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Where are the Kings of

the Ring today?—–8

L, THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

IT'S STILL

1957

ROADWORK

FOR GLOOMY GUS

By GEORGE WHITING

F you want any mer- chandise moved in the Pittsburgh area of the United States, I can put you on to a good man. His name, tastefully graved as that of special sales representative on the business cards of the North Braddock Transport Co. Inc., In Gus Lesnovich.

en-

secret dawn patrol of Bucking- ham Palace, for instance.

Pugilists are no great guns at philosophy, but you learn a lot getting your

face smashed up and your noso broken ond your eyes half blinded - did Lemevich on his three trips to spoke of these England. We things as, together, we watched heavyweigh title defence

Rocky Marelano weigh in for his

against Ezzord Charles.

He looks as mournful AN "Sure. Freddie Mills busted A dimppointed bloodhound, me up good, and Bruce Wood- he can blind you with ear- Lesnevich.

cock made It go dark,"

get myself burettor science, and he mended. Perfect vision now wishes to he remembered after 18 years in the ring. to all the people who helped to make him a wealthy man,

moderately Toughest

Gloomy Gus, ex-cruiserweight champion of the world, gathers no muss. When he first retired. from the rough-hewn practices of the ring in 1940, he put much of his money into second- hand cars, poroding flash con- vertibles on a corner lot near his home in New Jersey,

Two years later found him Eples-taiking to oil-millionaires. on behalf of one of the larger car manufacturers

Lush emporiuza on Broadway. Now hu does the Carter Paterson act for Pitsburgh on sulary and commission -until auch ume, he tella

us he gets his own me, trucks un the road.

"Boxing nover hurt a guy who look care of himself,

llice

I did. No fooling with Women

and wine and that stuff. Temp- tations are there for sure, but if you play around you're gonna hurt so bad wobody can ever repair you. If you want to play, stay out of boxing.

"Fighting in aring ain't no tough when

Try you are f.. the used car business li you want to meet real competition. You really have to conuive at that racket. 1 dropped nearly £20,000 to those boys.

"No, I'm noi completely broke. England took care of lat, I look ofI wt a around 450,000 from those three #ghts in London, and there's a 12-roomed house out at CKülde Park, New Jersey,

A divorce has left Lesnevich the mole guardian of his four sturdy young children, but he would sooner you talked les about family affairs and more about the sight game. About his days it was real money.

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before the weigh-in. Oly Jo Vella, my manager,, and Allia Ridgeway, who trained me that time, know how I worked, and

"In all, I earned a quarter of a million dollars for myself out of boxing. Quite a piece more than I figured to goi when I started out on a triple-threat sweated and starved and went

man

-but

his eyes are

open

now wide (chef, waiter, chucker- thirsty down 'at Brighton,' ¡

out) in my old lady's restaur«', ant.

"That Freddie Mills. What a fighter! You know something? That time I licked him was the toughest fight I ever had, and yet when he beat me. It was easy. I thought I won that one, "Woodcock? Sure, he knocked me out. But I was scared of my' eyes that night, and that to good for any kind of fighter. I

wanna use my eyes"

"Wo

fixed a secret weight tost in London on the morning. seë of the fight and I was still a pound too heavy, 'Sò' I pul" on

all the heavy clothing wo could this time. But a worried man, find and went galloping round nevertheless. Worried about your Buckingham Palace with those mournful-looking eyes of only a cop or two.. to see me. I was still an ounce over at the official weigh-in-but we made ft..

takes

"I had to crowd Mills quick, and I figured I was home when I dattened him with a right Stopped Mills in the tenth, hander in the second round. But knocked out by Woodcock in the that keeps getting up and,

a real mean eighth, outpolnied by Mills over punch. 15. Thus runs the record of the down like somebody's got him Lesnevich invasion of

of England

on a string. Four times I knock- a three-pronged good-will mised him over in that round, and slon which, by its fierceness and four times he comes back at its friendliness, made London me. It's sort of discouraging. the fight centre of the world between 1046-48 and begin the transatlantic flow Ray Robinson, Joe Baical, Savold, Lee Oma, Joey Maxim, Ike Williams, Sandy

Saddle, Manuel Ortiz, Roland la Starza, Harry Matthewa, etc.

that brought Lucky break'

I have written before of that Arst smush-bit Mill fight at Harringay for the crusierweight championship of the world, and of how the buttered, agonised Mills declared afterwards that would he never, never, never went a second helping of that kind of punishment.

