1958-01-23 — Page 7

MISS PAT MOSS ONE OF THE STARTERS IN MONTE CARLO RALLY

Paris, Jan. 22.

A total of 86 teams left Paris this afternoon ол their 2,794 kilometres route for Moni Carlo in the Monte Carlo Motor Rally. This

the largest number of teams to start from any one of the eight starting points.

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Among the starters from this point were Monaco's Louis Chiron,, winner of the 1954 rally, and Miss Pat Moss, sister of British motor racing ace Stirling Moss,

De Dyone, sinted as the major test of the 27th Ray.

Tho

drivers will have to negotiate ice and snow-covered roada Biroughout France they speed through the night to their Aral control point at Chaumont, Eastern France.

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BOXING

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1958.

Former Welter THE

Champion To

Retire

Boten, Jan. 22. Tony de Marco, who was sent

to the eanvas three times by virgil Atkins in the elimination

out for

Welter- the World

Just weight boxing title here night, is to retire from boxing, his manager, Rip Valenti, said today.

Marco, former World Welter- weight Champion, was taken to hospital after Atkins defeated him by technical knockout In the 12th of their scheduled 16-round light,

HOME SOCCER

Valenti said Marco had been Instend, competitors have through too many tough fights been elven a free choice of in his boxing career.-France- Loute to Vichy. One danger Presse. spot on the most practicable route is the Uny hamlet of La Only one of the 04 "survivors" Chubnuine, where Snowdrifts from the Glasgow starting pited up by a gate of wind have pokit was penalised at the Bar- heen forming in one quarter of by Moor check pont. an hour.

Boar na?, British entry, J. had to change the gearbox of his Ford just outside Glasgow. Ho

at Barnby Moor arrived only 16 minutes before the time limit, but was given 460 penalty points.

snow-

The French road authorities were plannbig. If the storm continues unabated, to set the rally competitors through in convoy behind snow-. ploughs.

The other drivers left Bunity Jaguar driver Thomas White Moor too early to leart: that the was struck off the list of com- rond between

London and petitors when he arrived at the

chock Dover was partly

Moar blocked by Barnby

point

BLOW.

eight and half minutes late,

delayed for five White was

Kimarnock by un hours near electrical faull and was unable to reach the control point before it closed.

The nine Rome starters checked through Bologna with out incident and were heading for Moncalleri.

The 40 Oslo starters all checked through Odense clear of penalty points and were drie ing towards the Danish-Ger- man border. Their next control point will be Hamburg,

A blizzard

raging in the Mandi, central mountain range of central France, trentened

A 37 drivers starting this morning from Lisbon checked. in at the control point in Madrid tonight after a good run in fine wentber. The only incident was a fall of snow 85 miles from Madrid.

The first competitors to clock

competitors of six itineraries in at Madrid were the Portu-

passing through Maurine road conditions of the dimculty.

In Danger

drivers, Pacheco utmost Burnay and Pinto Bosto, in

London, Jan. 22. Because of the state of the ground, the Glasgow Cup Final

between replay

Hangers and Third Louark, due to be played

postponed, tonight, Reuter,

Was

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BUSINESS OF BOXING

Terry Spinks... "a fast, skilful and harmless bout,"

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reach their second control point at Burgos around midnight- France-Pressc.

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Trevor Philpott Discusses The Profession As Seen By The Big Promoters

Whatever happens to the British boxer, or the quality of his boxing in 1958, the hard cash business is going from strength to strength. Even the boxers nowadays don't talk about “the sport. Brian London told me when he returned in glory from the Empire Games at Vancouver, "I'm like the rest after the big money. Anybody who says he liker boxing needs his brains tested."

The general public is inclined little man beside me pressed his "Blind men sing for money. I Don't let them his promote, fights. to forget that boxing is mostly | binoculars | hard against

set tell you that the tax they've an exceptionally lough com-glasses and his mouth wes mercial enterprise. They sl in an open grin. "He's going, knocked off is money in the pro- going! He's been taking moters' pocket, Most or It has believe that the 25 eminent, very he's strictly amateur, stewards, everything!" Two Indians be gone into the boxers" purce. I whose names appear at the head hind me were screaming like could always get a six-rounder:

Down for twelve quil. Now it's sover- of the British Board of Boxing girls on the Big Dipper. Control's note-paper, really

with teen and a halt. doby the ringside the men govern the boxing profession, the glistening, well-dressed hair "Now the lox Is off, I think culting their quite true, were

That is no longer

losses:

of promotiona the Smart Aleca are trying to get in. should be restricted. All

For eight years now they have "Larry-be doesa't last the the number not been in control. In 1930, round-2-1 in twenties-are you after a bitter battle, the pro- on?" fessionals voled themselves into

power.

Public Spoiled

The few attractions there are are being put on everywhere and abused. They say people round here are hard; if you can please them you can please anybody. Well, we had a sell-out for our lost big bill at Lelecster-and

Now, the eight area councils

Within a week I was talking who decide froin day to day and about the boxing public nguin, month to month what the pal-with Joe Sheppard, who makes em of the boxing business in the matches for Solly Sheck we were charging five quid for their territory shall be are com- posed entirely of men to whom boxing means money,

Each council is, or should be

made up

promoters, three referees, four boxers, three man-

agers, one matchmaker and three members holding other kinds of licence-seconds, trainers, ring masters,

man, the Newcastle

promoter. the first, time.

yes, you get them here. 'Let's have some graft! Turn the lights off, ref, they want to kiss!"

like a Aver for seats.

