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of 1950.

A boxer tells his ring secrets--No.

FIGHTING IS MY LIFE

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DEATH

By Ted Broadribb

COLE

Typhoonery, or typhoony to you.

Just as we were wondering if you can have it, and promptly the confounded thing was goin

the hang

around got out of the ring. I did no to more than accept his challenge. permanently, it turned out tha

trying ta was only took his

b acore card from him it it wonderful gato-woʻra I ended up on the right side, Now at that time the Holland and carried on where he left off, depressing. Going to take 200 out."

There was nothing I could do about certainly wouldn't recommend it Park Rink was about to be taken

of making a over for another purpose, and it. as a cushy. way

I sat put the big fight, beeviis" so in the finish my end was in living, but I was always ready to happen to know that the fight it wouldn't have been tule .fo:

Labour Party tenders nt the the region of £140, Out: try anything once, as you'll prob- would probably never have taken me to have gone in the corner Margate, congress have been that, I had to pay Walker £20, ably be realising by this time.

place there in any case, I had with either Hood or Mancini eager to welcome" the Peking for Smith was the winner

'Promoter, matchmaker, mana.

contract for the two nghters against the other. The boxers stelegation, but "in spite of the points.

ger, referee and fighter-all

been unable to for 60 per cent of a £10,000 gate, were hindered by the dificulty In

efforts", have and, if the people with the option getting a foothold beesure of the one night. That sounds like

meet them.

Dear Mr. Hutchinson has been tall story, I know, but it hap-on the building had stepped in wet canvas, but it was a

before that date, would have Bght just the same.

I had handt having the same treatment of the pened to me in June, 1920, at

£1,000 That wasn't the last of

them in most com- led both of Perry Barr Stadium, Birmingham, been entitled to though. Piercey got to hear the night the clever Brum weiter perisation, £500 on behalf of their earlier contests, and I don't other end, .. about it, and sent a telegram to weight, Jacks Hood, retained his each of the fighters. the newspaper holding the sido- title against Alf Mancial, of Lup-

Telegram sent

stakes and told them hold payment to me.

shouldn't complain.

On

to withdon.

We were

п

on

it was

in

grent

think either of them had ever fought better.

•

:

'secr

"Canton calls H.K. With the suspension, though, I hadn't a leg to stand on, and so

Hood was in command at long agents base.""

Oh well, some of them, art called to the office, and finally. Hood and Mancini were both found myself with two boxers range, but at close quarters theet after hearing all sides, the stake my fighters, and I'm going to all ready to fight for a champion-was nothing to choose between, pretty low, at that, MOW FUNG, Federick Charles, holder told Piercey: "You ray right now that Alf was the ship and nowhere to put it on them, but it wasn't until the

passed away at his residence, 10 Maple Street, Kowloon on to give Broadri 25 You ought unluckient little fellow who ever I had to do some quick thik- twelfth round that Hoed really He went ahead convincingly.

Washington fears a jong guerilla pulled on a boxing `glove. It ing if months of planning wasn't hooked Alf to the head, then to war with the North Koreans. Bus 5th October. The encoffininking you how to manage a fighter." was only Hood's brilliance which to come unstuck, and I got Harry the stomach, and for a straight-left dash It, surely these penalties o will take place at 2 p.m. on

So it ended happily for every prevented him being champion. Hill, of Birmingham, to run Saturday, October 7, 1950, at

one, particularly for Smith, who for the Londoner was fur and charity show in the midland Specialist showed that he had a lot Imperialism happen only to the

wel', British? This Malaya completely 23, Maple Street, Shamshul- won the first flyweight cham-away alend of the rest of the town, with Hood rhting Du futher tricks in the bug as po. The funeral will take

to Mancini's obvious surprise. new problem before the, pionship belt for Bermondsey. class.

Mondin, who should have been place from that address at 2

You've got to know the fight

Mancini put up a grand-statul United Nations. the p.m. on Sunday, October B. game if you're going to gamble

I always regard getting two of his original opponent

Anish, but Hood was a good win- to 1950, at the Chinese Christian

on your own Judgment, and at my own boys together for a Bloomfield night, and

haven't told us about your say you Cemetery, Kowloon.

one period I made a very good championship as something of a staged one day after the fighters er. Now I know you're going

"Warm feelings said shown b own digist that night, but it actual-Britons to Reds." living betting at the National feat, and I'm going to tell you suspension ended.

