1958-11-04 — Page 7

WORLD CHAMPION HONOURED

Mike Hawthorn, the new world motor racing champion is pictured with one of his most persistent fans, lovely model Jean Howarth, at a party in London last week.

The party was given by the British Racing Drivers Club in honour of Hawthorn winning the World Championship. To mark the occasion be was presented with a gold medal.

have been linked Though Mike Hawthorn and Jean Howarth's names romantically, he claims that he has no matrimonial plans until he retices from the dangerous sport of motor racing. London Express Photo.

Henry Longhurst On Golf TOMORROW

AS

WILL DO

Madrid.

THE "CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1958.

Hammerin Hank G

REVEREND THESE DAYS

Is Still A Hell-Raiser

By GEORGE · · WHITING

NOBODY is going to get over-excited at the news that a Baptist minister named Henry Jackson, sharecropper's son from the Deep South cottonfields of Columbus, Mississippi, has flown into London this weekend. Even the fact that he was once known as Melody Jackson will probably not strike a reminiscent chord.

But mention another alias, Humerin' Hank, and every tin ear in town will tingle at the return of Henry Armstrong, the fightingest guy of his day-the only man ever to hold three world titles at different weights.

Why, they even changed the or he would have seen to it that rules to make sure nobody else his arst official contest pald off over made cutting ал opmore than a broken nose and ponent to pieces look so easy! bouncing cheque.

However, a epell round the Hank raises a different kind

and the soup of hell these days. Quite a lot hot-dog stands

He luis happened to him since he kitchens got him educated, Just looked in on us 19 years scrubbed steps, shone shoes, sel ngo to do a boxing job on our up the pins in a bowling alley. then welterweight chorapton, He was broke, but mighty quick Eric Roderick-whom he mel on the uptake, again socially at Harringay last Tuesday.

In 1930 Henry Armstrong was a glamour-glove genius, pride of his profession, and being paid nearly 50,000 dollars for show- Ing us the why and the how on Roderick's chin.

Articulate.....

Now, at 46, he comes back as the Skid Row derelict who be

after waking came a man drunk one morning in a Angeles police station.

up

Los

10

A

A woman Judge, Aning him dollars, said: "You're letting million boys down. Go away and get a hold of yourself."

Well, here he comes-ordain- ed, urticulate, happy and no- body's mug.

Cash Rolled

Over-fond of the bottle, per- haps, and inclined to live it up with new-found friends the cash began to roli-bul a 6ghting man nevertheless.

when

that

took in Britain's Ernie Roderick, gathered speed as the free-londers climbed aboard, and finally crashed-with Herry Armstrong, as always, picking up the cheques.

No Cheers

The championships were lost, the cheers led away, and Henry dressing- Armstrong hy on a room table, nearly blind.

"Take the bơm away?" they yeild when he sought to fight again. So he turned to re- fereeing. show

business, Soldiering. softball. fighting two men in one night, firms, a Chinese restaurant in Holly- wood,

The Immortal Mike Jacobs, newly installed as promoter in New York's Madison Square

And it Henry didn't feel so Garden, started off with Henry

there was always the Armstrong versus Petey Sarron good, for the featherweight (Ost.) gutter to he in, the booze to help championship of the world Inhim forgel.

"But I anally got wise," he 1037.

blue told me when we dropped into Henry

The removed

San Francisco one morning to robe with the skull and cross-

watch Don Cockel train for his the bones embroidered back, and went into business, fight with Rocky Marciona.

Lossed Soon after they

bimm helped After six rounds they

uut of that Los Angeles court- Petey Barron off the floor. Seven months later Armstrong room. Herty Armstrong thumb-

welterweight et through Bible, the I was talking to Armstrong in collected

(10st. 7lb.) till from that same Los Angeles only 2

Went in Fighting tow weeks Bgo. We chatted Barney Ross, who finished

rounds on Long Island with 5 A bind Negre porson named about the

church In nearby

items. M. Malone dared him about mashed-up face which he preaches, and the 300 ghis that took him determination

Bght preoch a sermon in his church and Hammerin's Hank, three there via misery, millions and again.

times champion of the world, then more misery.

went in Agating.

SI sit on the airport terrace basking in the balmy sunshine and no longer bothering as to when the plane, already delayed an hour, will leave or when anyone will be given any further information about it in a language which none of us, in any case, can understand, I reflect that a short sojourn in Spain does the English a great deal of good. It is a splendid corrective to the hustle and bustle on which, under the guise of about efficiency, we nowadays set such store.