Now, in 1954, Mills may be interested to learn that his voti queror adil ho nearly lost

before that fight 12 hours begab

Outside Buckingham Palace.

it

Not on to

"After five rounds I can't set Mills any too well because he has closed my left eye, Then he breaks my nose, and I cannot breathe for the blood that keeps coming into my mouth.

"Call it my lucky break that Mille was in bad shape, too, He dropped his left hand low enough for me to sco with one eye, so I let him have it on the chin with my right in the tenth. I guess that finished It.

"They tell me Mills was sick

rights

been

avows he won,

and which he My impression, culled from the memory of a ringside weat at the White City, is that Gua In off the beam in botte assertions, Dld be not Anish up having his Harpital at 230 on the morning right eye stilched in Moorfelds (his of the 27th?

Lesnevich, the Risian Lion, as his countrymen called him, speed as he squared off, ahol reemed mostly concerned with

lightning two favourite punch) at Woodcock's Yorkshire jaw and then skip ped smartly away, from the in- evitable counter, N

A But we had only to watt 4, pattern of the particular brawl the second round to see the Woodcock, a good deal brainier boxer than many people gave him credit for, sent over a bar-

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Compared with their frit battle, the return engagement was certainly lacking in the kind of splière incident that present-day spectators yell for but Lesnevich did not look to be having too easy a time from where I was sitting,'

rage of persuaders to the Savage hook

saw Lesnevich lower his guard- and then planted the knuckles of his right hand fair and square eye.

on his, opponent's loft

as

By the fourth round 'the' sye was tedding, swelling, closing rapidly and its owner moving desperately to his right Woodcock chased round the blind side and thumped and pounded at the injury. Then the American's right eye stop- ped one-a solid hook from Woodcock's Icft.

after, Mc, too. I was walking Spidery split

around for days in dark glasses, and a doctor had to straighten my nose out."

"If Mills had only

Four months later, on Sep- what I had 10 do to make tember 17, 1946, Lesievich was 12st. 71b, he could have rubbed among us again, repaired, fe- me right out, says 3-year-old solved, and commissioned to light as a heavyweight against

which Lesnevich. " had nothing, not

起

bile, to eat for 24 hours Woodcock. No weight-wasting

SHIPBREAKING-A RISING

INDUSTRY

By TONY MOTTA

"T

YNESIDE makes 'em, Hongkong breaks 'em" might well become the theme song of the Colony's newest and fastest rising Industry shipbreaking.

This enterprise In destruction came into being after the war when it was necessary to clear the har- bour of sunken bulks. It

be proved to a profitable business for the pioneers, and in time other people were attracted to it, and old ships were being brought hero from all over the world for breaking up.

The problem of disposing nf those curly salvaged wrecks into

port

costs.

Cheap labour

IN HONGKONG

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too tedious work—but a certain weight is knocked of each ton of scrap to compensate for barnacles, The overseer who" is entrusted with this job is said to be able to estimate the weight correctly to the last, barnacle,

A Lesnevich left landed on Woodcock's arms, a right on his shoulder, another left on the top of his head. All wasted efforts off target, and all ad- vertising, the fact

that Lesnevich, «normally the most precise of punchers, was fighting D semk-sightless battle. By now, no space was discernible be tween the lids of his left eye.

