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KING GEORGE V

MEMORIAL · Hongkong is fittingly aligning

Their actual combat will last possesses "colour."

for only a few minutes. Even

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the loser will pocket £43,000 for The crowd still surges to see his gallant though inadequate perhaps a test of hardihood be- exhibition. A few minutes of tween two men battling to the intense but unsuccessful activi- limit of physical endurance, or ty (with three minutes' rest in maybe the pitting of sage and between), and he is assured hard-earned experience against of a sum of money that would youthful brawn and during. keep him and his family for life. Such is the make-up of human

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The winner in addition to his £43,000, will stand in line for one of the quickest fortunca that it is possible for a young

man to make.

Tex Rickard, once the em peror of boxing promoters, will probably stir in his grave. The good old days of the million- dollar gates are back again.

by

Maurice

Lewis

At last there is ብ probable beings that these spectacles stir champion with "colour.". high the blood and cause the heart skill, courage, superb technique to quicken its bents. The public and clean-cut workmanship, reflects on the astounding re- The rosy Dempsey-Tunney days wards linked to the modern are rolling back again, when a heavy-weight champion's suc- fight once drew over £500,000 from the pockets of the public.

cess.

But the imaginative mind the extraordi-

Boxing Correspondent, given thrae":

entlauten of boxers' hick:- Tunney-made £100,000; quit undefeated. Dempsey made £100,000; runs big, restaurant in New York. Jack Johnson-made £25.000 £30,000. Beckett-has

man.

in gill-edged. Sharkeya ric

Bombardier Wella-now a country publican. Berg-well off. Carners-broke: paid away most of his earnings. Max Baer-made £43,

3,000 in his last fight, and needed it. Louis-made £13,000. previously well of Carpentier- runs a bar, Kid Lewis-runs a club. McCurkindatu £200 Rub- scribed for him recently Petersen -worth £30,000,

For boxing in these days is no longer the exhibition of skill wings back to and pluck that it once was. It mary contrasts of fortune that holds its thrill for all men and boxing presents, the tolls and many women. But its thrill is penalties exacted from the un- gladiatorial Huccessful,

Perhaps they reflect on thint amazing figure, the black fighter hurt from unemployed homer, At the other end hoxers, usually Battling Siki, stormy petrel of fight air ronids, for five shillinga,

who

now

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Roy Fox & His Orchestra. itself with the Mother Country NOTES OF THE DAY the boxing world,

and other parts of the Empire

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fame a bride, the multi-million- aire heiress, Miss Polly Lauder.

Jack Dempsey, under the tutelage of Jack Kearns, and with Tox Rickard to help to steer his destiny made an even vaster fortune. Five of his fights drew sums varying from £216,700 up to £531,733. He has now consolidated his for- tune by investing most of it in fashionable restaurant op. posite Madison-square Garden-. Now which is frequented by York, notabilities.

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Huge are the rewards, but the tolls outweigh them. For one boxer who makes a respect- able living from his profession there are hundreds who eke out in wretched existence, signing up for any match even though they know that their mission is to act solely as chopping- blocks, to entertain the crowd which knows they can "take it," or acting as "punch-bag" spar- ring partners,

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A few years ago a friend of mine was walking with Jack Dempsey along Eighth-aventie, New York, when a queer figure passed them, who touched his cap and called out to Dempsey, "How do. boss!" He WAS shabby, his face grey, his hair colour of ashes, and he the shambled along, walking jerkily on his heels.

"Who was that?" aty friend asked.

"Why, don't you know," Jack said, "that was Young Griffo."

Yoling Griffo was one of the greatest light-weight champions of all time.

Once famous throughout half the world, he came to the same end as so many of them-- "punch-drunk" and destitute.

To-day the prizes are so glit- tering, so many strive to gain them, the spectacular element has become so heightened, that the tempo of the boxing game quickened enormously. hus

and go in Champions come quick succession. They are soon forgotten..

The world has no

oward at all for the broken and battered old-timers, the "set-ups," the under-paid preliminary fighters, the human punch-bags over whose unconsidered bodies all champions and near champions: clamber to their heights.

MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. Houses of Parliament, and the Rutherford and his fellow in-

made king in a night, and whese the effects suffered by a worn-cat body was tossed back lighter who refuses to give in Let's face the music and dance-Fox Trot

Roy Fox & His Orchestra.

Since its foundation about balf into a New York gutter a few though frightfully punished in But where are you-Fox Tro! Roy Fox & His Orchestra. of public' subscriptions, a King century ago, the Cavendish Labora- years later with a dagger in its the ring.

Or they may concern. The cumulative punishment Wah-hoo-Fox Trot Roy Fox & His Orchestra. George V. Memorial Fund. Up tory at Cambridge has been perhaps heart. I'se a-muggin'-Fox Trot...Roy Fox & His Orchestra. to the present, no definite deci. the most important, cante of the themselves with the sad case of eventually produces a witless,

search in pure physics in

Del dazed individual who appeals sion has been taken as to the world. its four successive diree that pathetic young man, And so to bed-Fox Trot

Jack Jackson & His Orchestra precise form which the mem-tors, James Clerk Maxwell: Lord Fontaine, now in the condemned to promoters to "give me one more chance, boss, of a fight. For Del Fontaine is just as You know I can take it.'" orial shall take, but sympathy Raleigh, Sir J. J. Thompson, and cell under sentence of death,

Lort Rutherford, have all won! You have that extra something-Fox Trat

Jack Jackson & His Orchestra. has been expressed with the Anternational fame in the scientific much a victim of the fight game suggestion that, as at Home, the field. The present director. Lordlas was that keen-eyed youth

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The Ballyhooligans. purpose of the Fund should Rutherford, leads a brilliant band Luther McCarthy, who in the

won the prizes great. Gene of young scientists in a conseless I got Rhythm-Fox Trot

The Ballyhooligans. include the provision of open attack on the secrets of the atom. full stride of youth and

congested areas. Many of these secrets have been re- drous boxing ability was blotted Tunney, who never really liked skill of his BD-5049 Goodbye Medley-Fox Trot •The Ballyhooligans. spaces in

Oriental Medley-Fox Trot The Ballyhooligans. Actually, the Home memorial is vealed in the Cavendish Laboratory, out in, the ring by the first blow fighting, by the

Some of the most important were delivered in a contest-his neck arms mule more than £400,000, of a dual character, including the discovery of the electron in broken by a jab that fell on his most of it during the two years the erection of a statue between 1897 and the recognition of the jaw as his head was turned to while he was champion. He

the neutron in

gained also as a result of his 1922. When Lord avoid it. Westminster Abbey and

Del Fontaine was 11 good e vestigators succeeded in "splitting fighter, plucky beyond the aver provision of children's playing- the atom, in their experiments in fields throughout the country. the Cavendish Laboratory, they age, and the second and third of them all. But the larger "philosopher's stone".

world hears nothing of themA-LUVE sin for mn mither, an' a meant, but sonic pouple seem to think of His late Majesty, and there is

bluidy yin for ma father, that they can inquire there about --- Scientific research is an expen- At Del Fontaine's trial fam- thus no occasion to perpetuate

used books across the counter, and formation. I have been asked the his memory by a further monu-sive undertaking, and the many ous boxers, who well know the Tie grubby little girl pushes two ill-little subject on which they need in-

triumphs of the scientists. of the tolls and penalties of the lesser repeats her message carefully. She is most searching questions

which ment of that type. There will, Cavendish Laboratory have only lights of boxing, introduced the easily upping this book by Michael far better qualified to answer. How-

supplied.

lawyer, teacher, or doctor would be we imagine. be widespread ap-been achieved by the expenditure proval of the idea that the of large sums of money, as well as Judge to a new term; "punch-: Arlen," chirps the dear old lady.ever, this fnquirer-evidently' a tour- by continued, application and re-drunk." Few laymen had heard "I've never read any of his books. It ist-only wishes to know the chief memorial locally should be re- source. New buildings and new this word before, but it is in is called 'Babes in the Wood-per places of historical interest in or near

me." Ithe town; lated to the provision of much-apparatus must constantly be pro-every boxing man's vocabulary. haps a little juvenile for

hastily retrieve the book in question, needed amenities for children, vide, and by the generosity of Sir

and supply her with a pleasant, Herbert Austin. the well-known

"I want a good novel that my hus domestic tale.

