1948-09-29 — Page 6

TEAM NAMED v. IRELAND

* THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1948.

JACK MILBURN REPLACES TOMMY LAWTON

IN ENGLAND'S TEAM

By JACK CHAMBERS

·

London, Sept. 29.- World-famed Tommy Lawton has apparently reached the end of the international road and England's international football team has a new centre-forward,

Jack Milburn of Newcastle United will lead the Eng- * land forward line against Ireland in Belfast on October 9. As England's team returned from Copenhagen on Tuesday after its disappointing goalless draw against Den- mark on Sunday, the selectors said the following would represent England against Ireland:

Frank Swift. Manchester City:

Laurie Scott, Arsenal:

Jack Howe, Derby County:

Billy Wright Wolverhampton; Neil Franklin, Stoke City, and Harry Cockburn, Mönchester United:

Stanley Matthews, Blackpool; Stan Mortensen, Blackpool, Jack Milburn Newcastle United, Stanley Pearson, Manchester United, and

Tom Finney Preston North End.

REPLACEMENTS

Gold Belts Presented

New York, Sept. 20. - Nat Fielscher, editor and publisher of """The Ring" magazine, presented Marcel Cerdan with the Gold belt, symbolic of the world middleweight French- championship. which the man won inst Tuesday by knocking out Tony Zale of America..

Milburn, Howe, Pearson, Finney and Mortensen displace Lawion. Mr. Fleischer presented to Sidney Notts County, Aston, Manchester Lewis, brother of the British M.P., United, John Lewis, the Gold belt for the United, Hagan, Shefel< Hackleton, Sunderland, und Langlon, | delayed

to Freddle presentation Preston North End, in the team Milli, who took the Ught heavy- which played so badly against the | weight championship

Gus Dancs.

Milburn is the only new inter- national and his speed and thrust in the centre-forward position along with his sharpshooting should give the England forward line the finish- ing power It now laoks.

The Lawton of these days is too

from

Shauna Ander- son, on the left

Should

Be Banned?

Boxing Be

By ANDY O'BRIEN

Major boxing undoubtedly packs more drama per cubic yard of newspaper print than any other attraction in the world of sport.

Yet, in spite of all this, I can give only one answer to the query Should Boring be banned? It is: Yea.

of this group, set Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey, mulch boxing's Hat of "permanently | blood vessels and cause the destruc-

both ex-world heavyweight cham-injured."

tion of a small amount of surround-

Пл

леш Colony record for the

220 Yards Free Stylo at the VRC last night as so swam the distance In just under three minutes..

This is nocond

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In

plons and still bigtime boxing's Wander, as I have often done, ing brain tissue .... most revered names, disagree,

among all the "preliminary "boya" Now digest the following caro- Since their natic carcers are farat ble Bght shows among te bat-fully: behind them and both are today tered hangers-on at Stillman's Gyn prosperous businesmen with

This brain tissuo ir never im- in New York City, among the replaced. Such injury, oft pressive wartime records na naval pathetic "I can take it" lads of the pealed, adds up unii it shows

educators, physical

phoney "amateur" clubs where emotional disorders, in the slurred any thing to gain one way or a nighters carry Irest cuts into another speech, alowed responses, and alam- other in affirming their support of ring under mother name in

bling galt of the punch drunk," nearby H boxing..

town the noxt night for a low miserable dollars and the misplaced vocal tributes of the mob.

neither

had

Yet, even in the face of such formidable opposition, there is n the strong case for the affirmative. record

In the first place, this article has

THE "PUNCHIES" she has set in nothing to do with alleged or actual tho course

You'll see what I mean. Not only of "xing" assaults by gamblers on this year's cham-the profession that, of its very the "punchies" with

the nearly- pionships. Sho nature, isn't conducive to Hy closed eyes, the slobbering speech and the excited mannerisms, but set her Brat in white idealism. the 50 Yards It's a tough, unkindly profession the vast army of "nearly punchies" Free Style.

that must look for its champions who have taken just enough beating almost without exception-in the to be regarded as a hopeless under-privileged East Sides of the commodity on Jacob's Beach and the world's cities.

