1955-09-13 — Page 6

Page 6 m

SHOULD BOXING BE ABOLISHED?

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1955.

WIZARD'S DAUGHTER

COME AND WATCH OUR AMATEURS, MR GALLICO

Says HARRY CARPENTER

Mr Paul Gallico has run amok. He attacks boxing with a lurid, well-stocked armoury of adjectives. Obviousy, there are plenty more where they came from and he will not mind my borrowing a few to answer back.

man.

Ho

All right, then, I think his outburst is cruel, viclons, irresponsible, unrellable, untruthful, merciless, and cynical,

Mr Gallico is like the actress For he says that, instead of It is typical, however, of Mr of whom # WDS sald "ahe touching a boy to hox, it would Gallico's twisted thinking. ranged the gamut of motion be more useful and sensible to tells in one partigraph that nom A to B. He gallops off give him a thorough grounding the human fist is puny, inefficient,

in of

the flthiest aspects of emaily damaged, an "inarloquatė ut a pitch of screaming hysteria in and maintains it to the bitter Commando training.

weapon with which to diable a I suppose we have to take him cnd.

I find R A few les an ho launches There uro

concessions, suriously, although no

As for as I into a vivid description of tho His scething, scalding mass of hard to do so, Illogicalities is an H-bomb on- follow his argument at all he owns injury ("clous lesions in sinught,

It lays waste almost seems to be mying that boxing the brain....paralysis and even La brutal, but not brutal enough death") that can be inflicted by for and everything everyone

Teach

a youngster to defend the fist. alles around the central target.

Amoteur

The half a dozen punches boxers, professional himself with his ste, wys Mr

ers, Gallico, and he may grow up which 'Mr Gallico was glad to Loxers,

managers, promoters,

from Jack even audiences-brutes, the lot to be a base, degenerate prize- taise

Dempsey 32 Mere lighter, of them, says Mr Gallico.

years to must have had a de- Put a broken bottle or Inerchants in pain....

Inyod effect and are only just trains, You, air or madam, sitting by length of bicycle chain in his starting to scramble his

Не talks about spectators who your fireside watching an even-hands-then what? Mr Gallico ing's boxing on TV....lake anedd only look around him in cheer at the sight of blood. This

a fallacy. Is Jarypely ooks at yourselves in the mirror New York to find the answer.

The only nonction next time. Me Gallico says you

to a cut are in this country, as a rule, is a buzz of have "aut, greedy faces, twisted mouths, popping eyes, and bared

If he honestly labours under speculation as to whether it will troth." What monsters you all the delusion that amateur box-mean

ending to the ing doesn't do something to keep young boys off the streets and out of mischief

and is not in among character-forming ends A any way

once Vicious. activity, he should be led

4BC....

NONBENBE Plainly, Mr Gallico is writing exaggerated nonsense. So should

I bo if I attempted to defend everything he condemns.

Had he hold rein on his have pro- tempt he might duced a valuable treatise on the seamy side of

know boxing.

0:5

as Mr Gallico that professional boxing is no martly Saragon of

virhe. It Barbours crooks and cliques, Fackets and robbers.

DELUSION

fight.

an carly

The most ridiculous assertion booting many is that to make a man "cruel,

callous...greedy"

a year, forcibly if necessary, to (the adjectives are os rich as why of the youth tournaments the argument is weak).

held in this country, such as the Boys' London Federation of Clubs Championships.

Ho will discover there are low more harmless ways of punc turing youthful conceit, or of the other Nowhere to respect

point of view than by

This

specious assumption that regalised violence hibited in the ring how anything whatever to do with a man's life outside it would be laugh- able wore it not a palpable insult to practically every nighter, Ilving or dond

reeling off

an in-

Is this more evident than in Mr swapping Sporting punches on web list of boxer, past

Gallico's own United States.

the nose w with handshakes and land

and present, whom I know per

huge grins to follow.

sonally to be men of character

Is it a reflection on boxing or his countrymen that little or no It It's not sport but spicen and worth, I should like to bo effort is made to clean up the wat has to be served; what around whom sport in Amerlon?

Mr Gallico lives in New York. A current manifestation of New York Life da juvonilo delinquency, Adolescents slash each other with knives and belt each other with.. short stems of rubber hosepipe.

The New York City Police Department is at its wits end to control this social direasc. They

expect no help or approval from Mr Gallico. Just the opposite.

