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SIGNPOSTS TO THE FUTURE

no doubt that if the "I have

statesmen of China do not in-

A boxer tells his ring secrets--No. 7

FIGHTING IS MY

. So you'll probably think. I'm

crazy when I tell you that, yea

Inter, I was concerned in a pro-

motion myself. I don't have

By Ted Broadribb

to tell you it didn't do so well. only six days before the Liver-miss by sometimes as much as It sounded good when Billy 100l show Noble weighed stone a foot.

Wells Chandler, Garland

and Charlie Luper asked me to stage

show.

been a

ib

I

rooms, with all his clothes on.

pound and a half of salts.

Ho went to scale in Liverpool

look

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tore in

But

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terested with Luper and Jac ut 8 st. 3 lb. To build him to herately to get the

#nd

of

LIFE

Government announces that to: meet the needs of modern pircraft,

way. 10 helping Nel Tarleton there will be runway Inflation at clinch the first of the two LonsKai. Tak.

dale Belts made his own pro

porty by protesting- volubly or

his behalf.

of

At Wembley, on December, 10.

un op-

way

"Wool again hardening." My own opinion is that It's the

th's fault.

popular

on

make - the

to be let through

At every possible opportunity 1934, Tarleton faced the prospect a "You can't do eight-four in a Stribling, In spite of being some-

to losing

London's Dave Chandler fancled being a pro- decided that he shouldn't fight than his

weck," I told Tommy, having thing like four stones lighter Crowley the featherweight he had already championship

The Labour Fasty enference opponent, borod moter, and said if I would be Quick as lightning Tommy came with vicious punches to

in from Johnny Cuthbert and rupported the government's Interested he would put on some

the won We formed a company do

Unck with 'Mr. Broadribb I'll fights.

bedy. Carnera was beginning lost and re-won from Seaman stand-ofsh, attitude to Europe. called British Sporting Promo-

eight-four if it kills me to worried as if he was Tominy Watson,

They Schuinan age to The prince of make-bellove-themselves wondering tlony and I put in £500, which I want to fight Wilde."

Just how he was Chandler made up to £1,000 on

allowing the "little "un"

that to

was always the way I re- Continent. my behalf. We put on a fine bill

Baths and salts punch him

as he around

had carded Tarleton in the ring, be- cause he was among the best of six-round fights

never been punched before. at Clapton

"All right, Tommy, if you feel track and I have no doubt it that way. I told him, and he American

It

"kidders" of

"Only 10 decent buildings left the "foxers" and roused him. dog would have

smashing spent a large slice of the next again all that Carnera managed arst half of the

time and ponent I ever handled-was go- in Seoul,"

ing along very nicely for the The others are doing a roaring nig insist on running it on Turish

except thai Chandler three or four days in the Savoy to do was to hold with bear-like

contest, con- trade. would

Baths In Newington arms.

his

in a energy Stribling turned to me serving Ascot Friday.

Butts, In one of the hotteste protest, and I

had to point that only Tarleton could, dodg We lost something like £1,500,

saying, district of

in and once again I had to advise in the same period he took a fellan wasn't the only offender. In fact, he looked well

Missionary' wife in ing this punch and

a remote out to himn sharply that the

had five Africa effect, "I don't want that one.” Cut your losses." That wasn't

on the children, a hundred miles from You're both at it," I said. the end, though. Later I was in

way to a points victory.

Then.

any help. In spite of the

punches he Way Muiris B st. 4..

taken, Carnera was trying in tho ninth round, Crowley

Solitary confinement. Morris in another show.

st. 4ib., I gave him calves foot

whistled over A Tight to the was managing Teddy, Baldock jelly and brandy, and at night i

hangfaw which had Nel almost Qut and I had Dick Corbett, and we took him half a bottle of chan- must have made Stribling wild on his feet,

In the st things the third round.

"Mr.-Heard a válce behind His knees began couldn't get any one to put up a

him say, 'Keep quiet, and 1 pagne and the

remains of the when he cracked in a left hand to buckle, his eyes rolled, and

him in the purse for them..

I suggested to Luper that we with me.

brandy and jelly into the ring to the ribs which would have it looked any odds on his going something prodded should run the show to see we

sent any ordinary heavy-weight out, but with the crowd in a back. It was daylight."

of Impatient frenzy of excitement, the slip Once he knocked Wilde down topping, because Carnera. could get back the money we and we thought Tommy had won,

only

a lad from Liverpool-hung grimly him, no doubt, lost carller.

