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A CHAMPAGNE SERIAL

the Russian Lion'

D

3rd DAY

by LEONARD MOSLEY

in a London flat, showed off the grip that beat Madrali

@The COCHRAN STORY

0 you

Suzanne In

remember added that

*01

frequent postscript Cochran venture: 2 course, we lost money.

Lenglen 7 to

HACKENSCHMIDT holds up the hands with which he squeezed a second wrestling victory out of Madrali in the Cochran show of 1906. The reporter's descrip tton read: One could see the growing look of agonising hopelessness on adralt's face." Here's

why

FLASHBACK: First fall to Hackenschmidt in 1 min. 34 secs.

a way she

Cochran was not only promet- typified everything ing tennis but had about the mad, glad, dizzy a big boxing match heights of the Cochran era. on his hands, too. the world It was a happy time when' It was

middle weight over a rump-steak dinner championship bout (at 18. 8d. a lb. without sub- at Olympin between sidies) the family could Scotsman be split by

defending Milligan Suzanne's right to be late on the Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Tommy and the America's holder, Mickey Walker.

Just when tho Bale of seats-should

Suzanne was a hook-nosed have been soaring, White, the little Frenchwoman

with a Jimmy

millionaire financier, Her figure was m violent temper. scraggy, her hair mousy, and her committed suicide. features admirably fitted her for This sensation rob- the part

of an Ugly Slater in bed Cochran of the pantomime. Yet she Front Page publicity was always receiving he always banked proposals of marriage. on to sell tickets on Britain was far more the morning of the interested in whether fight. Sales dried up. Suzanne would wear

בע

ringside seats (still a world's all-time high) Cochran was able to draw a gate of over £30,000.

This bout, too, was over in less than a round--with a knock- out over Beckett.

Sketched at the ringside by Ralph Gisäver

Deftly Hackenschmidt slipped on his hands and knees and there for three long minutes Madrati held him and squeezed himore

one could

Cochran, did well out of that quite realise what was fight. And he made money out happening, Hacken of others.

But then, suddenly schmidt's great shoul- disgusted with boxing politics, ders heaved, the body he quit, and decided to concca-

stockings on the courts But what a fight it turned out than ever was in to bel For 10 rounds Walker's Into Gussle Moran's panties iron fists blt their way and when she once appeared Milligan's face and body, until end after hitting the bare-legged before the King and by the

the

last Queen the nation practically canvas three times in

round he went down for good. swallowed its Adam's apple.

had Next morning not only

disastrous financial Cochran a

record to read, but he

When the

newspapers an- Rounced that Lenglen had turn- ed professional Britain was con- vulsed with horror. Will this affect Suzanne's status? Can she

be re

received in social elrcles ever again?" asked a writer."

Cochran wasn't worrying about that. He saw in Suzanne's decision a golden opportunity

was once more in the supped round, and Modrali was trate on the theatre.

underneath. The battle was won. middle of a row almost The crowd yelled. The victor

13 violent 您

the

"cruelty" campaign

against his Rodeo.

laughed and almost danced."

SPINELLI.. Temperamental dancer what he called "this NEARLY 14

Sir Hall Caine led a public protest against

years

later

for yet another now kind of mass debauch of brutality" and asked N Cochran brought that dap- spectacle and signed her up, of that Cochran should be "proper, dancing Frenchman Georges £400 a match for a series of professional tennis tournaments hibited by law from putting on Carpentier to London to box Joe

auch scenes

in London.

He hired the vast skating rink

at Holland Park (capacity 4,000) and again selling tickets at 14s. Od. a time.

The nation seemed to agree with the pompous leader writer who considered his show 'n bad thing for tennis," and 24 hours before the first match only 400 tickets had been sold.

Sitting On The Fence

Nathaniel Gubbins

By

A

THOUSAND years we've salled the sea

In ships that are pride

our

In

wooden ships, in ships

·

iron

On oceans far and wide.

The seven seas they were our

home

The Channel was our keep _When_Britons_sailed In British

ships

When British captains

our ships

Untroubled was our sleep.

