THE CHENA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1955.
SPORTING SAM-
By Reg. Wootton
SCARY
NO
PATER
MONDAY'S BIG_FIGHT
No Short-Cuts
For Cockell
By GEORGE WHITING
The Heavyweight Championship of the World is such a big and glittering pot of gold that the means employed to become its possessor are not always, shall we say, highly ethical.
True, your embryo champion has to have the requisite proportions of heart, hard and muscle, enough education to enable him to count up to 10, and sufficient sense to keep his big mouth shut outside of carefully prepared, scripts.
But hundreds of heavyweights have discovered that these primary qualities are not in themselves a passport to World Championship status.
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What really happened was that Cockail had to sweat off However, within eight months more than three store at his of vanquishing Hart he bad more Brighton training camp. than levelled the score against Uncle Sam by means of
know, Turpin two quick wins over Lloyd Marshall played with the man who now We may take it, therefore,(one on a foul), the outpointing fights Marciano, turned on the that if anybody knows how to of Freddie Beshore, and a sixth- heat in the eleventh round, and
knock-out over Nick won as he pleased." maka Heavyweight Champions it round
· big Americans.
TOP SENIOR TEAMS CLASH IN THE LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE THIS AFTERNOON
By "TOUCHER”
After a rather tame start last week the Lawn Bowls League season warms up this afternoon when no fewer than four top senior teams will clash against each other."
At Recreio, the champion Recreio "Blues" will be hosts to the indomitable Kowloon Cricket Club twelve, and at Happy Valley an optimistic and confident 'Crai- gengower squad will take on their main is and rivals, Indian Recreation Club.
Early season form may be deceptive, but the results of these two matches this after noon, it decisiva acough, will have an important bearing or the Anal destination. coveted Senior Division League
MEMORIES
of the
For the Recreio "Blues" bowlers their match this after noon against Kowloon Cricket Club - wiu "bring back memories of the fine fighting spirit of the Cox's Road wood-pushers who inst year claimed the distinction of not only defesting the cham- picts in the first round by 3-3, out of improving that foot in the return match with a margin of four points to one.
skipped by Jimmy Wong who hed
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their
In that first match the sink Tony Lopes. C. I. Stapleton With the exception of English-
pre-Hart days, 1 When I wrote a piece declar- and F. H. Kermant as his front born Bob Fitzsimmons, Canada's Cockell's sole adventures against ing disbelief in these blandish-men, played a great part in the Tommy Burns, Germany's Max in America.a
had ments half the population of
by carrying the club's triumph Schmeling, and Italy's Primo ended disastrously when Aaron Battersea wrote and told me I side with a 24-8 win over a Kecreto rink skipped by Joe Luz. Carnera, the heavyweight title Wilson polished him off in the was "anti-Cockell" has been an exclusive American sixth round,
again ca
Jimmy and his men laued to property since the great John L. points,
reproduce
that same brillant the second game, but Sull-van hacked and hammered. at Jake Kilrain for 75 rounds in
the other rinks, skipped by the last bare-knuckle champion
Tommy, Baker and u Hong sip night at Richburg, Missouri,
plied Sung, in 1889.
through
There
been have
alight changes in both teams since then, both in the consulution of the teams and in the skipping the relativə aeparment, but aurength seems to be about the same, with the cricketers side mighly depleted in the absence at Jack Chubo, Fred Madar and Tommy Lock.
In the main the match will be me between age and youth of 12Wa bowis (in terms reckoning), and in the skipping department Recreio hold a slight aqvantage in the master of experience.
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Barone.
They were even talking of him fighting Joey Maxim for the world cruiserweight title.
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Club on their performance Inst week would be able to repea: their previous season's 4-1 win over Craigenipower at Happy Vasey.
The Valley club is a well balanced team this season and perhaps for the first time in many years in playing almost every min in his right posSJON,
The Indians, (KI the other hand, showed up only one really chaitent rink last week and that was the four akipped by A. M. Omar.
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TODAY'S GAMES
First Division Recreio "Blues” v. KCC Recreio "Whites" v. KBGC IRC “G” v. PRC CCC v. IRC "B" FC (bye).
Second Division KDC v. FC PRC v. TC HKCC v. EKFC KCC v. USRC
CCC (bys),
Third Division
KCC v. FC POČ. v, KDC USRC. v. PRO HKFC v. HKERC KBGC (bye).
