1954-08-14 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954.

Dry-cleaner. Beor distributor, .Restaurateur

Hairdresser.... Property owner'.

Shed No Tears

The Soft Shoe

R

AY ROBINSON, pinky-purple Cadil

und n1, shuffling the old

soft shoe for upwards of £2,000 a week in Europ The routine of his variety act la corny, the comerly trite, and the reward moderate compared with the dollar - million he stacked away from boxing,

-

But shed 110 tenrs for Sugar Ray erat while Walker Smith, who danced in the gutter till a priest and a prize-fight manager taught "him the know-how with his

knuckles.

Robinson is doing all right. He told me so its we sat in his office-sorry, one of his offices-on the corner of 124th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York, the day before he left for Europe.

Had to win

Yes, and the manicured sind barbered chief of itny Robawon

there Enterprises, Inc..

were busy times. He has some 300 or 400 (he is not sure which) em- ployees helping him to distribute beer in 36 states to the tune of £260,000 a year; he owns half a block in Harlem, a car- In the Bronx, a restaurant

seven-stool barber a year, shop with haircuts at 78, a time, a dry-cleaning

outh. sevel lve-storey Apartment houses, and a lingerie shop for his wife.

by George by Whiting

I never Agure things to be that way.

"Sure, I just a cruiserweight shot to Joey Maxim, but I ended up as middleweight champion, things That Turpin sure made. tough though. You should know how tough. You were there both times.

Yes, I was there, striving to preserve the impartiality of a as Turpin swept to reporter

at Enris convincing victory Court, London, in July, 1031 and then was hammered into swivel-eyed defeat against reper in a Harlem holiday New York's Polo Grounda days later.

The #1 04

Both Umes Turpin

For Shuffler

NEW-STYLE PACT FOR ASIA

By JAMES WICKENDEN

&

Communist organisations have begin soon with Stam and concentrated on this weak spot Formosa as the next tar- by such moves as the minor unost in Singapore against gets.

military registration and the

anti-Form/san- To meet it Britain is ex- present pected to go ahead with ganda. crimson SEATO even if India refuses

to back it.

propa-

CENEVA silenced the troops to operate on Asian gunfire, but the lull in soil without arousing cries Asia is already drawing to a of "Western imperiallam" Three minutes later, ho was no

close. Official London circles or "colonialism." longer middleweight champlon | expect a now cold war to of the warld-but a beaten, bemused young man in an alien ring.

'The end was upon us with shattering, dramatic suddenness. Turpin shot yet another short. Jotting right cross-and his glove came back carrying

But in Malaya such moves evidence of a successful mission

cannot alter the fact that there from his opponent's left eye. A

are already more than 09.000 desperate Robinson, black hair

under arms thero with First signa of the cold war mon the stiff and brown face flecked with

sufficient battle experience to are seen in the attacks on qualify them as first-class nail- blood, took one startled look at

Qual the Siamese government by guerilla fighters. Although not manager George Gainford in his

ex-Siamesa Premier comer-and then leapt forward

Nai organised In large formations, like a w

a wounded ant A vicious

rksht

ono to the Pridi,

time colourful they form a valuable

With a population of about six hurt, another to the chin-and spy of the West, now writing million, of which a high pro-

with his arms for Peking papers.

portion is of military age, Malaya Turpin, caught

at the moment of what

could probably treble her force down should have been his greatest

without diskcating her inbour over bowling triumph, went

strength, backwards on to the floor.

those

that red gash nrumsed

How Robinson corner.

conds fumbled for the patent that is strictly and solution

British sensibly) forbidden to boxers whose eyes are cut, Why, was at onc period Robinson grabbing the towel and wiping his own blood oway-an unpre- cedented chore in a usually silck American corner, and one that we would do well to re- member when we criticise the of allegedly silpshod seconding our own champions,

Eighteen thewend wit-starved Heston barn atiku spontanicolis song as Turpan's hand was held high as the nel-

new middleweight etiumplen ut she werid, on points The last saw of Robinson that

winked at me before he vanced against his rand-just as he had done us a golliwog-topped kid, punching noses for medal. at the age of 14. Ah, ine times change,

"I don't remember too much about the actual boxing in tha! Turpin light," sald first Robinson,

No? Allow me to refresh his all-too-ronvenient memory. Let me remind him that Turpin best

millionaire that takes £80.000 him all ends up und in every

a

Yes, suid Mr Robinson, he also has a memory, occupleti principally and pugilistically by two young men-olle whose name he never knew and the other whose nume he will never forget: Randolph Turpin,

ONL

"I am 34 now." said Robinson, "and that makes it just 16 years

1 bent a boy ngo alnce Madison Square Garden 10 win a Golden Gloves amateur Up till then i

championship. was a nobody, but winning

that title meant I was a Bume- body, with a name people would remember when they heard it. Man, I felt good. In fact, never felt so good again all t back the middleweight championship of the world from Randy Turpin.

won

"Man, that was a near thing, but I just had to win. When lost that title to Randy in London two months before, it meant 1 was just another ex- emp. They're a dime a dozen,

phase of the fight--in initiative, In strategy, in fiming and direc- tion of punches, and in the bringe quirk perception that with it the insite berth in nearly every etch.