olher fistle marts of the ring world, With her in the plcture aro No other profession demands Early in 1942 a group of physical her nister, such hardships Uti the ludder's educators from the schools, parks, Heather, on the lower rungs--the street corner playgrounds, YMCA's and YWCA's: Extreme right, brawls, the evil-smelling gymnasia, of Chicago determined to come tite swent, and blood, the blindly abreast of the best fnets and prae- and Celeste raw courage needed to slash back tees of physical fitness, with co-

trom defeat's brinic at a blurring centration on the demands opponent.

strength and cuduronec modern-day civilians. And, with only two exceptions, For 16 weeks a total of 95 students my Experience has taught that

and a faculty of nine met three hours capable. honest guidance

weekly to pool their knowledge and fighters is missing: promoters and

experiences. managers think primarily in terms of revenue and secondly in terms of the fighter's welfare.

Denth's awesome finality is, of course, a silencing argument in al- most any discussion, but nny sug-

Gulerres,

Lesnevich in July this year. COLONY SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Associated Press.

INTERNATIONAL

slow to round off openings made BOWLS TOURNEY

for him by top closs Inside-forwards, Tommy has played 12 times for England and in 1947 led the British team against the rest of Europe at Hampden Park, Glasgow.-Associat-

ed Press,

NINE IN A ROW

Hull City Sets

Up A Record

London, Sept, 28.-Hull City, by winning Their Third Division

The following have entered for the International Bowls Competition.

England K.C.C.-F. F. Skinner, F. Goodwin and C. J. Merrit.

K.B.G.C.-L. Sykes. E. F. Pope,

Rt. P. Pullups, A. L. G. Eastman, L. G. Coombes, W. 11. Bailey and L. A. Collyer.

C.C.C.-B. W. Bradbury and E. S. Franks,

P.O.C.-I. N. _, J. W. Grant, A. Jillott, W. Harrop and W. C. Biggs.

Scotland K.D.C.-J. V. Hamsay.

Northern section match ogainst K.C.C.-J. Orem and J. M. For Accrington Stanley this afternoon rest.

Portugal Recrelo-F. F. da Luz, J. A. dla

by two goals lo cue, ot Aerringlon, K.B.G.C.-J. McKelvie, J. Fraser, set up a new Football League re-..S, Dinnen and J. Geitatly. cord by winning their ninth succes- sive game of the season.

10 Laiz, F. V. V. Ribeiro, C. C. Pereira, Actually, Hull have played matches this season, but when lead-J, E. Noronha, L., F. Xavier and single goal in a V. V. Ribeiro. ing Oldham by

Axture lost month, the game was C.C.C.-L. C. R. Sonza. abandoned five minutes

from the

India

Shauna Anderson Wins A Thrilling Race

One of the most thrilling distance races ever seen in the Victoria Recreation Club pool was the highlight of yesterday evening's finals in the Colony Champlonships.

The Women's 220 Yards Free Style. had been looked forward to as a race developing into a good struggle be- tween at least two of the five finalists.

The battle turned out a three-who won the 75 Yards Medley. The cornered one with a margin of one VRC repeated in the Women's 150 to two yards separating Shauna Yards Medley Relay. Anderson,

Ol-mui

Mamle Leung and Mrs Lykke Rose as the elder Anderson sister swept through to a new Colony record,

It was surprising, when the win

ning time was finally announced, that the new Colony record was only

fifth of a second better than the

the old record was about to have five full: seconds shaved off II.

old. It looked as though

Shauna Anderson, first feminine aquastar to better three minutes F.at for the 226 yards free style in Hongkong, did not take the lead until she had about 50 yards left to go. Perfect timing for the final effort won her the race.

finish owing to bar light and that I.B.C.-J. M. A. Ramjahın, A. J. game will be replayed.

Hussain, S. M. Runijahin, A. R. A. No club has previously won its Rahman, U. A. Rumjalin, A. M. Arst nine Kames In 21 season. Rumjahn, A., K. Minu and A. I. Reuter,

Miou.

Rugger

Results

London, Sept, 38.The results of Tugger games played today were:

YORKSHIRE CUP (Second Round)

11 Hull LANCASHIRE CUP

Semi-Final) ..

Castleford

Warrington

55 Oldham

0

D

Reuter.

