1954-08-07 — Page 7

THE CHINA- MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954.

FIRST OF ANOTHER SMASHING SATURDAY SERIES

Where are the Kings of the Ring today?

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adorn the slightly

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"cauliflowers," thick cars) whipped but eminently bene

"Kid" Lewis, the greatest welter-weight fighter this or any other country gver tossed into a ring--and now happily employed in the fun and travel industries.

Curious aboul those cara. Lewis, born to cabinet- making in the East End, sought more than 500 Lattles for estimated purse monies of £200,000 in Britain. USA. Australia, Canain, South Africa, France, Haly and Ger- many yet it was in mines, no account, fisticuffs that Ted pot his tick-ta"

The one on the left was collected with a 30s, prize BA 15 at the old a feather-weight competatan winner Wonderland, way down East. quite so rich in blom, talne

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By George Whiting

In a Soho studio

Kid Lewis

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control the weigh-in crywest complend Congres iconges

theking for got suckfriars Hint, where

pentier, slappos!, weighed

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bis gullon heavy-weight swing with Jack Dempsey America, wars not ton consernet with the pronoŭional offers and

I purk my DWH DWUALITIES the blistering

the KH carved out so magnificently and

menacingly with dancing lege managerial deg that came

presitelly across the Channel mingget fists, anul a cald, rélent- jess, purpose that sunshed a 100 hojan, and as many bones,

But, Brst, let Lewis the man who once boxed Ove 20-round beatest te

Werk

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a tighter. (a) his debuftione and de bes recollection of the Worst 10 oitutes he ever thanugh in a ring

betalt or an English weller- weight. At bad, Lewis derided

frontal aflack, in person.

The Kid (1081, 108.) WAN the swift process of knocking nut Tom Gummer (13st. 101b.j

round at the

Bear

went

of Brighton,

burst

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out Oakland, was well trained. Championna

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with Bathing

life-weight. California.

and I was

of the world at the

"In the serenal ronid ounce of strength fell out

10.

as though souborty bad removed the plug from a bath- Jub. My #m dropped.

legs went like Jend. and a

terbe feelmy

came over me.

Citrines

It was as much as 1 could do to hold my left tural

went hokl

(711. The Rave are draw, which I eve- tuinly never doserved.

"When I got back to my hotel they handed me a telegrain say. ing that my wife, 90 triles away in New York, had given birth to our son. Morton, at the exact minule I had been struck numb in the ring. You can call that the hardest fight I ever had."

132

I never

saw Ted Lewis action as far away as Californiu, Lut I watched, idulised, respect- ed. criticised and reported him a dozen times in his own country, I still puff my chest and strike an "I was there" attitude when

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Carpenter uppe cut hard and trus to the ess Low did meie atl PEKT

found

right il embraced as Carpentier, with an ensant us trickle - 1 bh if mozing from the corner of his mouth. Siki, sought shelter yet another hold.

Eght e nine hours later, tas indy had

Way pressed their through

crush the traile

thels Olympia

reachert

listened to dressing-rooms the then customary poller warn. ing about their responsibility in and the event of a fatality

been told that the Duke of York. Brach Prince George, later Duke of Kent, were on theb way to the ringside.

Ted (Kid) Lewis talks over a script for a filin test with Monica Henri. a 19-year-old soubrette from Ealing, and Cara Stevens, an actress from Harrow.

of vesteryear.

PARIS NEWSLETTER

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Paris. industry. He helped M. Monner Na desk in the private draw up his famous plan of in- dustrial re-equipment just after office of the French the war. Minister of Finance, M. Edgar Faure, les an- who has more idens than any

There is Gabriel Ardani, 43. thick bundle of typewritten one else in France on how to documents. It represents a cut expenditure on pubilo ser- month's work by "Mr viccs; there in Francols Bloch- France's" Back-Room Boya. Laine 42, M. Schumann'a old the New Deal the righthand man and an expert on magie formula which is to rate banking and credit.

There is Florro Basse, 39, the form France from 19th to eyes of the Bank of Franco,”

This 13

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and the brilliant Rimon Nora, 33, months. Now that peace has technical adviser to M. Mendes- come to Indo-China is likely France. Įto be put into effect,

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Paul Delouvrier, 40, is a fiscal

There are nine of these Back expert who knows all the té-oni Beys, and their average answers about Amertean ald to M. Mendes-France Indo-China and French ald to

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them this assignment: -Work The two babies of the tearn. a complete blueprint for are Jacques Duhamel, 20, and economie expansion end sucia Vatery d'Estaing, 28, who were progress. And do it by July 20 students together and are on M. becutise by then I shall know whether it will be of any use to Faire's personal staff

The **

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"Wc pro a nort of club" Duhamel suld to me. "Ench of 129 is on 'thou' and thine'

with al speaking terms

Icaat four others.

Here then are the nine

McM of the meetings at the mine have been in a soundproof who erceni-puintod room overlooking France, found

men

have fell the

it still

pulse of beating

a quiet exurtyard off the Rue de and are ready with the injection Roll, There is one telephone in to give it new vigour when Me this room-for outgoing calls Franec and the French Parlia

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have been summoned

there

was champaɣlie

CHEF WAS PLEASED

upstairs by M. Faure 10 cold born and Chicken and whisky boxing But does "all times and to chat about the progress THE recent Big Three dinner al the Hotel Matignon, when mehude that period

the they have made.

official residence of the French retrive has ordered a cease-fire? One

day

Premier when Lord Lonsdale as

Mr France ac- Please yourself

a special reward for a good lually lingered over his chicken had the best answer when he day's work. On Sunday the nine declares that lack of authority

en went to M. Faure's private with a knife and fork instead of following his usual practice in referees and the enormous residence and had their whisky money prizes for which boxers there, They were able to tell the of gnawing a wing at his office

desk was a Night are most detrimental to

a great night for would make faithful retainer. It was the Munster that they the interests of the sport.”

