1953-04-21 — Page 1

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953.

"Pussy-Cat" Ezzard Is A Tiger Again - Ready For Rocky?

Says HAROLD · MAYES

Just over a fortnight ago I watched Georgia-born negro Ezzard Charles belting the daylight out of a big, tough Utah farmer's boy, Rex Layne, in San Francisco.

Sure he was Louis's friend, anyone who

u

he

I

now,

on

the Arst cham- crown,

That night I knew I was watching the beginning of a new phase in the carcer of the man who may well go down to history as heavyweight boxing's greatest enigmu.

confidence. But I recalled that back in 1948. It is but that "killer"

tag, restore his even before Joe Louis - which some of the fellows who what? Frankly, right nounced his Aust retirement, esut punch would love to have don't have the answer. But if this was the man 1 har peiped to them, bung like a fit can be found, Charles could the neck of still lick 'em all, because a n Rs the logical successor to the wallstone aruund

got tradesman, he's still about the greatest of all the heavyweight Charks. The ghter who

of the д best all-round fighter his unusual nome ticcause kings

I did so because I knew that, perlain Dr Ezzard happened to lot of them."

So with his eyo have been present at his birth In the evening of his career,

washenour of becoming the Louis feared only one man in Atlanta back in 1021, and he was Charles. Always so upset that he declared he'd dethroned heavyweight

Aght when I asked, him if he would never

It took plon to win back the agoln.

come-back Aght Charles, Jolting Joe would months for his friends to per- Charles began the reply: "Why should I fight Bz Bande him in change his mind. trait happily enough by knock-

When

climbed out Rex Layne and dee- Anally zard? He my friend."

who had through the ropes to face Elmer aloning Joey Maxim,

who't visions of stepping up into the Knew "Violent Ray, the mun Louis as well as I did, there killed Baroudi had decided to topweight class. The Walcott

return came was wealth of meaning te be more careful. It looked s

June, hind these remarks. Joe mude if he was definitely going out automatically last a habit of saying the right or his way not

more Charles fought an "m-taking- no-chances, I've-been-licked-by- thing at the right time, and his damage to his opponent

this-man-before sort of fight. wards were always so careful-was absolutely necessary.

He lost the decision, just be

refused to carry the cause he that the

with

contest to his rival or to take

he lightest risk. That didn't the ageing Louis, looked, frail,, the crowds, and by

NEW PHASE than 12 stuffed-up Ezz Anally

Do you wonder

he that light-hegyyweight, why did the Walcott to

"Finish" label whs staring Brown Bomber tear him?

work crown in June, 1949, Charles in the face once more? "KILLER' TAG

definitely won't a xox-oilles

But then the next phase be because, with youth o His lighter. Everyone said he was side, Ezz's réflexes were

timid. and Charles found, the task of trying to ca

tablish himself as the leading after the contender of three

Marciano-Wal- now-postponed colt return,

Jatt for

ly chosen.

Consillering Charles, by comparson

No more

to do

than

TOO TIMID?

exactly please the time beat Jersey Joe the vacant

vously so much better than that he had a tougher fight Joe's, and that made his vicious with himself than ally he was punching a much more telling kels to experience fuctor.

ring at that time.

Vicious? Yes. it had been tigerish enough the night

to savopery.

But

he

Surely il

Major League Baseball

were

walloped two home runs in freund. the morning contest and hit;

a home run and a three run

double-which-just-missed

Athletic

in

the

110

other

A TOUGH JÓN

the

but

Com-

wos

of

As turned out, it proved the United States when, in the to be the second leg of a 10-rematch, Charles had Layne a summer double about helpless hulk at the end of ten

huve had rounds, ofter having him Bill which you could and

being another four bagger,

Mel Parnell, who needed help from Ellis Kiner

day.

AUSTRALIA'S

TERRIBLE TWINS

The "Terrible Twins"-Miller (right) and Lindwall, the fast bowlers, photo- graphed at Southampton when the Australian cricket team arrived on board the Orcades. Central Press Photo.

LADY WENTWORTH'S ARABS The Horse-breeding

Experiments

Of A Poetess Of 79 May Produce A Derby Winner Of The

By JOHN WATERMAN

Future

Crabbet Park, Sussex.

Here in a red-brick mansion amid several hundred acres of woods and farmland lives the 16th Baroness Wentworth, 79 years old, tall, state- ly, and a peeress in her own right.

