

They agreed, and then I went premiere for strengthening. '0 the fight and helped him with his "unconfirmed Hong Kong re-

sce a Bermondsey publican caste system, even in car parks responsibl naturally for his cya" I didn't want tramed Piercoy, a backer and ad- ports" that the

The opponent picked for God final training, and I Chinese

iser, and he said he would back see the fight stopped at tha1

Volker for £20 a-side and the Fourth Field Ariny, command-dard-I'm not sure who it was seconded him in the fight.

"A motor cyclist was rendered I'm not likely to forget it, be- "tage, for I thought MeTigue was around, and the 'first thing I

⚫est purse,

said to him: unconselous yesterday afternoon ed by General Lin Piao, has did was to tell him that he won't cause the Trish trouble were in 'n front.

'I will Issue a challonge crossed the Yalu and entered wanted. Then I told Goddard his early proceedings in the Scale hydrogen peroxide and tann behair newspaper on your woman, pedestrian....The woman full swing at the time, and the I worked hard on the eye wit

inwhen hip vehicle collided with ja I did. man wasn't around, and said he

And then was slightly injured.", _s#AY all about that weeks ago, with could box McTigue. "I don't care Theatre that night were Rivenej acid, which I knew to be a mlx-¡ answered · It in the name:

used by dentists to stop

That's what Hong Kong' needs who it is," Frank replied, and my up considerably by a land-mine ture used

Brockman, offering. to Harry battle was as good as won.

going off at a not-so-pleasant dia- bleeding, and it worked.

back Smith for £25, and Lemore of these strong, wall-bin in fact, that Sill never MeTigue went in with Him, and tance, and that made me hope too

a cyclist to a pub Tobarrahock-resistant pedestrians, got a remarkably good press the happy after we had been search- managed to open it up again in Street with two contracts

As we the more blistering exchanges I had made out. and said to Wilson the following entered the building. next day. So I was on the way: cd by armed Irishmen

contest, day: "What about Siki and Mc Tigue for the Ught-heavyweight championship of the world??

North Korea. Taipeh told us

reminders at intervals, in the comprehensible but none too pious hope that some good might accrue. Only two days ago Taipeh repeated the story, but this time with a good deal of hedging, and the local Kuomintang paper published it. Frankly, we didn't believe it when it first appeared, and do not believe it now. It

could happen, but it is most unlikely that it will unless we blunder badly in what is a most promising but still de- licate situation.

Not allowed

it

1 gave out a story that the match might be made, but before Wilson could do itything about the Home Ofce told us that they wouldn't allow the fight to go on

worl

the first

in

of.

which

Couldn't the tea interval be :queezed in, too?

I wrote them as if they came "The sports committee has decided that two events will take à £45 purse, They algned for place at the same time if "m from Dick Burge at the Ring fo £25 to the winner, £25 to the entrants in botir toser, and I went and gave the contracts to Burge.

On the night of the night you

get a • gardine.... inta. he place

At about 8.30 Tom Pritchard, Dick Burge's assistant Fame to me and said: "You know. ou.forged our name to a con.. ract." I repiled; "Listen, ad signed for 50 per cent of the ate for the two men, so I dic he best I could,"

(To be Continued)

later in the

The Irishman travelled the 20 But you can even forget things like that once a sight gets going, rounds, and was given the de- and more particularly when it

clalon

Sikt protested that al- happens to mean something to though McTigue had won the last you, After all, I had engineered he had certain

I thought dif- Merigue into the contest, and I wanted to sce my plan come Kerently, because Mike was couldn't

ways hitting the more cleanly through successfully. But we soon and I think he might even have ho had something to the fourth round worry about. In won inside the distance but fo a right hand, cracked his fist his hand, against the skull of the coloured was so bad-actually

the man, and broke his thumb in the was almost half-an-inch wide- the process. That was obviously that afterwards seven.aititche something we had to hide, and had to be inserted. although the County Clare Ighter! The next time I saw MeTiguc