Hockey Fixtures

Hongkong Hockey Association fixtures for Sunday are as follows: Club de Recreis v IIK Pallee, King's Pk. 9.30 an. Umpires. G. T. Palmer-Copl L. J. Payne.

RAF V

Civil Service RNRC, Umpires. King's Pk. (1) 10 a.m.

J.

Padley

9. Grewal S/Cdr.

Chic & & Wireless v

I v Dutch HC BNRC,

King's Pk. (2) 10 8.m. Umpires, A

E. P. Guest.-Yee Sigs. Gater.

v HK University, Soo-

Khalsa SC v HK

kumpoo 9.30

9.30 am.

Umpires. S. B. P.

O. Yeomans. D. T.

T. Smilli.

Navy-no game.

Pakistan

Indian R.C.-M. I. Razack. C.C.C.-I. M. Omar, B. M. Omar, A. M. Omar, K. M. Omar and U. M. Omar.

Malaya

I.R.C.-A. M Wahab, A. Wahab, M. A. Wahab, A. H. Seemin, Ismail All. S. Yusuf, M. B. Hassan, A. R. Kitchell and M. Y. Adal.

China

C.C.C.-W. Hong Sling. Francis Lee, C. W. Lam and John Pau.

Filipino Club-H. Y. Hsu.

Philippines

F.C.-D. A. Rozario, L. S. da Silva, J. A. Delgado, F. J. Rodrigues

and W. C. Ogley.

C.C.C.-A. E. Coates.

Ireland

C.C.C.-J. W. Leonard. F.C.-W. V. Field.

At no time did more than two yards separate the three-cornered struggle. At 50 yards, Mrs Rose and Mamie Leung were just a touch ahead of Shauna.

At 100 yards, Luckle Rose was a touch back with Shauna a touch further back.

Mamie Leung_was piling_on_the.... pace and after six lengths, though suli ahead, was just

zont of the other two.

SINGAPORE ALLEGATIONS

Bookies Suspected Of Drugging Horses

Singapore, Sept. 29.-Illegal. bookmakers in Singapore are Huspected of having drugged some likely winners at the cur- rent

Club Singapore Turi meeting. the Straits Times reported.

The report followed a Turf Club order that only trainers and their employees could, enter the club stables after 6.15 p.m.; on the day before any race day.

number of

Tho Turf Club gave no oficial reason for the ruling, but the Siratts Times said it had been made to protect the horses.

"Thera have been n allegations during the present

horses a louch in meeting that

have been drugged," the newspaper said.

"General opinion of the racing fraternity is that a hypodermic

B used needle

strongly fancied horse the night before the

י

CHAN REPEATS Chan Chun-nam, the Lal Tsu star, free style in won the 440 yards time that was just one second mpre record effort he than the Colony returned last year. He was timed

in 5 minutes 20 seconds.

Other Championship. winners were A V. Lopes

who

of VRC,

Joyce.

P.O.C.-C. V. Jamison, and J. S. took the 150 yards Back Stroke, and Mrs Lykke Rose, also of VRC,

Wales P.O.C.-C. W. Drace. Switzerland K.C.C.-C. S. Hossuiet.

OPEN RINKS SEMI-FINALS

The semi-anals of the Open Rinks chunpionship will be decided on Sunday, at the Kowloon C.C. starting

Army v Dockyard RC, Sookumpoo at pm, sharp.

D. 0.30 p.m. Umpires.

J. Steyn Parvo. Makhan Singh.

bc-

All umpires are requested to con- rm by phone (3038) Ex 117) tore 3 p.m. on Friday.

FRANK CHESTER

RETIRES

By ARCHIE QUICK Frank Chester, the world's greatest cricketing umpire and greatest probably the world's cricketing authority too, has umpired his last Test.

His record of 13 Tests in 28 sea-! sons will surely stand for, all time. No other umpire approaches it.

Frank tells me that at 52 years of age he intends to retire at the end

of this season and market a garden at his Bushey home,

He has, of course, an Army pen- slon for the loss of one arm in World

1 and Wor

at the end of this season

„A. A. Razack, J. W. Bradley, W. liung Sling and J. S. Landolt & E

F. Pope. Atkins, G. E. F. Thompson and L. Syltes.

A. F. Noronha, . E. Marques. D. A. P. Guterres and J. E. Noronha vi. M. Omar, K.M. Omar, A. M

(Omar and U. M. Omar.

race...

on

#1

"There is no suggestion that are concerned Jockeys or trainers In the 'racket'...Illegal book- nakers operating on the course at the present meeting have made hundreds of thousands of dollars of the defent of the because favourites."-Associated Press.

