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DAY OCTOBER 13, 1980.

A boxer tells his ring secrets--No. 11

FIGHTING IS

MY LIFE

By Ted Broadribb

Contracts for the Woodevek boul wero signed before they 24304

Lesnevich fight. The bout had 32312❘ been hanging fire for

mentho, and I know it was a real box- Marshall, stopped Freddy Mills' side, which proved to me there oniec winner, Woodcock was to Hallon in Ave not-so-blistering and then that he was a game 'un.

rounds. get 20 per cent of the gate or

He weighed 11st. 31b, had a £4,000, whichever WDR the Freddy had never been knock-reach of 76in. big hands, and greator, and we were, on no logged out during the whole of his took size 11's boots. He might be than £8,000, which happened to lighting career. I had always been bulit up I thought, so I took a be more thar. we drew for the convinced, from the first moment chance. Lemovich Crop £7,111 to be saw him, that I had a world champion in the making. lis act.

gameness, his ability to "take t and the fact that he packed a wallop as well, had made a lo: of other fight enthusiasts think the same way.

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Feared a slump

I

I remembered the slump which followed the first world 'war, But as we walked disconsolate when boxers, figuratively speakly back to the dressing-room after ing, couldn't got fivepence. Now Marshall had "put Freddy away." there was a boom and had a I had a feeling that many of the real attraction. I had to deelde fons, too, thought this was the whether we should cash in whic end of the trail. the money was there or risk the chance of fighting for peanuts a te later on. As it happened, the boom continued longer

than L anticipated, but I didn't think I would have been right if I had Bambled on that.

the world

Pistol punch

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These new “omergency regulations have come

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at

our

But before the second round bombshell was over I began to have an un. tougher citizens. canny feeling of disaster. I sutd much to Frank Duffett, our

"The Premier said that' - the masseur, and trainer Nat Sellar.

Maxim was dictating how he Vietnamese battalion....was now be deformed nnd wanted the agght to go, and I had asking to Vietnain to light the thought running through my returned to head that he was like a billiards against the Communists. champion nominating and getting Obviously willing to buck their all the shots he required, while hunch. Freddy, either on attack or du

GUM fence, often appeared to benefit

At the Shah's engagement sto by flukes, many of which seemed to be the answer to our wishful an. 18-year-old beauty," "guests

crowded thinking and especially to Mills'

about; offering the about the fight game than any followers for from the immediate traditional hobarak.bad, dr

good luck."

Or, not bad at all, ch other woman I know, playing her ringside. part to the full, we managed to Superb defence build up another fight machine.

The build-up

With plenty of the right sort of Cxercise and planned dieting, and with my wife, who knows more

that with a left hook Ho's still os game as ever.

Mills earned more than £15,- 000 in 'three weeks. Not bad Hoina when you think that figl:ter's carver is a short one and that he is really in there for the dough he can earn.

What 13 more, those fights A week hence persons in un-didn't impair bis future, for, as lawful possession of lethalyou know, he went on to win light-heavyweight weapons in the Colony will be crown. liable to the death penalty. The regulation comes none too soon. The recent battles with gunmen and the loss of valu- able lives among the Police in the New Territories, the many dreams go up in owly disap- was just a matter of how long the meal, whether he has won

the

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In view of the directives the, Pentagon has been sonding over, these must look pretty elementary,

Australia's would-be Channel

One had to be close in to see

· RAF's ""Chief: Principal That's the way I now look Maxim's extraordinary skill. He upon that tall lad. You've all anticipated Freddy's every move. Matron" has arrived here.

.She was met by the Takizin heard of him-Johnny Williams. His defence was superb. and if I know anything about it) It was in, the Afth round that, 1 most senior enleer in charge you're all going to know a lot he caught Mills with a short there. Mills is no alibi merchant. Ife more of him.

right jolt and loosened his upper was Helted, and that was that,

Johnny has been built up into teeth. When Freddy came back Protests are being made Ip

took out his and to the corner He didn't try to hide the fact that a full-blown heavyweight, he had put up the worst perfor- yet he hasn't lost a fraction of mouthpiece and found it full of America about the arrival of a shipment of Chinese powdered one tooth hanging eggs. mance of his enreer.