PAQUES GOLF

By HENRY LONGHURST

It in axiomatic that a golfer has not lived til be has played the Old course at St Andrews. More controver sally, perhaps, I would suggest that he has also not lived till he has played at Mont Agel,

Constructed in 1910 at a cost of £250,000, mainly, I gather, to bumour the mad English-who would have. given the Chancellor of the day the clearest suggestions £15 rise in their travel allowance-Mont regarding a Agel clings precariously to the mountain slopes somo 2,500 feet above Monte Carlo.

While some of the driven an the course are naturally difficult, none ato sa 'hair-raising as the drive up to it an experience which is sald to have much dis- turbed the Duke of Windsor, In which case your correspondent.is In good company. It has been some comfort to think of our chauffeur this week as being one of the straightest drivers of all time, namely Henry Cotton,

INTO THE CLOUDS

Nevertheless the thoughts of the newcomer tond to dwell, as the outer mudguard grazes the parapet, not on the undoubted magnificence of the view but on how many somersaults a slight

slice would cause the car to lumi before 14 and Its occupants pitched finally in the harbour.

Yesterday's

Home Soccer Results

London, Apr. 20.

Home football results to- day were:

DIVISION I

an. U. 3 Liverpool

DIVISION II (SOUTH) Queen's Park 1 Shrewsbury

DIVISION III (NORTH)

2 Mansfeld Stockport

2 Chesterfield

2 York OTHER MATCHES

Bradford Darlington Mont Agel is surmaunted, 1,500 Hartlepool feet higher, by a fort, and the Port Vale finest shot ever played over. the course is alleged to have been that of the American

gunnery Bury officer in the war, who, to change | Millwall the metaphor, hit the fort plumb | Reading in the middle stump with the Ipswich irst ball of the match at a range

of 10 miles.

is a

2 Clyde

2 Rah R.

0 Tottenhani

2 Stirlingo

SCOTTISH LEAGUETES

Falkirk

4 Abderde

Dates Fixed For 1956 Olympics

After seven years of wartime Hibernian 2 East Fife dereliction the course was large Motherwell 0 Rangers Ly redesigned hy Cotton. It measures 4,891 yards; the boŋey Not for her an existence dedicated to opening garden fetes, politely dis- is 87; and he has done it in 36.

The second nine, they ar pensing tea, and peacefully working samplers.

good deal gard

easier than the Lady Wentworth owns ind; stud and a pony stud. She is a commodation for horses-is lean, (Cotton having once done it in Arsenal

Wolves personally supervises the world's high authority on borse breed-105-year-old Frederick Branch, 29), and can well believe it. most renowned stud of Arab ing. And in the time that is left the stud groon. Under him gre At the moment of writing, how Blackpoo

Brom horses. It adjoins the house, over she writes books and com-eight other grooms. Branch has ever we have played one round West re She also runs

the a thoroughbred poses poetry-she is a descen- been at Crabbet Park for a of "Championnat

nat Omalum,"

Manch Un dant of Byron. Currently she is quarter of a century, says: "Most and at the 10th hole the entire Burnley writing six different works. of us here bave been with Lady course salled like an acroplane Sunderland

NOT A FANATIC.

Wentworth at least 20 years." into the clouds.

-Acuter.. LEAGUE STANDINGS First Division

Preston

Tottenham

Cardin

He shows off the stars of the

Bolton

Portsmouth

Aston Villa

Mexico City, Apr. 19.

The International Committee guished by their

sturdy

30

not

70."

Blokn

Second División" {:)

10 Sheffield U Hudalorefeld

months of doubt and expressed raved today in Easthoughbreds not yet settled.--In-time-the flyere has been an... with Notts Co."

ing

on

Kennedy, registered his first thousands to one, if you'd been the canvas ten, rounds one, six,

triumphi of the morning tilt.

year in the HM

The soven and ten.

to

Aretoally

been

Rex Luyno was the rival He twice defentied the title who really had to be removed Zought Sam Baroudi in Chicago, suecersfully, then found himself to make that hope more than some months before Lous ail with another, and even tougher, just a dream. The pair were 1 were discusing Charles, for battle on his hands. This time

mulched in Ogden, Utah, last him to inflict punishment from it wasn't his conselence - which Baratdi died.

was his physeal condition. New August, and in the eyes of all experienced critics ออL Commisht followers-except Intent on a climb to the top York State

former then, Charle.

withsion doctors, giving him rou-heavyweight fought

champion Juck ferocity which was closely akinthe check, found that he had Dempsey-Charles was a

bruised heart muscle cause fortable winner. tighter's job is to be a "killer by a rib damaged in an earlier

Why Jack Dempsey? Well, if he can, even though he does leontest.