We worked on a. But the bell saved Jimmy. I kept

grinned. with the

He w Clapton stoking Noble up with my con moment later when

wasn't grinning, though, a on. percentage

Every possible kind of advice frack this time, and made a pro- coctions.

a punch on He had made up h the jaw

coming from 11 of something like £1,200, mind that he would win, and I

sent him sprawling seamed to

but Tarleton Crowley's corner, across the canvas. The crowd} d which just about put things still think he might have done if acres straight. Incidentally, I won the

our stock of stimulants had not went wild. This, they thought, hung on, broke away a fruction,

was it. But it wasn't. fight with Corbett, so I had every run out in the 12th round.

The and then hung on again until hero of the Burma rowed.

When his his head cleared. Hallan, coolly enough, waved reason to be satisfied for tempt-

feel sure that it was only ex- hand to his corner to let them mind was a little *clearer ing providence again.

haustion which licked him, but it

danced

away from danger." Its something I've done often, ever there was a game boy, that know that he knew exactly what of course, for

But the and of the round was myself, but al-

he was doing. He got up after little beggar was the one.

to repeat the almost as big a relief to me as though that makes me measure

Actually I secondod Aghters short count

which lud clubbing effort

ac- it was to him, and there was no something of a gambler, up as

Wilde only against

twice, and in counted for Stanley, primitive in doubt that when he went up to been I've seldom

tempted Lo the

the other instance had the satis-

but exceedingly answer the bell for the 10th ho Camble with my fighters in the

to put his opponent Almost as soon as the men faced

hadn't effective

completely recovered. ring. As a matter of fact, when-faction of seeing my boy go 19 the extreme,

rounds with the mighty atorn. ever I've taken a long shance Th

That was Billy Paddon, and the down.

cach

other I called to the with any of them it has invari- match was made at C st. 12 lb. Stribling got up, and experi- cach

terce. Mr. C. B. Thomas. "Looie ably been at

at the fighter's request. It was One occasion I remember was was probably the only time chce taught him to grab for Crowley, look at that vaseline while elderly people stand.

but Primo tore himself on his face."

ot Wa Wilde ever fought anyone lghter safety,

edrift and then really went at couple with Tommy Noble.

than himself.

The referee stopped the |

of days after he had fought 20

The fight was at the Victoria him hammer and tongs. Stribling

and I had spent come out for the fourth round as boxing, and asked for a towel. Jimmy Wilde ut, Liverpool 10 Bo was offered £45 for him to fight a

the ropes, ley's corner that grease had not 10 Bothwell

well-known rushed Carnera

him to the chin and been used, but the referee wiped days later. Tommy was to be a Stoltlah backer, who would have hooking

to the the challenger's face with for Louis Ruddock, picked up a packet of dough if he following with a punch

Carnera towel before allowing the night now to buy more tickets, I for one hope to make a clear sweep who couldn't do 8 stone 4 lb., and a

That he got within body which crumpled I didn't faney it at all, because won.

go on, one round of going the distance is like a pack of cards.

that moment, the of it this time. evidence of how close the. gamble

was definitely there. 'What happened? Crowley tossed in everything in Chinese man's temperature- was to succeeding

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be

his

he

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men

Errol Flynn seen fishing from 25 small boat,

The report didn't say if the

•

"Bevan's uppeal was considered significant in view of rumblings' shrdluuupupu pupu vbgkqi 3) among left-wing rank and party members.”

Certainly sound in mood.

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ugly

School-children sit in 'trams

The non-rising generation. Myrtle is a forthright young hot woman, At bridge she always

Glasgaining Paddon at If he meant to finish the job. He/ There were protests from Crow calls a spade three spades.

dulge in aggression, and upset 16onds ngainat George Clark, fortnight

the show again-If there is a

patience events are handled carefully

little

shown

and

ere long the new China will And herself associated with the rest of us in trying to build a new world."

substitute

had

for

From

to

"needle"

What

the Suppose we'll all be racing off

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all over,

that

Aght

And

so unwise as to seek an all- Pakistan, Malaya, Singapore, know how this ambling hulk off fold up in the same breath of planning that I ever had him i

A

Even meat

stalls arc

Chup-lifters about.

now

In the rather bumbling frankness in place of palpable.