the speed he had the first day blood, with wrong from ever saw him. More, he hasn't forward. Freddy Everything went

told Nat 10 Don't see what the fuss

Tuss da the

first round, when Marshall changed in his mental approach, take it out, but from that tinin about. Uncle Sam, through the caught on

He's cool, imperturbable, will-is shield was Al-Atting, and he farm subsidy scheme, has hardly Mills said that as

enough stocks of this commodity, After the sixth Nat pulled out to supply the nation for 40 years. hit him it sounded ing to the fast degree and, above couldn't grip it properly. like a pistol shot in his ear, and

anything else, the success which everything went blad

black.

has already come his way hasn't the centre upper

If the report on the Philippines Whatever that punch did I can altered his size in hats. He's still found another broken in half. tell you that almost immediately an unspoiled boy, and I think we From that time the writing war is released, it is likely to ring u afterwards Mills was sparring up| shall go places. If that happens, on the wall. Although Mill Bell in Congress. I still think I was right. If I

to a Lloyd Marshall who wasn't

one will be happier than Joe still waded in he found Maxin

much too cagey..

Soldiers in Korca needing Whittaker. Thanks, Joc! had to choose between a fighter there. Freddy was facing exdelly

Finally, in the 10th, he went transfusion woing in twice in three weeks, or

the opposite dire

Four of us direction to where

were seated round having a long lay-off, I would his adversary was standing! the breakfast-table. There were out to a fast one-two punch on Japanese prince's blood in their take the two together every He seemed to lose all sense of my wife and I, Freddy Mills and his loosely-hanging jaw.

So that was the end of a story. They will not, however, time, although neither is ideal.

direction, and he certainly lost his his wife, who is my daughter,

for, dual usually The end of a great Aghter for me, automatically quality seen your sense of timing, from that mo- Chrissie. Freddy, who ever

smoke? Seen ment. I couldn't help feeling It wisecracks his way through the Fighting is our living-but even convictions and cases of crime

menl-ticket

or so I could not bring myself to try nationality.

It docan't take a trained with armed violence in the pearing before your eyes?

lost the night before. had little to persuade Freddy to test his to Bay.

endurance again in the ring.

observer to, Sen Fury in the focés past few months, have made happened to me in the hot, heavy agony, went on.

He could have more fights of the North Koreans these days. of us felt particularly None

his it clear that neither the exist-

happy. Suddenly Freddy came There's his European title,

the evening he will hold ing deterrents nor the heavier

Marshall had Freddy down for out with: "Ma, what would you British Empire championship, as sentences lately imposed by

two in the second round, and do if you were me?! My wife well as the British one he has discussions with the President and the Courts constitute a suf-standard of detection and ar- Mills was on the canvas for "Ma" to Freddy-thought for a held for nearly eight years. That M. Robert Schuman,"

would mean money for him, Yes, according to the Good

for me. money

But there's a Book, even a robber can be so ficient curb on armed crime. rest for these offences is re- "clght" and "five" in the third. moment and replied: "If I were

point beyond which I will not go. human. The situation is in many ways markably high as a result of He came back to land with some you I would do as Ted says."

heavy swings in the fourth, but

Chrissie agreed.

Were Freddy to think of ight- so abnormal as to create an the vigilance of the Police, yet it was only delaying the inevit- who, until a little more than 12

lighting again, it would be without! Manila would' like Messrs, emergency.

the number of cases wherein able end, which came in the fifth. hours before It is the British tradition to evidence

I thought it was the end of a heavy-weight champion of the my blessing. He's the master of Truman and MacArthur to hold enabled trial in

battler-as .far as any world, nodded his. head and want his own destiny, and as far as 1 their meeting there. This, I'm temper justice with mercy. Court did not tell the full

ship pretensions were on with his breakfast,

am concerned that's the way i afraid, is only a PI in the sky.

he felt like chang had. would stay Normally only criminals who story. It would be a miracle concerned. Freddy was upset, too. What was the advil himing lals mind. I should feel that

"The

Korean Communists take life are answerable to to discover every instance of st had the greatest confidence hang up his gloves.. The pre- the only thing I could rightly do flooded South Korea with their

law in kind. Indeed, unlawful possession of arms. in Mills's ability. He was Jack vious night, in the dressing-room, would be to hand back. his con- military scripts." since the war the United Many cases, too, may justify Solomons, the gr's a bold state-aticy Freddy's world title, I had

greatest promoter Joey Maxim had taken tract

Film chance? Kingdom embarked upon an strong suspicion but cannot be ment, but I've seen them all in

"Freddy, think experiment in the abolition of supported by adequate the last 45 years, and that's my you should call it a day. When rest, then he'll look around.

said to him:

Now Freddy is going to have! capital punishment, with re-evidence.