The happened to be the referee, not mean to kill.

the strangest- The wiscacres said he would and he scored

In her study, with its hundreds never fight again-but he was looking card of all time, niak-

of books on houses, tables and stables;,,careES ON them fondly as The wingtips, as It were, rounds back in action after an eleven-ing seven of the ten

armchairs strewn with a

ho conxes them round their vanished, and a deep silenco Newcastle month lay-off, and defended even, with two to Layne and the title

and photographs of Arab

boxes. llc pats the nose of a caveloped. the mountainside, middlesbro one to Charles. In the furore successfully on six

pious, Lady Wentworth dis-grey stallion, Indian Magic, win-broken only by the melancholy Liverpool more occasions, beating among he sald he gave: the decision to

me of many ber he

CURSCH

honours. Wils the

occupations in

Says "cloches de vaches" and the cry Manch City others, the Louls who neverLayne because

vigorous

orous voice. She says: "Do Branch: "This one has a fire of my partner, "Ou peut jouer, Sher Wed wanted to fight him and the old jmure aggressive,

not think I am an Arab fanatic. Arab hood,"

Therese?" answered by a high-heista

Derby fellow who'd been cropping up He didn't tend that remark

My main interest. Is in the in the world situation since, it

pitched "Ou" from his ravish thoroughbred horse-only 1 have intest addition to the stud: the far side of the valley.

Then he leads the way to the ing young caddiette invisible on seems, the ineginning of time a challenge to Charles, but that's the way it proved. For

not had the means to pursue my filly foaled on January 23 this Jersey Joe Walcott, Boston, Apr. 20..

decided, The Australian Olympics Com-interests in this direction as fight with the Cincinnall fighter

ycar. She was alred by Air- Charles's retum The Boston Red Sox

The earlier, sunshine, however, Luton opened their hume season by the ageless wonder on July 7, thon and there, that if aggres-mittee has informed the Inter-much as I should have liked."

Committee, now

Went-borne, winner of the 1846 Derby, had revealed a course of spectac-th in Nevertheless, Lady 1951, in Pittsburgh, was regardston was all that was required, national

"killer" Charles had to

fame ia como session here, that it is proposed worth's

out of a champion Arab mare horse-breeding

ular beauty and tantalising Leicester twice taking the measure of ext by everyone Just back into his own.

пя

Grey to hold the 1938 Games in Mel- circles comes largely from the moves with the leggy grace of a drive straight but not

Royal. The Inle fool qualities.

*Notta For You "have only" to backburn the Washington Senators 4-2 formality-something to keep

Instead

feeling the bourne from November 22 to success of the Arab stock

very

far, | Birmingham und 11-4 today. Dick Gernert the pot a boiling beesuse there

contenders draught of punches which went

December 8 inclusive.

Park.

Purelet dancer. But unlike her and "have only", to avoid taking Sultani

Swanka past, his opponents

bezan to

no races at three putts, and you must, as animals distingire she will win

as Leeds rock to the blows which dug yesterday confirmed Melbourne

Epsom. small, de

Cotton suggested in a preliminary Rotherham in. And

climax the LES.

Everton La the

for venue the

Gemes after leately shaped heads, are

Lady Wentworth's intentionsleiter, bo "unable to avoid break- West Ham reached on the west coast reac

for this foal-still unnamed-arang

Yet in the clubhouse Doncaster "full confidence in the Organis-

racing Committee.

sprang from Arabian

Dwill probably be crossed again spreading of palms, together It received a re

a report from the stock in the 18th century. But with thoroughbred blood. For cries of "Hier, solsante deux Australian Committee outlining the English thoroughbred has Melbourne's plans for enlarging now been developed to such a some years Lady, Wentworth has adjourd'hui....achi" brave enough

to bet.

out experiments in impression remains that if any Turpin

the city's cricket ground as the pitch of high-speed efficiency that cross-

Crossing the i double? Randolph

thorough-one thinks that, on necount of its But for some of the weirtlest main stadium, for building a new a pure Arab matched against a and Arab stock to length, Mont Agel is a pushover, beat Sugar Ray Robinson and

refereeing I've ever seen in swimming pool and a new velo- racehorse would be beaten.

see if racehorses can be bred in well, let him come and push it Walcott to liek Charles.

But it came

the Walcott interpreting

drome for cycling at a cost of compulsory

this way. If her attempts are over. BORNEO, RUSSIA A £350,000

ond (£280,000)

allimately successful this little planting a left hook on Ezzar's eight-count the man in charge

A£120,000

Their value now lles mainly fool could be the forerunner of (£96,000) resper- chin und Mir Enigma going had delays which looked more

in the show-ring and for riding future down for the 10-count in the like

than eighteen

Derby winner. Lady seconds!-Charles would seventh round.

