1954-04-17 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1954.

The Fight that Finished the Champión

SMASH! AND DEMPSEY WENT FLYING OUT OF THE RING

A

you

WIN

the

NY non-psychopathic, amazement

cheering for a seventh time he rose, full schoolboy will tell' crowd. Firpo clubbed a territic of angry, burning light.

sent Dempsey right swing that

Finished? Never. Those into reverse in its becis and 82,000 spectators had not yet followed through with at least

had their money's worth. Firpo six doses of the same kind

swung every ounce of his still considerable strength Into an- damaging medicine.

Back came the Indignant other unwieldy but effective Dempsey, gloves smashed

their right-hander. 1t fetched up targets m A hurricane of plumb on the point of Dempsey's chin-and the champlon of the punches, blood spurted, and no time at all Firpo's battered world had his feet swept from length had crashed to the floor under him. again.

that it Gena Tunney, the ode-quoting, million marrying ex-marine, who knocked Jack Dempsey off that international honey pot, the heavyweight cham- world. plonship of the Knocked him of in 1926, and kept him off in 1927.

No quick recovery this time, Yet Jack Kearns, the fabulous That left hook would have put charneter who

manoged and lesser men out for 10 hours, let manoeuvred Dempsey from hobo along seconds, Firpų, in fact, to hero in those dollar-spinning silli had one knee touching dowa days, was admitting to me in at "nine." New York only recently that

Had he really beaten the Dempsey's decline could in count

that

third tumble7 domo measure be traced to 1 Dempsey, in no mood to argue least three

years

100k the nicetics, before

deliberate am another left hook, found Tunney disasters,

Buck 10 that sensational contact un the side of Firpo's second-round knork-out over the jaw, and stepped buck while outsize Argentinian, Louls Angel they tulled of a few more dead

Firpo at

York's

Grounds

September

New

Polo

On

14,

19ža the last

time

Dempsey

band was raised

In victory in

champion's

wih.

by GEORGE WHITING

Up on the instant, Dempsey charged furiously at lite lumber ing encity who had defied him

to the point of inpudence.

CLIMAX

But

ART

to his rightful side of the ropes -there to recover some kind of wobbly

perpendicular against! further unslaughts.

HOW TO MAKE COMMUNISTS

(BELIEVE IT OR NOT!).

P.U.P. TELLS IT'S

£5m.

By

WHOPPER

Noel Barber

Sull

no go.

Belize, British Honduras, his head. At this the English- NE of the basic man, with a jocular "Of course, techniques in the art it's not worth anything really, my good man, but I happen to of modelling Com- be fond of curios," upped the And Firpo7 Poor, muddle- headed Firpo, with the cham- munists out of illiterate clay price to $500. plonship of the world within is, to tell the whoppingest

"A thousand inches of its fists, muffed the Ab you can think, work it then." snarled tho Briton greatest opportunity of a re-round the dumbest person losing his composure. "My last time. One more well-aimed

have you can find, transform him word," must Inevitat ly punch

Dempsey into into a sorrowful martyr, crumpled ignominious defeat -- but that and then proudly present him to his equally dumb punch never come. by the enormity of his Dempsey-pals (all, voters).

Firpo, shocked Into immobility

THEORIES

his

Johnny shook his head and the stone obdurately. "If It's worth thousand to you," ho muld, with native sagacity, "ica worth more to mo."

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held but

removing offence, allowed

I have seen it done hun- Firpo clubbed and swung like a man to stall ance of recovery dreds of times from Man- man possessed, and gradually, into some semblance of recovery

churia to Mexico, but I have painfully, the

wus and the end of the round. champion beaten

downward and back-

never heard such a whopper

turned on his heel with ward until his leaden legs had

80 beautifully told as the

siitled and muttered curscs carried him crouching

to Liter

one they're telling here now

and Johnny,

stone, plus rupes-at Firpo's mercy.