ENCOURAGING ATHLETICS

W

Sussex AAA Takes

A Step Forward

(By ARCHIE QUICK)

One of the biggest brakes on athletic progress in Eng- land is the lack of good cinder tracks for training and for staging big shows to encourage youth.

That difficulty has been ironed out in Sussex where, thanks to the generosity of the Hove Greyhound Stadium authorities, an excellent cinder track has been laid down and handed over free of cost to the Sussex Amateur Athle- tic Association.

The Arst person I saw when I

4+

He attributed the present

"Too many boxern act a bit on the punchy side. Of course, head In- Jurica from games may effecis.

football and other have the same after-

"Only in boxing, however, do men proceed systematically and de- liberately to infilet such In- Jurtes. This -1! a valid charge against boxing. Argumenta -ex- tolling the virtues of boxing as builder of courage and aged, often uttered in the slurred speech of on exboxer, appear weak and hollow in the fade of these. condemnatory facta,

INFERIOR

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"As a means of self-defence It has proved far inferior to wrestling and

rough and tumble (Ju-Jitsu),'

Gene Tunney expresses the be of lief that efficient regulation could among cure any of boxing's ills. His

claim

necessarily carries

inuch weight, especially in view of the way regulation has lessened

the possibility of serious injury in American collegiate boxing

A for

gestion that boxing be banned

shouldn't be based on its ever-in- creasing fatality list alone.

Fifteen committees worked in the formulailan and testing of a pro- gramme adopted to netuni civilians.

A committee of the Illinois State Medical Society, with Dr Robert S. Berghoff as chairman, collaborated in preparing a manual based on the

experiences of the class.

One section of the exhaustive and enlightening manual deals with sport Deaths occur from time to time Injuries. It admits that then are in every red-blooded sport, but no

very few sports whose proper pur- other apart produces anything tosult, even to extremes and barring accidents-brings harm to the body. Reference is then made to the few exceptions, stressing permanent in Jury caused by continual pounding un knee and elbow joints as suffered sometimes by soccer players and boxers.

Berry Appleby

I THOUGHT

WE'D CELEBRATE AND AAYE OUR HALF RASHER FOR

THIS MORNING BREAKFAST

BASEBALL

Cartilage covering bones in knee and elbow joints has no blood supply and so deterioration is not repaired.

LAUNCHES OUT

all-out at fistiana:

"Boxing is further condemned on more serlous charges. In most sports, head injuries are purely ac- didenial and everybody is sorry.

referee stop the fight it one fighter Collegiate rules demand that the seems to have had too much of an edge over the other. Rounds arc limited to two Instead minutes to prevent youngsters from burning themselves out.

of

three

A fighter who is knocked down is the nine-count. required to take The referee has the right to stop the fight as soon as an injury is sus- tained by one of the boxers and off- cials have the privilege of awarding the decision to the one of the two opponents who is ahead on points at the moment. Furthermore, any bout stopped in the first round is auto- matically decinred a draw.

basic evil is mismatching.

Daxing of inferior boxers to pad

the

A

the records of the ring killers.

plan that has been presented for study by the New York Boxing Commission seeks to clans all pro- fessional fighters in Ave

At this point, the manual launches ratings based on their groups, with record, fight- ing ability, skill and weight,

Class E, the lowest, would In- clude all boxers with less than 20 wins, Class D would include those with 20 wins birt with less than 30. Class C. would include all those with "Only in boxing are such injuries 30 wins. Class B would comprise planned and glorled over. Jolting all leading contenders for world

or concussion of the brain by any championships and foreign champions, severe head blow may rupture tiny | Class A would be for world cham- blood vessels. Even in the absence

plons alone. of knockout or temporary un- consciousness, pinpoint haemorrhages follow the breaking of the Httle

Cleveland Watches Rivals Go Down

New York, Sept. 28.-Cleveland Indians come closer to winning the American League pennant while sitting on the sidelines today as Yankees and Boston Red Sox both -suffered defeats,

At Philadelphia, Athletics topped Yankees 5-2 behind the pitching of 21-year-old Carl Schelb, who gave up 11 safe blows but was a miser when men were on bases.

