1958-05-07 — Page 7

THE CHINA · MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1958.

YOUR EXTRA 20 YEARS

New-because of the schlovements of

• Every year sees man's life span Increasing. science and medicine-men and women in 1958 are on average living some 20 years This week the China Mail puls the question: lonxer than 100 years ago.

"What are YOU puilian into longer ving?" to prople noted for the vigour and

variety of their lives.

How I Would Spend

Them-

By Jack Solomons FIGHT PROMOTER-FISHMONGER- BOOKMAKER, Jack Solomons pushed aside his breakfast of hard-boiled eggs and Matzos and accepted magnanimously the proffered gift of two decades of priceless time.

"What would you do with 20 extra years of it?" I asked the man who rules his raucous em- pire of blood, bets and boaters from a West End office wedged between a sandwich bar and the

features theatre that

LOUSE- pimples.

"My life!" said Mr Solomons, waving the palms that launched

a thousand thick ears.

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"I should ve 20 more years" So OK. So I quit being a box- ing promoter and I breomie So open boxing manioger, chemist shop). in every town where there's a promoter and sell him pliis and headache powders, So I make me a for- tune.

"Already I got the stock. How else would fleure my aggrava- tions? Who wants to be promoler? All I get is postpones ments and bad hands and cut eyes and whisperent ami tap- pers and connivers and lighters who can't fight and managers -who talk telethone numbers.

Lucky Fingers

"You want 1 should have 20 more years like this?"

"What mqices you think you would do better sa mu TREIFFO'T ́`*

"You

cruzy or something?

How can they lose? Managers

Corbett fight Johnny King at Clapton and I have to pawn my gold walch and the wife's jewellery.

Then one day I start racing for a horst and I pay £4,500 called Devil's Chuchman, I tell my trainer I aim to race this horse and my trainer says I have pretty good chance of beating it providing i walk fast.

"Sowell Devil's

Coachman

for £300 and I buy Seconds Out

for £3,300. This one tex

It starts at 4-1 the wind. with four runners and has struggle to finish lust."

!ilkt

(1)

bual-

Fish Restaurant

"Hare you up ather

that would ness experience stand you in pood stend during your extra span?"

"Sure. Bud Flanagan gets an Idea we should start a fish res- Burent in the West End.

"Wha a comedian! I go in with £7,500 and 1 come out with

I know £2,000. So now about restaurants.

"At least you would how to promote a profit at the fuht game?"

"Whe, me? How can I win?

get 25 per cent of everything, | 1 drop £50,000 in two years pro- Promoters get 100 per cent of nuthing."

talking to GEORGE WHITING

JACK SOLOMONS: So I pay £7000 for the privilege t

of being the goat..

wife.

be &

the world and I pay £7,000 for

"Sure-provided I can The privilege of being the goal" manager and have the same

A Big Smile.... "You

wife, Fay? know my "What about all the excite-She's been married to me for 38 ment of the nights that puld of years, poor woman.

such as when Turpin beat Sugar Ray Rubinson for the world middleweight title? Sures some more to you would like of those?"

You think

so! Listen. I

mating! against Entertainment | have to go up in the ring that Tax. I lose 28,000 on Randolph night with a big smile and a fat "Do you think life is reallyTurpin at Tiberio Mitri in elgar and all the time I know my worth having another 20 years Rone. Every budy stays home; brother-in-law has dropped dead tacked on it?".

when Don Cockell Bghts Harry during the 14th round, I was up and all night arranging the funeral." Matthews. Archie Moore Yolande Pompey fight for the "Yet you would still Bee those cruiserweight choinpionship of '20 extrá years?"

"Why not? When 1 ami born In Frying Pan Alley in Middle rex Street, I have five fingers on each hand and two teeth and my mother is so frightened of the freak she's got, she wants to send for the rabbi and tell him maybe I should be done in. "But Mrs Daly Goodman, the one who is selling chickens in Petticoat Lane, she tells mother islam_ANGEL_DIA Jucky on neesamt of they can add up more pennies. So I live, So why shouldn't I have .-. other score years collecting?"

No Roses

any

"You would not fanep pour- welf as a retired country gentle mon growing roses?"

"Who, me Listen, i wanna live, not die alive. Did a rose- Krower ever get rich in a gril- gion where they don't even have 1 colta flowers at funerals? have people all brount me right! here in London. Who wants to: live another 20 years looking at cemeteries?"

"Not even a country pub for your old age?"

"Noi interested. How enuhi i refus to serve nr friesis n driak after time? You went I should starve on avenant of the low?"

"What about mouen? Do yo think you could cope with the competition of younger men?"

com- "I should worry heat petition. I am 57, and I've been broke twice I learne

arithmetic pushing a barrowful of Dutch fish fren Billingsgate

to Petticoat Lunc when was

12. On commission,

Buy A Horse

"When Da kid I save £200 and lose £275 of it singe sce Dicky to nobody

Comes

TOUR OF SPAIN

CYCLE RACE

Cuenca, May 6, Belgium's Desmet today won

the seventh singe

Tour

the of Spain eyeling race over 210

from Valencia kilometres Cuenca.

to

The Netherland's rider, Deak De Groot, retained the yellow- sweater as overall leader alter today's lap.

Desmet covered

the distance

in 7 hours and 10 seconds.

Second was Belgium's Van Looy and third Spain's Botella.

-France-Presse.

THREE-MILLION DOLLAR STADIUM

Washington, May 6. The United States House of Representatives today approved a bill providing for $3,500,000 to finance the construction of a etadium at Squaw Valley, Coli- tomie, for the holding of the 1900 winter Olymples. The bill now goes before the Senate- Franco-Prazse.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

"Never interferes. packs my bag. looks after me, consoles me when you newspaper boys kill TOC."