Hood

Interest That aroused

ly happened while the champion- of how I did it. Whenever Sporting Club Was onc

sit- I signed a con-slip bout was on. A spectator the few managers allowed in beat a fighter, usually a con-more, and then

Wilkes with Fred Tattersall's, and I used to weigh tinental, I would match Mancini tract

ting near me, and quite near to would be a better description. up the form of the boxers,

shortly George Whitehurst, representing Alf Maneful's father, was making with the rame fellow "Quite often a fight began with after, and more often than not the Birmingham Greyhound Club, rentarks about Mancini, and I

"The Australion Lawn Tent a false te one man who the chimpion had done.

They would be won more convincingly than Lid, to put on. Hood and Man- could see there was trouble brew- betting It is certainly a bit of a

Association has pleked Sydn "Creat-cin felt sure the other would win, Ing situations" was the way one to Perry Barr for a guaran- | In I interrupted, and when hul Monday as the site for the Day

of £2,750 or fifty per cent So re-l of the gate.

asked me what I was going to do Cup challenge round next yea talking about warm feelings so if they bet six to four on one man with whom I worked

So, on a miserably wet June about it, I very quickly showed One can't help feeling it won of friendship held by the Bri-tan at the start I would take it.ferred to it, and so that's good night, I found myself at the ring- him. After a bit of a scufile have been much more interestin

knowing that the other man enough for me. would later become favourite. It was only natural that the side there with 20,000 other no bundled him out of the stadium. at Shefeld Wednesday. After the first round the odds suggestion should be made that enthusiasts. It was probably the An interesting night, you might quite often went to live to four, the two should fight, and that burlest night I ever spent, for I say, but it was more than that for and after three or four rounds it

was what I wanted. They were began by checking the turnstiles me, because it was then that I might easily be six to four the matched to fight at Holland Park nit helping the stewards get struck up one of the soundest has a lawn in his window-bo

man ever had and Rink in April, 1928, but on March people into their seats before the friendships may ulher way.

an show began, but it was really with another.

then that the fun started for me,

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tish people for the Chinese people. It quotes a despatch. which came from behind the curtain as saying that these feelings were "unmistakably demonstrated" at the gather- ing in London to mark the anniversary of the founding the present regime in China.

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So I would addle about with 25 of that few quid and back both boxers, So that made a profit either way, But remember, I only bet when I thought the odds were false; and, needless to say, I

year Hood had engagement with a Frenchman, Du Mendin. For some reason was unable, ta fight, and Hood went in with Joe Bloomfield,

often had plenty of scares before Not attractive

once

and

Rearmament and

By "Windrush," special correspondent

A friendship

Jimmy Murphy wes in chargé

hed a room set aside which ho called "Snowball's Room", and no Üghter or friend of mine ever went to Birmingham without oc- cupying it-free of charge. ·

(To be continued),

Britain

three-

Even if the dollar deficit proves less than is feared, there may be a serious sterling deficit In Bri tain's trade with the countries of -the-sterling-area.--

The

trade.

maintenance of export and the

effective reaming out of an!

tives which are

are obice inextricably

In

own1 my

case,

"heated

The laziest gardener I know

cuts it. with his

razor.

electri

"Chou admits 200,000 guerilla

Forgive me if I repeat mysel

*

Someone is advertising a Plymonth" for sale,

This would be, roughly," 12-ply week.

A gigolo is a man who think the world owes him a loving.

Rhodesian copper companie are escaping from the welfar state and setting up thei headquarters in Africa.

This may put other firms o their metal.

"U.S. secrecy found danger science."

And what was it?

