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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17,

1953.

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

I saw the champ crash

PETER WILSON

writes the fourth of his punch-a-line Hashbacks to the all-time greatest-

SMASH HITS

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HERE is nothing quite like a heavyweight, title fight and nothing like the drama of an under-dog challenger upsetting the odds and the champion with a series of hammer blows.

That's why it takes no fent of memory on my part to recall that August night in 1936 when Jack Petersen crawled between the ropes at Leicester to defend his championship against the bronzed South African Ben Foord.

It had been a rush to get

to the ringside, for only the

day. before I had been in

Berlin to watch the dousing

of the Olymple flame, sig-

TODAY: FOORD v. PETERSEN

It was a ghastly injury and it nifying the end of the most was quite clear that he had not propaganda - packed and the slightest hope of going the nationalistically contested full 16 rounds with it.

Games which I ever saw.

His only chance was to gamble everything on that flushing right hand of his own and to drop full the South African for the count before he was halted him-

self.

.

was left to the referee. Moss Deyong, to step between the two men and, after taking one long Look into Petersen's cyca, to push the fighting-mad Foerd away and lead pour Jack back to his corner os you help a blind man across a dangerous street.

I think all of us who covered first the Games and then the light were still emotionally strung up.

Fortunately for Petersen the What a contrast the two bell signalling

the end of the Paternen, second round sounded a few men presented. lean, pale, fair-haired, with seconds after he had sustained

this disintegrating thump, a handsomely chiselled face, but the frame of a light- second of the minute's rest to do heavyweight.

a "retread job" on the gaping! Foord,

eyebrow, and they even poured 14 stone. over

a botile of champagne over the black-thatcher, also quite Weishman's head and body tr good-looking but in a more revive him as he slumped in tiled after less than nine chubby, boyish fashion, and corner.

minutes' @ghting. with the great torso of the bathing bench lifeguard which he had been in his native South Africa.

When they helped Petersen from the ring, knees still sagging under him, his Inir hair covered with a gory rag which had been a clean towel and more blood streaming from that flapping and it mouth, he looked, as wrote at the time, "more

like the sole rond

survivor of a }{s handlers used every

DO OR DIE

THEN the bell'afbrazen clangeur and both men came out to

As they waited in their

do'or dle, But Foord was three- corners the odds

were quarters of the way across the strongly in favour of the ring before Petersen could champion. Patersen had assemble his arms and legs into punished Foord so severely the rhythm of fighting. two and a half years earlier Another bone-shattering right that he had forced the hander landed flush on the angle rother long jaw, referee to intervene in the of Petersen's thirteenth round of their He went down so hard that

thought he must fight at the Albert Hall.

through the covering.

ACCURATE

And now there was more blond seeping and spurting from, the left-hand corner of his mouth

mash than a heavy- weight boxer."

Foord was unmark-

That wat by 110

incans the end of

Yes, he

fought back, lionhearted

Ulustration

by ROBB·

* Peterson got up at the count of seven..... Perhaps it would have been bottor if he had stayed down. He was an easy target”.

when he was back in South

the evening's excitement.-- Oddly enough Foord had little Atrien, Foord had an accident for me at least for unlike the further success either. He ton with a pistol and shot himself normal tournament this came to an end almost as soon painted

one was benten by Neusel, out- dead. as the big fight was over.

for the British ind

Petersen, Empire titles by Tommy Farr,

on the other hand, ex-world became a major in the Army and half-killed by

Physical Training Corps and bas champion Max Baer..

done subsequently

lot welfare work: excellent native Wales.

As the crowd vanished into the night every light in the arena was extinguished, with the exception of one over the ring. which the workmen promptly proceeded to dismantle.

and

thr

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Jerusalem, Jan; 7. TSRAEL'S 30,000 civil ser-

vants will have to gro without their full December Painrice unti} the end January, it has been

nounced. There

money

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in the State's chequer to pay them.

