1960-06-28 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JUNE

PATTERSON SAID: 'I WON'T BE A SUCKER FOR JOHANNSON'S RIGHT AGAIN

Joe Louis film

K.O.

film the key

the key to my

revenge revenge

plan

Floyd Patterson made ring history on June 20 by being the first world heavyweight boxing champion to regain his crown, when he knocked out Ingemar Johansson in the fifth round of the return. 'match. The fight lasted exactly 13 minutes 51. seconds, but the behind-the-scene preparations and training that Patterson underwent took several long months. Here in this article, written before the fight, the champion tells how much he owes to Joe Louis during the training and preparation for his success,

Newton, June 18.

I can't tell you what secret Joe Louis showed me, but I will tell you that it is in a film I keep in a battered old tin can in my bureau drawer. I've been handling that tin can quite a bit during the past four weeks because I promised Joe I'd study that film of his second fight with Max Schmeling at least twice a week.

The Alm minutes four second, but it holds the key to the strategy that will enable me to win back

runs, only two

the

heavyweight title from Inge- mar Johansson

New at the York Palo Grounds on Monday night.

-by

Floyd Patterson

Joe everybody up here al the cump calls

"the him

I was embarrassed when Joe, Dempsey was 32 when he fought Champ" was just the greatest Dan and I watched the flims of Tunney in 1927, Schmeling was that night against Schmeling. Ingemar knocking me out. I 33 when he lost to Louis in 1038, Even Dan Flurlo, my trainer, is a little bit awed when he watches was glad the lights were turned Jim Jiffries was 35 when he lost the perfect fighter. in fhose pictures.

Embarrassed

out in a little room of my train to Jack Johnson in 1010, and ing quarters, because I must Jim Corbett was 37 when he lost have looked mighty sheepish. to Jeffries in 1903,

I looked like a rank amateur! Then Joe spoke up and broke the tension.

Pointed out

Joe has helped me, that I know. We had several long. pleasant talks. He talked to me frankly about my weaknesses while we watched movies of my Arst fight with Johansson, did a "You think little running in the woods, or Floyd?" he said.. just sat around chatting.

He showed me how I made myself a sucker for Ingemar's rights and he showed me bow I can avold the same mistake this time,

Trainers for U.S.

Olympic

teams announced

Kansas City, June 27. General assignments of trainers for United States teams in the Olymple Games in Rome this summer were announced at a the session preliminary to opening of the 10th annuai National Athletic Trainers Association Convention.

Steve Witkowski of Wesleyan Con- University, Middletown, necticut, who is head trainer of the United Sites Olymple straight squad for the second time, said last night that the following assignments had been made:

Track and field-Marly Brus- sard, Louisiana State Univer- Wis- sity, and Walter Bakk,

consin.

Basketball- Dean Newsmith,

Kans26.

Wrestling Ken Rawlinson,

Oklahoma,

Boxing Jules Reichel, Syracuse,

Witkowski and Henry Andel, of Georgia Tech, will work with other groups. Wilowski said the assignments were primarily for pre-departure training work.

Dr T. Miphee of Princeton will serve as head team- physician. He had the same job iry the Jast Olympics in Melbourne. Assisting will be Dr Engiel F. Hanies. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine."

The women trainers are Celeste Hayden, Raleigh, North Carolina and Marie Wager, Lafayette Hills, Pennslyvania.-—- AP.

CHESS

By LEONARD BANDEN

Here 4 position from actual play; White to move mod, win.

Solution No: 54: 1 R threat 2 B-Q7), R~03;

you look bad. "wait'll you see me in my first fight with Schmeling when, before I was the champ, he knocked me out in the 12th round."

He pointed out something that I never realised before.

That means I'm dve to 12 years younger than any of the five other ex-champs who tried -and falled-to win back the title.

I didn't exactly know how to thank Joe when he was ready to leave but he just brushed It aside.

His mission

"Thank

They say no heavyweight champion ever regained his le ---but they don't explain that no said.

had the fighter ever other cpportunity to regain it when he was only 29-es I am.

that Ezzard Joe pointed cut

be tried Charles was 30 when to win back the title from Jersey

1951,

Jack Walcott In Joa

Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS

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A WOMAN ARRIVES ON THE SCENE

NOW, WHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT; WHY THE COLLECTION OF HUMANS})

FERDINAND

NANCY

MY DOG HURT HIS

FRONT

LEG

THAT'S

A SHAME

BRICK BRADFORD

YOU DOUBLE- CROSSING PIRATE!

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me on June 20," he

Joe will be in my corner, when I meet Johansson at the Polo Grounds on Monday, Not physically, maybe, but he'll be there all right, Inspiring me with the example of his and come-back courageous

GET INTO THE AIR LOCK!... IF YOU. PIRS ON OUR SHIP. IT WILL BE THE END OF YOUR PRECIOUS KROY, CLOSE THE LOCK!

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS MY INFERIOR

FRIEND?

This is the K.O. punch that Patterson meant to But it was not necessary. finish the fight with .

wiping out the memory of his defeat by Max Schmeling.

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began to boo. Then I got care- lest and he nailed ma

I know how I got careless too.

Dan Florio has told me how Louis trained for that fight. Joe As an amateur, and as an up- trained harder than ever before, and-coming pro, you always get

in your stomach working on simple fundamen- butterflies tals over and over again. He before a fight. That's a good became a man with a mission sign. But when you get to be being at the top, something just 124 seconds. a mission he accomplished in champ and get accustomed to

happens inside.

