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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
A Lesson For British Boxers
By RONALD BOXALL
Let there be no mistake—when Dick Turpin, the British and Empire Middleweight Champion, left-the Earl's Court ring after be ing knocked out by World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, he was more popular with the fans than he had ever been. This reflects great credit on a man who had just been pole-axed with one of the most devastating left hooks ever witnessed in any ring.
The end came after one minute twenty-two seconds of the seventh round. Turpin, who had been boxing magnificently, retreated before a vicious attack. Cerdun saw the chance he had been waiting for, and seled with. lightning speed. Hé unleashed a left hook which travelled only a few inches and landed squarely on Turpin's jaw. The British champion went down as if he had been pole-axed and lay motionless on the canvas while referee Moss Deyong counted him out.
But there was far more in the fight than that one punch. Cerdan was an odds on favourite and boxing critics almost unanimously prophesied that Turpin would be lucky if he was still on his feet after the half-way mark.
Not unnaturally, therefore, the capacity crowd at Earl's Court saw no hope of a British victory. In fact, the only issue in doubt was how long Turpin could postpone the inevitable outcome.
task
click
not
the
From the moment he enterest the Ilmit, and forfeited £500.
earned £0,000 obvious that He
for the the ring, it was
and Turphy's this evening's work, are Turpin prasiniic view. On the other end of the purse was £2,000, hand, Cerdan considered his HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
another This 30 easy-remember
Aght recalls critics had led him to believe non-tilto fight in this country
this was to be nothing some year that more than a hard work-out for British title-holder and a world It totally un-
middleweight champion. him that he was
WAS for what
to was almost a ense of history
repeating itself. sign of
Dick Turpin
prepared
follow.
for round one, parently
είναι the
free
TO
ngo
between
11
a British cham-
Turpin showed nervousness when the bell wention and a master of the art of
fought He had ap-boxing,
# splendid against the that If he rearguard action decided
French middle- couldn't win he would at least burd-hitting
champion a weight champion of the world. world
But he incked boxing lesson and, in Marcel Cerinn. cidentally, give the fans their one thing-a punch capable of doing much damage to his up- money's worth.
or two ponent. Ho ventured one
On July 4, 1832, Len Harvey. cautions left leads which Cerdan took on the jaw without flinthen British middleweight cham- ching, but he was not so Im-pion and one of the greatest prudent us to attempt to mix it wizards of boxing we have cYET with such a master of infighting, seen, entered the ring at White
ROARING, APPROVAL
City to match his skill against the tough French world cham- Marcel Thil. But, ke
lacked
Turpin's performance in the lobis fists.
next five rounds had the crowd and approval. Time roaring again he rocked the world cham- plon's head back on his shoulders with crisp, beautifully delivered lefts. He swerved and swayed, covered up and countered with such superb skill at the Terror
Casablanca
Harvey dynamite In
History records lost
the
RAF "OLYMPICS"
RAF
(Hongkong)
finished accond to RAF (Seletar) in the ACFE Olympics at Singapore,
Won
scoring 17 points to Seletar's 19.
the Hongkong cricket, tennis and shooting, played RAF (Seletar) to a goalless draw in the final of the football, and finished second in the seven-a- side rugger.
"See Tee"
Leaving
Mr C. Tunstall, popularly known in sporting circles panel that Harvey over Radio Hongkong as
"Sce the fight-for much the Tee," is sulling for Home in the on Monday troopship Dunere are reason that Turpin lost Cerdan. Both British fighters with his wife. He was a mem
Football were able to box at their siber of the Hongkong
Referees' Association and their opponents, but their skill left was not enough to alter the Bnat fereed many League, represen from
matches talive and Interport RILEY guessing.
weekly The loudest cheer of the even- The moral of this lesson seems and broadcast regular
Colony and world champions talks on that British ing went up at the end of the to be fifth round-it was for Turpin. must "get mad" once in a while. sports. Mr Tunstall was a regu- to the local It was a genuine cheer,
eve Pretty-pretty boxing is wonder-lar contributor
columns of the though it WILE Inspirid byful to walch, but no amount of soccer ironical reasoning. The colour skill will keep a fighter like Telegraph,
fans.
Wn3
vertict.