Polico, elementary sctiool teachers, postmen and employees of the nationalised airline have not received their last month's There is pay packet, elther, alsɔ no money for norinal gov- ernment administration. Minis tries have been ordered to sack Tore

employees-1,500 were dismissed during 1092—and are forbidden to take on any addi- tionel sloff.

Gov-

Schemes for improved ernment health and social wel- fare services have abandoned.

Ofelal figures 'Treasury in his

It had been planned for Jack

1930 he went twice to Hom- to be a doctor, and he proyed a

WHEN they stepped out where the check had split like whose job It was to tidy up the in a night; ugainst Eddie Phillips, Leicester ring.

NEXT SATURDAY: DANAHAR v. BOON

IN It was only the promise of un- I limited beer which enabled me burg, losing on points to gentleman both inside and out- disappear to keep one small bench intact another sometime world cham- side the ropes. Jack has also cenvas ring on which to write and telephone pion, Max Schmeling, and then proved a credit to the fight game my ringuide story story being disqualified in a force of a since he retired from itin the same way as he proved his punctuated with approving or fight against Neusel.

boundless, flaming courage on garcastic comments from

After he had been counted out that night 18 years ago in the carpenters

and knocked clean out of the place.

(World Copyright-Landon Expre33. for the first round it an overripe plum.

ring-landing, Incidentally, on Service) That fight was virtually the menduring his contest with looked as though the His jaw sagged like an end of Petersen's career. He George James, he more or less gamblers who had made unhinged gate, hanging so low did try once more against his faded out of the ring. Petersen favourite knew that I thought it had been old Nemesis, Walter Neuse, but

broken, and it seemed Impossible what they were doing.

for any

man to get up inside again had to throw in the towel

In the tenth round. He moved around faster ten seconds without the aid of a than Foord and his boxing was considerably--more--But-Petersen had another-aid accurate than the shambling his unquenchable courage. The spark of intelligence glimmered· Springbok's. But it was dimly in his eyes like the side- noticeable that nt close tights of a car whose battery has quarters Foord's weight been run down, yet somehow he advantage of nearly two hot himself up at seven. Atone and his greater Perhaps it would have been strength were likely to be better if he hadn't. Foord found him as easy to hit, as wide- telling factors.

open a target as the side of a

He hurled in great

crane,

But there was no warning barn. of the drama which began hammer blows, leather bombs of

punches.

Polersen must have taken 20 right swings, with all Foord's

The Anal tragedy, for

act during

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BAO DAI WANTS GREATER

CONTROL IN ANTI-RED WAR

By SYDNEY SMITH

at

Paris, Jan. 16. the supreme command of "The French are at present

the possibility General IMPEROR Bao Dai of French

Raoul studying

sharing the supreme costumand And he wants to with us.

The present French-

Endo-Chinn has sent a

in

had to be

show, the to be £10,000,000 short. There are two reasons for the crisis;

1. Haphazard Income tax collection 119

Jess mzant revenue than anticipated.

2. There were no budgetary reserves out of which the in- ereased cost of living bonuses, which automatically followed last year's steady price rise, could be paid.

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Thus housewives are lying to eke out their meagre savings until their hus- bands are paid, must now give another 6 per pound for sugar, Last week, the price of a lent of bread rose by 3d, and paraffin, which Israeli familles use ex- tensively for cooking and heat- ing, now costs two chillings gallon, a ten percent increase.

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at the end of the second round. Foord did not seem to be feeling his opponent's 200-and-more pounds behind blows and started swinging them, flush on that sagging jaw top-level personal appeal to form a completely new in Vietnam forces have been built

So far no pruetlenble solution for Israel's chaotic economic his right.

until he presented so ghastly a French President Auriol and dependent Vietnam National up, trained and equipped

European style. Their equipment sight that many of the 20,000 the French Government, re- Army, officered, commanded does not allow them to get off situation has been proposed. A of living One of these swings landed spectators, who

suggestion that cost had already questing that he and the and operated completely by the roads. We want to build a flush on the Welshman's left shouted for the fight to be Vietnam, command should Vietnam staff, and fighting new Vietnam force capable of bonds has been rejected by üle bonuses should be paid in State eyebrow, which had so often stopped, could no longer bear

have more authority in on new lines which he living and fighting indefinitely been damaged in previous bouts. to watch.

