Where are the Kings of the Ring today?
L
EE SAVOLD, the with Woodcock,
soft spoken Nor- bought
Savold hus
4 countryside motel wegian - American (motorists' hotel) in a famous who
beauty spot out on Lake Geneva, sent Bruce Woodcock out of Interna. Wisconsin. It cost him £14,000 tional boxing with a three of the 120,000 he has stacked Judiciously away for his family Inch gaah over his left eyes a reward for 20 tough years four years ago, has been a
In the thick-ear trade. stricken man these last few months.
Lo be borne. Savoldi
The not-to-gentle arts of boxing also have healing The pleasant, homely, properties when there rubbery face that withstood tragisty
and has built himself a ring at the punches a thousand
thek of his motel, and never made a million friends in day passes but what his 3B.
the this country has
in delible mark of grief on its rugged contours.
Savold the one-time blusters ing saloon-bouncer who for- zwore John Marleycorn to wis self-respect and a molest tune at the fight game, took the biggest thrushing
# fe when his 14-year-old daughter, Sandru, died trost infantile paralysis curly this year.
of
Beauty spot
t
your-old Bats are swung for his own consolallon and the struction of younger men the tuble of his manager. 13:14 Daly
D
Ira On
Incidentally, both Daly and
to for Savold are hoping
bc England again in August, holiday. of Course, though Suvold, with
momentary
nur ly. return of the old dry humour iftat endeared him to A Tour years ago has been telling me
ducked that he never yet
That kind of rap is not easy to beat. It is a quiet but not embittered-Savold who slowly recovers the routine of life o there
Wisconsin In
with his 1544 Aniversity
Dick, and son
daughter
wife Eileen.
Undergraduate
hir
nine-year-old
Shirley.
Business helps the slow tide
IL
hut, that he is quite will- g to break the nose of any British heavyweight to help pay UN PURSER,
THE CHINA” MAIL, SATURDAY," "AUGUŞT." 28, 1951
Savold's
grief is slow
to heal
by George
Whiting
Savold bi the dust when seals
were sold and
Boys Woodcock: "I was doing all right. My lott opened things up, and I remember raising a bump just above Savold's right eye at the end of the first round.
"I played on that_mark_for, all I was worth, and one right- hander on it in the second round had Savold pulling away and covering up. Likely
up the should have stepped pressure a bit ab that stage, but I was bonding to orders, and in no hurry. It's easy to be wise
NOW.
"Savold look plenty from me in the third. One right-hander on his jaw would have put most blokes on the floor, but Lee Just
on the llver And under the staggered a bit and then came
No. but not that time. back nt me with those
short heart, then armed jabs he was so fond at. sit. I wasn't aiming to get dia-
the Bus one of them hurt, and I qualified again, and I relied a tree. really began to feel I was get- the old beak-buster.
referee Sam Russell disqualified Woodcock fell asleep
punch wheel him for an alleged low
of a truck, hit ast Har- round
was taken to hospital in the fourths ringay.
crushed chest and form shoulder him.
muscles.
with
A
Each of us raised
(wn our
Die So they postponed the "battle about particular squawk
1L rights and wrongs of that of the rentary." re-labelled decision
Solomons. and
not as for the heavyweight cham- entirely iont to the publicity plonship for the world, and set pot up shop again at the White City value of noise.
the kept
on June, 1050. telling until he was ready for
It was as a “beak buster" that Savold, Minnesota-born, first e to our ken when Jack to Suloons brought him here Oght Woodcock in December. Inter at the White City.
1948
The
visit
was it
11 return match nine months
Snvold arrived! 10 cutely managern
assessed trumpeting,
Sociully, of forgetfulnes. With the money he earned from the two fights resounding success. Pugilistical- uttered their parrot-ery threats,
wh
IN THE PAST SHE HAS BEEN RIDER, CLOWN, CRICKETER AND NOW
BUT GEE, just look at those jeans!
AS THE MUSCLE-MAN SAID TO...