TODAY

DEATH

SUNDERLAND'S Sports Diary

MARKS END OF A FOOTBALL ERA

Tennis

Men's "C" Divion: KCC_V_FCC (1) Recreio (1) CRC (2), PORC V CRC, CCC (7) LRC, lecreio (2) Urban G, LRG V BREČ, KTGCA V CRC (1).

Mixed "B" Division: CCC V VARC.

Meeting RKASA Executive Committre Meeting. SCMP 13oard Room, 3.30 p.M.

Hotter Exhibition Game: Combined Hong- kong Coinbined HK Mac Poller, Boundary Street, 5.30 p.m.

"Athleties Tingle's Clarity Ihysical Display, ked, 15 p.m.

TOMORROW

Boxing

Friendly Toumament: HKPSA Y

↑ COD/RAK, Southom Mayground,

p.in.

Bowl

3rd Division: HERC ARC, 4.30 p.m.

Tenal

Men's "D" Divion: RC V CRC 21. Blanley CRC (1), HKCCSA v KCCRA (2) PRC V PORC CRC (3) KTGCA, UBRC v KCC Mixed A Division: KCC v che, SCAA V KCC.

First Upset In Italy Tourney

Rome. May B. Luein Bussi of Italy brought off the Arst upset in the Italien Lawn Tennis Championships here by defeating Bernice Carr. top-rariking South African, to- day.

Miss Dass battled determined ly and scored with some good dipping crosscourt shola to "win their first round match by 8-6, 7-5.

By ARCHIE QUICK

DAVIS CUP TIE

PI Wants To Play Ceylon In Tokyo

Manila, May 6.

The Philippines will inkist on

playing the lawn tennis tio with Coylan for tho Eastern Zona Davis Cup final in Japan' an Official of the Philippines Ama- tour Athletic Fadoration sald here today..

Grim-faced onlooker at the death of Sunderland was Charles Buchan, bright shining star when the Roker club had "The Team of All the Talents." We watched together the end of a football era as the once proud North East side slipped into the Second Division after 69 years continuous tenancy in the First Federation Secretary and Trea-

Dr itcgino Ylanan, the

Division. This means that now no club is left suror said the Federation

hod

non-

that has played exclusively in the top bracket set cable instructing Mr for the whole of its history.

Study the Sunderland record. | salve your First Division place. suggest to the Ceylonese Cap- Champions in 1892, 1803, 1895. Now, ke Aston Villa

tio

The Leonardo Gavla playing captain of the Philip- pines team now in Tokyo lo

before talu, Mr Pereira that the 1902, 1913 and 1930. Runners them, you have discovered that be played on May 18, 17 und 18

up in 1894, 1898, 1901, 1823 und Soccer success canust be bought, in Japan. 1935. Cup winners in 1937,

runners-up in 1813. Note that Manager Alan Brown iny Mr Ylanan sald the cable period of almost complete and spent considerable time_build-proposed "Annnelal arrangem constant success from 1892 toing up. scouting system undments which we belleve should 1895, then a break and later a couching scherne fur

young, bo satisfactory to Ceylon.” return to power.

local talent-un, the lines of Manchester United and Wolver-

Won

recent

Mr Ylanan said Ceylon

Anançlai reasons. It was re- ported here Mr Pereira said it. would be too costly to bring the great Ceylonese team là Tokyo.

Then consider their unhappy hampton Wanderers. On this he objected to playing in Japan for experiences in

years. Pins his future fatth. Always in the relegation area, and close escapes until the final; The North East Coast nur crash. They

their last sery," source of such match at Portsmouth, but players as Jimmy Sced, Sam was too late. They went down Bartram, Len Shackleton

and Mr Ylanan said it both the Think, on qual average.

tou, Jackie Milburn down the years, Philippines and Ceylon could domestic troubles, seems, however, to upon their

be drying not come lo un agreement on the Football Association probe up. The only recent discovery the playing site, the melch was Bobby Charlton and he would be up to Australia as the into their affairs, and the sus

and fines imposed was allowed to escape to Man- Davis Cup holder to decide, ** pension

Reuter, upon the club, directors, manchester. ager and players.

IL

that significant

the club with behind-the- No- scenes worries, Doncaster vers, have also been relegated.

Nicoin

Italian other Pietrangell, holder of the men's singles title, showed ne form in demolish ing Andrew Stern (United States) 6-0, 6-0, 6-2 in the first round. Pietrangeli, seeded number four this year, pinced sizzling drives

down the side- lines and across court with pin- point accuracy.

Davidson

The Future?

What of Sunderland's future! director und A dlaconsolate

& Kibon Messrs manager, Brown told me at Portsmouth "We do not expect an In- There is a lot mediate return.

of work to be done to put our house in order. The present

pruned. playing staff will be but we do not anticipate spend-

ing a lot of ingrey on new men."

Top-seeded Sven (Sweden) and Giuseppe Meriu (Italy), last year's beaten "1. And have you any finalist, also had cusy victories. who might Davidson, who had a first message for those

they can hardly stand titeround bye, reached the last 16 with a 6-4, 0-2, 6-1 second round thought of Jack Solumons being

Bert Kearney You can say that again Sun- around for 20 additional gears?" victory over

beat nnderland-you the club which "Yeah. Drop dead!" said (Australia). Merlo

other Australian Wayne Reld, has poured out a quarter of a established 0-0, 0-0, 6-3 in the first round. million sterling on

stars in vala endeavour Reuter.

to

Mr Solomuns.

-Landon Express Service).

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