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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-06-20, Page 6Double-Crossed The Fight Fixers Boxing is a sport "in which almost, anything can happen, but rarely is a world -chempion called upon to "bribe" opponents to fight him,- •ae.- heavyweight. Tommy Burns was. It happened at a" time when Press and public were clamour- ing for a contest to settle once and for all who was the better boxer, Philadelphia Jack O'- Brien, or the title-holder, Torn- my Burns. O'Brien, however, was in ne hurry to lay his claims before a referee, so it was not until Burns stalked him (hewn in a Los Angeles cigar store and taunted him with cowardice, that a match was agreed upon. Soon after this a most curious proposition was put to the chain- pien of the, world. Burns Was asked to lie down in the elev- enth sn or thirteenth round, and to into the ring at all costs, Burns sigh a $1;000 agreement to keep his word. Aneieps to get O'Brien, where wag the champion, to, goeewtd. a thousand dollars? A friend came to his rescue and the sum was paid in notes — forged ones as• it happened — though the O'Brien camp was never to know this. During the weeks before the fight, bets poured in on O'Brien, The smart boys knew all about the little arrangement, and stak- ed every spare dollar on the challenger. The big shock came when the men stepped into the ring, Burris walked straight over to the ree feree and told him that he meant to keep faith , with the public, and asked that all bets made on O'Brien to win up to that time be declared void. The ref. stared. Such an an- nouncement could only mean one thing; there had been a "fix," and this was the* double-cross. He held up his hand for silence, and said his, piece, When the bell rang for the first round, O'Brien stood in. his cor- ner as if thunderstruck, his back to• the ring. Spinning him round, Burns clinched and• whispered in his ear: "Fight your best, Jack. I'm out to beat you now I've get you here •at last. This is a real fight." ., "Not many seconds had passed before O'Brien knew all too e'well that this was true," writes _Denzil Batchelor, who tells this exciting story in his vividly writ- ::ten book about ariether heavy- , weight, Johnson, in "Jack John- , son and His Times." -Burns fought with crude fury and at the end there could be no doubt that he was the winner. "Only Jack Johnson temained unconvinced," says Denzil Bat- chelor. This tough Negro desired to let the world know that he ,was better than Burns., Just how he did it, nearly slaughtering his opponents on his way to the top, makes thrilling reading. lton achieved- his dearest, wish, owl, the Swift news Of the engagemeat put ClentePtine's Picture .on the pages o1 every newspaper anti near- ly every magazine in, the land as !`The Weeitin of the Year." eotieueet Wade ell else. possible," Winston Churchill de- clared long afterwards, And ,Oti one occasion, while listening to a re- OW of his political achievements, he interrupted testily to say ; "But you have forgotten my most bril- liant achievement -- my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.", Lomb:mem gave: them lazy ovation on their wedding - eve When, stead of the conventional bachelor party, Winston and his fiancee ap- peared in a box together at the theatre. The next day the House of Commons actually adjourned for the marriage ceremony. The honoured cherch of St. Margaret's, Westminster, was pack- ed with the feathers and furbel- ows of society, And when the hap- py pair-, left for their honeymoon at stately Blenheim Palace the departure farewells were of al- most royal calibre. It was 1908. •k "My marriage Was much the most fortunate and joyous event in the whole of my life," Sir Win- ston asserted not long ago. "What can be more glorious than to be united in one's walk through life with a being incapable of an ig- noble thought?" But Lady Churchill knew from the start that marriage with so controversial a figure could never be humdrum or placid. Her first baby, Diana, had to be specially guarded in her pram lest suffraget- tes should kidnap her. The Church- ills lost one of their daughters through pneumonia; and in the death of this little three-year-old they knew the dark brunt of tra- gedy. Shortly after daughter Mary was born, Winston fell ill with appen- dicitis just as an election was pending. So Clementine Churchill fought the election campaign. There were political