Gallico

bolier service can you do young decides to air his views face to boys than give them a set of face with, say, Gene Tunney rules under which they can Don Cockell Freddie Milis, settle their differenOES ina Bombardier Billy Wells, Rocky resigonably clean and civilised Marciano or Len Harvey. manner?

Mr Gallico, you're talking Mr Gallico has apparently re-rubbish. I will agree with you signed himself to the fact that that professional boxing is over- this is a cruci world and the commercialised. crueller we all are, therefore, But as for the rest of your the better. A weird, despairing extraordinary diatribe, I call it

infinitely cheap, distorted, and offensive—- decadent philosophy, worse, surely, then the thing be MY adjectives, Mr Galileo,

(COPYRIGHT) condemas so angrily.

Give Your Memory

a Holiday

with the Seamaster Calendar

The new self-winding Seamaster Calendar. watch is the most faithful servant of time ever devised by watch. making science telling the exact time and day of the month.. accurately, automatically.

You can discard your wall calendar, you can forget old-fashioned stem winding. The Seamaster Calendar winds itself with every flick of your wrist. Automati. cally, too, the date mechanism changes every 24 hours. It's simple, sturdy, foolproof,

ember

12

In London for the Wimbledon Junior Champion- ships is 16-year-old Jean Matthews daughter of the famous footballer Stanley Matthews-Daily Express Photo.

Sussex Bids Sad Farewell To

To Three Of Its Stalwarts

By ARCHIE QUICK

J. L. MANNING Sets Out On

A MISSION TO MOSCOW TO STUDY THE SOVIET

OLYMPIC OFFENSIVE

At about 8.30 tomorrow morning a be-spectacled and rather con- servatively dressed Englishman with a freshly-acquired Devonshire tan will pop down the tube and go to work with the folk of Moscow.

IT'LL BE ME.

The tube doubtless will be necessary because the races there the day before will have exerted a tight squeeze on my travellers' cheques and made the journey by taxi an imprudent luxury.

But, going to work in Moscow? The important question, how-portant to understand their Why, of course, I shall, if plans ever, is not how and when it attitude towards sport, and see work to schedule, be on my way wis change, but to what it will it as they do.

Don't tell me I shall not flod to prostit my compliments at change. the offlors of the All-Union So I am in Russia to find out as much fun in their games as Physical Culturo and Sport what it is that how made their I do in ours. Anyway, with our Committee.

sport so vital and so succesful.t-ridden football and our

Soon. Put briefly, I'm going to find

perhaps in 1957, the hypocrity of shamatourism the Russian sport Russians will play at Wimble laugh out what maler

may well be plowed don. Their lawn tennis, un-

So I hope to go to work in known in quality and quantity,

Lick.

SUPREMACY

on us,

I want to know, and I think is being prepared for the day. Moscow tomorrow at 8.30 a.m.,

want to read, why We know better

you will

0

then to scoff and I shall be wanning a new,

(COPYRIGHT)

is that within few years at anything they attempt in horizon in sport. Soviet Union

and sport. sportsmen sportswomen Have acquired a

World

and

Their football, athletics, row- premacy sweeping Ing, swimming, wrestling. from one international triumph boxing we know to have been to another.....

strikingly triumphant in the last But whas other WHAL

was going on behind few years. the Iron Curtain before these Western sports are engaging their attention? What other men and women

little-known

emerged trained, coached, shoctos shell we have to sadure? equipped, and eager to beat the world at aport?

About all this I shalt Inquire, sek, and write. It's going to be No one knows-yet. Without an extetting story-one that so previous contact with the West for has not been told and could they at once revealed a mastery not be told. of modern sporting technique. We had known them only as a nation at war. Suddenly we

Of course, there is the lighter found out their capacity as a side. We must not take sport

too nation at play.

YOB 於 was sudden and breath-taking. What we thought were propaganda stories turned out to be of substance. The first impact was made by Moscow Dynamos magic football here in 1948.

Sussex cricket has bidden a sad farewell to three of its stalwarts, John Langridge, George Cox and Jim Wood,reat shock came in 1952. each of whom have gone into retirement, leaving Don Smith the senior professional at the age of 82.

LIGHTER SIDE

seriously. Sorro people Imagino Russian athletes to be groaning under the strain of slaving for the Fatherland, determined to win at all costs.