NANCY SPAIN
DON'T
believe in America. It is only a Lbeautiful dream. Every- thing here is so much bigger than anywhere else.
The news-Kateline today is NEW YORK, where Nancy Spain, GA
flying visit,
Nancy... with the light blue jeans...
New Jersey we are all worms. In New England they are worms waiting
upright" Like many
British Mrs Parker has
Once, when
ting "rdmewhere near stopping
☆ No option
"He was in trouble at
on
"Woodcock was pouring blood from his nose and mouth. Ho soaked up real punishment be- split his left eyebrow fore I with a right orosa in the fourth, more and he soaked up some
the afterwards. The last punch, 1 remember, was a left hook on his chin that must have made hirm mighty glad to hear
that beli.
beginning of the fourth--but I wie in even worse trouble soon after, He must have caught me I went out to meet Savold in an we broke from a clinch. the Queen Elizabeth at Cher- First thing I know I had blood bourg, where he obliged with pouring from my left eye and what we newspaper men like to all over my face. The more
away the worse offer up to our ego as a scoop. tried to brush From fer the bedclothes of it got. Fighting blind, I sup- Stateroom 121, the buster of pose you'd call it.
benks declared that, 30 Im- portant did he rate the Wood- cock fight, he had undergone "secret" 10-round trial with an unnamed but noteworthy Negro in the dead of night.
Woodcock
It worked
the
"I told Bill (Daly) 1 gured, I needed only one more round
Woodcock off sed premises, but Bill was storing acrossing the right at Wood cock's corner and yelling to me "Anyway, Savold caught me there wasn't gonna be no more again on the cut and split the rounds. Woodcock's young Resh longer and wider. By the brother had thrown the towel time the bell rang for the end in. With an eye like that in of round I'd had it, and the the family, I don't blame him. referee, Andy Smythe, had ΠΟ
option but to give the fight to ☆ Cheers died
Savold,
"You never SOW 30 much
Nor 1. For two rounds, I and trained mld the as came from that zig-zag cut. 49,999 other forvent. White City fabricated battlements of It was at least three inches long customers had watched Wood- Gywrych Castle, Ал Wales, and more than a quarter of an cock's mighty right hand thump Savold took himacil aft to a inch wide. The doctor put bailroom at Scarborough, cight clips and four stitches in pain into Savold-especially one vicious cross that knocked the it that night, and I had four American back-on his hects and more stitches put up in by my halfway to the poorhouse. own doctor when I got home."
"I' tear him apart," Savold told us.
"fli knock him cold," clared Woodcock.
de
I have spoken many times with Wookcock about that fight. Recently in a skyscraper hotel in the United States, I took the opportunity of doing the same with the Savoid party.
Different
Q
berserk But we also saw Savold tear himself free from a third-round clinch and fire off volley after volley of numbing icft jabs all of them on or And Savold? His story different; so very, very different. And
dangerously near the chin-mark. our cheers died in our "We figured to knock Wood-n
throsis In that crimson fourth cock out in six or seven round round. A left and a right
to "Lee had definite instructions
by means of counter-punching. Woodcock's left eye. andi on how to beat Woodcock, and he told me. "That old left lab blood gushed forth as if a
ira knife carried them
out to the you can't beat it. especially said manager Daly. "We
¡eiter,"
18
cham-
knew Woodcock was susceptible when the other guy is throwing had dug a hole in our
plen's face.
and Now, four years later, to cuts, so we aimed to cut him right hands at you like Wood- -considerably. Jab, jab, jab cock dd,
with money in the bank, there "Pretty near everything went
the with the left Set him up.
blistering threat or the bludge- Then cut him down. That was the way we figured. I'd had Pat no longer any need for
plan, and, bay, how it Comiskey, my sparring partner, aning punch. Bo Woodcock pulls tossing right-handers at my pints... and Savold mourns
every day up Scar-
at worked. Yes, it
But how
and he threw borough
harder Dhan Woodcock. Bruce differently the four brief rounds ones
the
worked."
chin
of that bloodshot battle dwell was a solid puncher, but how
in the memories of its prin- he telegraphed that right hand! authors.cipals-Savold in his Wisconsin, Riding it wam't so difficult.
