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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1956-11-07, Page 7Bad 80Y Of Boxing Died A Hero Films about the fight lame' are alwaYe Mettler, so, don't be eeirPeiieire if one of tilde days they don't make a movie about boy 'of . 'the, ring who, :died a been at the age of twenty-seven. They'll never get a better fight eteitle Al came -rou As ro nsyi e, a tough , peetlene of. NOW yerk. 'fltere'e •a murder a, day m the big 'city and Brownsville, con- tributes its full shere, He was the third son of a r family of tenement dwellers. When Al was a schoolhoY hie elder brothers were constantly in trouble with the. law, You wouldn't, say the yeunster was bright, but no one could emes- tion, ,his loyalty. Ile was fiery- tempered, and it needed only a.riasty remark about his broth- ire to send him belting into action, "Soon it was discovered that he had a punch above the aver- age. When he, connected with a left hook the recipIent went down for the count. You' can't have a reputation for being a punchee without the news reaching a fight promot- er or a boxers' manager. Soon Al found that he could earn quick money,. with his left hook and, he decided to try his luck in the ring. A few preliminary, bouts con- vinced the townsfolk they had a potential champion in their midst, a colourful fighter and a real character. Young Al could box a bit, but as soon as he got hurt or his opponent landed a low punch, he would lose his head, stamp his feet, roar and fight like a demon. And the crowd loved it. Deciding to cash in on this, a promoter one day billed him as Al (Bummy) Davis, Bummy being a slang term for anyoee who went berserk like Davis. When Al spotted the posters he saw red. He rushed to the promoter's office. "What the blazes is thii?" he streamed.. "I .don't want to be called Bummy! You take them posters down!" . "Cool off; you hothead," snap- ped the promoter. "You fight bummy and the fans like it. Where's your sense? As plain Al Davis you're just another fighter. As. Butruny Davis you're someone. Beat it." ,A 'saw 'the logic of that. Ire went on to more and more wins.` After ,he had scored thirty-, five in a row he had aeangti: extent with another Browfisville " toy and they started tot settle• it in the street. Someone. tol& the promoter, who rushed over to stop the barefist battle. "Are you crazy?" he demand- 4ed ofsAl. "You,den't figbt on the- 'istrefe any rnoreee B6idA heee 'better boxer then you — you're not in his class." "Ain't I?" said Al sullenly, "I could lick l him, anyway!" right, lick him for me — but Ire: the ring,"osnapped the„ pear meter. So many fans•• wanted tickets for that „fight that they had to take it to Madison Square Garden. The 20,000-seat stadium was packed to capacity. For three rounds Davis tried in vain to land his celebrated left nOok. The crowd jeered as his clever opponent made him miss-, and the jeers infuriated Al. Early in the fourth round he was about to toss another left hook when he remembered that he would get booed If he miss- ed. So he threW a right hook instead-- and knocked his man cold. MERRY' MENAGERIE reePreee4 "'or Pete's salve, is EVERY. day ,e'riday, around this joint?", • ,,Davie did well at the gate, Teo wen for Zivic, who stuck a thumb into Al's eye. When be got back to his cor- ner, Al complained about the ' thumbing. "That guy's fighting dirty'," lie growled. go out and tell 'him," advised his chief second. Al went right into a clinch and did just that, whereupon the champ stuck his ether thumb into Bummy's other eye. That did it. "So you want• to fight rough!" bawled Bummy. Then he hook- ed his left so low that all over the arena they could hear the' crack as Zivic's peotector buckled. Bummy hooked again, even lower this time. Then he went to work with both handd as the champion backed into the ropes, and called for help. The referee tried to haul Davis off, so Bummy turned and smashed him on the 'chin. Through the ropes came the po- lice and half the ringsiders. Soon Bummy was fighting all and sundry until sheer weight of numbers bore him to the canvas. He got a life suspension for that little riot, so he joined the army. But soon the