1959-06-18 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1059.

BITTER BECKER TO GIVE UP Concluding Instalment Of The Series On Boxing's Most Gory Fights

BECKER

I've

always dona my bost

First Round Knockout

St Paul, Minn, June 17, Joey, Glurdelio. ( Philadelphija), Mie colender for a Jending world middleweight boxing tille. knocked out Qu«l

Flanagan (Minnescola) in two minutes 50 seconds of the first round here Jast night.

Flanagan

had won his last eight fight as a welterweight.— Reater.

COMPETITIVE TENNIS Blood On The Canvas

Jilted By Davis Cup Selectors

By GERALD WILLIAMS

"Sick to death of being pushed around," a furious Roger Becker, 25-year-old British Davis Cup player, told me at Beckenham that he has decided to finish playing big tennis at the end of this season.

Becker, the South London boy whose climb to

international status in lawn tennis has been, studded with headline rows, complained bitterly of incidents that have driven him to this decision.

"I've been living tennis since I was 17, and I'm tired of being dangled en a string by the wuthorities.

"If' ulay any tournaments al all next year it will be just for the fun of it.

"I don't

the semi-final, were playing for ⚫ place.

Fit Enough

no Becker. I 1 was because I

"When I was 1 in the final sei felt sure I was in the team, After all. I had never lost to want to enlarge Mills. Next day the side was upon what has led me 10 | announced-but decide to quit. It would in-

told WAS volve too many good friends.] wasn't ft. But it's quite true that I am terribly upset at the way I have been left out of khe Davis Cup team this year.

the "In April they picked Brst team for this year's Davis Cup matches. I was playing in the Cumberland tournament at the Hampstead, and I knew fourth position in the team was betwoch Alun Mills and myself. that "In fact, I was toldi Mills and 1, when we met In

Duren, Mantle Lead

Yankees To 7-3

Win Over Chisox

New York, June 17.

Ryne Duren's brilliant clutch-pitching and Mickey led the Mantle's 14th homer of the season New York Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the second-place Chicago White Sox today.

on

The Yankees picked up A half-game

the League leading Cleveland Indians, who were idle because of rain.

Duren's strong relief pitching the last two-and-two- third innings

Bob preserved Turley's sixth victory of the

over

Keren.

Mantle's "blast into the up- per right field seals rapped { five-run New York outburst of loser Ray Mcore in the second Joning.

Cleveland's much at Boston was rained out. Detroit was at Ballimore and Kansas City, f Washington in night games,

National League

In the National League Johnny

Antonell,

deal Harvey Haddix his fifth defeat ond gave relief plicher Bf Henry his arth win. Lee Walls also bered for Chicago. Philadelphia was at St Louis and Milwaukee had a two-

.. doubleheader night

Loy Angeles in other games.

Scores

Scores of today's game were: AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chicago

......

100-100-1

1 New York 150-000-01X-7-14```

Moore, Letnan 12). Arlan (4),

Duren (71 and Berra, WP-Turley

LP.More (-7)

(1-5). Martic 1241823

NATIONAL LEAGUE

..... 1620-203-609-2-0-| 100-000-13x-3-10-0

Sinley '(9) and Lollar Turkey.

Chicago

od 14-5) md Burge: 137- hardt, Henry (8) and Neetan, WP Henry (5-21. HRS-Walla 14019.

Neeman 11st). enjoying his best

season since he was a 21-rome winner in 1954. chalked up

10th birthday of the cam- raigh today when the San. Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-5.

Sam Jones replaced Antunell: after the left-hander yielded » homer to Pele Whisenant in the eighth and nished the game Antonelli's 1959 record now is 10-3. He had a 21-7 record in 1054 when he helped pitch the Giants to a world championship. The Giants clinched the game In the seven aning when three walks and singles by Jim Daven- port, Willie Kirkland and. Orlando Cepeda produced fro runs. Davenport and Dary: Spencer hamered for San Fran eker and Johnny Temple and Daryl Spencer bowered for San Francisco and Johnny Temply and Frank Robinson homered for Cinckanali,

Three-Run Homer

Neurrian's

Cal

three-run inclu-the-park homer in the eighth inning paced the Chleago Cubs to a 6-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The blow

Charnley Wins Non-Title Bout

Chenal 033-200-111--6-11.2 Son Francisco. 001-100x71) Fena, Acker (8), Arroyo (7) and Dollerer: Antonell, S. Jones ty ard analeiki. WP-Antonelli (10-31. E-Pena 13-51. HRS-Davenport 3rd) Robinman ELOT Spencer (4th). Whisenant

Temple 14)--UP,

(2nd).