-and thousands who will

went home to the mengre All this in one three-minute vote in the first general elec- starvation dict that the lot of round and more to follow. But tion on April 23 are belicy- all poor coloured men until the of round two, Firpo, still throw-

P.U.P. gets into power. But you re-fing it. ing gallant punches at the

know, when you have a stone

and when morseless Dempsey, was knock-

They've done It here that rattles ed out by a perfect short right

worth a thousand dollars the Jow.

delivered with with the little story that while man, it's more to

and TID back 1 crushing force

about to unfold — tantalising am

not to know answers. One of the most

the sad story of the poor bilstering fights in heavyweight history was over.

untutored native boy cheat- Should Firpo have been given ed out of £5,000,000 by the knocked avaricious white man; and the verdict when he polc-axed Dempses,

clattering

of the head Dempsey out

ring don't laugh at it too much, Should not his first into the

seconds teleprinters

assembled claimed an immediate decision for this story is implicitly the typewriters of

and the title?

believed by many who, I do k Arth reporters, and coming In the lap of the astonished Kia

Everybody in boxing has his not doubt, will shortly vote MePartland, one of the judges. theory. Mine is that the Wild for the People's United At once, with all routta tun Bull of the Pamps, for all he Party, the firebrands whose screaming their heads uff, the slow thinking and lost oppor.

tunities. WRS the rival who avowed intention is to kick Limekeeper began his counts what time the pop-eyed press

Britain out. men began heaving the luckless champion off their necks and back into the ring. There are several ways

40 #013sht dis

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Then, as a walle-hot climax, come the punch that will be us cussed and argued about tar heil, ever. Striding in for Firpo wound up his right arm

fist Ani

of upward surge on the point The seconds over world championship Dght.

recumbent Dempsey's jaw. the

Out of the ring con- "huge" from the Argentine. duller-retin

Went the Knock-down No. 4. trued to the tung of mathur,

crashing d teil

Up again, Kearns

WAL.

you

gumo right

swing that it was the giant Firpo who, desperate before being right-hooked into raised un Angry red Bush 10 seconds of insensibility, Best Dempsey's ribs then exposed defensive chinks in the again, like a lug, for the savagery that was Dumpsey. time. As

blue- scowling Eighty-two thousand Shuck-chinned champion

11 smashed spectators pule short right to the face. ubsorbing

£376,000 to watch the exposure,

At "six the wounded, out-

bul

57 seconds of melodrama.

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DREAMS

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And

that

on

down

ith

und

entering

crammed into three minutes and raged Firpo, defying incredibly every low of punch absorption, was up and bludgeoning away again only to suffer kubek dows Nu. & as Dempsey blasted journalism, but this turbulent his way inside the ponderous

advent wid not to be borne famous "two- swings with his

without prutest. left to the body and Umer light to the Jaw.

Two months earlier, Dempsey and Kearns had cleaned up

la i

3

k

fortune Int Shelby, Montana, Sull no surrender. Unheesfat with their now historie pointa the seregning spectators, and that decision

title delence andful only of the pain against

Gibbons, thuded inside him from toe to "tiny" Tom Dempsey, reinxing, was less it temple, Firpu struggled up and been for this ground in yet another then be might have

Pully of vicious punches, Demp- who, despite the tradi Firpo

but kept tlonal blah being trumpeted by sey took everything.

his head and answered bark as promoter Tex Rickard, was con-

champion should. sidered to be no great shakes by the people advising champion Jack.

Every man in boxing dreams chain- up world heavyweight plons, and the Spanish-Italian Firpo, born in Buenos Aires 27 years previously, come strictly within

the category of muscle men to whom the public might reasonably be persuaded to y tribute in large portions.

In fact, his chief and almost only asset ws DH

enormous

physical strength exuding from 8ft. 3in. of masculinity weighing nearly 10 stone. Of the buxing arts, if we are talking in world title terms, he know nothing

wrong with

next tu

bul there was little

hls

"promotion."