Again those

"had it." eyes Before the fight was half a minute old, Lesnevich came out of A clinch with blood Cozing from his right eye, and with a pleatening to follow suit. Els split under the left eye

corner became a casualty station between rounds, with trainer Freddy Fierro executing

swift und expert

dly haunted Mills, by the

of that holocaust memory of two years earlier, boxed with his hands held high, and

10г- bore to invite disaster by any ut his old-time headlong rushes, Not until the tenth, and after the reteres had sternly request. ed more action, were we rou roused by the spectacle Lesnevich/wice,

of

A savage left hook to the

right of the chin, followed by of rally of body punches, scored an eight-seconds knock-down, Lesnevich hit back with his left bút stumbled ́ Immediately. into another' short left, and another count--this time at

nino."

To hospital

Furious patchwork and mystic salves in the American corner brought relief but, no rescue. Woodcock picked his shots almost as he pleased, until, in the eighth, two copybook right

As I remember it, many of us crosses tore, Lesnevich's gum shield from his mouth and there in the cool night air of brought its ow

"owner to his kuces the White City were not at all in an

en attitude of weary is knces in strict according with certain ina. Lesngvich was off

by the ropes

terde Moss Deyond began

his com

count. At "four" Lesnevich

the 10 seconds rules

It

made little

difference.

raised the bruised and swollen Lesnevich, liberally and protec face he had

Re

had cupped between his lively anointed round the eyes gloves; at "ix," he scrambled by his seconds, rallied› slowly round on all fours; at against sometimes Height" he shook his head at some

Mills-but

Lesnevich'a'

of

fra-

theor

urgent pleadings - his once accurate left arm was miss seconds at the out," he firing badly, his holding solemnly picked

quent. Mills it was who walked

kept him

shield that had the gum out of, 'that ring as cruiser- company од the foot,

sad weight champion of the world.

roso

slowly and proffered the hand Ana Lesnevich it was. whose of a conquered fighter to the eyes were 'covered with a whiờ, man who had sent fear searing towel as they took him to

hos through his brain

shute pital. #B the ters came down over his eyes. Those eyes

But dollars are good doctors, On July 26, 1948, Leanovich put is world utle on the line again for Freddie. Mille-in the fight he himself now declares to have

were red with blood and dark with frustration that night. Now, they are clear open. grey again, and' wide Lucky Lesnevich...

WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED

SPOOKS ARE OPEN TOP SECRET

By RUSSELL SPURR

Talpel

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spooks direct guerilla

Intelli-

The 5,000 tonner Nordewał baing broken up at Lalchikok..

port under their own logs than a hundred pairs of ugly leguetes of war-developed steam and drop anchor here for very human hands, which work into an Industry which has the last time,. liko dying nine hours dally on their mis- sinco grown steadily. In fact, elephants returning to their sien of destruction. Hongkong is today an inter- burini grounds. A sad ritual for nationally recognised source for the ship's crows

If there is a call to do a rush at any timet scrap iron and steel. Even Bri- And although a passing land- Job, the number of breakers tain finds it profitable to im- lubber may jokingly remark, could be doubled, thus enabling

Another peculiarity in the scrap from Hongkong, "Well, they've seen their best the work to be done in half the despite the long haul and freight days every rusting hulk has time, with every plece of scrap evaluation of scrap is that the

You don't talk too much gence on the Communist main- done yeoman service.

landed, store and classified. anchor, which weighs an aver

about the spooks. Not A ship is only sold for scrap-

nge of two to three tons, is dis-

The Nationalists secretly ping when an overhaul would

are paid in a carded once it is The breakers

brought if you want to keep friends be almost

manner to ensure that they put ashore. It is said to be not in Formosa.