★ Greatest win

Turpin marched that night to the greatest win British boxing His hus known since the war, brit hand.

"uid fash- flushing koned" straight leails at itoblar son's surprised and twisted face, was magnificent,

brief Turpin

After commendably preliminaries, I recall, began with a right that landed near Robinson's kidneys and earned reproof from referco Eugene Henderson, But that way the last we saw of kidney

punches, save for one accidental right-hander from an instantly apologetic Robinson.

dirty

Nothing doubtful ひで about that light. No knock- downs, either. And no blond until the seventh round, when Robinson showed up from D clinch with an inch-long sit on his teft eyebrow. What a panic

tight he was weeping biller tears has dries.g-room table. The Turpin, he was relations must to get Ving Dis

That a modest, lve shilling a head supper in a Strand hotel.

★ Ring tragedy

Two months later a was the AMELK B-60,000 of then-who were singing. The Batons, num- bered bravely 122 L hundreds

out there

on the Toto Grounds of New Yok, west silent-tight ipped wineses if a ring tragedy which, to this day, 1 wear should never have happened.

Fest

аз

★ Bewildered At "three" he twisted round on his knees and gave two shakes of a head wherein lie brains be- huddled, At "eight" he was oth 145 fertan upen, unguarded target for a venemous Johnson where lighting instinct told him

or never, W.

must

thin

Engi I be struck down,

A nunded, bewildered Turpin backed away en Jetty legs and after him went Robinzon, polsed fur, the kili, Hooks, jabs, upper- cuts, and every kn

known variety

Asia's

non-Communist

reserve,

CLEAR IDEA

Ideological

And Peking is intensl fying its propaganda onslaught against strongest outpost, Formosa.

Apart from This is probably due to

the problem of

Britain forces,

has the on

morbid Chinese

fear raising

worked out a clear idea of the that somehow America will sort of pact Asia must have to create bases and new forven maintain pence. It must have in these territories close to a hard core of military strength. the freshly-won Communist But the next phases of anli- state of North Vietnam. Communist effort is expected to front. The theory is that Ameri- be on the

there must be ca might shift Formosan Consequently, Chinese troops to Slam and greater effort to strenther Asia against Communist propaganda. of punch descended on the luck

30 stiffen morale among Chinese les Turpin, swaying defensively

population - the How this vast and explosive with flaccid and undueiplined

largest overseas Chinese subject can be handled between sits on the ropes.

the signatory powers to a SEATO counted 20 power-packed colony.

poses a novel problem for the Rchinson thundered

free world. It Implics a Ther at heart. ribs and lungs.

TIE DOWN TROOPS kind of collective security, with came the bounding figure of re-

no resemblance to the purely ferce Ruby Goldstein, flinging

military system of NATO, or his abby little Ledy across the

the purely economie arrange. ring,

ordering the frenzied

By whipping up ments of the Colombo Plan. Bebinson away, and wrapping enthusiasm for an invasion protective arms round Turpin in

Finally, in her consultations of Formosa, China presum with of

all Interested countries, ably hopes to tie down Brita

ja believed Nationalist Chinese troops emphasising that the pact must in defence of their island be anti-Communist but not sati-

creation of base and prevent them being power bloc whose object could used as a mobile strategie be construed

hostility to force in other parts of Asia, China would run

China obviously realises Britain's concern to achieve that one of the West's proper diplomatic understanding

Aslan TOW biggest problems in forming which has come to stay in world

find affairs. a security pact is to

1 Dunches

n

FU

gesture compassionate

rescue.