Jack Dempsey Impressed By Johansson

New York, June 17. Juck Dempsey, former world heavyweight boxing champion, was impressed after watching Ingemar Johansson, Sweden's European title-holder in training yesterday.

But Johansson who challenges Floyd Patterson for his world crown in New York on June 25 sali: "I did not look so good."

Dumpsey who was watching Lime Johansson for the first doid: "He impressed me ∙as a strong, rugged felt with

prelly good lell hand

a

Johansson's Swedish doctor sold the challenger was in ex- cellent condition Johansson who weighs 14 stone four he expected to pounds, said scale down by two or three pounds for the fight.

In New Jersey,

Glasgow, June 17. Dave Charnley, British and Empire lightweight box- ing champion, beat Billy Kelly, of Ireland, here to- passed his physical, examino- night, when Kelly was tlon for the contest-Reuter, disqualified for persistent

ducking in

the sixth

Pallerson

round of their scheduled East German Betters

10-round non-title fight.

Charley always looked like

rking the decision

In the opening rounds Kelly,

a former British featherweight

champion, altempled to slug it

.out with

Charnley--but

tha

Olympic Record

Berlin, June 17. Siegfried Valentin of East motres Gormany won on 800

champion's punches werd event in one minute 47.0. seconds at Poladam today ne-

harder and faster,

Then Kelly switched to bob-cording to the East German. Hind and weaving defence, but riewe aguicy, ADN. Charnlov was suit able to get. This Is ons tenth of a second more with his telling blows. faster than the Olympic T-

Reuter.

cord-Reuten.

"I admit I had been having atle trouble with my hip, but the following week, in the Connaught tournament at Chingford. I was fit chough to beat the South African Abe Segal, then Tony Pickard, then Bobby Wilson. to reach the final.

"But when the Leam wat Davis Cup announced for the match against Chfie I was agul left out.

"If the selectora' attitude was that I'm too old at 25, then I wouldn't grumble at being re- placed by a brilliant young junior of about 18.

"But that's Alan Mills is only younger than me.

not the ense. two years

"I can't explain it, and

can't recept it."

Considers

So now Becker, married one your, s considering several offers of business careers.

"I know I've been called the bad boy of British tennis." he sald. "If being bad is to tell the

truth and stick up for myself has when the old school fie threatened to strangle me, then I'm not ashamed.

done my best Tye always

in Davis Cup when playing

international nutches and in teams."

FOUR D. JONES

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RUMBLE

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FERDINAND

NANCY

HEY, GLOOMY

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DOLLAR

GREEK

GROAN

TOP JOCKEY TAKES A SPILL

Scobie Breasley, who leads Britain's jockeys escape from with a total of 62 wins had a narrow serious injuries when his mount The Wick broke a leg and threw him heavily to the ground in the Whitehawk Three-year-old Handicap at Brighton Inst week.

Photo shows Breasley, cut and bruised, being put into an ambulance to be taken to the London Clinic after the accident.

{YAAAAA!!

THE EMPIRE

MATE'S

FALLING

DOWN

CREAK

A DOLLAR IS ONLY WORTH 50+ THESE DAYS

BRICK BRADFORD

HE DOESN'T HAVE

A GUN IN HIS HAND

CASEY! THAT FIRE SEEMED TO JUMP FROM HIS FINGER!

REFEREE HANDS IN LICENCE AFTER BLOOD BATH”

By HAROLD MAYES

Before it closed its door to the fight game a few months ago to become a warehouse, London's Harringay Arona saw the spilling of plenty of blood in the cause of entertain- mont in the post-war years.

None, however, exceeded in thrill and spill the contest which ended the sporting black-out there after Hitler's legions had been tamed."

The Explosions

Freddy Mill, the former mic about it. It might have Bournemouth mlikman, жал ended in the second round. Is given the honour of fighting for did not. the world light-heavyweight. championship against Gus Lemovich, a blond American" of Husslan

extraction, in May 1946, and they provided spectacle which I have always felt was largely responsible for the boom which boxing experl enced in Britain In the years which toltowed,

Raw Courage

It was true that the Service men, returning home at that Time had gratuities to spend and sport in all its spheres was booming.