reverses. At a meeting in Belfast ten thousand troops had to be sent to keep order and angry Orangemen threatened to throw Churchill in the river. But Mrs. Churchill quietly made sure that. she accompanied her husband wherever he went, know- ing, that reliance on her opponents' chivalry was more prudent than her husband's bulldog courage.. stock was never tower than .after the disastrous Dardanelles,-, -campaign when Winston resigned - , as First Lord of the Admiralty amt• angrily insisted on entering the. Army, His secretary was in tears His Mother'wits in despair at- the. thought of her brilliant son in the trenches: Only Mks:, Churchill re- ',mined calm, collected and efficient. In one of her rare moods of con- fiding her private affairs, Lady Churchill has told some of her secrets of managing her famous husband. "In , competition with men, never beconie aggressive in your rivalry. You will. gain far more by quietly holding 'your con- victions. But this must he done with art, and, above all, with good humour?' And in more prosaic terms she once confided : "First and most important is to feed him well. You must give him a good dinner. His 'dinner is ft very important item in his daily routine." Yet these are inadequate sign- posts, surely, in the Churchills' forty-eight years of married life. Omit*, cheered , her Winston When his- country was against him, kept his faith alive when the world mocked. And always there was peace in her heart while his soul rode the tempests. -- As Sir Winston Churchill him- self, summed Up in the closing phase of his great public career : "It would not be possible 'for any pub- lic man to get through what I have gorie through without the devoted assistance of what we call in En- gland one's 'better half.'" Lived Renck-free For Twenty Years The mystery shop never opens its doors. }stilly stocked, with packets of tea and sugar piled ready jor customer?, it Occupies a, valuable corner POsition in a busy suburb of East London. Yet the owner shut up shOp sa usual one night nearly a year agh—and he hasn't been back. The clospre must have cost. him a small fortune in lost trade, The local authorities have stuck- a nuisance notice on the door, the preliminary before they can enter the premises and clean it up. Is the missing grocer dead, ill, in love? A similar case,occurred in Ful- ham, West London, some years ago when an ironmonger locked up his shop one night and left it standing fully stocked for six years. Eventually he was traced to a country house in. Surrey and re- vealed the explanation. His wife had been taken dangerously ill and wanted him constantly at her side. "What's business when my wife needs me?" he declared. Even clearing and selling the shop would have meant separa- tion. When at length his wife died, he tried to forget by travelling abroad—and was reminded of the shop only when he read about it in the newepapers! Another mystery, was cleared up only the other day when a somerset builder took over a long-disused shop and began converting it into an attractive bungalow. For twenty-five years no customer had ever entered this shop, which used to be the village store of Long ford. Mice gnawed hungrily at the old-fashioned packages of soap. Spiders spun cobwebs over the jars of ,sweets, Dust and dirt dimmed the windows. Back in 1930 when Ada Eley found her brother lying dead behind the counter, she closed the shop and became 'a recluse, living in a tiny room at the back. Just as strange, several fami- lies lived rent-free ,for twenty years in a group of thatched cot- tages at Weedon, Herts, because• the landlord could not be found. Outgoing tenants handed over the keys to new occupiers but, of course, the latter had no real right to be there.- Last year, in fact, the trues owner,ean artist, returned from -abroah—and the rentfree familiee found they had to get out. On occasion,- the key to the mystery is prosaic. At Stoke Newington, London, a flat with central heating has remained fully furnished but empty since 1936, waiting for a family that may never move in: It has an electric cooker and could house six people, but the bed linen is kept at a near-by town hall. Under a public health act, the local authorities have to be able to provide shelter at short no- tice to isolate any family that has, been in contact with an in- fectious disease. Maintaining the empty fiat proves cheaper than reserving accommodation in a hospital. In a fashionable