Can't forget

Khy, why, why did Turpin maivet the potent left hand that

Jabla

andi subducti # bau rampaging Robinson into a wide- open target in London? Why,

did he not to the Thus did Sugar Ray Rubinson. way, why

conceded to be Une nine seconds

that the laws generally of boxing permit a man who most versatile fighter, poured for has been knocked off his feet? pound, of this or any other ume, Why, why, why did he not call shatch swift and well-merited up his boxing bruin

when, tul

In victory from what many of us that blistering tenth round, he still believe was impending de-

Icut. aguin ripped Robinson's left eye- brow wide apart? Why, why, why did he forget to duck? Nobody has the answers... least of all Turpin.

aine rounds those 60,370 spectators, shepherded by grey- shirted cops, fed by peanut ven- dus, pestered by beggars and leket-touts, and studded with Hollywood starlets, oil kings and millionaires, had watched Turpin hod is own. More than hold his own, some of us thought.

Ray Robinson, dancer, vaude- vill actor and man of property, fogered the scarcely visible scor over the eye that Turpin twien sikhta open.

"How can a man forget that kind of a fight?" he asked me. crhaps you can think of an answer.

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TOADS BELONG TO THE EXUDERS

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By IVAN T. SANDERSON

OT a few old wives' tales are turning out to be true, or to be based upon facts that were previously misinterpreted or It now turns exaggerated.

out that the toad is poison- ous, and that it may cause some types of warts.

A certain kind of goose is to this day called Д "barnacle goose** because, before men found ity breeding grounds, they thought it was hatched from

a barnacle shell. The reason they thought this, more- over, seems quite idiotic to us. It was simply that the fleshly part inside the big ship barnacle

which is actually related crabs and lobsters-look rather like a tiny goose, plucked except for its wings and curled up rendy to go into the pot.

Similarly, the knobs on ឥ toad's dry skin, at least on the common species found in Europe, greatly resemble warts and

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humon hand,

Toads are a kind of frogs, despite anything you may believe to the contrary. The ordinary species we see hop- ping about forms a rather special group with dry, rough skins, and compara- tively short back legs in contrast to the slippery skins and long, leaping legs of other frogs. But there! are hosts of species in substance - may be squeezed, glands about the skin secrete a irritant that may give rise to tropical countries that are though I got a great shock in kind of slime which is equally quite intermediate and could South America once when I toxic, causing paralysis. Just as well he called frogs prodded or toads.

The harmless-looking toad is capable of secreting polson harmful to animals when bitten.

From them a white milky smaller animals. Secondly, other

people immediately associated the two. When the toad was discarded as the arch venom In the witch's brew, Its propensity for causing worts was also die- missed. Modern research in skin cancer, however,

has brought forth the fact that bufonin injected under

the skins of experimental animals seta as a virulent and lasting permanent wart-like growths

and eruptions. Nor is this all.

that

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ful creatures, since they keep than rubber cement and was not DUB, and they Infected that they possessed all kinds of

down insect pesta, and the giant, blood. so-called marine toad has been introduced into almost every hot country in the world to keep

› down mosquitoes.

curo warts

huge, smooth-

Toads do not use these poisons skinned, cream-coloured tead offensively. They are perfectly that 1 I had found in hole

safe to handle at all times and the top of an 30-foot tree. 19 there is no danger even if a Toads ent Insects, worms, and glands immediately dribbled little of their milk gels, on other small creatures and even

strange, ruby-red Auld that hands. If any

to While some people used catch, mica. They are very use smelt like garlic, was stickier bites a tond it suffers

emali anima?“

badly.

contend very

tonds WOTXI swell up

and mouths

Venomous and polsonous and Some toads can even

ex- caused vomit ex-c may.

warts, others believed squirt these scerations from cessively and even their glands.

directly into the bloodstream, med

medicinal properties, including the the poison is instantly fatal, and the ability to Nobody today has either we may presume that a mix

mixture lightly bound to the amicted Inclination to bilo a tond, or the of bufonin and the socration of

for some time. It skin nosity of doing so not to the skin glands in pulficient appears that the secretions of mention eating one whole! In quantity would kill man. the other skin glands of

a bygone umes,

may be useful in medical treat All foods have a pair of large latter practico was quite com fouls, nevertheless, make de animals do have properties that

mshiful pets and cannot bite.

ment and even in certain skin ellings on the upper sides of mon in some countries becauso

their witheraft hati" treade, just behind

There remains the quartion of amictionary was widespread.

and hero, we encounter Varlour and winday old eyes. In some species Primitive religions often to waris, glands may be positively quired the ceremonial eating of one of the most controversial may therefore have been ODCINE anduse, brilliantly coloured all manner of strange things, matters over devised by mati about fosca and In mare. Ally yellow, orange or red and medicino did likewise, and beast, and which he be than one-off; thì Expometimes jot black o

come almost hopelemly, involved etiam 50 Mocambr

However, toads

the

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"down the body, and be a polsonous. First, the milk in Mou transl

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