Red Sox, playing at home where they usually are in- vincible, received a 4-2 sotback from seventh place Washington Senators.

Red Sox: p. Dobson, Horris; c. Indians play a night game with] last-place Chicago White Sox, but Tebbetts.

even with a loss they would remain St. Louis Browns a full game ahead of Yankees and Detroit Tigers

5 11

3

3. 6

1

Red Sox, with only four games left Browns: p. Sanfrançoni; c. Par- for all three teams to play.

lec,

Tigers: p. Hutchinson; c. Gins-

If Indians should win, they wouldberg. be two games in front and would need only two victories in their four remaining games to clinch the fag.

Not counting tonight's game, the magic number for Indians was three, meaning that any combination of three Cleveland victories or three Red Sox or Yankee defeats would mean the day. Tast Wus the mathematical situation.

Feller,

TIP-TOP SHAPE

Bob Lemon and

National League Boston Braves Brooklyn Dodgers

B 10 9 18 (13 Innings)

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Braves: p. Spahn, Volselle, Pot- ter. Shoun; c. Masi,

Dodgers: p. Hatten, Palica, Behr- man, Roc, Erskine; c. Campanella. Cincinnati Reds ....... Chlengo Cubs

2

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n

Reds: p. Vandermeer; c. Laman-

Boxers af All classes,

except Class A, who lose five bouts in a row would automatically be dropped to the next lower claca,

Those winning fve in a row would automatically to up one class with the exception of the championship division.

Fighters with 15 consecutive losses would be barred from the "Ting-and-no-match-between--fighters”

of different cinssen could bo ar ranged without the approval of the Boxing Commission.

THE MEDICAL ANSWER

There are a few men in boxing who reach the world championship class and survive their competitive years if with marks of savage blows received sill visible on their faces, nevertheless alert. shrowd

and humorous, apparently suffering from no mental injuries.

But what happens to all the other thousands of boxers who have been transformed by K.O. punches from alert, well-conditioned athletes

P1 into bleeding, unconscious heaps for whom the ring bells toll?

Hero's the official medical answer: A knockout punch to the Jaw: A powerful wallop on the jaw snaps the head back and presses the jaw against the medulla oblongata, which happens to be located at the point where the brain passes into the spinal cord of the neck.

Result: The shock hinders the func- tion of the vasomotor centre: blood vessels in the abdomen dilate and the blood from the brain, lungs and heart flows into the abdominal area. The boxer is out."

the

A Knockout punch to solar plexus: Bolled down to its simplest terms. such a blow paralyses the vessels of the abdomen. The blood stops flow- But beyond that was the fact that no

Cubs: p. McCall; c. McCullough, Indians are in tip-top physical

ing to the heart. The

böxer 'in 5 10 1 condition, their ace pitchers Bobby Philadelphia Phillies ...

"out." WEST INDIES TEAM

0 12 1 A knockout punch 10 Gene New York Giants.....

carotid wave Bearden are rested and rendy for Phillies p. Posseht, Simmons, plexus: Again, to get away from Involved medical description. Kingston, Jamalen, Sept. 20-The visited the stadium recently was Mr of juvenile Crime and delinquency competition, and they are winding Hoecher; e. Lopat.

wero up the race in their home park.

Glants: p. Webb. Trinkle; e. Yvara. this is a blow to the side of the West Indies cricket team, which is George Horsesh, who used to be to the fact that youngsters sufcient

Philadelphia

neck Phillico to tour India. left here today for Assix.unt Secretary of the National not

under the car. In the National League, the second London where they will arrive on AAA, and it did not take much de- encouragement

G 10 (nightcap)

Now, in the neck there are fibreg placo Dodgers lopped pennant New York Glants

35 October 12.

2 parsing downwards tight against the duction to realise that he was the

Philles p Thompson Korstanty;,

spinal column where they

form It would also be a great thing to winning Boston Braves 0-8 in 13 negoliator of this fine piece of work.

innings willo. Ciants and Philles meetings could

what's called the carotid plexus. The first person to use the track know that athletic

the now be held without was Australian Olymple star, Morrie Duren of the initial cost of hiring

awful split a double bill at Philadelphia.. Seminick.