part of Lon- don, a six-storey balconied man- sion stood untenanted for years, though it could have commanded thousands of pounds from a buyer. It was owned by the oc- cupants of the corner house next door who cheerfully kept it empty because they did not like next-door neighbours. NO SCOWLING FOR THIS FRAULEIN — Mcirgit Munke, left, has been elected "Miss Europe of 1956" et the annual beauty con- test, held this year in ,Stockholm, Sweden. The new queen, shown being congratulated by Miss Holland, Rita Schmidt, was the Deutschland entrant, Miss Germany. Churchill's Was A' Real Romance Round -Steak ie such a fiaVor- ful meat that it is fortunate there Usually a plentifui eupply in the markets all year, Today, some markets cut sound into top and bottom per- Lions with or without the round lone in the top pertiOn. A'bottom or'top round of beef tut % to one inch thick is very good cooked in the following way: Dip the meat into flour seasoned with salt, pepper and a ehOice of chili powder, thyme, garlic salt, or curry powder, broWn well on, both sides in a little fat. Cover with thin-sliced onions and add about one cup of water or beef bouillon, Cover and cook slowly on surface heat er in a moderate oven 350 deg, Ir.) at least one hour. One and one-half hours may be needed to. make this meat fork tender, writes Margaret Carr in The Toronto Star. * * As you know, Swiss steak be- gins with a thick round steak. Seasoned flour pounding into the meat with a meat hammer increases tenderness and retains the juice in the meat. Although Swiss steak need not always be cooked with tomatoes and on- ions, these are favorite flavors. * * * Here are two variations Of Swiss steak which we have found very good. PAPRIKA SWISS BEEF 2 pounds round steak, 1/4 inch thick 2 tablespoon fat 1/4 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon salt 1 clove garlic, peeled 1 cup water' 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce. 14 cup sour milk or cream 1 teaspoon paprika 2 tablespoons flour Melt fat in a frying pan. Rub the meat with salt and 34 tea- 'poen paprika. Brown the gar- lic m the hot fat. Remove the Add the meat and brown well en both sides. Add water and. Worcestershire sauce. Cover and eook slowly about two hours. Add sour milk and one teaspoon br prika. Continue to cook slow.. 15 minutes. Remove the steak to a hot platter. Thicken the broth with the flour mixed with TEE HEE —. No babe. tri:the:woc:Ids with -trick clubs, Paul •Halm , is puzzled only as to. why„yoUre puzzled about the tripledointed wood..A trick-shot artist, Hahn recently teed off with his bag of tricks at a tourney., He claims it's possible to make a 250- yard drive with his wacky club. Christianity is The Answer cup cold water. stir and boil five minutes, Serve the gravy over the meat. • * • SKILLET SWISS STEAK 2 Poundli round teak inch thick 1/4 cup flour 2 tablespoons fat 2 teaspoon salt ass teaspoon Pepper 34 cup sliced onions 2 cups tomato juice 2 fablesPoolls flour Pound Ilour into steak with, meat hammer or the edge Of a Keay saucer. Melt fat in a heavy skillet. Brown meat well on both sides. Add seasonings, onions and tomato juice. Cook slowly for two hours. Remove meat to a hot platter. Add enough water to remaining broth in skillet to make 11/2 cups. Thicken the broth with the flour mixed with Ye cup cold water. Stir and boil five minutes. Serve gravy over meat. * Today's desserts, being a two- in-one affair, not only ease the matter of meal preparations, bet are guaranteed to help fill up those "hollow` legs" you may hae been noticing lately. TWO-WAY WHITE CAKE 3 cups siftted cake flour 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 •teaspoon salt % cup butter 154 cups granulated sugar 11/2 teaspoons vanilla 4 egg whites 1 cup milk Cream butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar gradually, creaming well after each addi- tion. Add vanilla. Add egg whites, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each addition. To creamed mixture add 1 cup dry ingredients which have been mixed and sifted together. Blend thoroughly. Add Ile cup milk and continue with one cup flour mixture, rest of milk and remaining flour mixture, blend- ing after each addition. Pour into two nine-inch cake• pans which have been greased, lined with waxed paper and paper greased. Bake in .a moderately hot oven "(375,1:leg. F.) 30 to 35 minutes.' Cool. First Day Dessert ORANGE' FROSTED CAKE 1/4 cup butter 1/2 