Now about that cut eye.

sux

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The United States and

United States aggression, and The dovecotes are also being to ignore the United Nations set a-flutter by stories of a for that purpose. But one Communist convey or convoys cannot safely build_concrete extending for 100 miles policy on a propaganda false- in North West Korea, coupled hood. Communist topsy-turvy- with reports of bombing at dom would then enter a very tacks and the performance of dangerous, stage indeed. The the vanishing trick by the fact is that the United Na- convoys. There are also tions are running, and will mathematical calculations continue to run, the political tially enthusiastic about the American cause in the great showing just how many aspect of this problem; and struggle between West and Koreans there were in Man- that the present Government East." America stands for so

The United States And it hard to understand why Asian countries tend to be only pa

the individual; the rule of law, the condemnation of the Amer!- concentration camp.

churia during the Japanese in the United States, led by many ideals which are incon- census of 1940 and how many the President and the Secre- tostibly good-the liberty of men could be available to fight tary of State, care running in in North Korea. All these team with that policy. things seem at present insub- stantial and designed merely to befog the atmosphere--

eans are puzzled to know why

Asia

British troops, have mopping-up job in the South Korean 'arca,

They are, in fact, vacuum cleaners.

"How now building will look,! ron a headline yesterday above o sketch of the proposed YY CA centre-printed in reverse...

"Would raise. former's incor by letting him make. mo money.".

Well, there's a certain cuti

Of course there have been and Communism really much notable cxamples of capitalist more sharply than do the Ameri- enterprise in modern Asia. The cans. Socialism appears as the about the scheme, anyway, development of the great Indian realist course to pursue. It may firm of Tatns is a good instance, of course, be objected that in In- But in general the industrialisa-dia, the chief industrial countr

In South Asia, the Socialist Party has made little headway. But thi is perhaps due to faults in i leadership rather than to a lact of appeal in its ideals.

By “Windrush,”

special correspondent

Mr. Jai Prakash Narrain, He chict personality, though a very determined man, does not havi the magnetle appeal of, say, M

Jawaharlal Nehru. And, after all one wing of the Indian Congres socialist ideals Party professes though the wing led by Mr. Vallabhai Patel opposes them.

· . . i

It is the intention of the United Nations to make it pos- their leadership does not at- tlon which has so far taken place sible for the Korean people tract a mere ardent following on which has so far it about The task in Korea, in all themselves to decide just what Korea. has to be completed, sort of Government they stand that, in their propaganda capitalists,

Americans do pot yet under-by the initiative,, not of private but of governments, and completed it must be if really want. In the shifts and they not only in to Prag the though these often delegated to

For all these reasons,. Westerr chances the tragedy of Korea is not subterfuges,

and right note for Aslans to respond private firms the management of

countries, in bidding, for Aslan the projects. to be turned into tragi- changes of recent moves or to. They strike notes which jar.

friendship, will find that they do True of Japan comedy. The principles laid the Far Eastern chess-boardTake, for example, the way in down in the draft resolutions it has become pretty clear diataste for Communism. It is Its great industrial development Socialist Britain is thus better

which America expresses

not get very far by a doctrinhire Tals is especially true of Japan. shoating down of socialist ideas are sound, wholesome and which of the controversia.nt to suggest that the only good in the past 70 years was morally correct. They call elements possesses policy and form of social and economic or the result of government enter for finding points of contact with

chiefly placed than capitalist Americ for the unification of the the power of decision. The anisation

Communism

enterprise. prise, at least of governmental the new world of Asia. entire peninsula under a soldier walts upon the states Now, a great maay Asians share inspiration. In Kuomintang In the present Commonwealth

China much of the place

before, Even in

the

free

opposite of

the concomitants of a

Government elected by the man once more in this paust America fts Comete development which hamising discussions on the, now econom!""