Football
Craigecrower will boost their bid for the title considerably should they take maxim points this afternoon, and they seem to be fully capable of: laking at least four points from this the Second Division games favourites should have a feld SPORTS BRIEFS day. Top favourites Kowloon Dock are not expected to meet
Arthur Rowe, manager of with any scripus
opposition from Filipino. Club and
are Tottenham Hotspur
had Club, who
nervous well set for the maximum count.
13 last year, breakdown Hongkong Football
Club's Club, agam. He will miss his also top-contenders, are likely end of the season programme. to take full points
the Although given indednite leave Hongkong Cricket Club to of absence by Spurs directors, maintain their 100 per cent re- Mr Rows has cented rumours t..that he will not return to White Kowloon Cricket Club should hart. Line, at least take four points if not
Sir Gordon Richards, former five from USMC who are this
Champion jockey, now a trainer, year without such stalwarts as
13 importing nurses from Edwards and Cosgrove.
The PRC-TC tussle will be Continent. Sir Gordon started
the comparatively
olasest the season with nothing but two- Несклатаров Segond Division
the year-olds in his game of afternoon but even here a 4-1 stable. But, as a result of several than visus to France, be nas bount Mice inree-year-olds from that
cord:
from
win for Talzoo is more Hikely. the Third Division this week-
wis KBGC taking a bye in country. end, interest will be focussed on Prison Officers' Club and USRC in their games against Kowloon Dock and Police.
In their opening matcher last
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THE SLUMP They are dollar-driven ex- Add to these
a successful} From the purple heights of perts, and if, at times, there defenco of his British title nave been managerint against Croydon's Albert Finch, championship purses at Harrin- Cockail slumped four manoeuvres some way removed and it will be conceded that say
monthy later to the outer from the seals and concepts of Don Cockell was very much a
of a minor show at the Marquesas of Queensberry, man of the moment at the end suburbs
Streatham, where we accorded It is one of your business. of 1951.
him only scant acclamation for Similar stratagems have been
a second-round knockout over a employed
England In
Irish Champion, fast-fading bungled.
Paddy Slavin
Cockell, as a heavyweight, it Came Harringay, and the night
week, POC, USHC and regular next year. He would of December: 4.
seemed, was good for gags and
The KCC nu-mes from the all chalked up four points
for Chelsea not much eise--an Impression Prince Philip is in the ring confirmed by
max eseby and the POC-XDC have liked to play a winning, but No. 1's to the No. 3's hands with a line of ugly, brawl against the lanky perhaps do well to remember counter will provide the main more often this season; but ful shaking
champions un-Yorkshire games master, Frank this, for whether their Ede will highlight of today's Third Divi-filled his promise to assist Bishop Auckland in their important Cup British
Ball, at the Royal Albert Hall be able to repeat their brilliant sich games
matches. Although likely to be. accustomed dinner jacketa.
performance of last year or
Both sides are capable of Chelsea's regular choice for the Don Cockell, standing in his three weeks later.
not will depend mainly on their corner before demolishing, with
atlity to outplay their oppoong playing good bowls, but the side left, O'Uconell says be will odds rest slightly with the a few perfunètory punches, an
front-men.
Prison Officers, who have been #5: 11-considered Virginia Negro
practising assiduously for the called Jimmy Slade, also gets a
Cockell, said the British Box
last few weeks. this and similar means, Royal handshake,
ing Board of Control, could you establish for your fighter a Everybody, in fact, seems to fight Tommy Farr in a title coast-o-coast reputation as af be in the act except poor Slade. eliminator
at Nottingham, but murder-man until such time as Suddenly, however,
Prince their inspector would be watch sulent mugs can be asembled Philip leaves the line-up, walks ing, and only if the winner dis- to
pay for
the privilege of over to a pop-eyed Stade, shakes played some semblance of near- watching him in a real fight. his hand and wishes him hick. championship form would be be
THE METHOD
The accopied method of build- up is to ed your potential champion a steady diet or stats, stooges and stumble-bums, all Labeled as "opponents," and all edreulty instructed as to their exact part in the proceedings usually confined to subs.ding on The
convincingly Hoor as postbie.