A face appears at the window | band has not read before," says the labelled "Inquiries." Inquiries about large, middle-aged woman firmly- books or library malters is what is difficult one, this, as I have not the

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Hongkong aiready has a statue may be said to have found the true class fighters are the pluckiest PUBLIC LIBRARY STORIES

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and the provision of more open moter manufacturer, there will. It has nothing to do with a

in crowded districts, fortunately, be no lack of funds drink or drinking. It indicate spaces

He has the toll that is taken on courage where children. have nowhere for some time to come. else but the streets in which to contributed the princely an of £250,000 to the Cavendish Labira- play. immediately suggests it-tory in order that research in the self as being most appropriate. { fundamental problems of physics King George, like his beloved may be continned and extended. One of the first uses to which the consort, always took the deepest money will be put is the completion interest in the well-being and of a laboratory recently begun for happiness of young people, inutilising the very high voltages nccessary for the transmutation of whose company he was always matter. Fifty ton magnets and thoroughly at home, and nothing large and costly generators for could be more fitting than that probing the secrets of the atom are his memory should be linked among the instruments which modern scientifië technique requires, with projects devised in their Most important of all, the money interest. It may not be 'easy, in now available will allow the most brilliant of the young scientists of view of the congested character, the day to devote the best years of of some of the Colony's districts, their lives to continued scientifle to secure the necessary land for investigation. the purpose of providing a suf-

ficiency of playing-grounds, but be behindhand in giving that in this connection we would re- memory a tangible form, so call the suggestion made that in years to

come his

at Home, in connection with name may be perpetuated the King George Fund by here in lusting manner. Mean- Mr. Baldwin, when he stated while, the public is invited to put forward suggestions $ 50

that landowners could give of

있다. to the precise character their land; and the people them of the memorial, in the $5.00 selves could supplement any knowledge that these will re-

$16.00 gifts of this character, in a com-ceive due and careful corsidera- plete realization of the fact that tion in the appropriate quarters. all classes of the country and one idea which occurs to us is that the feasibility of erecting a Empire are members of one children's hospital might be kept family. There is no part of in view, or, in the alternative, that Empire in which the late that part of the Fund be devoted King's name is not revered, and to an extension of the move- in which the memory of his ment for children's clinics or beneficent services to his people ready producing such splendid welfare centres, which is al- are not lovingly borne in mind. results amongst the sick and Hongkong, we are sure, will not the needy.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

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pleasure of knowing (a) who her husband is; (b) what books he has read; (e) whether the book is to, be "good" in a literary or merely a moral sense. I make severnt auggestions, but finally she insists upon selecting agirlish lttle book which I feel sure no husband would read.

Nor am I wrong, for a few hours later a grey Hitle rabbit of a 'man appears with it this hand, and asks, timidly. If I would mind clanging it for something else, I help him to And a volume more to liis tasty, and he goes off contentedly to lose himself in a tale of swashbuckling and ad- venture In perilous and romantic lands which his meekt little eyes are never destined to see.

"Have you any more Passant?" asks a working man.. "Real good his, stories are." I search vainly for book written by an author name Passant, and finally discover that translations of De Maupassant'á works are what, he requires.

A harassed student, with an exam. looming. In the near future, wants various books an abstruse scientific subjects. He is appalled by their size, and, with touching faith. In my omniscience, aska which I would recommend, as he will never have ilme to read them all. I do my best for him.

I help people to find books on economics, delective stories, boska on higher mathematics, cookery books, mighty economic tomes, "nice love stories," philosophical and theological volumes, plays, poetry, and novels, novels, novels.

It is time to close the library now. I turn to lock the door. Another face appears at the inquiry window. "Can you tell me," anys a shril and earnest voice, "a word of two letters beginning with T and meaning a three-toed sloth?"