VEČ
and Was Pay Naval
ed British lnd had survived the Cerden at arm's length for long- Besides sports, Mr Tunstall first half of the contest anderen
whole on music amateur dramatics. He earned the full approval of the Sooner or later, he must get in-also
side, and then-nis!
a sad day for connected with the Base But it
will be When the end of the sixth
takes Omice, HMS Tamar, round came and Turpin was British boxing if skill
Dockyard. aggressiveness« to still standing upright and ap-second place
worse for What is needed is a combina- parently one the
qualities-they these of Cerdan's left and right hooks,tion there were many forecasting that the fight would
boxer
lacks real aggres- go the full ten, rounds.
pile my admiration for Tursiveness. Unfortunately, such a pin's brilliant performance, 1 splendid display of skill is far more rare than the "rush-and-
could not agree.
in
amazement.
who were must go hand in hand. We saw Manila Prepares
Certian
happens to whni De-boxer who
ful
in
For Interport Manila, Apr. 13.-Twenty-
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1949.
ROUGH!
Nell Stewart goes down under a drive by Helen Lind in their professional wrestling match at Minneapolis. She rose from the floor to win in seventeen minutes,
Barbara Ann's Time Worth $100 A Minute
By JACK FROST
Boston, Apr. 12-One of the most valuable "sporting" properties on ice today is petite Barbara Ann Scott. Fiscally speaking her time on the open market brings about $100 per minute.
This would tend to place in the peon class Ted ($5-a-minuto) Williams with his $100,000 salary and Bob ($26-a-pitch) Feller.
Yet recklessly Miss Scott ex- pended about $2,600 of herself amid a fetching selling of antlers, sailfish and other trophies of the chase gracing the walls of Boston's Madison Square Garden Club in an attic cham- ber of the North Station.
The event was a press lun- cheon in the interests
of the "Ice Chips of 1040," the nation's oldest Ice Folly annually spon- cared by the Sanerosant Skating Club of
Bostan. A wide-eyed Toronto blonde who held virtually all umateur Rgure
skating crowns, Miss Scott, now a professional, is due to receive something like $5,000 for 50 minutes or so as stur of the cast.
anyone
RESPECTFULLY
Respecfully, the
containing members
the bar.
uf
Ryder Cup
Selectors
London,
Apr. 12. Three former British Open golf cham- pions have been appointed to select the team to do
battle with the Americans for the York- Ryder Cup at Ganton, shire, on September 16 and 17.
They are Arthur Havers, Alf Padgham and Dick Burton-all of them Ryder Cup veterans. The panet of selectors will be completed by Charles Whitcomb also an Old Ryder Cup player an the new Chairman of the British Professional Golfers As- sociation, who will be elected inter this year.—Reuter,
Rinty Monaghan,
Holding Out
But the end caine so suddenly lilt" methods of scores of bright five outstanding-local-foot--here-from-Canada-in-his-plane.he would need a $40,000 guaran-
who imagine ballers have been selected that the crowd was left gasping young hopefuls
had that a wild swing, is the lost as candidates for training better boxer, but one word in boxing. The ideal com- for the Manila Interport XI met a
en bination is rarer still.. who
sufficienty Jacked
By all means let our front-which will meet the Hong- retired to an powerful punch to really worry
but kong team in their second hun. Ho awaited his
chance, rank boxers "get tough," knowing
the day ever comes when they postwar annual game next that even the best il
skill altogether boxer sooner
leaves forsake or later a small hole in his defence favour of back-street brawling Sunday, Aprli 17, at the
| Rizal Memorial Stadium. tactics,
for one will not be in I and a fighter of Cerdan's can-
The Hongkong Interporters bire doesn't need a very large the ringside to witness it.
One word In conclusion, are scheduled to arrive here for hole to get inside and do a lot Marcel Cerdan, who gained his a three-game series on April 16, of diumage.
His chance came early in the title from American's dynamic
re-Tony Zale, is one of the best divided into two teams, the Keventh round. -Turpin treated before a flurry of blows world middleweight champions "Interport" team and the "Rest" Cer-we have ever seen. He can rest team. towards a neutral corner.
welcome dan acted with lightning speed. nssured of a rousing
a British A short left hook landed Rush wheus next he enters
The world ring-London Express Service.
on Turpin's jaw.
champion followed
up with a
right hook to the heart, but he
might have saved himself the trouble.
The first blow has
ended the night.
If Turpin had been shot al point-blank range he could not have collapsed to the
motionless.
Canvas
He luy
Three Lost Koreans
with more finality. absolutely
whlie Boston, Apr. 12.-The Boston Moss Deyong tolled out the Athletic Association
The 25 candidates will be
The "Rest" team will face the Hongkong interporters in the first of two exhibition games on April 18, while a Manila Foot- ball League selection will be pitted against the visitors in the other match on April 20.