It was Solomons who arranged nature begins to give out on you There may be something doing swimmer, we learn, "weighs 10 sults not altogether happy The public in general are either for the humanitarians well aware of the increase in the

fight for Freddy. In there's nothing you can do about in the films, as well as personal stone 8 lb, and stands s ft. 4 in..

April we were in

In It."

That was exactly what I felt. appearances, and he may apply cats normal foods but wears light

for a manager's licence, And I know that when Milla In the meantime, it Jack My sples tell me that as a practical people we have by the way in which a num-marans, whom Mills beat in five.

rounds.

sald: Solomons phoned to say

"I've had it, I have never Kearns goes back to the States, to face facts. The war and ber of spectacular instances that he had signed Freddy to meet been the same since the first shall be his representative sometimes for a change she cas

light foods and wears normal. its aftermath have led to new have been brought foroibly to Marshall on June 3 and that the Lesnevich fight," he was saying poking after Maxim. Jack has clothes. perils to the law-abiding com- their notice in the Press. American was on his way over, what he really felt.

already said to me: "If anything. So we have come to the end should happen to me. Jocy be munity. Lethal weapons have Public opinion in general unfight I flew home to try to get of the road. It has been a long longs to you." A gesture which

Two days before the Wolmarans been scattered far and wide doubtedly supports this latest the Marshall fight postponed, read, an exciting road, stretching I think reflects his confidence in in Asia and many other parts and most drastic form of de- knowing that the change in the back over the last nine years.mo of the world. In all history terrent, and recognises its ne- climate conditions in the two At the beginning Freddy Mills Whatever. happens, I am not

countries was bound to upset was starting to climb up towards likely to forget Freddy and there was never such a pro- | cessity

Mills. But the fight went on, with the pinnacle of fame. Today he went a long way together from fusion, nor have so many men The Legislative Council at the result I have described. Jooks back on a record which the bottom to the top. Now, be- learnt how to use them. the same time passed into law Three months after Mills' de- will always stand high in British cause I don't think there's the slightest doubt that his mind is The unrest, disruption, and the amendment to the Jury feat just when we had got over boxing and he has the courage, t

our wounds, Solomons say he is finished.

made up, you've seen the Coned-at the psychological}

last uprooting which are so charac- Ordinance, which incorporates

There are no hard feelings of, the Broadribb-Mills combinó- teristic of the time induce the recommendations of the moment, it seemed, "Do you want about it. I think Freddy knew tion as a fighting force,

old fire had gone. And many desperate men to take Select Committee. The the light heavy-weight champion-

ship of the world?" Jack asked. when

It's not a happy note on which to violent crime. Sometimes original amendment called on I can't quite tell you what I said, feels that way, it is ime to give for me has been a succession of

a man who is a nghter to end my rerfiniscences. But 1 they are animated by a blind persons qualified for jury ser- but I thinic, it must have been up. If you are sensible you ac-building-up efforts, and for who vengeance against a society vice, and their employers, to "Yes, please reddy had by, as sept the inevitable. But dont time is left to me in the Sght which has left them derelict. furnish their names and par- time had a chance to forget all think Freddy is in the depths of game I still hope to go on bulld- More often they are tempted ticulars to the Registrar of the about Marshall, Bakst, Woodcock despair-losing his title did not ing. Champions I've had but to crime by sheer necessity Supreme Court. Mr. M.W. Lo and company, and didn't need a mean half so

know what you'll find in the bag on somebody, of his own weight. Yet, in spite of the pain such persons even a long term be difficult in some cases for He put paid to Pol Goffaux in those teeth being smashed out, So I'll keep on digging, .......