teaspoon grated orange rind 3/4 teaspoon salt 3i cup icing sugar 2 egg yolks 2 cups icing sugar 1/4 cup orange juice Cream butter, orange rind, salt and ih cup icing sugar. Add egg yolks and beat well. Add two cups sugar alternately with orange juice, Beat until light and creamy. Cut one layer in half. Frost one half, top with second and frost sides and top. Second Day Dessert FLUFFY CUSTARD SAUCE 1 cup milk 2 egg yolks 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 cup heavy cream Fresh fruit. Scald milk. Beat egg yolks slightly. Stir in sugar. Pour milk over egg mixture. Cook, in a double boiler, stirring constant- ly, until custard thickens. Add vanilla and toot Just before serving whip cream and fold into custard. Cut cake layer into serving pieces and spoon custard over. Garnish with fresh fruit. Makes four to six servings. "I 'sad an operation ,and' the doctor left a sponge in me." "Gosh, do you feel any pain?" "No, but I sure get thirsty." FROST VICTIM -- Robert Burn- ham, sees hopes for a prosper- ous summer nipped 'in -the bud its he examines one of some 12,- 100 tomato plants killed by late spring frost. Crop damage in the "'Onions is expected to result in eastern part of the U.S.A. in wake of recent record-breaking .frigid weather. "Why are you looking so cheerful?"' Brown asked his friend Jones. "Well, you see," laughed Jones,, "my wife has lost her engagement ring." "Well, what's there to be so cheerful about in that?" asked Brown. "I'm waiting for het to tell pmoeo.keIt.,f,ound it in my trousers When Sir Winston Churchill was a younger mate writing the 'story of - his adventurous early years, there was one chapter he decided to leave out. "I haven't said a word of my marriage," he confided to a friend. "That's something I'm keeping to myself." And the strange sequel is that. to-day, amid all the 'shelf-loads of books written about Churchill, his marriage is still glossed over . . . as if even his most zealous bio- grapher's have been unable to quar- ry out the facts. Bht let's glance,. at a Bucking- ham Palace garden party when Sir Winston ,stretehes out. his hand to a tray of, tempting sandwiches, then 'catches his wife's warning eye and • remembers just In eime.. that he can't talk to the Qheetfe with his mouth full. —• — Or peek into his London honie • .whet he is roaring, "ClenimY Clemmy !" • On learning that his' wife is out, he finds himself unable. to work and roams through the house. disconsolate. The blunt truth is that 111 the eyes of the world Churchill mar, ried the wrong woman—and then she quietly proved herself the righte woman in the eyes of all history. • New we'll go back to the tempes. tubes Edivardian years when red- headed Winston Churchill was storming through Parliamentary convention like a cyclone, already a junior Minister at only thirty- one, able to earn $1,500 a night - by giving lectures . . . and probab- ly Britain's, most eligible bachelor.. The richest mothers in the land Cultitated his acquaintance for the Sake of their •daughters.- The , hest debutantes of the year thirst... ed to meet Winston. In America matchmakers surrounded him with lovelies,' but' Winston stayed ab- Sorbed. in his thoughtS; scarcely "Don't Yoh think she's, a rare • beahty?" he was asked of one -girl. '"She is beautiful to you," young Winston observed abruptly, "but not to me!" What Wag Worse, when he went to Dundee to contest a by-election, his every speech was - droWned by a suffragette who rose in the audi- ence fiercely eingleg a handbell: He Wag in no mood for Weirton. Then one evening in a dingy pub- lic halt he espied a twenty-three- year-old girl sitting tinder the gee, light at the edge" of the' platform. And Winston Churchill fell in love at first sight. ' "Ineroduee lig?" he begged a friend: "I doh't care Who She. is-e I ehAll marry her Bet lovely, intelligent Clemen, tine Hozlee had caber bleak: She had already refused 'an 'eligible Settee. Der own .father find [nether Bail Separitted after tie tiiiheppe Marriage nod Cletecethie did net Wish to Make the Same mistake', Der grandmother, the COMiteSS of Alilie, may have advised eau, tioa, Cherchillis fiends,- too, by he menus eegarded 'Clemiee as' 'the cold, of th6 seiisOn. "Oltitienteg, Well-bred and pretteee hetitriee Webh'stimitied up,. "but not rich, by no iitetittS.