Surprisingly, not one of the many promising local Chinese soccerites was incliyied
in the interport selection, but several of them may appear in the Mania Football League selection lineup. All games will be played under fateful ten seconds, He was Annual Marathon entry closes
al 6.30 still unconscious
his at midnight tonight but nobody floodlights, beginning seconds carried him back to his knew whether the three runnersp.m., local time.-Central News. comer al applied the sinelling from Korea would be on hand salis,
for the 20-mille 385-yard grind Back in his dressing room, he on Tuesday, April 10.
are mystery conded to friends that he
of the Korean didn't even know what had hit whereabouts him. The lights went out with delegations, including Yun Bok on maraiban which will be run that perfect left hook, and he Suh, who set a course record of
hours 35 minutes knew nothing about the right to two
when
Sull
53rd
Boston Marathon Boston, Apr. 12-Ninety-five the contestants have entered the 53rd Boston Athletic Associn-
from Hopkinton
to Boston' on
39 April 19,-Associated Press.
the heart which followed it seconds when he won the raco split record later.
in 1947.
Home Football The Koreans are presumed, to The contest was a non-title
Landon, Apr. 12. In a Third Aght, made at 11 st. 0 lbs. At have left their native land on
and jave was in March 28
been Division Northern Rame today the weigh-in Turpin
sloce-United Oldham drew with Gatehend,
malther side scoringReater.
side the limit, but Cerdan scaled unheard one and quarter pounds over Press.
HAVE YOU
BROUGHT THE
MONEY?
I'LL BE THE
STULE FIRST-
from
Mister Conquest
MONEY?
*OR YOUR LIFE!)
HOW NEW RULES
RULES ARE IMPROVING SOCCER
By CHARLES BUCHAN
Now that the English football season is in its final stages, it is possible to judge some of the effects of the new laws introduced last summer by the English Football Association. They're three in number; but only one of them, that relating to charging, has had any material effeel. I will deal with the other two briefly.
The first new law makes it essential that all players should stand out- side the penalty area when a goal kick is being taken. That was necessary, anyway, as the ball from a goal kick is not in play until it has passed beyond the penalty area. This point was only brought in to clear up an anomaly in the law.
The second new law forbids an opponent from attempting to kick the ball when it is in the goalkeeper's possession. I am glad to say this has put an end to some unseemly goal-mouth incidents, but has not affected the course of a game at all.
But the change relating to charging certainly has affected the game. The now law reads: A player shall be penalised if he charges fairly, that is with the shoulder, when the ball is not within playing distance of the players concerned and they are definitely not attempting to play it. In other words, charging is not allowed unless the players are about to play the ball. This change was brought in to stop defenders interfering with forwards who were trying to get the ball, either as it approached the goal or the goal-line. And it has succeeded to a certain extent.
A full-back cannot now law. I am certain that once those relating to goalkeepers, charge a forward as he at-
ac- less time wasted by unscrupulous referees and players are
to the from customed
change the defenders and smoother flow tempts to stop the ball going into touch or over the game will improve considerably. In the run of the game. It will not come about quickly, I know, this We shall then see better ball but the evidenco in that a stori
by and control
players, fewer has been made in the right
coal-line, lle must, for safety's sake. play the ball, and
ensures fewer stoppages
Icas
friction between players. unsavoury incidents, especially direction. Nor can a defender protect his goalkeeper by charging an rushing. forward.
on-
The result has been that goal- keepers nowadays rarely delay their clearances JR
case they by an oncoming are bustled forward. And that has brought
RO the biggest Improvement so far.
In our League games today, Athletic Association and the or C. d'Almada e Castro of the
South China in a class with Hometood, Odell
ON THE RECORD
ma 113
STANDARDS TO
With the
still 011
AIM FOR
-unknown prowar era, but
promising of
season down to under 55 seconds if
goalkeepers wre
longer kleking the ball anywhere up- Services field. They are throwing it quantity, standards set so far bringing the winning standard
athletics this in local .col- quickly to an unmarked
or suggest that winning times at pressed. league, either a half-back wing-forward. They are start- the Open Athletic Meet to be ing attacks from their own sponsored by the South China Wagner and Norman Lo of the Athletic Association on May 19, Judicious a
goal-mouth with throw, dr lob.