Did I say gamble? Well,

that round, and it took every went up to 112 degrees in London.. way in which he habitually fraud.

you've really got to gamble on

He'd probably been reading A knock-out? No, I'm afrald trick Tarleton knew to enable delivers speeches on foreign Meanwhile the other aspect your own judgment if you're go- not. For I was forced to dis-him to keep away from the Chou En-lal's latest effusion.

quality Stribling without vigorous two-handed attack of affairs, the British Foreign of the problem has been taken ing to get anywhere in boxing.

moment's hesitation. The crowd, the Londoner. Secretary nevertheless put a stage farther by the Com-l

Battle of giants whose sympathies were obviously

"From that time there's no having trouble with light-fingered the path of China's future monwealth Consultative Cöm-¡

with the under-dog, let me doubt that it was a boxing brain persons. Next time you look up to a six- clearly.. enough in his state-mittee on aid to Asia... The foot policeman,, reflect that he realised that there was no doubt had in the way of stamina which know all about it, but when they rather than anything-Tarleton ment at the Labour Party communique of the confer would have looked a shorty com- about my decision being correct enabled him to keep out of trou- Conference at Margate. It ence, which ended a few days pared to. Willam Lawrence Stri- the

hullabaloo quickly died ble, and it sald д Jot for his ability that he managed to stay was better, he said, to usher ago, said that the project of bling, the quiet fellow, the world down.

knew as the "Georgia Peach."

out of the ring and ahead of a

was a man who I got Communist China into the co-operative economic deve- And Stribling in his turn looked hurried towards the dressing- doubledly a good deal stronger to comity of nations-the Unitedlopment in South and South; a midget beside Primo Carnera. room. But I hadn't reached it earn a points victory, Nations-than to make her | East Asia, hás

That was Tarleton That will give you an idea of when a hand grabbed me and a been now

Ted, the Prince of and it's as fine a a tribute as can fight her way in. China was translated into concerted how the boards creaked under voice sald.

me in the Royal Albert Hall ring Wales wants to see you." Who, be paid to a man who was once part of the "great Asian proposals for action. The on the night of November 18; me?" 1 inquired. I couldn't emergence," and the world is unanimous report adopted by 1r of for five years, and during

1920. I

wn in there with the below it. Then I was told that fold that he was too frail to box. had him under my management now working its way round to the Committee contains a de- of the coming-out" fights of the front row of the ringside seats, time he never once corne the point of view which led tailed development pro- 18-stone-odd Italian, nearly 6ft and I was taken to him.

when I I was in his corner. to early British recognition. gramme, covering a period of sin. tall, who was to go on to I didn't know quite what to no manager can ask for marc

As to Russia, Mr. Bevin said six years, as from July 1 next the heavy-weight championship

say:

I think I started off by than he did not think she would be year,

the world. of for

"Your Majesty," and Ceylon, India,

It was only by a useful stroke Everyone was anxious to

"Your Highness." I was at all I was managing Harry out war but rather would be North Borneo and Sarawak. humanity measured up judged. by down on one knee to prevent Corbett, the featherweight cham- a bit more careful after the To carry out these pro-world standards, and the crowd obstructing the spectators view pion, and advances were being lesson of Korea. That indeed grammes, estimated to cost had forked out more than £7,000, of the ring, and he tapped me made for him to meet Dom Vol-

with five-guinea

"tops," a lot of on the shoulder and sald, very ante of Liverpool. I would is one of the major objectives nearly £1,750 millions, in six money in those days, to form quietly, and in a manner which agree to t

only on condition of Western re-armament and years it is necessary to over their own opinion.

gave me back all my confidence, that it Volante won I would manage him. Now Volante and the Western determination to come great difficulties caused.

In his only previous bout in That's all

all right, be natural." Britain, a month earlier, Carners

What Kappened? he asked Tarleton were friendly, and when. use force against aggression, by the shortage of trained had clubbed Jack Stanley to de- me. He hit him low, sir, with Volante agreed to sign with me, The task is to convince notį man-power and of finance. fent in a round, and no one had out any doubt," I said.

Tarleton said he would. Uke to only Russia but Communist A Council for Technical really any idea of just what he That evening was really the do the same.

could do.

