THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1954.
BIG BILL'S WEDDING'
JUST ONE BLOW FROM THE LAD EVERYONE PITIED -AND
ALLEN
WAS OUT
In the Welsh mining village of Abercynon a young collier smiles broadly. His name is Dai Dower. Dai is a boxer. A flyweight, he looks frail even among his fellow eight-stoners. Twenty years old, with smile bordering on the dark, curly hair, dark sparkling eyes and a cherubie, he's not the popular idea of a pugilist.
These looks even deceived many of Britain's most hardened
Галн fight They reckoned it would be litle short of suicide for Dai to try to break into the "big time." For he is a professional of only a year's standing, and the gulf between boxing's paid and unpaid is vast indeed.
Imagine then the ein beet
tion when
with Brilish
Dua was
Champsa
1
Allen, Former Dokter world crown and top-ranker for y
IT' years, few boxeER mure Allen
tricks of the trade them
ALMOST GUSHED DOWN
Puur
12.4
pot at the Dove make-up. He everyone drimuda to know the
Bunte a ponts latest news,
Turled mong thank vonataci segule a
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kok down.
THE HARD WAY
That Bght rums Day's path
te the op the band WAY
including hi
for man, Herbert Walkins, makes sure that Dai kerpa up his training by acting as sparring partners. It often means a sure rib for a few days. But what's
few bruises when there's u
Fle's been scrappag: siner hea
world championship at stake! en fout, and alway. aga not
The ioppements nearly tame his 10, crocodile tones alonst gebed | down Cauliflower Alley.
For everyone.
in Abercynon,
Ar rught, he jernesl itte Routh | Indeed every Welshnu, Is Youth Club in Cardiff. Here be confident that Dower can bring] The fight look place last month, was taken any loira les organiser the
H.. 10 Mannings Kompress
Lonest
at Eleven thousutid fors came fro be of the kill,
VIDAR
Few booke have served a more
ININ upperesaationship They were Before the verdad was a tough tasktripadan of the scherlulert ter coninck war, Dui spat red over.
champion
Atimu
erowling across the crag as he th
hamis and knees.
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-kopp k Járn ti, tend Costabey felt
"No stolen 1 Melsted
1
Ropret for a
Ha gs mostla met hen a 1!
ile
support him
The ropes to diag
But his era, were like rodes
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winrich title home. And Welshmen know something
about flyweights.
They remember another titin
stood in his mines.
When youth who emerged from the ile, to looked frail, "The Band, In fact they called hims op-the-sol ghost with a hammer It fris
afasants." His name was Jiminy! an attarkantį Wilde, that
Na and M. Mandungs į but a dex: a job to teach me
Te Minne
for the ghit And all the the insult of a makamtee. The pet only toon of blow from the
Achat in Tuts and Jad veer 14 pitive. No wonder he shot to, anchet the cene lines of the Doi has led saturday mouse Helsante que tournerent.
chuckie before,
Ifts Best serious boxing Wo
the National Coal Brand Cluntee
plosiup three
Having reached the
finds, he came up agamist
vight stone "giant
the scales at 7x
E
Tas
..
The bet thehet
to could have," says The
eng Wel-hr-an
(Landus Express Service)
The
A bridegroom in Melbourne recently was the popular Australian Test player, Bill Johnston, of the wily ball and unwieldy bat! Popular with the English former air cricket crowds, Big Bill was married to hostess Judith Butler.
This picture shows the couple after the ceremony. -Central Press Photo.
"Luck Of The Sullivans"
Is Still Required
He was gigantic, generous and flamboyant-the idol of his age and world. A
another go at an song and a saying were woven about his very name,
2 sauld have ammattied on com low, d
What's bad qutard by for top man with one punch,
And it wasn't i the
Fond.
it A 14
"Amateur boxing ext me six As
W
sugar seat changed
:
ak kit
Ant
1 Media thad to go out to word. that I could travel And that's sant the wohl.
at four.
***
Dui's freeads told hum do AM. draw. But retreating
"
To Sail Around
The World In
A Motor Yacht
Two young Bournemouth left Sout ban-
men
drilled to a depth of 10,000ft.
To be
oll
The
"reservoir potential racks there are buried thousands feet below outcrops of other
thes be rocks from
surrounding Unchita Morulains, und the drill will have to ponebrate the full depth of the outerops to test the all-bearing possibilities of the strate,
He was the last fighter to win the world heavyweight title-which he took,
bare-knuckle tight under the who after a murderous battle, from Paddy Ryanin magnature that prize-ring regulations,
at least He was Due Arst to lose this Litte (to "Gentlemma" Jim
far to the "Buston Corbetty ha ight governed by
Queensberry Strong Bog. new-fangled
་་
should the
stressed thal this day the Rules, which forced gloves upon
science of petroleum technology pugilists' pickled fists.
was the inimitable "Boston had not been acutely developed.