Among them are Gerhard
20 and 22 should be fairly high. University, Lee Kam-luen of D. Engleton of When such a moet was last Lingnon and Frank Swift, England's goal-heid over Christmas in 1949, King George V School, not to keeper until recently, is a past the long jump was won at just mention some Army runners. master in this art. Frank throws over 23 feet and the discus the ball, fast and along the throw at over 130 feet. That The principal weakness is ins ground, so accurately that the was an
ern when the com- the field events, in which 5 feet winger can get on to move and petitors included, among others, inches is still the ceiling in the begin an attack without waste Walter Land, the English In-high jump and a remarkable of time. And in the game be- ternational, then in the Army jump of 21 feet by a schoolboy tween England and Switzerland in Hongkong.
the best in the long jump. There Ditchburn. at Highbury, Ted
hasn't been another long jump Swift's successor in goal, The schoolboys have contri-] of over 21 feet so far this year. adopted
same tactics. buled much tó setting the pace Marks in the weight events in Several of England's attacks so far and an event that will the University and Inter-Varsity were begtin
by goalkeeper | be looked forward to with co-sports were better than they siderable keenness will be the normally are or were in pre- Ditchburn.
300 metres run in which Reggie war days of a normal year, and
should this
is a promising
the
MORE OPPORTUNITIES
was meant.
in
1
•
come
time- The
state of
Best performances so far this season bre:
100 metres S. Hollands
(KU),
11.2 seconds. 200 metres--P, (KGS), 23.8 seconds.
100
McRac
Kam-luen
metres-Leo (Lingnan), 55.2 seconds.
806 metre-D. Eggleton (KGS), 2 mins. 13 secs.
1,500
metres-Reggie Sliva (St. Joseph's), 4 mina, 35.2 secs, 110 Metres High Hurdles Paul Yop
.17.2 (Lingnan), seconds.
High Jump Poul Yap. (Lingnan), 5 feet 6 inches.
Pole Vault-Marco Bracho (KU), 8 feet 6 inches.
Long: Jump--Fok Yong-wol the (St. Stephen's), 21 feet
115 give
Step & Jump--T. U. best. if Lean (HKU), 40 feet 7 inches. Shot Put-Ho You-choung
out, were 100 feet in
Hop,
Silva of St. Joseph's have a chance to match strides affairs. The change in the charging low with H. Kessel and D. Eggleton has also given elever ball players of KCS and Les Kam-luen of Surrounded by an old family
like Stanley Matthews, England's friend from Har-vud and a
University. Lingnon handful of visiting Canadian
treat winger, more opportunities At this stage, it is not certain hockey writers idling away time
for exploiting their skill. Thus who will be competing. Better was noticeable the half-miling talent may pending the Stanley Cup play-
Switzerland game. offs, Miss Scott had some dim-
After from the Services and it may be Lusent,
Swiss left half-back, with the culty communicating working press.
had been penalised several times it not one of the four men-
tioned here will be running. for obstructing Matthews by As far as the. University is She clicl
manage to convey that
between the concerned, the entries will be placing his body she liked Boston, expected to fly
the winger and ,ball, he final show on
up very few it any, the "exams" Have home after the
obstruction business and I interfering, Sunday and was not engaged to Belfast, Northern Ireland, Apr. the
including New York 12-Frank McAloran, manager tried to play the ball. The result was that Matthews played a wila
Best mark of the season in newspaper executive Ogden Reid of world fyweight champion who flew her and her mother listy Monaghan, said yesterday great game because he was any event so far has been S. use of his Hollands' 100 metres in 11.2 tee to take Rinty to Honolulu to wonderful-ball-control.
seconds In the Inter-Varsity allowed to make
These are the two ways in meet. Having not too much meet Hawaiian challenger Dado
which the new law has helped faith In
local Marlao.
especially in then press
Sad Sam Ichi- to improve play. There will be keepers, In Honolulu,
will sprints, adjacent room
alternative Secialites, manager of Marino, sald he more when referees as a whole
get have gol used to the change. a trying to through
is that not all the The difficulty
limekeepers the S. C. of B. Monaghan to come to Honolulu
are interpreting the Charles Huang's chatted in small, stil groups. A to meet Marino, He said he had referees
Discus Throw-Charles Huang was dispatched Armstrong lunch counter down and expenses-but no more.
dooffered a guaranice of $25,000 law in the spirit in which it the discus throw in winning the (Lingnan), 37 feet 0% Inthes.