"Most fights I'd make a play Woodcock in his York- of motel pub-shire pub.
horror work.
her manuscript sher demanded # she invited him round and showed him how thick It was," "Not finished yet, but thick." Is looking up the famous
"It may have boen gadded out with a fow old letters," snys emphotle bow ties, perching at Ma Park, "but is mast cricket balls. At the shooling his throat like butterflies. He unkind to suggest that it galleries you мяс
splendidly and excitedly padded with The telephone repeating tommy-gun instead of un ordinary rifle.
The tomatoes are as big DS
100-shot talks
If you wont anything you send out for it and it arrives at
Hermione
to soften a guy up with punches
ONLY RED-HEADS
was
•
and is associated with Miss G. directory Gingold's play will in the British panel game. "One Moment, Please!" which is now be put on in the late autumn sweeping American networks. It is all about an actress who all hours of the day or night- The panel members are asked I really a witch, whose father even if it is a lemon meringue to talk for one moment without ple as big as a wedding cake, hesitation, repetition, or straying done up in a hat box.
I know that American books from the point on subjects like Fabic" the Tunnel of Love and Musleal Are big. I bought "A by William Faulkner, and it cost Instruments from Tibet.
me £2 and weighs Tib., and I connot understand one word.
1 wondered about American authors? Are they big too? I sent out for some.
Miss
For failures
is a conjurer, whose husband is about to be knighted
Hermiono
4
not.
SERVED HERE
From Donald Ludlow
New York. IN Birmingham, Albama, 23 SHOP for red-headed policemen have been arrested--
of and
A women only has opened suspected or 150 burglariesight
Her husband doesn't care for in New York's smart Park beats. Total loot: $50,000. her goings-an with (a) ten Sheraton Hotel.
CALLY BAND, queen of the leaves, (b) young gentlemen. No blonkles, brunettes, orton dangers, allpped out after
may play it, may other shades will be rerved,
The boss, red-headed Ruth her show at a Las Vegas night- club early one morning and TF they fail on this programme Her curant hit, John Murray Tornroth, expects boom business,
chanel they are presented parakeet "by the courtesy of" at the moment, but reopens some manufacturers of bird around the end-of August. Alas,
with
ho was
BY
Than
she skipped back into the club again for her next perfor- mance.
in
her
a Anderson's "Almanac," is closed for one in five New York, women popped into a wedding
to marry her third husband, 30- is a red-head, either real or year-old contractor Fred Lau
red Magic phrase seed. When Mare Connelly and yes, Miss G. is one of the most bottle, she says. (Her own Sa maller or fact Pullizer I arrived the apartment was profitable exports we have ever hair is "part bottle.")
Ruth's aim is to overcome the A Prize winner Mare Connelly. full of bird-seed.
allowed to go to America. She
Miss Rand, who signed the who wrote "Green Pastures."
Perhaps Mr Connelly is dif- swears, however, that she will colour problems which "make a
register with her real
name, and Dorothy Parker, who wrote ferent from English
authors. be back in London in the spring. red-hend's life a misery."
Sho fald: "Most red-heads Helen Gould Beck, gave "Men seldom make passes at When (as was inevitable) we ali
Dréssing up stick cautiously to browns and age as "somewhere over 21." ploy girls who wear glasses," are both began to
One Moment, this party Please, at
DY now the room was full of greens. But they can look lovely Later she admitted she is 52. quite small,
Mr Connelly stepped obedient- invited to discuss "How to keep people, a lot of them British. in pinks, blues, and yellows if
shades are right and TEN THOUSAND workers of ly round to
Hermione kittles."
