1959-08-20 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1959.

Davey Moore Retains World Boxing Title O'DELL PITCHES

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ORIOLES TO 3-1

HOGAN BASSEY FAILS TO RONNIE DAWSON IS WORLD'S WIN OVER CHISOX

ANSWER THE BELL AT BEGINNING OF 11th ROUND

Los Angeles, Aug. 19. World featherweight boxing champion, Davey Moore, from defence Springfield, Ohio, made a successful first title tonight, when he knocked out former champion, Hogan (Kid) Bassey, in the 11th round of a scheduled 15-round bout.

The 27-year-old challenger from Nigeria was unable to answer the bell for the 11th round. His right eye was closed after being the target of Moore's powerful left. It was cut and bleeding freely.

Although Be light was stopped by his corner, it was ruled a knockout under Cali- fornia boxing lawa by referee Frankie Van.

the

Moure, showing all coclness and confidence of a True champlon, appeared to Crow stronger as the fight! wore on using his speedy left hook mostly to the head to run up a pulni-margin.

Hurt Right Hand

Bassey sold be hurt his right hond during the fifth round. and was anubte to close it com- pletely after that.

"Without the right, I was not at my best," he ald as tears strekerl <lown bis immediately after the Lout.

checks i

"Yes, without that right Opryd to give up the bout,"

Bassey tried lo eover up, showing only his elbows to the relentless champion, 'who breke through the guard to score with nhard left to the outs Just before he had Bassey backing unto the ropes an the Found ended.

Moore, who weighed the featherweight maximum of 126 panda; beltored the job he did Basley is winning the title here Rust March 18. That time #

until Tonk thin round,

j

grestor with flickbig rights to the brad.

BEST HOOKER

He Shows That Skill Counts In Rugby

By DEREK JOHN

Salute Ronnie Dawson, the man who has shown

that skill does count for something in rugby. With so much shove-and-push passing for top-class rugby these days, and getting results, the game was in danger of becoming almost solely a matter of brute force and accurate penalty kicking.

lefts and Now Dawson has taken a hand. He is a Dublin architect. More important, as far as rugby is concerned, he is captain and hooker of the British Lions team touring New Zealand.

In the fourth round, both | loosened Up

bit. Bassey caught Moore with a good left to the Inge and knocked him off balance. The champion ወዘ . unburt and came back with ३

combination hard one-two

Bassey's head.

10

came

At this point, as they together, Moore seemed 10 throw a shoulder block which the 13th Bausey down on the seat of hi black trunks. Von helped him to his feet and It was not countod as a knock- down.

Massey was unable to con» tinue hi the first bout beenuse of bad cuts about both eyes.

Stronger

Moners who ha making the weight Lin The day, wan

trouble Jant varly obviously

At the end of the 10th, stronger than 1110 125-poun Basscy was reeling against Bosky. The elrampian bulled the ropes as the result of his opporant in the clinches,

Moore's two-fisted chargeN.

toode his best shots and came Bassey opened strongly in the jonck for more and more. 108. but it was his last gasp. He scored with a right and telling left to Moure's hom shortly after De opening bell and the champion appeared to give ground.

But Moore was only

biting

The fight opened on a quiet nate with both tiny battlers sparring straight up in the middle of the ring. Blond was trickling from a scratch, on the side of Basney's eye as the first Youthri

Head Attack

In the fifth. Moore lunged after Basicy from the bell, letus ing quickly with repeating effe Bassey bented back hard with an overianti right to Moore's head a punci that was a real bomb.

Although the channpion obviously felt It, falled to glow him and he came back with a heari attack.

The sixth round was fairly oven, bat Moore stenlily gained the cige as the flight wore to its end.

his time and broke into whated but this did not appear Auditorium paying an estimated

seemed almost be a envafry

charge. bowling the African with rights and lefte to th

head as he chased him around the ring.

to bother him.

Dawson's selectlon as hooker was greeted with raised eye- brows

and

une more than chuckle in New Zealand. Twelve stone Boven pounda wasn't reckoned to

premni nearly enough beef for the job.