HKU Championship. In the (HKU), 108 feet 0% inches. waiter
Javelin Throw Charles Some believe that two players inter-Varsity meet he falled to in the station for a glass of
Monaghan won a disputed de-
towards the ball areas milk which the caterer hnd
cision over Marino in October, running
ton Lingnan entry. thoughtlessly failed to provide 1947, and Ichinose had been entitled to charge because they reach 100 feet and came second Huang (HKU), 121 feet 4 inches. are attempting to play it. In my angling for a return bout since. opinion, they are
In 1940, 108 feet would have wrong, be Miss Gretchen Merrill of-Associated Press,
cause the added words "within only taken fourth place in the Boston,
of the players discus throw in the SCAA's American champion,
playing distance greeling huppened by,
only mean a Open Meet. The performance is silli, however, the best locally Scott with the smile expected
Philadelphia, Apr. 12-Ar-yard or two at the most.
must in the post-war era. of one who finished second to thur King, British Empire This is a point that
Ice Princess lightweight the Canadian
from be made champion
clear before we shall
There are some promising 400 world championships.
out get the full benefit of the
sround, hardly! Toronto, Canadu, knocked More voluble, Miss Scott's
change. Some exact definition metres runners icans mother placed her daughter's Anthony Arnone of New Or last night in the second
of "playing distance" must be that all about 105 round of their age at 20 (weight
scheduled 10-
in yards so riven pounds) and said she'd been on round feature match.
referees can interpret it in the skates since about eight.
King Hinished the Louisiana same
that it way. I suggest
"within Barbara Ann, she said, won fighter with a long right to the should be altered
three yards of the ball." her first title when only 10, was Jaw. He knocked down Arrone
There is another point that the first woman to hold five three times in the first round,
must be clarified. I saw i hap- |--Associated Press. titles at once and was д
in
between per
game Charlton Athletic and Burnley, Burnley's centre-half charged Duffy, Charlton winger, in the back about 25 yards from the Burnley goal and was penniised. South Charlton's O'Linn, African inside-right, took the the International Olympic Commit free klek and crashed the ball "Chips." These included the tee, will leave Tokyo on April into the net. The referee allowed
for
for Miss Scott.
concerned" Miss Arthur King Wins
licensed pllot. Her daughter,
she said, had tons of rich boy friends, hopes for a home and
Has children and
2 defile aversion to ice shows as eareer.
Japanese Hopes
Raised
Tokyo,
Apr.
12. Malsuzo und The gathering thinned there was a series of introduc- Narai, Japanese member of the tions of sponsora of
General
п
can
by Pan- the goal. Burnley players pro- Honolulu Club's portly President, Charles 14
tosted that a goal could not ba plane en route to Roche, who, It was said, won a American
scored direct from a free kick high jumping title for the Home to attend the IOC meet-
awarded under the new charging! Doston A.A. track team 50 ing. years ago and would appear In
MacArthur's Head-w
The referee, however, said he sald п spokesman the ice show that gets under quarters way on Friday-in ភា
dance, special passport had been given gave the free kick for violent charging, and therefore, it was under a kick enable him to to Nagai to number.
a direct freo attend the IOC meeting in afferent part of the law." Rome.
It was hard luck for Burnley Nagal's trip matérialised after
who had no means of knowing Takeo Yoshiokn, of the Honolulu
this fact. So before next sea Travel Service brought word
son some way of letting players that Dr Katsumi Komelani and
know the reason for any in other Honolulu friends will pay
fringement must be introduced; the expenses for Nagal's trip to These are minor faults in what is otherwise an excellent
TS TW FOR ANOTHER BOHAL OR MAYGG I OUGHT TO GO IN
AND TAKE A
LOOK-65
-{London Expreme Service).
Rome.
Japanese sports authorities, anticipating much from Nagal's attendance of the IOC meeting in Rome, are hoping that it will pave the way for the reinstale- inent of Japanese in interna-: tional sports competition since the lost war-United Fress.
More Trouble For Ortiz Ventura, California, April 12
world The
bantamweight champion, Manuel Oritz, now th training near Ojal, California, was today under a court order to pay a $500 fine for drunken driving. Ortiz a $100 Line
Ruggor Results London, Apr. 12-Results of
night words end Falmouth 3. Cardiff turbing peace and carrying a
Birkenhead :0 concealed Liverpool
weapon. United Router. Prees.
100
Women's Events
metres-Lee Slu-king (Lingnan), 14 seconds.
High Jump--Flona Anderson (HKU) 4 feet 3 inches.
Long Jump Leo Slu-king (Lingnan). 14 feet 8 inches."
Tak-chen Shot Put-Hung (Lingnan), 20 foot 10 inches.
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