shigger, because they consider as expensivo is

themselves "experts. Every much wo for smelting,

-They've and is The ary mention of the been doing it for Avo years. bullding a new vessel. In most their backs to the job. cases, the ships would have had plece of scrap they haul on land n dead loan for resale because i pame aēts people gulping in · They maintain WHY in this s07 The answer is

is weighed and paid for by the all new ships, by some super- soma 30 or 40 years at sea, "cheap labour," which keeps

picul. The current payment is stitious tradition, ore atted with their Martinis. And glanc- Chinese dressed, as a colle can overall ecsts down to a mini- As everybody knows, it

about $3 per plcul

new anthors. That is why you ing unenally round the room, and out far more than a Tale Daun This makes export of much harder to build then to

quarterback with nylon closi 'sed'so'many rusty, old' anchors scrap worth while, giving a fair desirey, and shipbreaking is no

lying around

The spooks are open top and duralumini dagger. margin of profit, and at the exception to the rule.

secret. Most open, perhaps,: in The glant furnaces in local an Island where no secret is And at considerably, Inas cost, Bomic time keeps the price would be foolish to think that reasonable enough to

Still the Americans are pay- attract the uninitiated could attack

Iron and steel mille have been safe. The only thing no one buyers.

* CHIPS sold for scrapping are kept busy with scrap from knows is how, they got their ing and seem to be enjoying Any of the four firms now blow-torches and

As a nickname... aledgehammers, sold completa with all their ships taken apart here.

picks, and fittings,

so before: the serious matter of fact, the shipbreakers But wh! spooks have in- engaged la breaking up ships successfully Lako apari the business of dismantling a vessel have saved at least one mill fuencs. . Even if they are the in Laichikok harbour could handiwork of a host of skilled begins, all the interior decora from closing down.

least secret secret service in the confirm this, and add with an and experienced shipbuilders.

pendent on

their

output.

But it

All fittings

tions, wiring, piping, woodwork,

brass and metal fixtures, are

Melted down

air of expansive pride that

The shipbreaking gangs many local Industries using fron

to first removed. These are sold and steel are now partly do all artisans in their

Starting with the funnels,

own way. separately. The engine yield a

the large quantity of cast iron. rup, both Iron and breakers dismantle Ships crap,

CICRAP iron mested down a ship steel, is so much cheaper here methodically, removing every Scrap iron off ships is these mitis-k number

the imported metals

that arst than the

bolt (which, incidentally, la divided into throo-grades, and which are situradoch ~: In the demand for it has sky

grada scrap iron) with the plates, tubes or other pièces Ngauchi-wan, area ufo either rocicated

also enabled Chisel and iledge-hummer, are accordingly placed in differ moulded into shapes required certain industries to break lato Cutting with the torch ent henga. "Grade Ons, conslata: by, different industries –or sold markets abroad because of the resorted to only when ab- of places over one-eighth of an inembryo form-furasos lowordost of raw material solutely necessary, Those Industries would certainly

from rust: Grably free sized barn

if deprived of this local

Thus, shipbrway Tipy a

only

not

Iwolf but also in Important to

thriving Industry in

the

economie.

Gaunt hulks

la, strange, to think that a

of some 6,000) toda"say)

Inch-thioles and:

pieces of the same

again thickner Steel plates ara, rolled but "corroded; and Grade:

Pas arid:(findɛa)rendy: market ? (with (la': for: Thie)odida -in

companies or metal,

that

2

one

Spook headquarters comman an enure compound on a hilltop ses spook quite often on overlooking Talpel, Neighbod the Nationalist-held Islands of include the American Ambere the Communist coast. Not to do and, Generalissimo Chiang apeak to, of course; they duck-tek.

out of sight directly you appear. Mambers of the organis

On Quemoy land/... 10% Hve there with, their instance, I slim beed a Sburly rately secreted from an young American in an plain ing world. (2010 khaki-uniform lesning ngainst/a 15%) When I nodded him good Lips are ded morning, he ran “behind a hit I am told, kid,” - stid ̋disappeared/

* with node ani,

Vanish overa ་་་་

"where" and

plane lumbered, indust:

to thumb a lift back"

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