To do in the United Nations. If the Asians reprobate concentration war was spied...

system.

why

The

Arthur's demand has been that matter the United States caditionally the

America

In

ways

For

the

Sino-Japanese for

taken plan, for South Asin, it is taken granted that many of the projects to be financed, will be under the rule governmental ones. The six-year those days plan will be at least in part a

in

had

A

British trade; uniunists hav rejected the wage freeze. They's had enough of the cold war.

Income is what you have to make first because you certainly can't make it last.

You're lucky; : dear, your's don't cast nearly so much to rapatr!"

FAVOURITE ON ALL TABLES

TAIKOO

people, and supervised by and in the decisions pending 21241-8-3

great majority of AFDR the United Nations.

this there must be law and Russians had accepted the re- camps and forced labour. But

That, solution of the Security County they should follower Antec believed ardentis in private en-socialist one.

of a Britain order in all Korea. again, is incontestable. If the cil when it was first passed, and become excited

over the terprise, trigation works

the building of the rail- North Koreans accepted as instead of trying to palm it ideal of free enterprise. they have not-General Mac-off as a resolution of their own. The

The difficulty is

is that free en all been the racult of govern means one thing Arthur's call for surrender, now that the gamble has been

action. For ment this would simplify the mat lost, the statesman would other in an Asian context. Free

country and

quite an- constructivni.

a scale which really ter. Pyongyang insists that have had the running all the enterprise has

Colorms

social conditions the proved. successful In America · because... of certain

of Asla look instinctively, its "People's Army" is still while.

historical circumstances. There not to thair local capitalists, but fighting fiercely on all fronts, Peace cannot be made with existed in America a fairly large, to their national governments.

which, in

In tha and where it is withdrawing shameless effrontery as its enterprising and thrifty middle It is governments

oriental it is only to "take up new cloak. And peace is what the class, which hos.

A do the really *** - *Casonably public-spirited.

big duties." So far General Mac- United Nations want—and for

things reason, modern

· scope of gOV- ent activity in America has socialism--not * Communiam-fits thinking of much treated with contempt. Government too. But not a been limited and the individual like a glove the

against the of the Asian intelligentsia today protected Now every decent person peace that is no peace, but has been

state by the rule of law. They are, not impressed the must respect Pandit Nehru's continuing war. That would I was their middle class which theoretical arguments drainst. Its feelings in the matter, especi- be incredibly stupid and con- in these conditions was able to For this reason, too, America le

pursuing

lina in ro a dangerous. accumulate capital, and used ally where they are concern- trary to the true interests

for the creation- in commending free enterprise, in and the transformation of reason and out of reasons: There Korean people and the im- Nor can there be he mense damage sustained in and half-war In a divi for the enterprising spirits in middle classes and professional war. The country has taken country and people, which is in and benefit from the dynamic tracted by socialiam,

all social classes to take part classes of modern Asia are at beating in three short really what the Communists economy which it had set in Family business" months that will take years to are trying to bring about while

* This second causes is that remedy. And certainly if they gather from their fana-

oriental capitalism, tarda, to take North Korea has to go through ticism the means to try it on

the form of the closed "family: guerilla war-positional war again. If new Korean re-

In all the Asia countries the middle class who is not related fare is impossible without in inforcements have entered the circumstances have been entirely to family owning a business tervention from the North-country from across the Man diferent. - Because of complex Anda himself virtually, excluded liberation will have a bitter churian border in order to historical couses an enterprising from a business career taste when it comes The carry on the fight, the United and independent middle class did

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ed with the sufferings of the the Korean people, thethselves con Ib made it posible in another cause also why the

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a

·United States forces are Nations will have to carry on coexist. The traditional alan bordinate:ctorical

monarchilen had forestituries rising to the

ime in center-young man QART

"Erushed spirit

task of liquidation. But cried out their the only char terests of all, including both it is true large commercial cities of obtaining responsi Russia and China,

is good. policy It is for the | It seems to us that the best in Korean Communists and their advisers to justify an, inde finite prolonge

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