enn he was still able to put on of imprisonment, if they are such persons to determine four rounds to win the Euro grin and tell the people who

The end caught and convicted, can be whether the would-be juror's title, and, that was the beginning

upon almost as a knowledge of the English of a build-up in which he ac- came to see him; "Well, I'll get counted for Stephan Olck, Paco something free out of the Gov- guarantee of existence rather language was sufficient to

and Ken Shaw, before ernment after all,". than a positive deterrent. But satisfy the Court. The point going on to that memorable White City night when he beat Gus. death is so permanent, and was referred to a Select Com-Lesnevich there is no question that this mittee, which later made de-

White

City to bring home the is the supreme deterrent.

He was being just himself, He tailed recommendations. world title. There are cities like Singa- A provision is now embo had 1,000 to

I should think you could have is one of those fellows who never one against that did that, even when he was World pore, where violent crime was died whereby persons pro- possibility the night of the Mar champion. That was shrewd once rampant, which have bably eligible for jury service shall fight! Solomons was really reckoning, because it means he

who handed out the

the does not have far to fall. been almost freed from this may have any such doubts re-eman

And in that he had bean case, he had the except in the form of political the Registrar and claimed in Harringay, brought another, beaten by quite the most skilful fanaticism. The law has not exemption. Any such claim unexpected ray of hope, too, for boxer among big men I have ever during the training for that fight, seen. So there's no disgrace In thus equipped itself in Hong will, of course, have to be sup- another man for whom I have that. I'll tell you frankly that Kong in order to exploit its ported by particulars. Em-world championship hopes came when "Doc" Kearns said Maxim new power relentlessly. No ployers who possess similar into the picture:

Joe Whittaker, an old and os could box Ice Driscoll I thought prosecution for offences under doubts about the qualifien- teemed friend of mine from Run- it was the biggest

or for society as a whole. But crime. with violence, if only to fight Nick Wol-

Anyway,

+

1

and the easy way out. To raised the point that it might great deal of persuading to take top teeth.ch as losing four only one Freddy. But you never]

looked

Bueno

over 15 rounds at

No disgrace

kind of attack upon society. solved. They may write to Marshall Ald."

Mills bomb, which explod knowledge.

est

· plece.

of

this new regulation will be tions of an employee concern-¡ by, brought in tall lean led stakes. I had heard of kid permitted unless it is first ed are also required to make town to, see me. It was Friday he was right 2015 dknow.

sanctioned by the Attorney-formal notification of this.

All my scheming, as to that's turkish bath day with me Mills could beat him came to

and Freddy wasn't, training,

over

| General. And even when Jury service is no doubt re- When Joc arrived at my home: naught. To me the outstanding such a case is brought to trial garded with mixed feelings. Mrs. Broadribb advised him to cause of Freddy's defeat was that the normal functions of Judge To many jurors it is some take the lad over to Jack, Solche met a boxer who could walk Tight in to Horley-street and put

name-plate, as and jury will be observed to thing of a relief from the mens gym to see Nat Seller.

specjalist ensure that justice is done in common round, to others and Aweek's trial

particular art. In my Judgment Maxim was brilliant the way it is expected to be interruption of business and MAK

His moves were those of the done in British Courts. But professional duties and a thief Nat phoned me, and I told him

master craftsman

afterwards those who contemplate the of time that can ill be spared to put the boy in with Marshall Mills said to mo use of lethal weapons for But It is an essential and most who was training that day, and Joey is the best, baxer-fighter

let me know how he shaped. Soll-

ver met. If and when he criminal purposes will now valuable, as well as highly ar's verdlet afterwards was meets Woodcocks, although Bruce

I've know the risks they take and responsible, service to the has everything, but he scom will be stronger, (Maxim would the pennity, entailed Ses * community. It has been dis. We encourage the boy I ave the edge on him in every

The Attorney-General, in tributed more widely than encourage

him for a week's trial bouts other part of a boxer's make up. his address to the Legislative was the case a generation or with Freddy, but the frat stime At the time time know from Council, cited statistics of more ago and quite rightly, he went into the ring with Mill experience that Bruce has a Wal

I began to wonder whyi

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and I've been wrong before. Crime with violence covering In this matter, we feel sure,

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