I'm not foolish enough to the groat predict that 111 be Aghter Louis was when I meet Johansson again, but I promise that I will put as much into it as he did.

Good sign

call

I'm less than a year older than Louis was when he knock- ed out Schmeling. I know the mistakes I made in the first fight. Johansson beat me, but I won't be gun shy of his punches. I wouldn't be fighting him again if I didn't think I could beat him.

Sure, I've 'relived that first night a thousand times--but don't get the impression that it's haunting me.

Inoves--the I go over the way he flicked that left fab he backed at me; the way away; the way I got over- confident when the crowd

0.0

You begin to feel a little too sure of yourself, you don't still feel desperate to ret ahead. In other words, you lose the butterflies.

All figured out

I lost them last spring when training for my first fight with the Swede. I went into that fight too cool, 100 calm-too Even when good careless.

do things were in chances to front of me, I couldn't wake myself up to do them.

it all out now. I've figured

ahead again. I'm desperate to got

I know I'm going to win back the world heavyweight crown. I know I will beat Johansson.

You know why? The butter flies are back!

I CAN SEE YOU HAVE HOW VERY NIGE

BEEN AROUND,

BIG BOY

ONE THING

ARE YOU KIDDING? THIS IS A FEMALE WOMAN, A VERY COMMON SPECIES. INDEED

FRIENDLY, ISN'

WELL, AT LEAST HE WON'T BE CHASING ANY

CARS FOR A

WHILE

OH, BRICK) YOU WERE WONDERFUL! WHAT AN ACTOR

WE AREN'T IN. THE CLEAR YET!

LETS MOVE!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

- ERNIC-

BUSHMILLER

By Paul. Norris

A FEW MINUTES LATER...SADIS AND BRICK ARE

BACK ON THE SPACESHIP

OKAY! BLAST OFF)

FIRE THE SECOND

SECTION

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HENRY LONGHURST on GOLF

IN THE TREE TOPS

I confess to being allergic to arguments about the Rules of Golf. There are those, however, who love nothing better and I often see groups of amateur links lawyers arguing upon some knotty point, one holding forth while the others, none listening, hold their breath in order to get in directly he stops.

Sometimes they are good enough to say to me "Here! You know the Rules, or ought to What about this?" to which I am afraid I generally reply "I don't, but there is a simple way of finding out. Look in the book."

You would think that with 93, short hole and could not find his pages of Rules and a volume of ball. The marker removed the Decisions upon themt an inch or pin, whereupon the ball, which two thick it would be possible had been entangled in the flag. with certainty to cover any con- dropped down and Locke holed tingency in golf.

it for a two, An incident in the profes- According to the Rules he sional tournament at Went ought surely to have wrapped it worth last weekend seemed to up in the flag again and played show that this la sill pot Homy | it, from there. If not, why not? thus strengthening my oon" tention that i would be bej" ter to rewrite the Rules on one abeet of paper and have done with it

for

His opponent in the play-off the 1943 Open så Sand- wiodi, Harry Bridław, was the victim of perhaps the most celebrated of these incidents, which in met led to a change In the Rules.

Played the bottle

into a wasps nest. a donkey's car, the back of a sheep, a motor car beadlamp, the ladies' teebox (most humillating) and down the chimney actually into a pot. standing on the hoo. ***I was present in person

when a fellow in the Halford Hewitt at Deal drove from the flest the through the front doer and into the dining room.

Longest drive

The longest authenticated drive belongs, I believe, to the At the short 10th, Jimmy

min who drove from a tee at the Hitchcock skied his tee shot into

John o' Gaunt Club, Biggles- the fir trees bordering the green

wade, forty miles to Covent and the ball remained stuck

Garden, where his ball was un- somewhere in the branches. A

loaded with a lorry-load of | spectator started to climb up the Having led the qualifying and Brussels sprouts. It's all in the free to locate it and the ball tell then the first round with a 68, game-but I still believe that on the ground. (There is a he started the second round with | Hitchcock should have put it school of thought which says it four fours and then on the Afth back up the tree. fell of its own accord and not un found his ball in an upright beer account of the spectator, but I bottle with the neck broken off, discount this because it would | After waiting, fifteen minutes to played spall the argument. I take it And the legal answer, that it fell because the spectator the bottle, smashing it to pleces

and sending the ball thirty yards, taking six for the hole and fail- shook the tree,

ing to regain his composure, understandably enough, till several holes later.

At any rate Hitchcock played the ball where it lay and was later adjudged to have done so without incurring a penalty.

The rule

The round cost him 77 and the bottle undoubtedly cost him the championship.

Lesser mortals have found

I cannot account for this deci- sion. The only relevant rule I can find is 27 (1) which says "It a ball at rest be moved... by any outside agency except wind, themselves in queer situations the player shall place the ball on with less disastrous the spot from which it was Many have driven into birds' without penalty."nests of sundry varieties; others moved, Penalty for breach of this rule, two strokes.

In which particular branch the hickless player should have re- placed it, never baving seen it up the tree, it is not for me to say. The Rules "are ap 258" may-

·way, es I have often declared ---but somewhere up the tree, it seems, it certainly should have gone.

of

Looking for similar instances, I seg that in the Irish Open 1836 Bobby Locke played to a

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