No doubt dogs invaded the old English

they javerns, but were always dogs owned by men

therefore under and

proper control. Now that women pub crawlers appear to outnumber men by two to one, and some- times bring two or three dogs with them, the proportion of dags to human beings in pubs is sometimes as high as six to one.

Moreover, the dogs women bring into bars are "frequently abnormall dogs. Whereas a man will have something on the end of a lead you can recognise as a dog women will Bounce in either with a couple of enormous

sailed dogs the size of donkeys, and with fores like gargoyles, or two or three 1tle doggies, some- times pop-cyed with practically no noses, sometimes long nosed doggies with practically no eyes, and sometimes doggies so hatry

King Alfred was a sallor man A thousand years gone by

sailed his little wooden ships

He

From Winchelsen and Rye His sailors they were, English-

Incr

His caplains English bred When Alfred sailed his ships

to soa

free

both ends that you never know which end is which, until

one of the bites you.

At first, it will seem like a nightmare, but if you stay here. long enough you will get used tu it.

After a time you will also be come accustomed to dog fighis round your ankles, having your legs bound tightly together by Utile doggies racing round you In circles, and the charming

The Englishman, unconquered, spectacle in this hygienic coun- try of doggies sitting up at the bar drinking with slobbery ton- gues out of glasses you may be using if you stick around for a second drink.

Slopt safely in his bed.

When Philip launched his mighty

flect

Of Spanish galleons tali To break our stubborn English

prido

We didn't care at all His lofty ships were scattered

wido

Across the English sea

By Englishmen in little ships By English captains

ships

in

We all slept tranquilly.

As I have already reported bere, there is a pub in Engliad which is run by dogs for dogs..

The landlord is a big Airedale, and his wife is just what you would export a dog's wife to be.

All the customers are dogs. They buy each other rounds of biscuits and sometimes have one on the house. Occasionally they bring in men and women Jeuds and give them a bli of biscuit or a drink of water from our a bowl on the floor.

Long since in foreign lands

they've bull!

.

Their ships of wood and stoc! That Englishmen might know

at last

A French or German heel Long since the mighty ships

they built.

Were sunk beneath the deep By British men in British ships By British captains in

ships-

our

O, peaceful was our sleep. a

If they who wield a passing

power

“Should carelessly proclaim That foreign hands should sail

our ships

Then deep must be our shame; No balm shall heal our wounded

pride

Nor soothe our anger derp And those who had our ships to

give

και

To foreign hands, we'll

forgive; We'll not forget while yet wa

Jive

What's worse, we shall not

sleep.

Pub habits

For the benefit of American troops who are being lectured on Dritual history, party man- ners, and pud habits, while they ore stationed here.

By 1930 Cochran had five thews going well, and plans for at least 20 more-with stars from the ranging all the way temperamental French dancer Spinelli to Noot Coward andILLIONS of words have been Gertrude Lawrence.

Over in America bread-lines were beginning to form.

The cold breath of depression

until they had Beckett, British, heavy-weight hadn't yet touched Britain and been purged of their unspeakable champion. Carpentier get £5,000 in any case, it was still bright barbarity."

as his end of the purse, and and warm and exciting inside a Bocicett £3,000.

for By charging 23.quinens

Cochran's reply was sharp. "Early Victorian flapdoodle," he said.

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MADRALI- The man with the fer

THERE was always some ex-

It was then that Cochran TE traordinary touch to

man.

Cochran theatre.

-London Expreza Service)

written about old English taveras. Here are a few words about English pubs as they aro today.

The modern pub is more like a large dog kennel than a place where you might expect to take refreshment at your case,

·

оп

Probably you don't belleve me, but if you care to write in I'll send you the address,

It's a crazy country, boys.

Way to treat

a

woman

174-

"Soon after we were married my husband knocked the conscious, or when I came to asked me if I wouki Hibo a exce cup of tea."- Wotgan Wha was granted a separation.