But Dawson had taken the trouble to study rugby as well Bs to play it. He

the searched

wiil tame painstaking thoroughness. To help his studies, he has played

Sports Diary

TO-DAY

Meeting

HKAAA annual meeting. Eden- flon Department, Onference Room.

1.

Bowls

2nd Divalon INOPSA v KFC al 5.30 pan.

ard Division: HERC INC at PRC. 3.15 p..

Tennis

of approximately A crowd 8,000 was on hant in Olyniple

with another nf $50,000 Kate

national TV Moore boxed carefully in the $40,000 for the

and third rounds, as rights. Euch fighter gets 30 per | Dole, Heap, Men's Singles I'eap, second

confirmed 19 the ag-cent of the net. --UPI,

Bassey

FOUR D. JONES

NO!

THE STUND

JUST LOOK THAT

THE ARMY HAS DONE IDIOTIC NITWITS

TO THE FOOT OIL WORKS LOOK AT 157 ITS A TOTAL WRECK

FERDINAND

NANCY

ARME

NANCY--

WHAT DOES

"STRATEGY

MEAN?

I'LL SHOW You

BRICK BRADFORD

AUNT FRITZI ---

CAN I HAVE FIVE NEW TOYS AND $20 FOR MY PIGGY BANK ?

BRICK AND PAM RACE BACK TOWARD THE OMAR" IN AN EFFORT TO INTERCEPT THE LONE FIGURE RUNNING TO THE

STACESHIP.

NO

ILL HAISE

BOB MATE

TEN GLOB!

OOR STRUTH

LRC Tumanyanta: Men's Open Singlen, ixalles Open Double (sound. hales, Sten's Desibiles Heap, Ladies'

Mixed Doubles Jean.

IDIOTS/

by MADDOCKS

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HE RE

CLOTS

NOW, WHAT DO

WE DO FOR

FOOT OIL?

WELL, THEN WILL YOU TREAT SLUGGO

AND ME TO AN

ICE CREAM CONE ?

SODDENLY THE FIGURE STOPS AND TUNE.

OH, I SUPPOSE

SQ

GET DOWN, PAM!... I DON' DARE SHOOT AT HIMÍ I MIGHT DAMASE THE

OMAR!!

YOU COULD TRY VINEGAR AN WATER.

HAWNAW!

HAW

By Mik

By Erule Bushmiller

THAT'S

STRATEGY

ERNIE BUSHMILLERE

By Paul Norris

HES GOING TO DO PLENTY JOF DAMAGE TO US IF HE

STEALS THE SHIP..

In every position to get firai- hand experience of their dif- ferent problems.

Can Beat Record

Now, through his brain, Daw- son hus earned from the Now Zealanders the title of Best Hooker in the World.

For the Lion, pre mcking skill pay to such an extent that they have averaged 27 points a gome. If they can keep it up. they will beat the recoril of 20 polnis a match achieved by the 1005 all-conquering All Blacks who toured Britain under the command of Dave Galloher.

And with the loyalty which Dawson's captaincy and play inspires from f men, The Lione Keem capable of main- taining their standard.

But more important than re- cords is the hope that Daw- Son's lend will be followi

ana more generally in Britain

in the rest of the rugby-playing world,

I don't ask anyone to copy his ideas. My plen is that more players should think more about

the game,

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A. R. DAWSON

Chicago, Aug. 19...

| Billy O'Dell checked the pennant-chasing Chicago White Sox on five hits over eight innings today to pitch the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-1 victory against the American League leaders.

The Oriole southpaw, getting his seventh victory, weathered a spell of wildness in the first fraine when he walked batters afler, ond aul, lie was working on his first shutout of the season when Sherm Lollar it his 2-1 pitch for his 18 homer in the eighth inning.

Jerry Walker erme en in the nlath for the Orioles and retired the While Sox in order,

The Orioles sprend three runs over the first three innlags, all off Bob Show, wha lost his fourth mme in 10 decisions.