You could hardly cali Tex fuchard a dumb-cl.

They brought Firpo from the Argentine to New Jersey, talkedi

in not-so-hushed bones of his

Do not tell me that reporters are not supposed to help boxers back into the ring. If you have. ever had a heavyweight throwni in your lap, as I have, you will find it difficult to bother about rules.

cuuni

Nobody knows how far that? mektepar has progresstil with in those hysteria- his packed secunds. Eventually. For a seventh time the Blood- shaken, glassy-eyed and blood- Becked Firpo hit the floor; and spattered Dempsey was restored

THE AMERICAN SCENE

TWO-GUN KID

SHOWS HOW

FOST

From Newell Rogers

NEW YORK, divorced in 1934. He settled a Income on her. discussed book in $15,000 annual

the

V the US. this month One of the conditions of demoniac ring feruelty, labelled will not be on Senator never to ridicule him.

him Wild Bull of the Pampos, McCarthy or the H-bomb. and set about the build-up,

Firpo overwhelmed halt

duzer. lesser lights; then turned him louse on Jess lard, the glanl cowboy whom Dempsey had taken

title.

DEMOLITION

WU- from

un sex It will be an attack

In children's comie they and crime

books,

Dr Frederick Wertham, con- the sulting psychiatrist of the New York Department of Hospitals, Is the author,

settlement was that she wis

she

When

Bu

Ernest Hammer

12

Last year she wrote her life skry and told how he proposed பர் 20-mile hike in England MU (he was then 45 and sho 197. Yes he stood un his head for 64 seconds,

In court, Macfadden, alleged

the that this violated ridicule clause.

Judge He says nine out of 10 comic books give detalls on how to

ruled: "Whatever, the attitude commit crimes, conceal of the ancients, wives now en- of speech and Firpo performed his demoli-evidence, evade detection, and joy freedom

hurt people. He says they are action on a par with husbands." tion job in eight rounds, Wag primers on crime.

IN Newark, New Jersey, paraded some

egy As if to prove him fight, cinema manager desperate touches from Battle Creek to 13-year-old Stewart Wright patrons, had to pay a repair Nebraska, and was finally intro- admitted in Westville, Nova bl for broken doors after he duced as the angry bull who Scotia, that he shot his 14 adversed a free night. Seven would assuredly devour Demp-year old chum Roland Muir to hundred people tried to get into death after they read comic his 400-seat house, TV or no How nearly it happened! books about Two-Gun Kid. Dempsey, reputedly annoyed Just in fun they pointed

ney,

"more

in

by cool reception from the rifies at each other and Stewart crowd, sprang from

charged ferociously

越

stool, pulled his trigger. DL Firpo Titlo

of Wertham's book,

missed by a foot with a left- "Seduction of the Innocent." hand haymaker, and floundered

TV.

for

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AIRCRAFT designs are chang-

in mid-ring. Had the enormous A FILLY only 24 inches tall ing so fast that in six months Firpo had the tiniest suspicion and weighing only 161b, has the U.S.A.F. had to cancel of boxing Intelligence, he could been born at Oceanport, New contracts totalling 593 million have won the fight there and Jersey. She is being bottle-fed dollars (£211 million)-and then,

The ally is believed to be the write new orders, for 7,000,000 Instead, he gaped in astonish-smallest racehorse ever to live dollars (£2,500,000) more than ment, and Dempsey, recovering more than a few hours.

that figure. balance and poke in the manner The mother's name is Maize. of A champion, leapt in for The father in Double Brandy, 1 redreas. Dempsey, hooked, Firpo suggest Tiny Tot ds the ideal swung. They cilnehed. The name for the newcomer. referee, dapper Hitle

Johnny

WHENEVER Jerome Savenick abused his wife Huse she broko out in a rash and her face #welled, sho told the

Gallagher, snapped instructions MISS DELPHINE DINGER, Ángeles divorco court. to break and Firpo, the bull of New York, owng 500,000 Divorce granted. without a fighting brain, drop-chicken and turkey wishbones, ped his hands.