The first contest went in, and although the fighters were try- ing their best, it wasn't so hot! from the customers' point of of the ringside stewards, and ighting against Communists." view because the referee was met nih for the first time. Now Peking's gesture doesn't yet

making a bit of a hash of his job, we have a bedroom in each other's but this is two grand altogethe mean anything more than a

The contest wasn't an attrac- I don't know to this day what house, and if there's a one inov-

do it. but 7 sand per cent friery@ship, ours

urs la mere encouragement of good Nor does the froth on top deny tive one-anything but-and prompted me to works. Fellow-travellers are the solid tradition of Sino-after six rounds the referee, the jumped up and said "Why don't the one. When Jimmy kept tha tolerated for this and this American friendship which late JW. H.T. Douglas declat- you leave 'em alone and let 'em Fareroft Hotel, in Hondsworth, ho

Both alone. But there could be lies below, or its immense ed it "Na contest."

men fight." many worse foreign policies significance for the future if were suspended for two months

Out of the ring and lost their purse money.. Thai for China than a Peking- the aim of wholesale indus-suspension meant a great deal, Delhi-London axis as a half-trialisation is to be attained.. because the period extended al-

What happened then couldn't

referce re-! Relations way house pending full re-

month beyond the dat? { happen today. The with non-Com- most a

flxed for the title bout.

plied "If you want to referee it, conciliation with the West and munist countries may, as Mr. especially the United States. Chou said, be more complicat- It is not enough for China to ed than entry into trade re- "stand up"-it is pretty near-lations. That is, of course, be- ly time she stood up straight. cause of Peking's own affilia- That doesn't mean she has to tions and ideology. The blame pass from toadying to the mostly lies there that his total The Briton is still taking theOn the Conservative side af is £3,000 million for a Kremlin to enmity. She is efforts to gain recognition rearmament problem very quiet- new line of argument has been year perid. With so much of the ly. The conclusion forced upon used in the past fortnight, This country's economic effort diver big enough to claim friendship make so poor a showing. Most observers is that the country has is to warn the country of an ted to making arms, the balanca with all, and with benefit and of the small minority which little understanding of the dan alleged growing indignation in of trade will again become ad- dignity to herself.

have given recognition con- ger into which it has drifted. It America at the disproportionate verse. Straws in stormy times are sist of the Communist States. has also little understanding of share of Europe's defence bur-

in which the rearma- the way as capricious as the winds Of course, the Kremlin's feel-

ment programme already an- themselves. The vagaries of ings have to be considered, nounced will change English life. our own latest typhoon shar-but must they be considered. The general attitude of the pen that point. So we would do to China's own detriment? If public was summed up in the recent resolutions of the Trades well not to feel too sure that so, why? Is rapture, or fear, Union Congress.

On the one the wind from Peking is blow- the main cause? We don't hand the delegates declared

linked. new threat to British in faveur of the ing in a better direction. But think much of either impulse. themselves

exports will develop in the next government's policies in Korea. Mr. Liu Ning-yi 'did drop a But it is the British angle But on the other hand they de- den which America is forced to year or two with the revival of hint the other day, in London, that most concerns us. Mr. nounced the wage freeze.

bear. The argument is that Bri-

German and Japanese competi- The that he might be making a Chou says it wasn't love or

tsin is dependent on America for tion. Sarne observers believe that policies in Britain have wildly. inconsistent. If Great effective security. But it is ris- longer stay, perhaps as Am- fear of Russia that caused the Britain is to play its

the costs of production so part in king American goodwill by such rigid that Britain will not be able bassador. He isn't quite our "fruitlessness" of what he United Nations Security policies acts 05 steel

feree new idea of the right man in the called "our long-drawn-out it must rearm: and if it is to which, in the American

can be no general will reduce Britain's military competition right place; he is a bit too negotiations" with Britain. rearm there

When the country perceives close to the Liaison Bureau. It was because, while offering increase in the standard of living, strength. It has risked American and grapples with these problems,

So the

the wage freeze must con- goodwill by its slowness in cend-it will be safe to say that rear-

British ing The satellite Embassies are to recognise Peking on the tinuc. just so many more voices from one hand, it "agrees to per- The left-wing magazines the Kremlin. London would mit" the Nationalists to re- like something better than main in the United Nations, developing in the last few days that.