army were asking Mike Jacobs to ;take his , fighter back again, . They thought they could win the war better without him! On his discharge Bummy got his suspension. revolked and landed a return with Zivic. ,,Fritzie was in his best form this time and' gave the ring-rusty Davis a fearful beating before the referee .stopped it in the tenth round. Other e Clefeate followed and the demand for his ' services 'slackened, Soon promoters had lost all interest in hint and; Al was forced to, sell his bar. The new owner kept tthe teeing sign up and every day Al' used to go inel'or a beer. it' made .him feel ?,lie the owner. On the afternoon of; Noveme it ber 1,21st, el945,4elp was..'sitting there whale heir , eaw feel, men enter amigo oveeer to the propel- etch. , who 'was Standing behind the till. A gun appeared and the nervous proprietor c began .gathering up the bills: in .:the 'cash register. 1 r e Burnley, got to his feet. His eyes were blazing and' his fists were clenched, He walked quietly up to the four hold-up men and, grabbing one by, the neck, dropped' him with a terri- &left hook. The next man turned. Al aimed a left at his stomach, but a gun barked and the fighter took one bullet in his neck and two in his body. The thugs picked up their unconscious comrade and made for the door, Bummy, still on his feet, staggered after them, They scrainbled into a car and, as Al reached the pavement, they finished him off with more hot lead. A cop took a shot at the flee- ing ear and hit one of the gun- men in the shoulder. Later all the gunmen were surrounded in their hide-out. In the tremendous battle that followed, one of the four Men was killed. The one with the wounded shoulder was sent, to the electric chair. The other two were given life sentences. Al Davis was gieen a simple funeral, but everyone who Was anyone in the fight game at- tended. lee hadn't a dime to his name when he died, The quaree ter-million dollars he had earii- ed with his blazing fists had,ali gone long ago. When the Duke of Gloucester was a cadet at Sandhurst as plain Prince Henry, an exas- perated sergeant is said to have bawled at him: "Mr. Prince 'emy,' if I 'Was your father, I'd —" .He paused as he realized that, speaking of hielsovereign, he could hardly finish 'with the traditional, "I'd shoot myself." Instead he barked: "I'd habdi- cate — sir!" John Masters, himself a cadet there in the early' 1930s; and later author of that fine Indian novel "Bhowani Junction," tells other amusing.,_ stories of the Royal Military College and his service as subaltern on the N.W. Frontier in a brilliantly-written autobiography, "Bugles and a e Tiger.", Among 'the cadets was a fox- hunting set who spent a lot Of time .tearing ',down the long ,corridors .blowing hunting horns. They woeeeriding clothes wheriever Possible., One of them used to, don breechef and polcr•:, bociti to i1ide his bicycle to the Camberley "flicks"! No inter-connpane4 fight took ,plate in• his rtimeelelit just be- fore be arrived,' ate Sandhurst • no, cedete ebed, battled up and , elOwn,tlie corridors „between two cenpanies' quarters for an hour * or: eb; knuckle- duster's:, Idadedr canes; chairlegs r or sanyth'ing.' else ethat came to handeTwo were injured foe life, thousands elf peunds", worth of damage„ was done. One. „cadet lied a date with a rich and highly-titled lady at the Savoy," Being brOke, he stole road gang's 'steam-roller in full 'evening clothes, drove it to the hotel! Once a cadet had completed his square-bashing he could go away for occasional week-ends if he produced a written invi- tation from a proper person. Half these letters were, of course, written by the cadets themselves; so Masters thought he'd write one, too. It purport- ed to come from his old nanny's mother who lived in the Wilt- "shire hamlet of Bottlesford, Instead of getting hit leave he was carpeted before the comnany commander, who said: "It has been suggested to me that this letter is not what it apneats 'to be.".' It wasn't. For ore thing, he'd forgotten to fold it. For an- other, his nanny's mother had the same surname as one of the R.M.C. staff ,and the major thought Masters was making fen of this officer and had ie- Vented "Bottleeford." no; remanded i n open arrest while jnouiries were made, then marched in front of the• eencral. but finally released -- when the old Indy replied 'that of course Mr, Jackie could timed any Week-cede he liked with her, and `his father — retired colonel, Indian Arrny, hut riew worlchig in a piggery Wrote menacingly to the "general eayitig that anyone who called his eldest, son a hay could take hie choice of swords Or pistols, - ; Masters ,by do means finished With ragging *heti he joined. the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in central 'Waziristan. RetileMbering that Christmas DO Was a toqyettteVy one for rank and' discipline, the Bette tenant at the head of the 'table 'Stiddenly fluhg leg of turkey at a senior major at the Other end. As the coloriel and other . senior officers left, the air grew thick with flying potatoes; pud- ditig,' turkey; .5 gravy, oranges, Masters;' who e'veS orderly offi- ter for the day; had genie of the pudding" stuffed ' into his. ears and brandy butter rubbed into his, hair! When the steaming rum punch had flown fast .round the table and the riot was almost spent, someone heard a faint muttering from the floor, and under the wideetable they spied two medical majors, 'Irishmen, lying' comfortably, their heads pillowed on cushions, a bottle of brandy standing between them. They must have been there for hours, yet no one knew how or when they'd ar- rived, Another bottle of brandy was sent down to' them with the regiment's compliments. In due course. Masters was posted to the 4th Prince of Wale's Own Gurkha Rifles at Bakhloh under the 'Himalayas, -and he tells some, remarkable, ,storiee of these plucky little fighters. ,Safe„ Hunting Shoot first , and ask questions . later! e This a„dage may jeave had its. iri`bygone days wlien .the " safety of tike commenity depend- ecle'scinedinniediate "attcL effective action against prowlers. It has no application today ,and especi- ally not bYttenteese: Hunting is one of Canada's largest participant du t deep r sports. Hundreds of thousendOf men., and i 'worneir from every walk oflife ertjb -li.ealthftil t'fe- creation from the days afield on the annual hunt. 4'oi some , of,. them this pastirne will be Spoiled by the irresponsible gun-toter who will do such things as fire "sound shots." '"Sound shots" are those fired at sounds made by some uniden- tified person or animal moving in the woods. It =seems incredible that anyone would be so careless or show such absolute disregard for human life as to shoot at something he cannot even see, let alone recognize. Yet it hap- pens every, fall and, sometimes, with fatal results. It has been said that you can- not legislate brains ,into anyone. But sportmen can, by example and a word of caution to their fellow hunters, eliminate the few who 'would give this great sport . an undeservedly bad name. True sportsmen respect the right of others to enjoy their spornin safety, They respect the rights of the property owner, his fences, his buildings, his live- Stock„and crops. They obey the game 'laws and, most important, they practice these "Ten Com- mandments of Safety”: Treat every gun with'the respect due a loaded gun, Carry only empty guns, taken down or with the action open, into your automobile, camp and home. Always be sure that the barrel and action are clear of ob- sfrUctions. Always carry your gun so That you can control the direction of the fettezle. Ile sure of your target before you pull the trigger. Never point a gun at anything you den't Want to sheet. Never leave your gun unattend- ed and loadedi Never climb a tree or ti'058 fence With a loaded gun. Never sheet at a fiat, hard see- face or at the surface of water. Don't guepoWder with alco- hol, Bngitieetilig stit d en ts are baffled by the' feet that often the girls With the Most streatn- liiied oiler, the most re-' sistance. After that Al Went 04 win- ning, and his pureee eet bigger and bigger, With the money he bought a small bar. Along the front in flashing neon lights were the words; "Al (Dummy) Davis." All his' pals were, giv- en free drinks and he never be- fot:e • realized hew many vele 'he'd' eot! 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