THER appropriate things which may be offered to a woman who has come to after being knocked unconscious

A slice of cake.

A soft-bolled err.

A plece of cheese. A ham roll.

Should the ungrateful women refuse any of these refreshments you would be justified in knock ing her unconscious again.

-{London Express. Serv(C#)

*BC

BALL

"Anyone would think I was a Cabinet Minister."

London Expres. ALANÍT

How to sum up your friends

*HEERY,

round-faced

showed his mastery as a show Cochran's sporting ventures. Al Clas Grace Rees, who

He didn't cancel the tournament.. He didn't play to the outset of his career in the

carly days of the century, he found jobs for 1,000 women an empty house,

cashed in on the wrestling boom He took the tickets. In bundles then sweeping the country. Out- a week when

she was

at a glance

(By A Special Correspondent)

of a hundred, round to all the standing grappler of the time manageress of the Great big stores and persuaded the probably of all time was Marlborough Street employ- managements to give them away Georges Hackenschmidt, known ment exchange, in the heart guides to character.

as "The Russian Licz"

to their customers.

· BOXING TOO-

first

consistency in the character than with brown eyes,

If the colour of the eyebrow hair is darker and stronger than the hair on the head there will be strong feelings, passionate intensity, force of character and ardour.

Here are some of her facial, the character is cautious,

(üyes" that are more than an eye's breadth apart indicate a

Lipe that Startup of the vacant mind, stupidity and a dull corners are witty, whimsical, to Intellects A

amushing

and fond of bazenicom The amative, loving eye has

mind. Small features tend show werkoer, character,

of

Tomains

of the West End, claims tó Large features" suggest ex- Cochran searched Europe and be able to sum up your pansiveness and breadth America for an opponent for And another rou

him, and found one at last. character at a glance. QUZANNE played her usual

He was a giant who

That was why she so often A small forehead with une a roll of flesh;just below the The cleft- chin subject suos masterful game to defeat a

appeared wearing a long fur found the right person for the wrinkled skin, tight instead of lower lid.. Apa for love, and rarely German girl named Dora coat and a fog and he was right job in her 20 years at exible, denotes that the mind dark eye denotes a more unmarried. Koering

Introduced as Madrall the Ter, Great Marlborough Street....

and thoughts are mediocre. forceful and passionate nature It was, a wolf devouring a-rible Turk. Hackenschmidt.

If the width of the forehead than a light-coloured one.

A rebeding chin indicatos lamb, but the publie liked it wrestled him twice, in 1904 and She retired at 00, - six yeaṛa

weaknem of will, often accom- and liked, particularly, the ex- 1905. What a fantastic struggle 459.

is much greater than tis height,

A very light blue eye in an panied by obstinacy. ellement of seeing ten- the 1000 bout proved to be. She has published a book it denotes a clever, bequiiifive

An ear which stands out from nis played at night

In his Hampstead fat Hacken- telling, amateurs how to spot brain: the mind that drives a adult indicates a nature: Ukoly VATAN

bargain or mist

It is the forehead or to philander, “

the hoad denotes is, destructivo Funder the first food schmidt, now 73 and still living character from faces. (Character

Brown-eyed people are capture with Migo: animal: pro- lighting over to be used for a sports show, a fut and active life, talked Reading from the Foos, Elliot, the mater

Thicknow in the breadth of able of devotion in love and about starte en

the nose list above the wings friendship

Hareliérus donato", "a highly- of the nostrils in the aim of new

short upstanding „Impressionable, quisitiysoom and love of gui

teo companies va versibuk mediocre Large-nostrils ...,denote.enter.... tionaÉO typt. There will be, mbad, bushes priate; snailonos, indicate that, somewhat

urut towere: Ho remembers the newspaper - [eg have, studied physiognomy nis tournaments, * great success, packed description of the final fall dance my, tocne-and-it works, to the doors,” said "one :"","Medruli; got his opponent) said Miss Rees at har Ballh Cochran's-skles. And then by the body, and three hilmi flat.

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