"The public have got to have boxers who do things" And by doing things I mean knocking People out of getting knocited routine, Round here you can out People won't pay to always fill a hall if Turpin's on had

Bee

"The trouble up here is Use public's been spoiled. In the thirtles I had sixty-five fighters within twenty miles. Now we whips or timekeepers. haven't got a single preliminary As it is the promoter who hires, boxer. Not one; We've had to fly the fight with Pastrano or falls to hire. practically all 'em in from Belfast and Bristol come off we should have needed the other councli members, it is for six-rounders. Pay them for

to clear £18,000 at Leicester.. 1 not dimcult to guess

was paying £5,000 to Pastrana. whose two or three days off-work. UPA big bookmaker pal mine words weigh most heavily at here we can't charge anything rang me up from Nottingham. council meetings.

'Save me my usual 20 cents, A), And at any general meeting "In 1831 they were putting on he said, and I'll take 4,000 to of the Board, the council mem-four shows a week, top price a 5,000 on Turpin.' That's the 10-1 hers can reverse any decision of shilling. People say 'We've seen the newspapers were talking the stewards by a thundering seven fights for bob in

the about majority. The stewards can put same hall-and they were better out a restraining hand. It tnghts at that. In the old days

There, then, are the altitudes comes to the test, they can be there'd be about fifty would-be of the men who put on the big boxers in the local gym-most boxing contests. Their primary Sc It is the promoters, of them out of work. Top of the job is to make a prodt. They are scem, who are the men who bill would be three quid

not essentially concerned with really control British boxing.

technique, nor with welfare, noe and two of the biggest of them "Not that I'm saying we with the after-care of boxera. all, Jack Solomons in the South should have those days back, These are the men from whom zad Al Griffiths in the Midlands,mind. You don't want to forget (every boxer, monager andi are also chairmen of their re-just how beat those boys in the | ofefal takes his wages, spective area councils.

flights weekly to veted out of existence.

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a bit of bread, but never so beat

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as when you're up there in that promoter of a boxing ring with everybody match does not necessarily set on the other bloke. out to provide an instructive | demonstration of the art of self- "There's no real substitute for defence. He aims to fill the big- a local boy, Take a young feller gest, hall at his disposal, at the Hike Spinks. In London he's got highest prices he thinks his pub-a following. He's worth his He will pay. The promoter who purse in tickets. But a boy fight- has Harringay Stadium, which ing out of his area hasn't got will seat 10,600, has the richest the same pull. If I want to get mine in the boxing business. It į somebody like Spinks to come is to him, sooner or later, that up here I've got to give his all those who want the really mannger the marmalade. 'Hallo, big prizes will come.

Glad The man Sammy. How are you? who has Harringay every sixth you're doing nicely with the boy week throughout the season 15 . All that sort of thing. Jack Solomons. He told me: Local boxing has just get to have

local boys,"

Boxers Benefit

"It's the Palladium of boxing. Everybody wants to be put on there. No risk? Are you kiddin'? Before the tax was taken off

A few days later in Walsall, I Lost

between £40,000 and

was talking with Al Grimths, £50,000. Let's be honest, I'd got bookmaker, promoter, chairman it to lose. We'd had some good of the Midland Area Council, years just after the war, when Griffiths is known as a man of I'd made a bit. It's all a fabu- his word, a man who knows lous gamble, I've put on thirteen what he wants and the price he world title fights since 1948- wants to pay.

guaranteed Ray Robinson 78,000 dollars, win or lose. How many men would take a chance like that with their own money? "My last four shows have all been sell-outs. When the tax came off knocked £2,300 off the arena prices, made more ten- bobs and pounds, less threes and fives. I'm spending an 'extra Afteen hundred pounds on every bill-giving the public two big fights instead of one. In the end you've got to give them value for money they want to see,"

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Geneva, Jan. 22. The Executive Counell of the World Health Organisation to-

4 day adopted Scandinavian proposal that the possibility of At Mr Solomons's last Harrin- including in the organicallon's gay promotion there was little programme medicine refaling 10 on the programme which proporting allments should be mised to be an epic. There were studied.

no titles at stake. But the public The Council decided to sub- were hungry for a fight and the mit a preliminary report on tickets had all gone. "Might and this question to the next World you one at a fiver," the ticket | Health Assembly, which will mannger said All the way from be hold int Minneapolis, Manor House tube station the Minnesota. splvs were shouldering their

WAY between the arriving The Danish, Finnish, Swedish crowds. Nearer the Stadium and Norwegian Governments

documents to there must have been forty of submitted

the them, working in gangs. "Ero Counell showing particularly y're Guv. Ten bob ticket for that sports and althletics raised quid. Two-guinea seat, a smash- a number of medical problems, that sporting medicine was be- er, seventy bob,"

coming increasingly recognised Inside, Terry Spinks had won as a speciality and that the his 8-round contest. Now a fast | WHO should take the lead in the middleweight calloc Terry development of sporting Downes was knocking the stuff- | medicine In the world.-France- Ing out of Irish substitulo Pressc.

fighter, whose breathing raspod over the effects microphone ilke a team of oxen stuck in the mud; These microphones make every blow sound as if it had - Landed on the back of the seat you are sitting in, oven if the seat, le high up and distant in a back row corner. · ·

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harmless been a few murmurs of ap. | Services (Itnovela) 15 a.m. proval, à file light clapping.

But now a roar, was rising like smoke into the roof. The

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