Bir deadline.

bit But the dashing, crashing Kid

At the head of the Back-Room Arst time there has been a Lewis, the re-rald slaughterer ogs

of life in the Hotel Matignon is 43-year-cid Cluude

since M. Mendes-Franc, became is not now con- Gruson.

Alune of the team, he

premer. ternet with the mure abstruse has 1 nistrative responsi

When he took over a Prime bilities. He is paid to think.

Minister And Foreign Minister, MAN FROM INDUSTRY he decided to work as the Qual d'Orsay, the Foreign Office, thus Medest and quiet-spoken, he sidetracking a cordon blau cook knits the Back Room Boys at the Hotel Matignon,: huxom tologether a a smooth machine Mme. Rose Petit,

Mme.

Petit with nobody getting on anybody

used to be in the clse's nerves.

service French author and academician Jules Gruson might make a brilliant

Romains, Sho Inance minister himself, but he left his to go and copy the M. never will because he is not the Lantel, the former premier, and slightest bit interested in politics, since both the Lanisis ore fond Mine. Potit won Oldrat member of the cam is of good food,

Etienne pipe-smoking

Hirsch, kopi hard at it preparing 53, the only recruit from private delightful meals.

polats of boxing philosophy.

When I met him the uther day he had started out from his St. John's Wood flat,

put in a morning of the travel bureau he

to direct For

dreasles Bighting helps Thre

in Trafalgar and settled down ant Square, men have argued the pros

tulit afternoon business in 4025

need Solio offler with his movie-man harder that Carpentier

son-the youne Marion Lewis booking- wasn't when Lewis

whose derival in the world had with Lord Lordule leading the

the pen his father collywobbles in contemporary opinion that,

a Colifornia ring 37 years ago. than Kirt had

received

"Stop!" and level the

Jurskive. feree

Defend yourself at all times. above our din, mud, perling the

the enruinal

of precept irale Aghters part, saat Th clinching must stop."

Both men, ually ice-enic an their pugilism, were gluring al gach other. The more Curpentkr held, the more Lewis strove to free bis Imprisoned arm.

Lewis & werd hatres tu od his head to protest his 11- fcence of such It non- device its holding

and for one split second! bok his eye off his opponent ay the teforce, hacking away, wagavad an admonitory finger.

Gummer Fl The wered

Came trouble-right from the naciousness) arched stralglit

was start. Poker-faced Lawis, pus- up to where Carpentier Jedding Cari ta bunch

sesser of two rather sharp front belligerent of

teeth, had, years before, adopts mwspapertuen. and demanded

1. Ramsholds How used point blank:

boxing--but Cars universally in pentier, manager, the mercurio. Francois Discampo), saw menke He in the innocent protector. objected ristly, and got Fam

If roundly boord,

uf

Why won't you light ***** Carpetition ately ensefoti i

the poised pencila around lim, fummed and hned a little, and then replied;

you can

"Very well. 1 tight you if to stage get anybody it."

meult. The That was 153 late

Wilson. Major Arnold London's No. 1 promoter at the time, was present. He and articles were signed within

week.

talked.

At first they thought of the Royal Albert Hall, but changed their minds quickly when a punch-hungry public began shooting good money at the bex-office. They booked Olympia. Lewis's recollection of that hertle occasion is that receipts reached a then indoor record of £43,000, Id that he gol

£12,000, Carpentier £15,000.

[Note: Contemporary reports put these Ayres as £27,000,

In

Carpentier. with: 23 pounds and at least four inches height on his site, proffered a tentative left lend at Lewis's Jieod, and looked extrem ly hurt as this gombit wus skil- fully slipped.

1-

Lewis feinted a left, sput. and then piled nearly 1 stone

venom of

into a swiftly cending right hander on the angular French jaw before him. A sweet punch, and one tu which the ustonished Carpen. Ber's instinctive reply www

Bagrant hold.

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Lewis tore himself loose, and banged angrily to the body where the red patches of pain- ful receipt showed quickly and vividly on Carpentier's Creamy

skin.

in the

"Look out. Ted!" we yelleti. For we, horror-struck, could see what he could not Carpentier, iminelle for one brief instant, was sunkenly galvanised into swift and devastating

destrue- tion of the open fargest before him. Calling up every gram

of power in his strong right arm, he shot an unhindered fist at the point of Lewis's defenceless jaw. The knock-out point.

Lowis, museles unflexed, crumpled in a pathetic heap on his knees, pawing the smoke- den air in a daze that adver- Used all too plainly the dire and naluro ot His irretrievable'

there he stayed, plight And

to from "One" to "Out"-and the tune of thunderous protest from a crowd affronted by the Frenchman's action.

"Not until I found Carpen- Carpentier grabbed again with ler his left, essayed a right hook

was helping me to my under Lewis's heart, while we lift, and not until I

corner did the mist begin to vas back in crowd roared our dis- the dressing-ream could I gather approval of this hit-and-hold enough enormity.

wrenched what had happened to me," said of my wits to realise Carpentier traineri, most Bercely at the enfolding arm- Lewis over our 1964 lunch. tertainingly. at Maldenhead, lock, and referee Jos Palmer What a night! How we teen- Lewis took aimself off lo stepped forward to effect the

hard feelings?" I agers howled when they sent Harrow-on-the-Hill, where the separation.

the talk turns to Carpentier £5,000 and £10,000.]

Lewis nt Olympla VITEUS

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