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
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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-
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the annual hunt. 4'oi some , of,.
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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-
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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!
He asked his promoter, Mike
*1.4e0s, toegetebine a match With
the welterWeight chantlien,
Feetzle Zivic,
„don't think you can 'teat'
him," said the promoter,, 113.0
,,you, can have the chance,'t 'Re
knew the fans would flock //tete
See Al get a hiding,
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