Lady Wentworth tuinly have kayoed his most Melbourne proposed to provide Wentworth's horses Home runs: Boston-Geruert 2. The following month. at dangerous stumbling-block. But an Olympic village to house earned her many thousands of

started Second game:

Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, how convincingly he had come 6,000 competitors and officials at pounds. They have been sold Lady Wentworth's father was aca level-not counting the six Gateshead Washington 001 000 0120471 where Hobinson was training back!

of A£2,000,000 (£1,000-all over the world: to 54 countries wilfred. Seawen

Blunt, the

ascends in the Scunthorpe Chesterfield Boston

001 700 -- 11 13 3 for the Turpin return, Charles

including such unikkely places as colourful genius who was squire, lift to get to it. Here astride of Hartlepools Winning pitcher McDermott; discussed his defeat with

Plans were also given for Tierra del Fuego and Fit, post, horse-breeder, traveller, a remarkable wire appliance full Bradford losing pltcher: Norterfeld. He dismissed it as "Just one of

holding the rowing and canoeing Borneo and even Russia.

and who was

made an Arab of practice balls, the maestro aits Barrow those things, So I got hit on So it is that Charles will be events at Lake Wendouree, in In the American Arab Horse chieftain and wore Arab dres instructing all comers. By pull- Mansdeld Tranmere the chin. That's uil there was the most Interested of all the

Ballarat, 70 miles inland from Stud Books, nearly

ninoty per Together, her mother and father in a string he caused the next to it,"

spectators when Walcott tests Melbourne.

cent of more than 5,000 registrahey

both spoke Arable ball to roll down the slipway on Halifax Chester Mar- the Marciano nose and . Granny Hamner hit a homer

tions are of Crabbet blood.

to the East to the mat, very much. us one Darlington fiuently travelled on a 2-1 pitch with two but though, was man

The Charles who said that, clano altempis

The Crabbet Stud Book itself, Bading the best horses to prove that

with launches

on to the Rochdale The knotty problem of online begun in 1882, shows a record of which to supply this ausique stud chequer boar

pennies

Workington obviously the wallop which won him the

at the vicarage to give Robli the ninth Inning

Accrington and not tille so dramatically

coming Austraila's

....13 quarantine still 15 Roberts and the Philadelphia still fighting himself.

regulations hampering entry into

plus four championships,

foto. To teo the ball he uses a being able to figure out Phillica a 2-1 victory over Larry proper

the there when they meet for their

world and seventeen grand and

WORLD CHAMPION"," long pair of tongs.

Third Division (Roark) combinations to do it. delayed reluen Jn New York

Chicago the country of horaes for eques- Jansen and the

43 25 trian events was left to the Aus-international champions. Sixty It had been tough enough go- Intadium on May 15. Johnny Giants.

However, Lady Wentworth's Wyrostek

Northampton the drst time but

One must hand it to our Ryder Bristol Rov..... he

tralian delegation to do its best" champions have been bred from

life has not bean entirely devoted Cup captaix Crabbet stock,

for one thing. Millwall ....47 homered for the Phils' other ruu

know that the second climb

the In Chicago? Yes, that's right, to obtain a relaxation of

sht Whatever he does, he does well. Norwich At the moment there are about to horses. In her youth In the sixth.

was going to be a good deal for in spite of the suggestions restrictions.

order. And by this time a that the contest

The Committee also decided 50 Arab horses at Crabbet Park. used to be one of the few women Never having had much faith in will never

will not at player rety Real Tennis-the golf schools since the day when Some gent by the

of Rocky take place in the mid-west, yesterday to appeal to the Press Lady Wentworth Winning pitcher: Roberts; Marciano

I partacred in a championship a to that the postponement is just to stop publishing unofficial team tempt to estimate their value. Royal variety, beginning

of them are She was a world Josing pitcher: Jansen

champion; young fellow who lamentd that Brighton figure in Utle calculations, aa means of ensuring that the placings by points in the Games She says: "Some Home runs: Philadelphia-rare pulcher who certainly battle will finally go on in the on the ground that the practice literally priceless. For instance built her own court near her he "never played except In Reading * Wyrostek, Hammer,

I would not part at any figure house. Today it Brooklyn at Pittsburgh-past-

wouldn't be likely to be deter- lopen air in Jung in New York, was contrary to the rules andith Grand Royal," Grand Royal building unused vunds, a vast | electric light," I am converted by Torquay

Cotton's.