Some of the parly, It is true, did not quite have tinte to Assimulate the lexon that to- morrow will do just as well as today, and I retain a Hively

of the memory group of golfer

serne s

assorted professional and

camp followers endeavoured to extricate them.

selves from the hairi, som " Indulging in a tug of war with the enraged

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

ICOMPLAI

BY A MKA 11kNi

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WHATY

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possession of thele eluko, which it #ppeared they had neg-fred "Luggage clearance. others yelling at them from the that we hart only minutes

b

to spare if ail We lo catch

their

respective aeroplanes.

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THE gesticulations and general

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oftraried emotion

IJ

crowd uhmost as ble ሂን 17:01 which turned out to ser the notch for the Joy Cup, and in the and we drove off in triumph to the strains of the them

from tune

The

the Alm of which "River Kwai," for

the citizens of Madrid may be seen queueing from carly morning onwards.

So here we are, silling in the sunshine come hours later, vers tain in the knowledge that we shall get to Lisbon it and when the aeroplane gets there and hold mement before, so why worry, and with plenty of tur to refleel on the match in which Britain Hove beaten the Rest of Europe and the vene in which they have done it.

First Impressions One of my first impressions f that our leading pinyers, how that they have added so many Continental events to their rotu competitions at home,' may

ol

be in danger of allowing them- nelves to be turned into tourna

instead of ment professionals,

club professionals, as has hap- pened in America to the detri ment of both the game and the players. I think the present group may be thoroughlyp stale through no fault of their own und the sooner they are able" to settle down for a while at their clubs the better.

the

Secondly, after reting magnificent course of the Club de Campo, it occurs to me that Javier Arana, who used to play golf for Spain, must be one of the very best golf architects.in the world today. He also ald out the course at Barcelona, which I havo heard at least one competent judge describe na th finest servido course in Europe. 5,000 Members The Club do Campo is a kind of Hurlingham or Rochampton on the grand sente-it tina 5,000 members-Wilh polo ground, Borso-jumping COUERC, tennis courts and swimming pools, to my nothing of an engineering echool where they train caddles for productive Jobs in Later: life.

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Tise single-mtore while club- house in porched on top of a hill from which one looks across to the entire city of Madrid un ita lateau-four miles away but seeming, in the amazingly clear almopphere, to he just the valley.

! DUNNO SOMETHING ABOUT PEOPLE NOT COMING.

OUTA HERE MIND11.

I LOOK ARUUNDY

FERDINAND

NANCY

THERE GOES

THE DOG CATCHER

"I LOOKED AROUND --NOTHING UNUSUAL--JUST AN EMPLOYMENT AGENCY) FALI SHLY-

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and never to

veteron

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Lou Ambers, the curren: (Bst. lb.) champion. weight offered more virile competition. Henry-had to swallow a pint of his own blood

12 and suffer stliches in eye and lip to beat

hay-ride But the triple-tille enough. was on. A million-dollar Jaunt

Under-sized Son

of

an Iroquois Indian mother and

father, Indian-Irish - Negro

learned a ittle young Henry

the light game LES a Lou. leenage fearabout in St Louis,

But he didn't learn

*THEY WERE NICE-ONE EVEN CROVE ME BACKI-

WE GET THESE CRANK CALLS EVERY DAY HAVE TO-- FOLLOW THRU--

HMM-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davla

ANOTHER

FALSE ALARM -WE GET A

DOZEN A

WEEK, CHIEF.

I KNOW,

JERRY. GUESS THANKS $0. SATISFIED MANDRAKE?

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

---AND THERE GOES THE DOG CATCHER CATCHER

DOG

CATCHER

JOHNNY HAZARD

BLUE LIMOUSINE... PONTED FENDER... LOYO SEE IN THE PAINT MATCHES THE STUFF THAT RUBBED OFF ON

OUR CAR..

SAME THING! THIS IS THE CAR WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE WAY WOULD THOSE MONKEYD HAVE BROUGHT DOWNY TO THE GAME?.

DEPENDS ON WHO THOSE AVONKEYS ARE,

JOURNY

DOG CATCH

BUSHMALKAL,

to

bas his own church now, own youth foundation, and his straightening own Ideas about out under-privileged kids, 11 was good to see the Reverend itenry Armstrong sealo.

--(London Expresa "Serplee),

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