SMASHING UPSETS

IN U.S. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 12. Three smooth-swinging_plays ers and a pressure-proof Georgia boy scored smashing upsets in the first round of the U.S. Amateur Gold Championship to- day by eliminating favourites Billy Joe Patton, Don Bispling hoff and former Champions Dick Champman and Charley Cor

Georgo McCailleter. 48-year- old Los Angeles real estate man, This appears to be litusionary, contributed the day's most re What we have seen of Russian sounding reversal when he beat An OxumornX glimpse of aportsmanship In Britain points Patton, irrepressible coon hunter rising Russian sporting prower to a different picture altogether. from Carolina, on the fifth extra was seen at such events as the They acom to enjoy their sport hold at the County Club of European Games. But the first as much as we do-perhaps even Virginia's James River Course,

more because they win more

19-year Jake Howard, Jr. This was during the Olymple often.

old Univerally of Georgia Games at Helsinki, when I was

Anyway

I shall find out by student making his first appeur- among the first few newspaper- mingling with Russian sports and in the amateur, knocked Langridge is 46 years old and has played for the men to be invited to their fuss, going to their matches and off Coe, the 1949 winner, 2 and, County for 25 of them. Cox is a year younger and has carefully secluded camp to so meetings with them. It's 22 years' service to his credit. Wood is 41 and although it something of the triumphant

organisation. is his benefit year he has been unable to command à regular place in this summer's successful eleven.

Combined Side Beats · England

At Rugger

NEW BATTLE the these Games the During farewell match Langridge, hopes to become a At their

riverbed the all- first class umpire next season. against Somerset at Hove both Rustans He has applied to the MCC for said they would miss the game conquering Americans, yet It was they had taken that but he also has a flourish-greatly and both said they would the first time ing indoor cricket school which come back and play an odd game part. It was no more than ex- he runs with his older brother. ur two it it were convenient and periment.

Now, hnce years later, the needed. Longridge

Wigan, Lancashire Sept. 12. James at Hove. Wood goes into if they

business

dness once made

Olymple offensive is a first wicket stand Russian the motor engineering

Other Nationalities, a team mounted-to break comprising players from New at Worthing. Coot has obtained of 480 runs with Ted Bowley at once more

world in Zealand, Australia, Scotland, "Plum job. He becomes Hove against Middlesex in 1933, upon the sporting

Ireland and Wales, defeated

var

cricket and soccer coach to and it is Bowley whom Cox Melbourne next year. is succeeding at Winchester. Winchester College, a house provided, and he runs a sports cutfitters shop.

Cox, of course, was a spod footballar with Laston Town and Arsenal, and once formed a part of the Arsenal forward line that read Hulme, Jack, Cox, James and Bastir. "I have never been in better

company than that." he

מ

Cockell-Valdes

To Meet Tonight

So I have gone to Russia to find England. by 33 points to 10 In out for the Sunday Dispatch a Rugby League international exactly what happens when a here tonight. mighty nation organiser its sport for the glory of the State.

The quick passing and sound

He, Langridge and Wood Over 10 Rounds

have ail

football for played Sussex as well; indeed John skippered the County the only time it ever won the Southern Counties Amateur Championship. He was a fitting centre half.

I shall ask the leaders manyanding of Other Nationalities questions, and I'm nasured they always had the England team No in difficulties and ot half-time will give me the answers. dimeuities have been put in the combined side led 21-11. my way. I am told I'shall be free to go where I like, to see to write what 1

ke, and frankly London, Sept. 18. Etail meet the athletes and Don Cockell, the British watch them

at work, studying their Champion, and Nino Valdes, of

and their tech-

AGILITY

2,000 runs two years ago,

This

methods

OUT OF DATE

Star of the match was Lewis Jones, the Welsh centre, who made the openings which led to two tries. In the first half and also scored a try himself in the second half.

Home Rugger Results

Ray Billow, 41-year-old two-time runder-up, downed Bisplinghoff, the North-South champion, up! Art Hof, 85- year-old jewellery firm Vice- Grunge

President from

La

linols, defeated Chapman,

and United Press,

Austrian LTA Is Not Amused

lato

Vienna, Sept. 12. Alfred Huber, Ginger-haired Austrian Davis Cup inter- national, fias been forbidden to take part in any further Lawn Tennis Championships pending allegations Investigation that he has "seriously damaged Austrian sport reputation abroad."