John 1. Sullivan Geophyslerd survey
Instruments Strung Boy,
ubject of the song "Never such as the seismograph, the hit an called Sullivan" and
the und gravimeter
torsion
However, these reservolt rocks "all; balance were not in use,
are of the sume type as have the lurk of the Sullivans," Το
DOUBTFUL
proved productive in other parts The Fancy" the world over, hel It is doubtful, even if John L.
of Oklahoma. And scientists veritable god.
land, whether are now hai bought the
search preparing to was
He was also ameng the many atry oil company would have over a much darger area-21,000 promise have seen much
in that square miles-than who prizefighters Rupitolised on their titles out-particular stretch of Oklahoma John L. once might have bought.
-(London Express Sorvica) side the ring. In betwren ights, those sixty or more years ago. he used to tour the States with
M. Father, to, has b working in the grim fost did you
i weithiauf a boludas. 1 thoughtsponsible for the saying
weathe
It
me I
ny
Dar's mother doesn't have to work now, and his father has
I run around in.
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STAR ATTRACTION
that which
Badminton Championships
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In Abergyggesta, Dat has 14
a dramatic society. evene the star attraction His
Their plays were always lurid ton on April 1 in a 3411. wirkonales ale extra stifle to!
mcludranus in which John L. luxury motor yacht to sail give him time off for traming took the leading role. Could he
and to be able to watch him net round the world.
Who the heck cared about for each leads turned that? He only bad to swagger the draw and I doubt very much galning a They
comfortable passage ure Doval Hughes of ght
up at Empress Half last month. his swashbuckling way on to Redhill hive, Bournemouth, and,
the other They have also built him the stage for the parked audience
three seedel into the Onal, hut the bottom George M Darłow, of Gangal
gymusictim to save him making to rise rouring
es its feet Foo
M. Rozario, players, F.
Joseph half will see at least two closely Cottage. Lyfchett Matraversan 18-mile urney every even adoration.
and Ko Wai-bong. will contested games before the final
is reached. Both are slugle and
stage in their; int to Cardiff in order to train.
reach the semi-Anal. The cash came pouring in. middle thirties.
Foo who showed unmis- The second round game who appreciated takable signs Juhit L., And
been of having
between P. V. Yap and E. ugo Darlow at years
Dai Brietly let-tolel. Ke such
ня refinements
vintage tempted
Atlantic couldn't to sall the
Ebrahim and J. B. Pomeroy Jr be anything else-in
out of practice in his match en champagne, Ilqueur brandy, ulone in a 25ft. yucht.
a touch it Was Abercynon. Nut capsized in heavy us, and he heal publicans will serve him
one of the choice elgurs, silk shirts and the Thursday, will have to produce and J. C. Koh will be
the it he hopes and go affair and so will much better form best suites in luxury hotels, also to get through his singles match an, with a beer, even if he's buying understood the
the winners of game between usefulness of
Craigengower against the wily
this tie and J. A. Soares and B. to a frivad,
A. Brown. Dal
it's the money.
player, E. Ebrahim. can pay, but
TURNED IT DOWN
Francis Rozarlo, who has In the Junior Mixed Doubles, friend who collects,
Yet he unve (unwittingly)
Anal at the door of the
will been knocking chance of a
between policeman turned down the
Championship fought Junior Singles
out. than ever he in the Dover- greater fortune
honours EST the last few Pomeroy, Jr and Gloria Sequeira slood to win with his sled-
and Perin for-world-champlon Comp hammer fists.
seasons, will again have to con- and P. V. Yap Sumebody tried Dai is extremely Lond
He goes to all the to sell him a vast chunk of land tend with his own lack of match Dhabher. the George Michell Chole, was local her. But in strict train
Jancing.
temperament plus a promising iri Oklahoma, telling him it prisoner-of-wary EATM 447428
[45 six months he has to be in bed by 8 would make un Idral empire for pponent in P. V. Yap.
cattle "king."
saw little at-
was saved by American tanker.
the crow
T
SEARCH FOR FISH
Darlow
is #T! muther and
Even tie Jucal former war correspondent. Be plans to write a book about the plays his part
voynge.
Hughes, a former marmber of
sentenced
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AURPRISING
probably
be B.
The Pomeroy-Sequeira com- bination may be given a strong fight by Jimmy Koo and Mary Wong and much of their ability get through the semi-final round Will depend on the steadiness of Gloria Sequelra in this match.
to
"solitary" for the attempting to 1. and takes a strong will a John L. who
In the Junior Doubles it was escape. Joy 6. 2in. Lat indeed to leave just as the fun traction in a life on the range, rather surprising that.. and a former amateur boxer, is beginning.