BO'Y

JACK LAIT, American

Sho gets them from poultry Journalist and co-author, You do not give the Dempseys men and the kitchen of of this world two such chances, Waldorf Astoria hotel. Then series of books which started

In a flash he had pile-driven asho ties them up in pretty boxes

loft book at the undefendod jaw, and sands them to people for and there was oft. Sin. of Firpo good luck.

on the floor. All this within 15

foul.

of a

libel actions involving millions

of dollars, has died in Beverly

Hills, California, aged 71.

00

Ho was editor of the Now seconds of the opening bell-and IN Baton Rouge, Louisiana, York Daily Mirror. His col- Firpo's seconds pleading glola-police put two burglary suspect laborator was Mirror columnist

but ineffectually for a before TV tively

cameras. Several Lee, Mortimer. vlowers phoned saying they

In thot books they claimed Game savage, but untulored saw the men near the robbery, to give inside information in the art of taking as long Police any the men then con- the life of some of America's breather as possible when you've fessed.

cities been hammered, Firpo sprang to YORKSHIRE BORN Mary of the city followed by the The titles were just the name. his foot-straight into another knock-down left on his aching Wiliamson Macfadden today word "Confidmailul,”

They chân.

won a : $16,000 court: decidon frifbed up with “USA. Con- Again he jumped up without against her, former husbandha fidential—which brought, then a. count--but, thi. Ume, to more A She" and physdead; culiarist their sixth libel motion in thres sensational purpose, To to the

We were 4 months?

ます

have

really tossed Juck Dempsey off the golden pedestal of the chain- plonship of the world.

NEXT SATURDAY Every fight was a joy to Jack McAvoy----until he mot Freddie Mills.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

and may I remind you, Sergeant-major, that no one below the substantive rank of captain is permitted by regulation to form a Govern ment without previous notificationtothe Adjutant,"

A lot of money

".

very

NOW £5,000,000 is a lot of money (even to n Com- munist, who could get it from Guatemala), and, of course, Johnny Blades didn't know he had that much when he picked it up.

Johnny Is not bright, but, according to the P.U.P., he was bright enough to know something was queer about the stone

near he picked up

because Maya ruins rattled, and stones us a rule just don't rattle. He shook it to make sure. It rattled again.

F

For a few days Johnny against temptation, finally he just had to discover

the secret of the stone. So one morning he smashed it opened, At that split second there was a great roar us of thunder and a blinding white flash.

Struck with terror, Johnny crouched for safety. Ag the the white rumblo died away man came running towards him, his monocle dangling, his face contorted with evli fury. "You fool," he screamed, "you med, empty-headed fool. Don't contained you know that stone atomic energy worth £5,000,- 0007"

Please Again I say:

don't laugh. This story is a perfect

example of the way the P.U.P. educational hits at the lowest level in this country of swamp und jungle,

Hundreds up and down this Colony believe that poor Johnny was the one man in a who had by chance stumbled on

million

a fortune, but who was robbed

some greed of the white man.

it

of his rightful riches by the

He was puzzling this out slowly and very unsurely when up sauntered a despicable Eng- lishman, for all the world like the villain in "The Silver King," and, wainly trying to conceal be- his

eagerness, and with a

at attempt

offhand guiling banter, laughingly offered Johnny $200 for this silly old bit of a souvenir.

Went down well

THE story

the

was first told at a P.U.P. meeting by one of their chiefs, Antonio Soberanis, last October. It went down so well with the audience of 400 that it became a top priority

it round job to circulate Colony's most backward spots as electioneering material.

The P.UP. doubtless doesn't believe the story, but it doesn't have to. All it needs to remem- ber is that even if you can't fool all the people all of the time Johnny, however, WIS not you can win the election if you a member of the P.U.P. for fool 51 percent for a couple of nothing, and cunningly shook months.

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