The Austrian Lawn Tennis Association that its Disciplinary Committes has been instructed to carwi out the necessary investigation by Saturday next.

Huber, an acrobatic playes shots,

announced.

today

was once dubbed the Kaye of Wimbledon" because of, his amusing antics

Danny

ORI

court during the All- England Lawn Tennis Chain pionships-Reuter.

Cuba, currently rated fourth and niques.

*Bylan - Bevan, the Australian seventh respectively among the All this is possible because we winger now playing in British with a wide repertoire of tricks World's Heavyweight boxer, are chose together now than Rugby League with Warrington, It is generaly agreed that meet over 10 rounds at the White ever before. Sport has been a provided the game's biggest | Longridge and Cox are among City. here today in

what vital expression of this new thrill when he ran over 80 yards the finest cricketers, never to virtually a world title eliminator, groping, hopeful friendship. to score otry-China Mail have been honoured by the

Victory for Cockell will Luty

Special Salcetors with a Test Team pince, him at Championship

step nearer to mother Indeed John Longridge's only re- Presentative game was for the against either Champion, Rocky Already this much we know. Players versus Gonitomen at Marciano or challenger Archie The Russions have tackled inter- Lords in his big season of over Moore, who meet for the title on national, competitive sport with a fearful thoroughness-fearful season he has anished In a blade September 20.

Success for Valdes would put to us in a land where our ap- of glory by holding 50 allp him back into the World Heavy, prosch to sport is hall-a-century out of date and reduced to third- catches and showing an agility weight pleture.

rato

clinging to of eye which

by Valdes, with the advantage of Victorianism which is as usotu! belle his

height and reach, has shown For long he has been the himself to be a vicious puncher ticket. British sport la a mere to us now as an Oval Cup Final best

first lip in the business at close cange. Cockell, a clever muscum piece. and for years Cox was the best boxer, alao fancies himself as The critical point of my on- cover point. Their batting styles body puncher, and the fight may were upletely different John develop into a close quarter the-spot investigation is this

have

the Russiana with a way close, was No. 1 and there to do an slam. It should be a

of le so diffrent from ours, oponer's duty of breaking the tense struggle.

wo cen The first appearance in Bet- anything of the bain of the seven fost two inches, Loner? It 22 stone South Africon giant,

and quireme

back of the "seam

laying the founding and

from which They drive ahend

single-

London, Sept. 12. Rugby Results: Rugby League International MARCH,

Rugby League 18, Other Na~ fionalities 88.

1

Rugby Union Club Matches Bristol 11, D Wanderers 0. Camborne 20, Blackheath 3.

· Cross Keys 18, Crumlin 6. 1 Devonport 80, Crawshay'

Another KO Win For Tongan Boxer

West'; Hartlepool, Badland, Sept. 12. Kitione Lavey Heavyweight boxer from the South Sou Island Kingdom of Tongu knocked out former English

Eddia Amateur

Champion, Hearn, in the fourth round of

SKIE over 13, Castle. bout here tonight.

innings. Ho went about

in sport. We just dour, two-eyed stance manner. Ewart Potgieter, in a prelimin-mindedly

Aa No. 4 Čox was a Gay ary bout on an All-Heavyweight|mazidin along, openly sneering Tour 6, Cavaller of the Denis Compton programme, is provolding much of the successes of State-spon- Dchool who brought brightness interest and a lot of curiosity. sored sport yet wishing secretly ford

Potgieter, hailed as a future we could have something to and humour into the play. They will be sadly missed and dif- World Champion, takes on the shout about ourselves.

Jamaican, 17 Templar,

stona

One day British ̈sport must who has scrape off its barnacles. It must fifth in the Championship table never boer knocked. out change; and change fundamen-

China Mall Special,

13

ficult to replice in a team that dumpy has done well enough to finish Simon

this summer.

THE GAMBOLS

tally.

Barry

Llanelly 15, Walker's Team 3. Newbridge, 11, Aberchen 0. Pontypool 17, Ebbw Vale 8.- Torquay 0, Glamorgan F' 23 W Super Mare 3, Waterloo' 14. Reuber.

| Lavo floored Heurn for theeg counts of eight in the first round, put him; down' for nine In the second and finlihed that night with n soild right to the hend early in the fourth rouch ande Reuter,

GOLDEN CHURN

Soritie

14

OMEGA

Seamaster Calendar

PIndustrie Hörlögère

[OMIGA

Geneva