But the red-raw courage displayed in that first Mill.. Lemevich encounter-Freddy was to take the title than two years later, although that could hardly have been anticipated at the first meeting

mere

boxing by instinct he made a pretty good job of it.

Actually, when he was "under the Influence" of the spell of Lesnevich's punches he boxed a In fact, when it did end, in cod deal better than he had the tenth, it sparked off car of done at the start of the fight.

I suppose the mort tightly- the biggest ring controversies of shut eye 1

ever Bow on & all time, resulting in that well-fighter was the one Sugar Ray known Scottish referee, Gene Robinsen Tresented to Carmen Henderson,

handing int

Basilio when that past of ilgers licence and being left in the

met in Chicago in March, 1950, wilderness for several years. the night Robinson become The explosions really look middleweight champion of the place in the second round,

world for the Afth time, when the heavy-Jowied Lesnevich, trying to provo that I really was the Ameri- cans who had won the war, nel out to blast Mills out of the ring with all his heavy artillery.

Well, Mills made Lesnevich a present of the next best. And whereas Robinson con- trived to keep Basilo's eyb closed, Freddy managed to prisn ореп the plum-like ebject that Lemovich had, and send the blood spurting in all directions,

Six, seven, eight, nine: Yes, 32 seconds of that round Mills spent on the canvas and for the Ist possess proof of Il 10- remaining part of the three day, in the shape of a pro- minutes he was in such a, dazegramme that he could not possibly have Lesnevich. an in-

the

-u have made delitile pression on spectators so that they always ready to come up for

more,

were

That alght it was the turn of Mills to

come up for more,

showing courage well beyond the line of duty.

Frankly, the ten rounds of blood and battery has never since been matched between a division light-heavyweights, which today, outside of aging world champion Archie Moore, contains no one of the likes of Mills and Lesnevich.

As I recall this epic, there was nothing particularly acade-

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BUTHAMANGA

By Paul NorrİS

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autographed by and freely spotted

appreciated what was going on. with his blood, which was still running like a lap as he put pen to paper holf-an-hour after the contest was over.

The Crowd Roar

Did I say dazed? Well, is manager, Ted Broadribb, bas that to me always inristed Freddy was dazed for the re- mainder of the contest, that being so, it's hard

that the black-Haired; sparked believe

con-crescendo, tank-like Mills was able vey

In the

und seventh, eighth

of tho and, ninth rounds, In spite

to hammering he had taken, Mills off a mounting of noise from the the Len-thousand-odd | partiɛnn crowd as they felt that thrill-creze speclators that he could pull the night out of turning the re was coming close to defeat and disaster into viciory.

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it was probably by just about But give that impression hethe ninth that he was starting And, in fact, it was more to cemu round from the effect than an impression. If he was of the battering he had taken

in the second.

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Because it was then that he departed from the boxing tactics he had employed so successfully round after round and began tossing those overhand rights of his-what I used to describe as nails" Freddy's "hammer and

Funch

Well, crobably this was what Lesnevich had been waiting for for the warrior to revert to type... But, since the American had, also taken 2 bit of a shellacking, he was in no mood to waste punches, but just looked for the chance to throw the right one at the right time to finish the job,

with a

on the

that it

'Enough'

The chance came in the tenth, and he took it. He nailed Mills corker, and then piled pressure so relentlessly seemed Mills must go down. Go down he did, and as he was on the canvas refereo Henderson called "enough."

Thai set the fuse to a bitter controversy. Henderson was called before the stewards of the British Boxing Board Control to explain his action in stopping the bout while Mills was on the floor, it being con- tended that no harm could ecme to him.

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Henderson refused to a6-· cepia Board order that he should submit to them his score cards for contests he re- ferred. and, rejecting other orders, he resigned. ·

A long war was waged on his behalf by many people who felt that he had acted wisely in preventing the possibility of Mile, in his condition; taking just one more punch when he

rose.

Finally, Mills won the title from Lesnevich, Henderson, his Judgment vindicated, gut back: ids licence. But that out-of-the- ring buttle, bitter as it was at time was mild-compared-to- what the protagonista dished up on that unforgettable Harringay, night.

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