Dickson era, What was going to beginning of the Parties elsewhere that they Co-operation has been set up happen now that he was faced by which went a long way towards have less to hope than to fear which will work through a an American of great experi- giving Britain and the United from the chance of armed Technical Assistance Bureau once, with nearly 300 fights under States equality in the matter of force.

large located in Colombo. This his belt, only nine of which had boring promotion on a

ended in defeat ?

scale This applies with particular will be a sort of clearing-

For my night's work I got urgency to the Chinese Com-house for inter-Governmental

£450-£250 from Dickson, and £100 each from Leon munists as the United Nations arrangements, to give techn-

I certainly didn't profess to forces are about to go forward ical help to under-developed know the answer, and although manager of Carnero, and Pa

Stribling. Not. bad for 12 in North Korca. All they countries. The Common- it did not really concern me, minutes work, and certainly

donc

Governments

must confess to a certain ten- faster earning than I had been conquer wealth

have

goness about the whole business. capable of in the days which inflation, all their hopes of agreed to finance this Bureau I was really on trial as a referee, followed the departure of Major early entry into the United up to a maximum of £8,000,- I had refereed before. I did Arnold Filson from the fight

have

to

On trial

with

Nations, would go with the 000 over the first three years. Ce but somehow this was business.

Carmera'a first fight against wind if they decided on arm- The problem of providing different.

tion.

Street i bookmaker

In the end

officialdem

ed intervention. And what capital, for development te- I was in there as third man

I was street bookmaking then the United Nations seeks to mains to be solved, and it only because I was a rebel in do in a final settlement in cannot be

I had resigned or rather I should say that I solved without the sense that Korea is based on principles American and other aids from the Board of Control to sup- was putting men in the streets to port promoter Jeff Dickson since bet on my behalf. I managed to even Peking should be glad the British Minister of the Board wouldn't give him a run three pitches, but it was a

licence. to acknowledge. In spite of Economic Affairs has said, lot depended on me, and as things who used all kinds of rising Somehow I felt that a continual battle with the police, all Communist propaganda, the programmes laid downturned out that was the case. arrest the men who were taking American and British policy are beyond the financial had to make one of those de- betting slip called it a day- have no aggressive, designs. capacity of the Common- clalons

по one enjoys

HAVO up the unequal struggle. They want peace in Korca-wealth as

whole. The doing which

I had expected that Camera But there's one thing that has a peace that the United engineers and technicians, would set out as attacker and to be realised by Nations, which is nobody's too, will have to be obtained so the same type of clumsy, No matter what tactics are em- working almost uneducated technique Floyed to combat it, the wor puppet, can inspire and sanc- from as wide a field as pos- which had taken him to victory man will have his bob each way:

sible.

so quickly against Stanley. In- It's part of his existence-It An end has been called to It will be all the harder to stead it was Stribling who danced helps him to forget, the thousand any negotiation in weakness, carry out these programmes right in from the first bell, and as. It lan't permitted

and one other worries. As long the crowd let themselves go when but it is still open to Russia now, that so many countries the American scored the first he'll do it all the more. It's the to sit at the table with the have had to go in for substan- success by clipping a right hand old Iden of stolen fruit being

best. rest of us-Mr. Bevin made | tial re-armament. But we all to the Jaw which made the

And It's my conviction that free and open betting would that clear. But there can be know that the gaze of the Italian shake his head, more than

curtail the amount of Comewhat. no going back to the angry millions of Asia are straining futilitics of the past five towards the goal of botter Giant outboxed

legalising it, and taxing the fakings, the Government would years. There must be a living and social standards, Then Stribling' threw a wild have a vast potential source of willingness to make conces now that their political aims fead which missed, but followed revenue. No one, would be alons, a word and a spirit the have been attained or are in with a punch to the pit of the happier than the bookmakers, Communists hitherto have process of attainment Peace tomach which made the Italian who would then be able to carry

blow a bit. And South East rounds

frst, twg on their businesses without seldom if over understood.In South

ho clearly mtboxed thinking they word doing nome= In the realms of armament Asia as the Indian delegate Carpern. He made some of the thing wrong After all, is bet= and propaganda – pspeciall tly adid, now means crude he pulled his hood Lave you never heard of Elf-mountain's work look very ting as triminal as all that ↑.. there is ampla i roond:

keeping the wolf from the sharply out of the way of tale Aghter winning a lille on protest? graphied, Londa to make, Trimo | Probably not, but I went a long

common-senza deiture,

the

officially,

เ

(To be continued)

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