They Bay

These Conservative arguments It would help on the Really, Mr. Chou does us too a new line.

though

that have not carried very

much reannament may be good work. However, an Am- much honour. We do not thoug

weight. They reflect, not the necessary, at least some good

general feeling in America, but bassador of any sort is better have more than one vote and may than none at all, if the two we do not hold the United fees and austerity wore the feeling of a reactionary sec-

fices and austerity of ton of the

which

Republican Party. Impelled Great countries are to get out of Nations in the hollow of the years

Britain towards socialism. Since The allegations made do not cor- the somewhat silly impasse Union Jack. It is in fact a

with fact. The sacrifice and suffering were in respond which followed British do jure pretext for failure of quite evitable, the demand was that it Great Britain on defence is equat age of national income percent- spent by recognition of the Peking unique pressure, and not a should be equally shared.

Now it is bein

to that spent by America. being suggested that justification.

If some of the other countries if there is to be a new period of Mr. Chou En-lai devoted In point of fact, Britain austerity, it can be made use of of West Europe have been log- only a tenth part of his very voted for the Indian resolu- to force the country towards gard in providing, for defence, long anniversary speech as tion in favour of Peking's new and more radical singe of Great Britain has imposed on it-

self at least the some

sacrifico as America. Premier to China's foreign representation, and

This is fairly well defeated, the British

The policy. He adopted an obvious was

Vocal paper

in America.

about which the ly defensive note when he re-gave their vote for a success- The "New Statesman"

propagandists have ferred to the problem of estab- ful Canadian resolution in- been particularly vocal.

cely exist.

talicing so much

Governmcht.

two sets of resolutions are

in Korea.

弱

nationalew, to stand up to this

to contingent

which the socialist intelligentsia

their thinking have been Little weight

'socialism.

when it

for a

seemed

that,

Rear-

0 kur-

been really

does not

The

by the

lishing relations with what he viting Peking to take part mament seems to it

prisingly happy release from the

These lines of argument of called "capitalist countries." in the discussions on Formosa. depression in which it had

Labour and Conservative The Chinese people noted long. Peking's position in the world found itself. A

ath both few months

partics have distracted altention that

the ago with obvious gratification does not, in fact, depend on DEP, it had

the real problem of rear- British social revolution had from the Britain's full

This is how it will recognition. Britain, but primarily on it spent itself. Society was stabilisant

affect the British Many of them knew well self-and on the great ing itself. Things were setting most striking economic

economy

fact i enough that it was an act of majority of countries with down. But now there is the pros- Great Britain in the past few courage as well as of which Heking has no relations peeth at the econo le culties months has been the casing of the which rearmament will causa dollar crisis. But rearmament courtesy, and it may well be as yet.

may set all in forment again. that they do not altogether Then there is the other ex-

One of the results of this line may after a time revive the crisis in an acute form. In the past two relish the way in which it has cuse of Britain's "extremely of thought is a revised demand or three years Great Britain has

Javy. capital

A really been kept solvent only by been reciprocated, pro

unjustifiable and unfriendly drastic capital levy is the trea- That may be due less to attitude" towards the Chinese stel wing of the British gramme, exports will certainly of its export, trade. But sured weapon of the

tho

new. armament "pro- the appreciation of our bright residents in Hong Kong and Labour Party. By using this suffer. Part of the labour forca old eyes than to a lack of ap- other places. Malaya was weapon they feel that they can preciation of the Most not specifically mentioned Bnally breals, the power of the now working for the export Favoured if not Sole Friend, perhaps Mr. Chou was a bit wealthier classes and create an tarved ho, switched to mill- All the same, British prestige shy about it. But we imagine calltarian society. Their du and British statesmanship most of the Chinese in Hong cont, u Labour Government colla Formidable scale

that, as things are at culty romain fairy high in the Kong feel na uncomfortable not hope for a mandate from Prophecy in difficult because esteem of the Chinese intelli- about this quite untenable the people to carry out a capital nobody, yet knows the extent of gentsia, who still count for a charge as we feel complacent. love "Their hope in to be able to the promised American aid. But força through a capital lovy as the scale of the British rear- lot more than the proletariat | It is in fact, simply, untrue, in emergency I mensura, inked mament programme ta.. fermid- even in present-day “China: and unjust,

with defence.

extremen of 18

Atary production.

Cables The cost, sirosny announced

niment in Britain has property "How a nice big smile, piszue 17: begun. But not before.

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