Vido Hope was there, trembling the
the' Studebaker Motor Cor- Gingold's apartment to meat "Gally he plunged into a raga on the brink of the biggest acco:socies properly matched,"
п cut mo. Mlas Gingold is now an that led (with relish) up to a success of her career. Vida pro-
Ajald down
pay so that the 102-year-old these rules for firm can stay in business. It has author too. She has written a point where (on Saturdays) he duced Sandy Wilson's musical A JUDGE in Chicago has had poration voted to take play and writes a column every and his brothers used to "drown comedy of
twenties "The
elderly Mr and Mrs Jacob lost £3,000,000 in six months. which is about to week called "Miss Pepy's Man- the kitties."
Boy Friend
Serges.
The 10,000 voted in a secret hattan Diary." much punctuated This could never happen in open in New York.
She must cook threo meals a ballot. They will give up a Zoe Gall was there.. Brian with the magic
one thing the phrase, "And so England. The
day with lots of shish kebab (a seventh of their wages, which to bed. So it is natural British authors care for above Michie was there.
lamb and range from $80 to $150 a week. for any literary gathering to royalties and rubles is Kindness Brian put on a hat with red Turki.h dlah of.
to Animals,
roses and some false hair and a vegetables brolled on a meet at her place.
It overlooks the Queensboro However, Mrs Dorothy Parker, nylon apron and talked for One and dolmas (vine leaves stuffed THE ARMY has asked people Bridge, a gigantic piece of brie- the author of such masterpieces Mement, Please, on "How to with meat). And be must eat to send th ideas for over- coming 200 preming · problems. a-brac-something like the Forth as "Fireworks in the Afternoon," Saddle a Camel." Vida Hope all his meals at home.
the stayed exactly
way
she was
The couple parter after 30 The Ideas wanted include: Bridge in collision with an air- "Horsie," and "She ran
pinky and talked years of marriage, Mr Serged Tyres that won't go fak craft carrier. Night and day whole gamut of the emotions (very pretty
B," is kind to for
"Electric said his wife refused to cook for A substitute for sandbagsh 48 seconds on she is disturbed here by the low from A to
Blankets with * Two - Way him, and she alleged he would An inexpensive method of howls of shipping on the East animals.
Switches for Married Couples," hot eat what she did cook. Now quickly, converting mow kiver and the low growls of
they are trying to stay, together. Ice into drinking water in admiring New Yorkers,
Mr Universe
again.
quantity/ THEN a young gentleman who ANNA MARIA ALBER- "TENNETH - FORTER," # 35′′. (people told me) was a A GHETTI," the 18-year-old 1 year-old US. ex-Marine Champion weight lifter and Mr Timifanonime Wingerie, carning Badly wounded in the waxyLis Universe of 1954, sidled over to £18,000 a year in Hollywood, driving a cur again' at Monte me and coup OR my feans
them now allowed to live permanently bella, California--but standi "Gee, sisterka ho fald, hier in Airsorted--because in Seriste up, la lomally
has passed a spoolal Bill for ber, whet Porter wh are Indood,) have
lost Tib. New York from the nervous 11⁄2 Blao' lite her, mother, father
was told, than his Böd Bets cieter, and brother WAY. The
DOW
Her salon
lives
She quietly with a poodle called Misty. Misty's
ISS G., as is well known, is hair comes out M British to the backbone, of curl when it which to cay that the may rains and sho bo dietinguided from is allergic to Americens only by the fact elevators. that she cervec afternoon tea.. Mrs Parker She Oh, yes, And by her British Is dainty. accent. When Miss G. sends alls there, tamo... out for a corkscrow she usually, ni hanything, itis: PARKER detala taxicab.
a ighly literary gently throwing
for lie dog to prance for, when
suddenly
tes time salon.
a rubber bonë, 1,
poure
Mere Connelly is a negi, effi- she cient bleu tepoloured author, in andensose, whlaicy), and his 90%. He
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akower)
He pause lite and studied loosimilar men the
and
the loss of a daughter.
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