By
If he wins this one, you and be are swimming in what is called gravy, if he loses, he was only a bum-and an ungrateful one at that,
The intention of this preamble
Ir
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"Gee, I done shook hands with a real live Prince, I guesa that puts me in the same league as the President," Slade told me
later.
is to point to an exception. Don Cockell, of Sussex, England. wins the Heavyweight Champion- That handshake worked ship wi the world off kocky wonders with Jimmy's morale, Marciano, of Brockton (Mass.), After fewer
tertuge.
Even officialdom was affronted by this travesty of a boxing match.
Give their skips the lie and favourable position as much as they can and they will be able out of it. to make a fight
од their Average play "only part may mean a 4-1 defeat.
SURPRISING. "
in
A rather suprising feature of permitted to
argue dominion the Recreio line-up is the play- with the reigning championing of C. Roza-Pereira at No. 2 Johnny Williams.
after his 100 per cent sidpping record last season. CALCULATED
Mention of this point does Cockell -boxed beautifully, not in any way reflect on the the three of intelligently and with calculated capabilities
*skips, Raoul
LUX venom" against Farr, punched all Recreio
Ribeiro and Jackie organised resistance out of Johnny
Noronha, but serves only to vetiyan opponent in seven than four rounds wrong since.
rounds, and has not put a foot remind of that bulwark that all up and coming young skips are in San Francisco on. May 18, Cockell was lying helplessly on
up against everywhere. Becky will be able to accuse the roper taking 30 much In May 1933 he outpointed Here perhaps the words of a him of having been assisted by punishment from his cock-a-Williams to become British and
famous Australian bowler and
be sit our 5,
instructive. He author ya-ups or anyhoop opponent, that the referee Empire Champion, and began to
may other form of pugilistic sub- felt obliged to intervene.
repeat as a heavyweight, thu said: "If you want to get any
the
cd bowls, game
Of He has had to learn his trade Ten minutes later, in the embarrassment of opponents he where
what 1190 is all-round play the hard way, has scquired a haven of the dressing-room, we had encompassed in his early don't star as a lead only
players are Dever given the proper apprenticeship, and has received our first official con- days as a mufserweigh
demonstrate and tio Cash that once trickled, began | chance. bought no help from adequately frmation of the weight troubles
that some of us had long sus to gush
maintain this in matches? In due paid quitters.
pected were besetting Cockell.
course they can say "good-bye” On the right of July 30 last to the movements learnt, which Every mouthful of todd ind
Fear,
sa hour of his Inchide Bros, firmer, tast, and drink Doa consumed, said smashing America's Harry faster shots and all the fre to en eighth-round points that go to make a first- Cockell had won 44, drawn janager John Simpson, zun to Matthews one and lost nine professional fat, and no amount of training retirement in the summery air class player.
mat of Seattle, Cockell and I drink "Someone has to lay the fights when, within a month of cold stay the process. being had low by arthritis, be Whatever the cause Cockell meditative beer and watched admittedly, but why the young became British
Cruiserweight had drained himself of every their multi-coloured reflections term?
the lights on the shore twinkle generation, except for a limited When the man whose Champion by stopping Mark Buld ounce of sap and energy Hart in the 14th round at Har-meet a weight stipulation of 12
sinews are not so elastle, who in the Pacific.
feeling the stress of the ringay in October 1950.
stone 13. against Slade, and
years, but who can draw the his next assignment was an
shot with the next are avail- overhaul
Hammersmith Hospital.
BECAME CHAMPION
Since
that and including -occasion, hé has won 18 and lost two-and it is from the switch- back nature of this period of
his career that I think we may words of reassurance.
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within
"Nice place," I ventured.
pre
"Not had replied Cockellable, they should be used ex- "But those lights would not look clusively as leads and are
usually very reliabile.” Six months later cime smooth so bright if I had lost"
Costell San Francisco is on the same
DOUBTFUL Pacific coast;
I wonder what
Coming back to the other big the lights will be looking like on
match of this afternoon, I doubt May 187
-(London Express Service) · } very much if Indian Recreation
try to understand what kind of) was now fit, we were told, and
a man, it is who now seeks to naring, to go against Randolph bring the Heavyweight Cham Turpin whom he would un- pionship of the world to Britain,doubtedly eat alive.
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