A blow at that point hinders the action New York won the opener 6-3

of the heart. The boxer Curetia who recently walked away

"out" with our quarter-mile title and ha a ground.

and Philites took the second game with

for

They will. leave London India by olr three days later.— Reuter.

Peace Cup Tourney expressed the opinion that it had a

เ

now being

athletics.'

given to

engage

in

The Chairman of the stadium, 0-3 better surface for speed racing than Charles Wakeling, sald was not the White City.

the intention of his board to make Last place Chicago Cubs topped Paris, Sept. 28-The final stages I noticed that when he was flat one penny piece out of athletics sovent! placo Cincinnati Reds 6-2.- In the only other American Lenguo of the Peace Cup International lawn out his stride was seven feet, which and the athletic stadium would be

St. Louis Browns tonnis tournament opened

separately by an gume, on the la remarkable for the 440-yards man, un completely courts of the. Holland

drawn from Eussex County AAA. Stadium hero today when in the Only Wint is longer striding than Independent board of management Detroit Tigers 6-3.

the that.

have another attack on

make a tour of South Africa, Austraila | ♬ loupe, France, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 (and Fallowfield,

greyhound

racing. He and

bis

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Glants: a. Kennedy; c. Westrum. United Press..

HOW THEY STAND

National Lorgue (

Won Lost

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How long does the

"out"? There's по sel

boxer stay

rule

for

that question. Ten seconds in the but Pls. official ring time for a KO B88 doctors tell me that the poor fel- 550 low might stay out until the 580

heart stops

pumping for lack of

544 blood. Than the K.O. is permanent. 510 So, it would appear, as long as 428 two boxers face one another in the 416 ring under

whatever restricting 416 regulations you

ponsibility of Landed.

downed

THE SCORES American League

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Boston St Louin Brooklyn Pittsburgh New York Philadelphia Cincinnati Chicago

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he collected an MCC testimonial. first round of the men's singles J. Apart from love and the White It had nothing 10 do with

is also to write a book of his Aaboth, of Hungary, beat A. Najar, City, the only real cinder tracks 1

There is just of Egypt, 6-0, 6-1, C. experiences.

Focher, of can recall are at Molapur brother directors were only too possibility that he will remain in Hungary, beat H. Salvet, of France, Park,

where they

to glad to have a place available to New York Yankees... ho served the game

2 11 so faithfully | 6-4, 4-0 when Salvet retired.

24 hours foster athletics. and well for a suficient time to

of Hungary

10 beat A. walking 'record shortly st Shafield In the past the First and Becond Philadelphia Athletics.

Canadian

Yankees: p. Naschi, Page, Roy- Cleveland Divisions, and the 18th

Boston and New Zealand to give Instruc- while Budgo Palty, of the United This is going to be a great boon Scottish Division has held sporta noida; c. Lollar. tion in umpiring and officiate in States, beat G. Pillet, of France, to Sussex and as the ex-Mayor of there during the war and that had

New York Athletics: p. Scholb; c. Guerra. 6-0, 6-2, J. Ducos de la Haille, of Brighton, Wilfred Aldrich, pointed given him the iden

Philadelphia Home matches.

of providing Washington Senators... 410 Sydney, Barnes told

Detroit me at the Franco, beat C. Boumus, of France, out, schoolchlidren will take greater Sussex with a central ground, th Leeds Test that Frank is the only 6-4, 6-3 and 3. Malosle, of France, pride in competing there than at One of the commitee of manage. Boston Red Sox.

5 Englishman The Australians are walked over Pedro. Massif, of Spain, some hole-in-the-corner spot where mentals old. AAA hurdles champion Senators: 'p. Scarborough; e. Ear-

ncratched Reuter. #frightened of..

there is no great public Interest.

Ly Evana Fred Claby

2St Lou

Washington

Chicago

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of in Ko there is

punch

being.

there is a pozability of blows

of lesser degroo--but nonetheless 018 injurious being landed.EUNES

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560 to restrict the force of the human

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for boxing as à beneficial : sport. rom tile. Montreal Standard. –