Jr. and J. C. Ka laughed and rejected the offer. Pomeroy
given a seeded Both are interested in tropical Just in case Dal might yield Today, that land is to be the have not been
place us they are definitely one The Junior Ladies' Doubles Aah, and they are taking with to templation, P.C. John New-site of a new oil search.
in the should see Bernadine Remedios have Scientists
reported of the strongest pairs Bentle them special underwater diving moks
and Gloria Sequeira a clear reminder.
favourably on the geological and event.
The top-half should 500 street ahead of the other com- characteristics, and And fim the mine manager geophysical
and Albert Tum petitors. down to the newest
bure-hole is to be Jimmy Koo pil-boy, deep-test
helmets to aid them in their search for unusual specimens, --Lundan Express Service.
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ALEC BEDSER'S COLUMN
Hooliganism And Mob Rule Cannot Be Tolerated
Recent events in Test Matches between the West Indies and England have been profoundly disturbing. As there has been time for reflection here you may be interested in my views on them,
At Kingston in the first Test, Jeffroy Stollmeyer, West Indies skipper, was repeatedly booed for not enforcing the follow-on-which proved to be correct and the two umpires were threatened by pistol and knife. At Georgetown during the third Tent hundreds of bottles were thrown in what correspondents who travel the world covering cricket described as the "ugliest and worst demonstration of all time."
Like all major sports, cricket ; authorities must make every impossible to hear instructions just cannot tolerate hooliganism | attempt to stamp out no matter from Hutton, such is the noise.
their or mob rule and if the players how unpopular
actions One player wrote to me: "The are to be intimidated and themight be.
Cricket was never a strain here is undoubtedly affec high medium for gamblers anyway. ting some of the intts' form. You umpires threatened it la
have time we stopped playing cricket,
to watch the skipper all the time and you just can't hear what he says when he shouts instructions."
What the plain men of Hambledon who invented this "lovely game with the lovely uame" would think could they to a tudorn Test - counter I would not care think.
return
to
it
Unfortunately at times would seem that too much atten- tion is placed by national prestige depending the result of Tests.
some
on
оп
DEADLY DANGER
Although not quite having experienced such conditions, It would appear to me to be almost impossible to piny fair cricket under such conditions.
Generally speaking, In my travels I have found crowds very fulr, appreciative of ultractive cricket and grateful to outstand- ing performers for their sparkle und ability.
At the risk of being accused of preaching 1 believe it bo- hoves each and everyone of us players, oficials and crowd--to preserve the spirit of the game which we are in deadly dunger of losing.
We must back up the umpires to the hit and pul a check on any alindy tricks,
Silence is necessary lo the batsman concentrating on re We are getting further and calving a ball. Yet there have Further from the fondamental been cases in England in recent fact that
But every so often the doubt- cricket 3
match,years of the slow handclap while
to get the whether it is between England the bowler is running up to the fut element seems and Australia or two neighbour- wicket, of demonstrations by upper hand. It is a blot on the ing village sides, is a test of members who should set an game which might lead to serious skill between friends.
| consequences if it is not checked I appeal to every Immediately.
example of good behaviour.
make I hear from letters I get from friends only enemics and players in the West Indies it is
14 cricket doca not
arouses
nothing but base passions and jealousies we had better think ögain and invent
a more innocent pastime.
TENSION HAS MOUNTED
it was
with
Jantzen
NEW.
Tension in Test cricket has undeniably mounted und na une famous player said to me re- cently: "You would not think
GAME nowadays. With television focussed on the DIMENSIONALS wicket, ball by ball commen- taries plus the press reports, it is now news if a player blows his nose on the field.
In fact on one Test last year when I drew out a handkerchief
anybody can be BEAUTIFUL
to mop my brow ก umpire and NEW said to me "Do you realise they are watching you do that hun- dreds of miles away?"
It really is extraordinary and remark made me realise that
for the how important it is modern player to be restrained In his every action, his every gesture. He must not even swear under his breath for lip readers watching television are able to "read" what he has sald! And if my readers Imagine that to be fur-fetched 1 can tell them a player WDS actually "pulled up" by an indignant last year. He correspondent objected to what had been said under the player's breath and to himself!
With the situation as delicate as it is in many parts of the world where cricket is played the players can help to restore and a more peaceful sanity atmosphere by helping umpires in two ways.
First, they must learn to be fair appenlers. By this I mean they must never appeal unless hey genuinely believe it to be a fair claim. Second, by accepting umpire the decision of the promptly and without question. Betting on many grounds over- seas is a menace which the local
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