carrying on the

as a forced loan" which people anti- claims can win the war in in the ricefield interior-fighting powerful trade union federation cannot afford so long as price In our own way, just like the Communist war.

three years.

enemy. For this we want much lighter weapons and equipment, levels remain so high,

Gover- He wants joint command The Emperor's

In desperation the personal Our top-priority request in for

ment may turn to the printing messenger to President Auriol is helicopters. We have been asking of the present Franco- 37-year-old General Nguyen Van for a lot of them for a long presses-thus going back on its Vietnam forces, now under Hinh, wartime bomber pilot and me."

promise given last February not squadron commander who fought

any more banknotes. But, say economists, this remedy will in the end only aggravate Israel's

plight Economic leading to runaway inflation.

Before he could even wink

his ild Petersen's left eye was

turned into a well of blood. The

NO QUITTING

red curtain cascaded down the alde of the champion's face and RUT. even dripped from his chin on

to his heaving chest.

Dpions,

under

like all the true cham- he would not quit fire, and finally

Why Glorify

Mediocrity?

By JOHN GORDON

with the French and American The light helicopter strength air forces from North Africa to in Indo-China is at present Germany.

about 30, but none of them, says

the the General, are

troop General Hinh, a brisk, forth- tratisports he needs.

right, square-built man, who

looks 10 years younger than his

ore, speaks perfect

throwing in a

dash of Ag

Air Force slang now and agwin.

British Aid

Among his eleven decorations The General made these other

and, cltations is one United points:

London, Here we are in one of the How have we done it? By the States Air Medal and two Croix FEW moro Honours most vital phases in our history. trilliance of our scientists, the A Lists like the one which a time to which wo hope our genius of our engineers

descendants will point with burat upon us with the pride and

hese were the heroism of o tow mamin say: explosive violence of a car the years when the great new cent men who put the conquest

of the perilous unknown nival cracker on New Year's Brllain was born."

their country's service, above

Aid from Britain? “Yes, there de Guerre. He makes Hitle effort" and to hide his own and

His is a certain aid Britain can give Emperor's dissatisfaction at the us, but I prefer not to specify it French monopoly of control in at the moment." the anti-Communist war,

morning will certainly A period of exciting activity the danger of death bring this peacockery non- and tremendous promise. sense to an ignominious

end.

New Units

Foreign_ald for the Vietnam Communista?"Yes," they arc using Russian and ChinesN rockets. mortars, hand-grenades and artillery. But there la

How do we measure the deep, deep gratitude- we owe them? "The Emperor," he says, "is plenty of French and American Quite "contemptuously,

rendy to aksumo greater stuff too, mostly captured In

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Up and down the land ·wa- You will not find them listed responsibilities for himself and Indo-China and Keren, There is I have never before heard have men and women malting

If an odd his Cabinet in the handling of no sign of any Chinese fighting Invon among the "great" producing

In the Vietminh forces, how- a list received with such discoveries,

tions,

performing caracine, one here and there does manage the war."

over," hoots of derision.

which are transforming onvold being completely oven

And this year, according to looted, he ba to be content

How long will the war last? with a swiftness far beyond with a lowly place, well below General Hinli, the Emperor in anything over known before in to ille adoring trouser-shiners raw Vicinum anita. But he roads the way we want to, we tends to form a great number "If we could fight it off the the human story.

of Whiteliali, ........

wants to give, these fresh forces could clear it up inside three Look at triumphs is the Don't that shame your a more national character than years, but the real big fight is before. If he prata mare forces more involved. It is to give a whose achieverdonits have been) : If you can't run the Honours into the fiel, he wants more more national character to the as revolutionary as osirs in the system on higher principios cohtroj.

struggio and to win it among last few years?"

than that, thari la fecha Bara

the depths of our own people,

The few worthy names in it wero awamped in the dull, diary glorification of mediocrity

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