Billy Klaus opened the game with a walk and moved up on Bob Nieman's single: Both ad- vanced on an infeld out and

Mohammed Stays Frored when Bob Boyd singled

With Blackpool

Ilanit

Pakistan

London, Aug. 10. Mohammed, the

holder of the world record first-clasa cricket score at 400, has been re-engaged as professional to Blackpool, the English Northern League club It was announced here today AFF.

through the middle,

Results

AMERICAN LEAGUE

aitimere Chicago

201-000-0-son@ma} 020-000-010- 1—30)

O'Dell, Walker 1) and Trinndos: Shaw, Monne (3), Lown (6), McBride siya and Lollar, Buse $12-4). 318-Lollar (2013)-

I WILO'Dell 17-19),

BENARD ́JOY PINPOINTS PROBLEM

OF SOCCER'S POOLS PAY-OUT

This FA-League

Gulf

Looks Explosive

"The greatest happening in football since the Football League was founded in 1888.* That is the description by League president Jae Richards of the payment by the Football Pools to the League for the use of their fixtures.

The sum, which is a guaranteed minimum of £245,000 a year for 10 years,

makes the League the most powerful sporting body in the world: This increase In strength How much will the League |

the win

Alan Hurdaker are seeking to wrest Rays £300,000 may be the the Football Association Umit this season. We will receive

VDIOON League

the governing body of the game, eater control over their own organisation.

Ret? Secretary

a minimum of £245,000 from the Pools

Promoter' Association und there will be payments from the other Pools and organisa- tions using the #xtures."

I follows England's dis- astrous close season Lour when we were defeated by As the copyright is fratrefed Brazil Peru and British clubs ¦ under the Geneva ennvention, -Wolves, Hearis and Arðs- the Lengue are to tackle Swe- to survive one round of the den, Denmark and Ausrir, European Cup just season where state pools use the Levizte emphasizes that at a club fxtures.

level, too, the standard of Qur football needs Improverment,

I

Vibrant

drastic

have just conducted ♫ nation-wide investigation, 2017- sulting administrators Di the League and ГА. managers, directors and players. Every. where, the professional game is vibrant with the knowledge that we are on the verge of great things.

The League now have a unique opportunity of creating some- thing farsighted and worthwhile for the good of the game.

Yet, at the same time, I discovered an apprehension that the money could lead to disastrous resulin,

There are many demanding a share. It is easy to make a false step.

That Boy

If the Pools money is used by the League In a struggle for power with the FA it would split football as basically as did Rugby schoolboy William Webb Ellis when he picked up the ball and ran with it over a century ago. To keep alive struggling clubs like Southport, Crowe and Alder- shot would be futile. It would be an equal disservice if the money Inflated the transfer fees Manchester United and Arsenal Can afford from £45,000 to

£50,000.

The easiest mistake to make at the moment to ignore the public, from whom the money originates, Their do- mand for better football and greater comfort must វែង prime considerations.

Rocky Marciano Denies Report-

Rains, Aug. 19.

Former world heavyweight Morelino io- champlon Rocity

day denied a report published

by an American magazine that

he will meet Sweden's Ingemar

Johansson, current champion,

In a title bout next June.

By next year the gross income Hay be us high as £400,000. Income tax may slash

the

revenue and the Scottish League will have a share. I understand the Scots are asking for one- third. They are likely to have one-sixth,

A Stadium

Alderman W. McKeag, the Newcastle chairman, ix ang those who advocate a national sindium, which would be thrown open to all sporis. It would cost £5,000,000, be sited in the Mid- lands and scat 200,000 under

cover.

It is a pipe dream. It would be a white elephant before t was bullt. I agree with that far- sighted statesman of soccer, FA secretary, Sir Stanley Rous, who visualises the stadium of the future

器 being superbly appointed bul holding only 00,000,

'Football House'

He says "the ground would accommodate the supporters of both teams and the rest of the country would watch on TV."

A more practical proposal has been made by Joe Meara, the Chelsea chairman, chief International selector and of The member

League's Management Commitle. It is for a Football House for bolli

the League' and FA, to bo erected in London.

Separate by more thanx

tributes to the diferences Thith Origi between the League and FA. Those difer- ences are the most explosive element in British football,

TOMORROW: The League struggle.

Highbal

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"I havo no definite plans about returning to the ring. The only; offers that I have received have been in петрарег storice, although I must say u lot of promoters are getting awfully friendly."AFP.

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