Newport at you

upirit of the Olympics. con gamble on Chicago. poned, snow and cold.--Atso-red by a man who wasn't

It's not a matter peace wlihin himself.

light

a is one of the stud prize animals It unanimously endorsed

And now she devotes much of

He "The

has mirrors, leather. Prince: ciated Presa,

For the "I-can-give-It, I-can-politics, it's a simple matter of suggestion by Colonel Peter with many championships to his attention to her poetry.

Güllectin television and

finance. The Scharrow, of Halland, that na-credit,

In charge

workshop, and... the stables trouble is," she says, "when I harnesses, heavy practice clubs, Colchester take-it, 1-can-lick-anybody" Chicago, publle hnd not bought tional Olymple Committees should

want to leave the stables and putting "inwn,"

And what an advantage, Swindon philosophy has to be upper-

Pegasus-my establish closer relations with the which are built on modern lines take a flight on

Exeter. most in the mind of a man their tickets early for who aims to be champion for original April 10-date because

net. You never

Shrewsbury Bee whore Aldershot

Waingil Charles they thought that if the house could keep the public informed of

would have gone. was sold out, the fight would be оп home television in Chirogo.

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THE SCORES American League First game: Washington 000 010 010-2 # Boston 012001 008-17

Winning pitcher: Parnell; Icsing pitcher: Marrero

021

Home run: Boston - Gemert. NATIONAL LEAGUE

New York, Apr. 20.

In

Philadelphia 000 001 001-5 31 New York 100 000 000-13 0

NOTICE

THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB

Special Cash Sweep

.on the

Hong Kong Derby Saturday, 2nd May, 1953.

WAS

up.

name

the second time-and Oldn't have it.

WOS,

me.

who

Charles's Bollars

THE THIRD MAN

£100,000 PAY-OUT

.

incessant Lincoln

***** | Brentford

Hull City and my Bury......

Barnsley Southampton

Third Division (North)

Qidhani

Port Vale

cet-

in oddition, the repurt said purposes. Over the yet have stud from her mothered tho|

SIX FLOORS ur

Southport Wrexham York City

must

100

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To aid him he will find Cotton

Crown ensconced in his golf school at redford

Grimsby

Carlile

floors that one

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KNOTTY PROBLEM

200

of the Olympic ideals.--Beuter. and must rank as, Ritz-like...

OLYMPIC SPIRIT

ago.

London Express Servies)

of

bar.

the

Fress so that the Press, in turn, incorporating the best features publishers immediately order me too, as he says, to play into a

Newmarket establishments back to the stabies."

THE GAMBOLS

OLORGE, ARE NOUREADY FOR ¦ VOU HAVEN'T GOT_12 DO AND

WABI 'VOUR HANDI (YES, DEAR }

Melbourne, Apr. 10.

TWO-HOUE (QUIZ'

Dr W. S. Kent Hughes, Chair- Ray Arcei, the man

man of the 1950 Olympic Organi- brought Joe Baksi to England But the tam payink 300,000sation Committee, said bere to the first time,

(which is dore than day that if Australia could spread trainer. In an effort to solve £100,000 to 'you for the pri the Olymple spirit into the tar- the mystery of the rise, decline vilege of coast-to-coast televi-flung corners of Asia the next. at and fall of the duck, well-slon happen, to be interested in Games will be a milestone in the $2.00 each may obtained at muscled tiger turned pussy-cat, driving their publicity right history of the series.

7 of quizzed Ray about him for info metropollian New York.

[two hours as we dined together!!

Tickets In the above

the Cash Swcop Offices the Club at:-

Queen's Bldg., Chater Rond G.D'Aguilar Street

882 Nathan Road, Kowloon

Dr Kent Hughes,: "

who is also Minister of the Interior, weldom- on the train 10 Philadelphia on: Hence, with black-outs nor- ed the International Olympic the way to the Morciano- įmal for. a100-mile radius of

spite Committee's decision that Biel- Walcott fight last September. the actual fight area, In.

bourne should keep, the games. of the coast-to-coast link-up,

"Not only is it important that. great, aghter," they wouldn't be getting ệ thố

auc-

"Fezard's

EL

Melbourne should make

old Ray. "But he's a guy you kind of value, they want for ects of the games but it is equal- just can't guro. **Howeyer | their expendilure if the contest

•Over 450,000 4ckets sold to much you know about him you were Stadium on the ly Important for us to attempt date.

H. MIBA

Secretary,

Just don't got inside him. I'm Polo Grounds. Convinced that when he got hit.

en the chin by Walcott para- So Chicago it will be, with thing happened inside him. Mr. Charms holding -w- match- Something has la be due to↑ing brist

large entries from the Aalon and

Pacide armas who have been pres viously headlongped in sending

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