• h good . • Oet, Wiiieton Was very 'midi in &Attest: Ills OWii, attier• itad pea - posed .iiiid been iteceeted With/ft • three days slid Winston wasted no time. Against, the prestile grettiet - roofii,r; iii' the draughty' corridors CortachY' Castle, tinder' the twee tree:4 of Akin, lie Wail' by filen gentle and insisfcnt ani teitfier The KA-blonde 'Clettleittitie Need not long resist Wi ardent' a Weiler; She Olikt a -single regretful glahee at the .iiiiseerity She 'biljOYed, the theighter of a Scots- • eine& With'. it pest at tint & Within a Waiter of dii s Wee CHECKED, MATE — Easy-launder no-Iron cotton seersucker I checked in bright red on whit for informal summer Wear. It styled in the long-torso card' don fashioned for freedorri r movement. Faced with unprecedented is- sues, mankind has need of the" healing power of the Christ, Truth, as never before, The Christian Science Board Of Di- rectors declared recently. "Humanity • is' searching for the answer to. its problems, and nothing but' Christ's Christian- ity can supply this answer," the Directors 'stated. The vital role the' Science of Christianity must play in the solution of world problems was underscored in a message from. the Directors read at the An- nual Meeting of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mas- sachusetts. Taking note of the tremen- dous changes taking place throughout the world, the Di- rectors said: "With the breaking of the barriers of time and space, the mental outlook of men stands out in increasingly sharp relief, revealing an unpre- cedented clashing of ideologies. Other changes are taking place. Materia medica is more and more tracing physical effects to mental causes, The churches are reaching out for spiritual heal-ing.), To meet the challenge of the times, ,spiritual alertness and consecration are needed, they No Comeback Dempsey, Louis or Mercian() who can be called the greatest heavyweight boxer of modern times? It's a question that's' al- ways cropping up whenever fight fans foregather. And it's one Wilfrid. Diamond tackles in his gripping account of the Brown Bomber's fistic triumphs: "How Great Was Joe Louis?" In his twelve years as cham- pion reeds defended his title successfully no fewer than twenty-five times. He made more money with his fists than any other fighter. He didn't pick and choose his opponents; he took them as they came. He was a clever boxer and a terrific hit- ter. Without a doubt the most perfect fighting machine in the annals of the game, says Wil- frid Diamond, "It was Dempsey who brought the million-dollar gate. He was a merciless fighter, a Murderous fighter . . I think he would have been too Mitch for Leeds. Jack loved the game, Joe Mar- ried it. But DeMPsey didn't risk his title for charity as Louis did." In one year, 1941, he de- fended it -seven times! Louie, like Dempsey before hint, Made the blunder` of et. tempting a comeback: And Meta Of 'his lustre became sadly tar rushed when, at the age of thirty-seven he was knocked , through the ropes In A crumpled heap by Rocky Maeciarib's block=t buster punch, "My boy heat the great See Louis!' Al Weill boasted 'tele urehhantly, But /eels ?Meager had a ready retort, "He didn't beat the great Joe Louis," he snapped, "All he beet was Joe's emphasized. "We need to retain the spirit of the sturdy pioneer, to guaed againat apathy, superficiality, and the intoxication of ease in Matter," the DirettOrS said. Their Message was read before some 7,500 Christian ScientiSts by Theodore retiring First Reader of The Mother • Church: The election of Clifford 4. Woodard of Belmont, Mass., President of The Moth& Cheith was announced at the 'Meeting. Also enti011heed. was the election of Arnold H. Exo of Chicago, I . tie FirSt Reader', and Miss Leslie Harris of Birmingham, Sedithd Reader, bay Garrett Watson and Gordonh Center were re.elected Tres- surer end Clerk,' teaheetiVely: SHADES OF CAPTAIN COOK— A ship model Wilder and Master craftsman is helping reconstruct the merriory Of Britain's 18th century explorer and navigator, Captain ianiet Cook, via ship tnodeli. Here A. J. Barnes dusts the rigging of a kale model of Cook's "Endeavor" of 1763. It Vial, shoWn at a special exhibition M Cook's honor Ot the National Maritime Museum in LantiOna Drive With Care DINNER FOR TWO "eraahtt‘ COhteet soprano Charlene thdp, marl thaeotL, a tidbit' with Mwetta, a pet ocelot, in her heitiee, mwettai haeeied far a Character in Boherne," is s one of a small loo in theriehe's teethe. She - overia five other animcilt. Si hexer floe', et Moto,, d :a monkey arid a kinkajou